L100C. A chaste sorceress and seducers, D2006.1.1. .14.-.17.28.31.32.34.36.39.
When a man comes to a lonely beauty, she asks him to do an insignificant assignment (close the door, etc.) and magically leaves him all night in a ridiculous and uncomfortable position (it is held by the door handle, etc.). The next night, the same thing happens to another (rarely: the same) fan. Everyone is ashamed to tell others that they enjoyed themselves.
Kabiles, Italians, Sicilians, Sardinians, Corsicans, Spaniards, Portuguese, Basques, British, French (Lower and Upper Brittany, Dauphinay, etc.), Walloons, Germans (south?) , Mehri, Socotra, Poles (Poznan), Danes, Norwegians, Icelanders, Karelians, Kazan Tatars, South Altai Tuvans, North-Eastern (Indigiri) Yakuts, Tundra Yukaghirs.
North Africa. Kabila [Chief's son (Agelith) is smart but not busy, in bad company; black woman: your father could be the new chief, or better yet you, but you're wasting his money; the young man vows to come back rich, leaves, enters the country of Wuarssen (devas); the deva has three daughters, the youngest's fingernail on the little finger gives advice, and the deva's wife has all her nails like this; dev tells the young man 1) to sow the field, harvest in the evening fruit; the eldest, middle daughter refuses to bring dinner to the young man, the youngest brings, they eat and make love, she creates a garden with a magic wand, the young man brings fruit to the deva; 2) bring water from the sea with a sieve to the spring so that the bottom of the sea is exposed, the sand dries, bring dry sand (the same, the young man pours sand on the deva's head); 3) get an eagle's nest with chicks by evening, it's on a steep cliff; the deva's wife hides magic wand; the daughter tells me to chop it into pieces, throw it against a rock, they will turn into a ladder, get a nest, fold the pieces, smoke it with incense, she will come to life; the young man does so, forgets his toe; dev promises to give him his youngest daughter if the young man identifies her among the sisters; he recognizes her by the missing finger; at night the girl tells him to run, take the worst looking horse, the young man takes the good one, the devil catches up; she turns 1) a horse into a hut, herself into a melon, a young man into an old man; 2) a horse on the road, herself into a basket, a young man into an employee; dev does not recognize, returns; for the third time the deva's wife catches up; the girl creates a board, they they swim across the sea on it; mother: if your husband is kissed by relatives, he will forget you; on the other side, a young man finds gold, his wife creates a palace; he goes to visit his parents, bring gold like swore; the father becomes the leader; the son is kissed by the mother's sister, he forgets his wife; she comes, buys a coffee shop, everyone goes to the beautiful woman; she consistently promises the night to the boy's two friends and him, if everyone she will pay 500 coins and do a little work while she sleeps; 1) close the window (the window closes, the hand sticks, so all night long; 2) pour water from the jug (as soon as you touch the jug, he empty); 3) close the door; the young man breaks the door, recognizes his wife; everyone is happy; after the death of his father, the son becomes the chief]: Frobenius 1922a, No. 4:30-48;
Southern Europe. Italians: Andrews 1892 (Liguria), No. 14 [], 21 []: 62-65, 86-89; Bello 1917, No. XXI [King Aristodemus of Egypt fell ill with leprosy; an old doctor advised to swim in the blood of someone kidnapped by pirates Lodovico, son of King Syracuse, and that blood should not be spoiled by fear; A. tells L. that he kidnapped him in order to make him an heir and marry daughter Philena; on the eve of F.'s execution, all L. says, they run away; F.'s mother chases, utters a spell: after kissing another woman, L. will forget F.; when he reaches Sicily, L. leaves F., promising to return solemnly for her; kissing his mother, F. forgets, is going to take another wife; F. comes to Syracuse herself; there she is harassed by three courtiers; she sends a maid, pretends to give herself for money; however, the first to come all night combs his hair, the other tries to blow out the candle, the third sticks to the door; in the presence of L. and his family, F. tells his story and shows the ring he gave D.; L. remembers everything, the wedding]: 57-70; Basile 2018 (Naples) []: 329-336; Calvino 1980, No. 4 (Menton) [a man who goes out only at night offers a hand to one of the daughters of a fish; the older two refuse, the youngest agrees; the person says that he is bewitched and must be a man at night and a turtle during the day; for the spell to sleep, you have to travel around the world; the wife agrees to wait for him; he puts a diamond ring on her finger: it will fulfill any wishes if they are kind and heartily; three fans offer her money for the night; the first she asks to knead the dough a little, he does it until morning; the second - to fan the fire; the third - close the door; these men complained, four female police officers came; the heroine told them to hear each other until morning; four male police officers were told to ride like frogs; at this time A turtle crawled and turned into a beautiful young man; everything is fine]: 12-14; Sicilians [the predictor says that the queen will give birth to a son, but he will die at the age of 18; advises to keep her son until then in the tower; Federico is born, grows up; Fate shouts to him that the woman serving him is not his mother; F. began to live with his parents; hunts, ends up in the witch's castle; her husband will recover from leprosy if the ulcers are moistened with the blood of a prince who was slaughtered on his 18th birthday; their daughter Epomata fell in love with F.; tells them to pretend to be sick; puts sleeping pills into wine, puts the guards to sleep; steals a white witchcraft the mother's book, leaves her black; they run, the mother pursues; E. turns into a garden, F. into a gardener; the church and the clerk; the pond and the eel; the mother tries in vain to catch an eel; tells F. to forget E. after when he is kissed at home; he falls asleep, the babysitter kisses him; E., through an intermediary, agrees to the offers of rich men to spend the night with them, but each time puts them in a stupid position ( makes you stick to the bench, etc.) ; after learning about the imminent wedding, F. makes two dolls, they tell the whole story; F. remembers everything; E. invites her mother to the wedding; she tells F. to cut off her head and limbs, arrange her room; it all turns into a golden crown and other treasures]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 11:68-80; the Sardinians [Prince Ginó lost everything, including himself; after a year, 3 months, 3 days and 3 minutes must come to the winner; on the eve of the expiration of the term, he leaves; comes to the old man, asks him for gold; he refers to his older brother and brother to their older sister; she shows the lake where 12 doves come to swim; we must hide the clothes of the eleventh and return them when she agrees to become a wife; the prince does everything, comes to the sorcerer (orco); he demands to raze the valley, demolish the mountain, to put a palace in the middle of the sea; the dove maiden (she is the daughter of a sorcerer) does everything - the third task, dismembering himself; the prince must identify his wife among the 12 doves, finds out the right sign; the octopuses are fleeing; turning into church and sakristan, vegetable garden and gardener; not catching up with the fugitives, the sorcerer's wife tells the prince to forget his wife when someone kisses him; this is what happened; the prince and two friends come to the house of his forgotten wife ; hoping to spend the night with a woman, everyone spends her hard work; prile remembers his wife]: Aprile 2000:274; Corsicans [the witch has a daughter with Blood and Milk; she is so beautiful that her mother holds her in the castle, afraid of being kidnapped; every time she returns, she says: "Blood and milk, open the door, I'm dying of the cold"; the daughter lowers her braid from the window, her mother rises on it; the prince saw it; said the usual phrase, the girl lowered her braid, he came to her; when she heard her mother's voice, she hid it in an orange; the mother began to sniff: I feel human flesh; she wanted to eat an orange, but my daughter she slipped another one; the same next time (the prince is hidden in a nut); they decide to run; the girl tells the prince to choose a thin skate, but he took a fat one; girl: he flies like the wind, and the thin one flies like trouble ( souci); the witch chases her husband, the girl tells me to throw soap (smooth mountain, the sorcerer returns, says that there is only a mountain, the wife explains, tells me to chase again), a comb (prickly thickets; same wife chased herself); girl {throwing a thread? she took it along with soap and comb} creates a river, turns herself into an eel and the prince is on the other side; witch: if your husband hugs someone at home, he will forget you; one of his aunts hugged the prince, he forgot his wife; she became a dressmaker, set up an inn; each of the three young men who came wants to spend the night with her; she asks the first to close the door below, he sticks and stays at the door until morning; in the morning the hostess is surprised: why did he fail to close the door? the same with the second (prevent the coals in the hearth so that the fire goes out faster; he does this until morning), the third is a prince who has forgotten his wife, she tells him to pour out the night pot, he does it until morning; he is going get married; the sorceress sews a dress for the bride, but in church it turns into rags; next time the sorceress takes out the dress the prince wore for the first time; he remembered everything and stayed with the first wife]: Massignon 1984, No. 20:43-47; Spaniards (Salamanca) [Lisardo boy plays cards and always loses; the demon offers a condition: he will always win, but in 5 years he will go to the castle Go, you won't come back (PN); after 5 years he goes, asks the eagle for directions, he refers to another who is older, this brings him to the castle, tells the one of the three bathing daughters of the PN, who saint, her name is Blancaflor; he hides and returns her clothes, the girl promises to help; PN tells 1) to scatter a bag of rice in the forest, bring it safe the next day (B. does everything); 2) in the forest arrange a field, collect wheat, bake bread, all in a day (the same); 3) the same - a vineyard, wine; 4) get the ring lost by her great-grandmother from the river; B. orders to cut it, put it in a vessel without spilling it drops of blood, throw into the river; in the evening he brings a ring, says that a drop has been shed, but from his little finger; 5) tame the horse; this is the PN himself, his wife and daughters, B. will be on the right, not to beat on the right side; 6) three daughters arms are stretched out, and L. is blindfolded, you must choose the bride's hand; B. can be recognized by the missing phalanx of his little finger; B. tells you to leave the spits responsible for them, choose a skinny oath Thought, not a plump Wind; L. does the opposite; the father chases, B. throws the comb (thicket), the handkerchief (lastral), the garter (the river); the PN returns every time, the wife sends him again; B. turns the horse into a vegetable garden, L. into a peasant, himself into a lettuce bed; a chapel, a hermit, an icon; the PN's wife decides not to chase herself, but to make L. forget B. if she kisses someone; B. warns, but some old woman kisses him from behind, L. forgot B.; She comes and stays under the guise of a prostitute; L. comes to her three times before the wedding, but she tells him to do something (for example, serve coffee) every time, and he freezes until morning ; at the wedding, tells two dolls to pretend to be themselves and L., they tell everything, L. remembers, marries B.]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 313C: 85-95; Basques [poor young man leaves home, is hired by Tartaro; he tells one of the three pigeon girls who come to swim in the lake to hide the feather clothes; return it for promising to help; tells her to go to hire her father; he demands 1) uproot the oak grove, sow, harvest, bake bread; the dove maiden tells her crest to do everything; 2) get the lost ring from the river; the dove maiden tells you to ask for a rusty sword, chop it into pieces, throw into the river, comes out whole with a ring; the young man has lost her little finger, she pretends to slam his door; 3) tame a horse with three foals (this is the owner with three daughters, you have to beat them with a club, and you just have to pretend to be her); in the morning the owner and daughters look beaten; 4) choose a wife with her eyes closed (she does not have a little finger and she will give her hand twice); the young man gets a wife, she tells her to run, leaves spit to answer for himself; the father chases, the daughter throws the comb (fog, hail), throws again - the river, the father drowns; on the border of the land of Christians, the wife tells me to go pick up the priest to baptize her, not to kiss anyone, otherwise the husband will forget her; the old aunt kisses him; the wife creates an inn, the husband and two friends come in; she promises to spend the night with everyone; makes morning come first with her comb, what they did; opens to her husband; he brings a priest; everything is fine]: Webster 1879:120-130; Portuguese: Braga 2002 (Extremadura - Algarve) [the king of the Moors has two daughters, the youngest meets with the teacher, tells him to flee to his country, takes a bag of ash, salt, coal with him; when his father's army catches up, he throws ash (fog) first, then salt (sea), coal (night and thunderstorm); reaching lover's country, the princess says that now he will forget her; dressed as a widow, pretended to accept lovers; the teacher invited three friends to visit the woman; the first spent all night undressing and dressing; the same second; the third stood at the well all night, going to fetch water; the fourth closed the door to the street all night; the teacher is preparing for the wedding, arranges dinner before the wedding, among guests and that widow; she creates a dove and a dove and they talk about the fate of a forgotten beauty; the teacher remembers everything, marries her beloved]: 111-114; Pedroso 1882, No. 4 []: 14-20.
Western Europe. The British [a young wife never sees her husband, he only comes at night; she is told he must be a freak; she lights a candle and sees a handsome man; he immediately turns into a bird and talks that she will find it again only if she is a laundress and lasts 7 years and one day; gives three feathers that will fulfill any wish; she only orders her feathers to wash and iron the clothes themselves; one butler shows interest in her, gives her money; she says she needs to remove her clothes from the ropes so that the wind does not shake him all night; he goes by himself, and she tells the feathers to make sure that he can't get away from the ropes; the same with the coachman; with the footman; when they shared their impressions after a while, the girl caused a quarrel between them, remained in good standing with the owners; after 7 years and one the day her husband took her; everything is fine]: Jacobs 1894:37-42; French: Joisten 1991, No. 1.1 (Dauphine) [Jean is lost, he is met by a man, gives a talisman that allows him to always win, tells in three to be on Black Mountain for months; Jean is getting rich, but neither his mother nor other old people know where Black Mountain is; he comes to an old man who calls birds, knows only crows, brings Jean to an old woman by the mountain, who teaches be modest in everything, there are three girls, one leads to the house; the owner was waiting for Jean, tells 1) to cut down oaks, prepare firewood, collect a bouquet of flowers; Jean cut down only three trees; the owner's daughter tells me to fall asleep, that's it is fulfilled (the girl's mother tells her husband every time that his daughter is betraying him); 2) cultivate the land, harvest vegetables, fruits, flowers (the same); 3) get two eggs from the top of the pyramidal mountain from the top of the pyramid mountain goldfinch; impossible to climb, Jean slides back; the girl tells her to throw her into a boiling pot, collect the bones, make a ladder out of them, then the bones back into the cauldron, she will come out whole; and so it happened, Jean took it out two eggs; the girl does not have enough little finger on her left leg (Jean forgot the bone upstairs); 4) identify the bride among her two sisters in the dark room; Jean identified by groping for the missing little finger; the bride tells not go to bed (a millstone will fall on the young), but run with a thin skate; Jean takes a fat one; the girl's father easily catches up with them on a thin horse; the daughter turns 1) the horse into a laundry platform (lavoir), Jean in goulot, herself in cardaline, who sang, replied that she did not see anyone, the girl's father returned, the wife explained that they were fugitives; 2) a horse in the river, Jean in the ship, herself as a carrier; replies that she will transport only for money, the father returns; the day has come, the Devil has lost his strength; Jean and his bride have come to the Holy Land; the girl must wait three years to enter there, for she is the daughter of the Devil; she told Jean go to his mother but not to hug any woman; his mother and others hugged him when he fell asleep, he forgot his wife; she comes beautiful, promises a night to someone who pays 3,000 francs; the first person who comes sticks to doors, sticks in the morning; the second to the night pot; the third Jean, the girl says she is his wife, he remembers her; wedding]: 21-29; Sébillot 1894, No. 21 (Lower Brittany) [mother-in-law tyrants her daughter-in-law; the old fairy gives her a magic wand and pad to make wishes come true; she creates a castle for herself; sings well; three hunters consistently try to seduce her; she tells the first to close the latch and, thanks to the pillow, makes him stand at the door all night; the second is told to close the fire, the third to bring water; after that, the fairy gets her a good husband]: 183; Shustova 1994 [parents hold the girl Blood and Milk (CM) is locked up; every evening her mother calls her, the KM lowers her braid, the mother goes up to her; the Queen overhears, calls her mother in her voice, the KM lowers the braid; hides the young man in an orange; the mother says that she smells like a human spirit, her daughter lets her eat another orange; the next evening she lets her eat a nut; KM offers to run, tells her to take a skinny horse (runs like care), the queen takes a smooth one (runs like wind); KM throws soap (soap mountain), comb (thicket); pursuer-father returns both times; mother says that the soap mountain was fugitives, chases herself; KM throws a thread - the river; mother says that when the Queen hugs someone, he forgets the KM; his aunt hugs the Queen's house, he forgets everything; KM works for a tailor; three fellows ask for a date, she tells one to close the door, the second is to extinguish the stove, the third to take out the garbage; the door cannot be closed all night; the same with the other two fellows; the Queen tells me to sew a dress, KM sews the way he first saw it, he recalls getting married]: 300-306; French (Haute-Bretagne) [{some pdf pages are broken, but it is clear that the text meets the definition of motive 118}]: Sébillot 1880, No. 10:113-118; Walloons [young man lost cards, decided to drown himself; someone helps him recoup on the condition that in a year and 6 weeks the young man will come to Mille de Plomb Castle; the young man comes to the old man, the animals obey him; the pig suffered him, he broke the ban on speaking, fell into the sea, swam to the shore; the giant is subordinate to a bird; he tells the eagle to take the young man; on the way, the supply runs out, the young man cut off a piece of his caviar; by the pond he sees the three daughters of the castle owner bathing, steals the youngest's clothes, returning them for promising to become his wife; the owner says that the young man must redeem his soul, and for this purpose 1) get the ring from the bottom well; to do this, he cuts that girl in half, the upper part dives and brings the ring, connects to the bottom; because a drop of blood has been lost, one finger is missing; 2) squeeze, grind in a day wheat from a huge field; 3) create a sea with all kinds of fish (the girl helps to perform); you need to recognize the bride three times under the veil among her sisters; the young man recognizes by the missing finger; wedding; young flee; become peasants; into a chapel and St. A virgin; a girl creates the sea, her father drowns in it; the young man's family does not recognize his wife, she disappears, he forgets her; she serves in a cabaret; the first person who wants to stay with her asks for a glass of water, he remains in this position and is released only in the morning; the same with the second; the third is her husband, he recognizes his wife; their wedding again]: Laport 1932, No. 313:43-44; Germans [old woman predicts childless to the king that he will have a son, but will disappear in the age of 12; when Ferdinand is 12 years old, he goes with his parents to a wedding, chases a deer, loses her way; an old woman appears, offers to carry him, carries him across the river to her house; she has 3 daughters, the youngest Lenore; after a while, the old woman tells 1) to scoop out the lake with a spoon (L. drains it); 2) turn the forest into firewood (L. performs); 3) build a palace not from wood, brick or stone (L. builds from gold and silver); 3) choose a bride among the old woman's three daughters (L. has a speck of blood on her forehead); at night L. turns 2 pillows into people, the young are running, the old woman hits pillows with an ax; the middle sister chases, L. turns herself into a mug of beer, F. into a mug lid, tells her sister to hit her teeth; older sister (cherry tree and thorn bush, thorns are scratched); an old woman is chased, L. turns herself and F. into two ducks, they swim across the river; the old woman sends her daughter a dowry across the river in three boxes; the prince leaves L. to prepare a reception at her father's castle; L. orders do not kiss anyone, the old nurse kisses, F. forgets everything; L. became a townsman, the prince's three servants take turns coming to her; the first she asks to close the door, he sticks to the hook; the second to the scoop stoves; the third to the calf in the yard; the king marries the prince, the wedding carriage breaks down near the house where L.; she gives the door to the boards to repair the carriage, asks her to take it to the wedding; wears the first dress from the dowry given by the mother; the young gives F. for the night for the dress, but puts F. to sleep; the next day, the glob in the carriage broke, L. gives his scoop; the same; on the third day only that calf moves the carriage; the servant told F. everything, he is waiting for L., but she accuses F. of forgetfulness, retires to the castle between earth and sky; F. goes in search; two giants argue over leaps and bounds; F. invites them to run racing, running away himself in boots; the other two giants, an invisible coat; the third is a saddle that carries through the air; F. gets to the mother of the Month, the mother of the Sun, the mother of the Wind; only the Wind knows where castle - he dried clothes washed before the wedding there; F. appears in front of L.; her new fiancé himself says that if old keys are found, new ones are not needed; F.'s wedding with L.]: Cerf 1992:53-76.
Western Asia. Mehri: Müller 1907, No. 10 [about (19)], 19 [when dying, the father tells his son to marry in Hilal for a hundred dirhams; the son mortgaged the house and the slave, received 95; 5 borrowed from the moneylender; if not He will return in a year, he has the right to cut off as much flesh from the debtor's body as he weighs 5 dirhams; in two houses, the young man is told that their daughter is not worth 100 dirhams; in the third they give her daughter; he brings her to him builds a hut; she tells her to sell her jewelry, use this money to buy the house and the slave, and there will be more; tells her to buy a carpet and invite guests; sends her husband to sell, stays with the slave; three men promise her money for love; she shaves off her first beard, burns her crotch with a ring; he tells friends that the pleasure was 300 dirhams; the same with the other two; they decide to find her husband; told the Sultan that they gave this man money but he did not return it; they took his ship; he became a baker; his wife came disguised as a man, promised to pay his debt if he allowed him to see his wife; he refused; the third time she agreed; she pledged his beard, belt and staff; comes to the Sultan: if those three have a stigma in their crotch, execute them, and if not, execute me and the baker; those three were executed, Sultan returned the ship and property to the man; at home, the wife talks to her husband, everything is being explained; that moneylender appeared, demanding man's flesh; the sultan agrees; the wife in the guise of a sheriff appeared unrecognized on horseback; offered 1,000 dirhams, but the moneylender refused; imaginary sheriff: if you cut more, let that man cut the same amount from you; the moneylender took 5 dirhams; the imaginary sheriff took the ring as a reward man; at home, his wife showed it to her husband; the Sultan's husband showed a gem; the vizier said that he gave this stone to this man's wife, with whom he slept; the sultan arrested the man; the wife ordered to make silver shoes, brought one, said that the vizier had stolen the other; he swore that he had never seen this woman in his life; she said that she was the wife of the one he had convicted; the Sultan executed the vizier, let the man go]: 23-33, 73-87; Socotra [the husband left and earned money; three people decided to seduce his wife out of envy; the first one came to her, she asked her to come tomorrow to bring she cleaned herself up; she gave him a drink with sleeping pills, cut off his testicles and sewed up the wound; when he regained consciousness, he told others that it was great; the same happened to the second man, then to the third; finding out that this happened to them all, these people agreed to deprive the woman's husband of his property: one would say it was his, and the other two would be witnesses; the woman found out about it, dressed as a man and followed them; the ruler believed it was a sheriff; decided in favor of three applicants; the imaginary sheriff: if none of them are castrates, the decision is fair; they turned out to be castrates, they were imprisoned; the woman's husband promised the imaginary sheriff any reward; he (i.e. his wife) asked his wife, the husband refused; then asked for a ring; they returned home, the wife took the form of a wife; the husband waited for the sheriff to visit, but did not wait; the wife I told you everything; husband: what should I do for you? wife: You didn't give me to the sheriff and that's enough]: Kogan MS, text 1, The faithful wife.
Central Europe. Poles (Poznan) [the miller took his son to look for a rich bride for him; they came to the glass mountain on which the witch lives with her three daughters; daughters fly to swim in the stream, shoot wings; the young man hid the youngest's wings, she agreed to become his wife; the witch demands to build a glass chapel; the girl tells me to go to bed; when the young man wakes up, the chapel is ready; the same is to dig up on grief three holes with a glass shovel; the girl offers to run; the witch sends her eldest daughter in pursuit; the girl turns herself into a thorny bush and the young man into a flower; the eldest daughter wants to pick a flower, but thorns interfere; sends an middle daughter; a chapel and a priest; he threw three crosses in front of the pursuer and she returned; the third time the mother catches up herself; the pond and the duck; the mother stopped chasing, leaving her on the shore three dresses; the daughter took them; the young man and the girl came to the birthplace of the miller's son; the young man left his bride, came home; forgot his bride and are going to marry another girl; the first bride began to work for another miller; a young man came there while the girl was doing laundry; asked if he could help; she asked to rinse his handkerchief and he stayed at the trough and rinsed his handkerchief until morning; the next once the girl milked the cow; the young man held the tail and held it until morning; at the wedding, the witch's daughter came to the bridesmaid, wearing the most modest dress left by his mother; the groom asked her to give it as a gift the dress to his fiancée; the girl gave it, ran home and put on the second dress; the same; when she wore the third dress, the young man recognized the girl, married her, and sent the other bride home]: Knoop 1916, No. 1:204- 206.
Baltoscandia. The Danes [the king is lost hunting, the horse drowns in the swamp; the sorcerer promises to help if the king gives him the first male being born; the king returns and has a son Irregang; when he is 15 years old, the sorcerer demands a young man, leaves his stick, the young man flies to him on a stick like a horse; in the house, Maid Misery's maid is a kidnapped princess; the sorcerer tells 1) to cut down the forest in a day (M. raises his apron, the forest falls down; before that and every time further, I. swears that he will remain faithful to M.); 2) clean the sheep's pen (M. tells the shovel to work); 3) drive the stallion to the watering hole (he puffs with fire, M. easily pacifies him); M. hears how the sorcerer agrees with his mother to fry her and I.; leaves the firewood responsible for himself; runs together with I., sitting on the sorcerer's horse; M. turns I. into a bush, himself into a pink bud, a horse in a stick, the sorcerer does not recognize, returns; next time: church, priest, churchyard; now the sorcerer's mother is chasing herself; duck, duck, stream; witch throws an apple on a string, to attract the fugitives, but the duck bites the thread; the witch bursts, turns into flints scattered on the shore; M. turns the horse into stone; tells I. to go home first, for 7 years have passed; his the mother is dead, the king has a child with his new wife; let no one kiss I.; the dog licks I. in the face, he forgets M.; she turns a stone into a calf, is hired as an employee, she is asked to sew a shirt for the prince on wedding; the coachman wants to stay with her overnight; she asks him to throw ash at the fire in the hearth, he sticks to the scoop, M. lets him go only in the morning; the next night another servant sticks to the latch; then groom: take the calf to the barn, it sticks to the tail; in the morning, the wedding carriage is in trouble, everything breaks; each time Prince I. himself is forced to ask the maid (i.e. M.) to replace the glob with a shovel that has burst bolts - latch, horses - calf; replacements are great; at a wedding feast, M. throws grains, pigeons flock, begin to tell her story; I. remembers everything; tells a parable about the lost and the key to the box found; M. explains that the dog that licked I. became the current bride; M. asks to throw her into the water; then becomes a normal woman, unable to witchcraft, and her gray the calf becomes a prince; it was her bewitched brother]: Grundtvig 1920:83-109 (an easier option in Holbek 1987:516-517); Norwegians [the youngest of the king's two sons leaves, is hired to a giant; he tells him to clean the stable in a day, not to go into other rooms; the young man comes in, in one cauldron boils without fire, what gets into it becomes copper; in the second, the cauldron makes silver, in the third is gold; the young man lowers a curl into each; in the fourth room there is a girl; she teaches to dig a shovel with a handle while cleaning the stable, the work will be done immediately; the giant suspects that his maid taught; the next day - to bring a horse; girl: the horse is full of fire, you have to throw bits in his mouth; on the third day: bring a fee from hell for the borrowed fire; girl: knock on the rock with a club, door opens, ask for as much as possible; on the fourth day, the giant himself brings the young man to the maid, tells her to cut his throat, cook the broth; she puts three drops of the young man's blood to cook with with old rubbish, both run away, sail on a ship across the sea; drops of blood are responsible for the giant; when he understands the deception, he calls stream-sucker, he drinks the water of the sea, the ship is already visible; young man throws a piece of salt, a mountain appears; the giant drilled it, Drinker wanted to start drinking, but the young man drips into the sea from the flask, it fills up again; the fugitives reach the shore; the queen goes after the horses, the bride tells him not to talk to anyone; the brother's bride's sister gives an apple, he bites off, forgets the bride; she goes to the old woman, makes the house golden; the constable brings money, wants to marry; she tells him to kiss the night to throw hot coals at himself; then the lawyer tells him to push in the door; the sheriff drags the calf by the tail; the young man must marry the bride's older brother's sister; the carriage falls apart, succeeds go thanks to magic items borrowed by the giant's daughter; she was invited to a feast; she puts a golden rooster and a chicken on the table, fighting over a golden apple; the Queen remembers everything; who gave him The witch's apple was torn apart by 24 horses]: Dasent 1970:71-90 (=Suritz 1991:218-227); Icelanders []: Poestion 1884, No. 10:74-80; Karelians (Kalevala District) [the husband went to the forest, took aim at the bird" vuoka"; she asks not to shoot, but to bring and feed a year; so three times; explains that she was wounded when she fought with a capercaillie; when the bird recovered, ordered the cow to be slaughtered, to take meat with her, it will bear for a reward; over the sea, throws and picks up a man three times so that he feels the same fear as she did when he aimed at it; the bird consistently stops with its three sisters in copper, silver, golden house; only a sister from the golden house agrees to give the box with the key; when flying away, the veika hits her wings, the copper and silver houses burn down; the man opens the box on the way, falls out countless good; the giant demon puts everything back for promising to give what was born in his house during the man's absence; it turns out that a boy was born and has grown up; the boy accidentally broke the pot with with a soup on the window of an old woman; she says that he has been promised to an Arab guest, let him go to him; the boy (now more like a young man) leaves; sees three swans come to swim, take off their clothes, and begin girls; he hides his clothes alone; the girl agrees to take him as a groom; says that she was cursed to be the daughter of an Arab guest; the swan took the young man under his wing and brought him to an Arab guest; the young man spent the night with as a girl, in the morning she gave him a drink of live water, ordered him to break all the axes and saws that his father would give to harvest a huge amount of forest; after that, the devil gave his ax, the young man told the demons do the work; the second task is to dig a giant field on the rock (the same is to break hoes and shovels); hell tells you to choose a bride among three identical girls; chickens; mares; the girl teaches what she will have longer tie on the apron; puts her finger aside; puts his back leg aside; hell suggests riding a horse, it's him; the girl teaches how to whip the horse with a whip and a sledgehammer in the forehead; the beaten devil is sick, the girl tells him to run; they turned into a shepherd and a cow; the priest and the church; the demons did not understand, they returned; when they became a lake and a ruff, the devil himself ran, tried to drink the lake; the ruff ripped open his belly, the water flowed out, hell is dead; the girl sends the guy home, and she must be water for another three years; the young man has become a rich merchant, forgot his bride, is preparing a wedding with the princess; the girl comes and offers to buy buns from her; the buyer wants to sleep with her; she tells her to come in the evening; the girl sent her boyfriend to buy firewood, she stuck to the doorknob all night; the next evening, the same with the second one who went out to bring a bag of flour; The merchant himself came in the third evening; she lay down with him, said who she was; they stayed together]: Onegina 2010, No. 16:182-193.
Volga - Perm. Tatars [bai drank all the money; the diva gave an inexhaustible purse, for which the Bai son must go to him; the young man came to the old woman, the wife of a diva, she sent to a girl who had once been kidnapped by a diva; she the diva helps to complete the tasks; 1) cut down the forest, sow, harvest, bake bread in a day; 2) tame the horses (this is the diva himself and his daughters, let him sit on the last one, it will be her); the diva gives a girl, offers a steam bath; he has already fried a lot of people in her; the girl tells me to run; the fugitives turn into 1) a herd and a shepherd; 2) a mosque and a muezzin; 3) a lake and a frog; this time div himself chases, cannot drink the lake, leaves; the young man goes for the tarantas to solemnly bring the bride; she warns not to kiss the sisters; he kissed a six-year-old, forgot the bride; she hired to weave carpets; the mullah comes, she offers him to melt the stove, stuck to the poker; they waited for him in the mosque - they did not wait; the same the next day (stuck to the rule); in three months, three mullahs had to be changed; young men wedding, girl baked bialesh, no one can cut it; she cut it herself, a pigeon and a dove flew out; dove: forgot! dove: I didn't forget! the young man remembered everything, married the one who saved him]: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 59:274-282.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. South Altai Tuvans [on the advice of a horse, Ergen-ool agrees to become a friend of a black snake; he turns into a young man on a blue horse; he sends him to his home, hands him a golden casket there; in it cattle tags, scissors, a needle; he throws it away, finds a beautiful woman, a yurt, lots of cattle in the morning; Kharagathy Haan sends servants to fry quails; the quails burned down, E.'s wife gave them three pieces from the tail instead sheep, sprinkled her milk, XX and his people ate this month; XX comes to her yurt, she makes him stick to objects three times for the night (to the ash of the hearth, to the felt rope, to the door); E. arrives at the 20th century, his horse reaches the clouds at the withers, rolls the boulders of the lower world with his feet; XX unsuccessfully tries to poison E. with araka; XX offers to hide; his wife turns E. into an iron on fire, tongs for the hearth, scissors; tells her husband that the XX has turned into felt wool on the roof of a yurt, a reed stem, a yellow whip; XX tells her to kill Erlik Haan and return; the wife asks to take sandbags with her, tendons, leather sticks, sheep tail; a black dog runs along the summoned pasture; it must be fed with a sheep's tail, strangled, its tail put in its mouth; sand should be poured onto a snowy mountain so that it cross; camels will ask if to scratch about you or your horse - give them leather; women - pull tendons out of you or from a horse - give them tendons; in the world Erlik E. meets that black dog; dog says that when Erlik is awake, he says, "I sleep, and when I sleep, I don't sleep; by morning Erlik fell asleep, E. tore off a piece of his heart, flew away with a falcon; sees a man leading a black a dog; this revived Erlik led XX]: Taube 1994, No. 3:61-69.
Eastern Siberia. The Northeastern (Indigiri) Yakuts (1945, Abysky Ulus) [Baay Kara Khaan's son asks his father to get him the wife of poor Ereideeh-Buruidaah; he 1) sends EB to the land of the dead to bring cattle, eaten at the wake of his ancestors; while he is away, son B. comes to the woman, she does not seem to notice him, says that the EB log that has fallen out of the stove would pick up; son B. raises a log, touches stoves, a woman tells him to stick to the stove for the night, half of his clothes are burnt, the other in the frost; in the morning E. drives cattle, but the animals die soon; 2) take off the dead and bring their clothes; episode repeats, the guy stuck to the door for the night; the sun hides for three days; after that, there is only a swamp on the site of B.'s estate]: Ergis 1964, No. 63:226-228 (=Illarionov et al. 2008, No. 24:271-275; retelling in Sivtsev, Efremov 1990:112-118, in Sivtsev-Omolloon 1976:80-84).
SV Asia. Tundra Yukaghirs (Nizhnekolymsky District, Yakutsk, 1959) [when the first child was born, Lamado, his father threw him away, said he was not from him; his wife secretly fed him; the second was born; both grew up, became hunters, L. got married; the youngest also wants a wife, plans to kill L. with his father, give his wife to the youngest; the father demands that L. bring the bear, the mother gives horsehair, L. brought the bear, leading hair on a leash; when L. left, the youngest came to his wife; wife: if he were a husband, he would chop firewood; the youngest volunteered to do it himself, his hands stuck to the ax, the ax to the tree; in the morning L.'s wife let him go; he I came to my father, replied that he had a good night; the second time - the same (bring the wolf; bring water; his hand stuck to the cauldron, the cauldron to the ice); the third time, draw the line; L. refused; the father grew old, came to live with L., he made his father and younger brother woodcutters and water carriers, washed them around them, and took care of his mother; he has many children]: Kurilov 2005, No. 24:275-279.