L100E. Lover, Host and Guest, ATU 1358A, (ATU 1360B).

.15.-.17.27.-.34.

Before entering, the guest notices the hostess and her lover in the house. When a husband arrives, the guest pretends to be a psychic and tells her husband where the lover and the food prepared for him are hidden.

Portuguese, Italians (Veneto), Corsicans, (Basques), French (Lorraine), Germans (Grimms, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg), Syrian Arabs, Arameans, Saudia, Bulgarians, Romanians, ( Bosnians), Luzhitans, Poles, Slovaks, Russians (Karelia, Vladimir, Moscow, Kursk, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Kiev, Poltava), Adygs, Terek Cossacks, Lacks, Dargins, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Persians (Uzbeks), Latvians, Karelians, Veps, Udmurts, Mari, Chuvash, Bashkirs, Kazan Tatars, Kazakhs, Khakas.

Southern Europe. The Portuguese [a poor farmer says he sold manure for the price of an ointment; a rich man tries to do so, then kills a poor man's cow or horse; burns his house; he succeeds by deception get for gold for ash; a poor man sells the skin of a cow or horse - supposedly, she guesses where the food is or where the lover hides; the poor man sells an animal that supposedly defecates with gold; a cauldron that, allegedly cooks his own food; a rabbit who allegedly runs to the address and gives instructions; throws up a corpse, others mistake it for a living, thinks he has killed a person; a rich man tries to imitate, burns down a house, killed his wife or mother; put the poor man in a bag to drown; he persuades the shepherd to switch places, brings the herd (says from the bottom); the rich man drowns]: Cardigos 2006, No. 1535:316-317; Italians (Veneto) [the lover brought the fisherman's wife a hare, cheese, wine; there is a storm in the yard, a passerby asks to spend the night; he was allowed in on condition not to talk about what he saw and hears; soon comes husband; invites a passerby to the table, asks him to tell a fairy tale; he says that while walking through the field, he saw a hare as big as the one behind the stove; threw a stone at him the size of a piece of cheese on the balcony; the hare bleed the color of wine outside the door; the hare died and his eyes are like the one currently lying under the bed; the husband kicked out his lover, punished his wife, shared the hare, cheese and wine with the passerby]: Cosquin 1887:330 (=Sumtsov 2015:77); Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 9 [the beggar carried a wineskin with bees, decided to go to the house for the night; there, in the absence of her husband, the hostess received a curé; the beggar lay down on a bench , but did not sleep, but saw and heard everything; the husband came; the hostess had time to hide the curé in addition, and the food in the closet; answered her husband that there was nothing to eat; the beggar said that he was a fortuneteller; when he tapped on his wineskin, there is a buzz inside; says that there are pancakes, wine, etc.; then, except for the hell; goes there, hits the curé, he goes down, the owner hits him, the priest is slightly alive; the owner bought a "fortuneteller" for the big money; the beggar warned that windows and doors should be closed during the session; the owner called the people, opened his wineskin, the bees bit everyone almost to death; the owner promised to kill the beggar, but did not know where to look], 106 [ The widow has a son Muschinu (the name of the insect pest of olives); he sold the cow, took off the skin, filled it with bees; asked to let him spend the night; at this time the priest comes to the hostess; the husband came, the curé jumped out the window ; M. says that thanks to cow skin, he can guess and predict; knocks on it, the bees are buzzing, he says where food, wine, money are hidden; sells the skin for 40 francs; advises to open it in presence wives, but closed windows and doors; bees bit his wife and then her husband to death; M. says at home that he received the money by selling the skin; neighbors slaughtered cows; came to kill M., but stabbed his mother; M. brings her to a crowded place, as if selling eggs; a rich man pushed her, believed he killed her, paid 1,000 francs; M. says they give good money for the dead; people killed old people, barely escaped from prisons; M. was stuffed into a bag, carried to drown, left for a while; he shouts that he does not want to marry a princess; a pig merchant takes his place; he was drowned, M. brought pigs, said that from the sea bottom; neighbors and their wives jumped into the water and drowned]: 21-23, 244-247.

Western Europe. French (Lorraine) [a girl does not want to go to school, runs away from home, grabbing a talking crow; in one house she peeks through the door crack, sees the mistress with her lover; when she returns the husband, the girl offers him to buy her prophetic bird; the raven croaks, the girl explains: he says where food and wine are hidden, and in the next room there is a lover; the husband gives a lot of money for the crow, loads it on a donkey, whom she also gives to the girl; she sold the donkey for a lot of money, saying that he is wasting money; comes to her stepmother, asks the measure of money; when she returns, the stepmother finds the louidors stuck; then other episodes, including a character in a bag who shouts that he does not want to be a bishop]: Cosquin 1887:229-230 (retelling the first part in Sumtsov 2015:77); Germans [peasant asks godfather to make a heifer; the shepherd took her into the herd, but the heifer disappeared, the peasant got a live cow for her; stabbed her and went to sell her skin; on the way he saw a crow with a broken wing, wrapped it in leather; went in spend the night at the mill; the miller is not at home; the mill decided that the guest fell asleep, the pop came to her, they began to feast; when her husband came, she hid her ass and pickles; the husband asks what the guest has in his shoes; he replies that he is a predictor, but predicts no more than four times; the crow stings, he croaks; wine under the pillow, roast in the stove, salad on the bed, pies under the bed; the miller wants to know the fifth; guest: hell in the closet; the pop ran away; the miller bought a crow for a lot of money; the elder called the peasant: why did he get rich? he replies that he sold cowhide; the peasants slaughtered the cows, but no one bought the skins; they went to drown the deceiver in a barrel of holes; left for a while; the pop began to read the funeral; promised to help to the peasant, since he freed him from the closet; the shepherd drives the herd, the peasant shouts that he does not want to be the head, the shepherd took his place; he was drowned, the peasant brought the herd, said that from the bottom; the elder the first one threw himself into the water when he saw the reflection of the clouds - lambs; behind him the whole village; that peasant got it all]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 61:227-231 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:187-193).

Western Asia. Syrian Arabs [Prym & Socin, II, No. 71:293; the fox invites the person to become sister cities, he agrees; they have come to the house where the hostess has just baked cakes; the fox asks himself, the hostess She drove her away; the fox noticed that the hostess smeared the cakes with butter, carried it to her lover; the fox told her sister to hide in the wheat bin, climbed into the hole herself; when her husband came, the hostess hid her lover at the same close; the husband asks for bread, the wife gives him stale; the fox asks himself again, is refused again, gives the unfaithful wife to her husband, says that there are butter cakes in the house; the husband kills the lover, the wife and fox sister, eats butter cakes with fox]: Cosquin 1887 (2): 330-331; Aramaeans [after sunset, the husband is afraid to leave the house; one day his wife took him out into the yard and locked the door; the husband took donkey and went on a journey; came to the same house, noticed that the hostess had received three men; the dyer husband came, she hid them in three vats; hid the food, gave her husband bread; the husband invited them to the table the wanderer, who demanded that he be allowed into the room with the donkey; pretends that the donkey tells him something; this is how pilaf is found, etc.; the owner drives the donkey out of the room with a stick, striking three times; guest hits three vats with a stick, they are lovers; the owner and the guest hit them, the owner drove his wife away; buys a donkey for a lot of money; guest: he must be locked in a barn without food; the guest is gone, the donkey is dead]: Belov, Wilsker 1960:276-282; Saudia [Hasan Pleshivy noticed that a woman slaughtered a chicken; caught a crow, hid it under his shirt, went into that house; the owners invited me to the table, there was only dry bread; H. stings a crow, she croaks; he explains what the crow said; 1) fried chicken is hidden in the room; 2) it is not intended for the owner; he promises to deal with his wife and buys a crow for a lot of money; H. tells his uncle's sons that his wealth comes from a bull he went to sell; the old man ordered a stone to be tied to the bull and let him into the sea; the waters parted, a treasure opened; his uncle's sons drowned their bulls and drowned themselves]: Juhayman 1999:91-94.

The Balkans. Bulgarians [a poor family stabs their only ox to give the villagers a feast, but then no one invites a feast; or a younger brother borrowed from an older horse to plow , he died from work, and the eldest returned only his skin; when he went to sell his skin, the poor man accidentally became rich (he threw the robbers off the tree under which the robbers were sitting, they ran away, leaving the loot; or he comes in to a house where the hostess has a lover; pretends that he has an omniscient feature in his horse's clothing; on his behalf indicates where the hostess hid food and drinks, where the "devil" (lover) is hidden; receives money from owner and lover; or sells leather at a wedding for a drum; when he returns, he says he sold his skin at the bazaar; neighbors slaughter their cattle, but cannot sell their skins; they throw crap at the man's yard; he collects it in bags, stays with the khan (priest) and says that the royal treasury is in the bags; if they are opened, gold will turn into crap; the bags were opened, the person was given gold instead of crap; the man's wife Neighbors died or killed her (younger brother killed his elder's wife); a cunning man (older brother) puts the corpse on a donkey and accuses the person who pushed the body (a person in the field, in the garden, in a tavern, at a wedding) of murder; in return he receives a girl or money; says that he exchanged the deceased for a living (sold for money); neighbors killed his wives; the cunning man is put in a bag to drown in the sea, left for a while; he shouts that he does not want to to marry the princess, the shepherd agrees to take his place; the cunning man brought a herd of sheep, says he got it at the bottom; the neighbors are drowning]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1535:491-493; Romanians [husband cannot invite friends; when his wife has left, stabbed a cow, arranged a feast for friends and spread the rumor that the cow has fallen; dried her skin, comes to the village where the woman has a lover; sees how before coming the husband's wife hides food and drinks; the owner came, drank, called the guest to the table; he pretends to be able to guess with his skin; first says where what is hidden, and then what the hell is in the house; lover jumps out from under the bed with a fur coat over his head; the owner rewards the fortuneteller with a cow]: Bîrlea 1966:487; (cf. Bosnians (Herzegovina) [the old man sent his son to sell the goat at the bazaar, return with the goat and money; the son brings the goat back - he tried to sell and take it away, but had to return the money; the old man takes the goat to the bazaar; comes, when the trade is over, goes to the colonel's house for the night; Kaziy knocks, the hostess comes the old man with the goat in the attic; then muselim comes (referee official); mufti; they also go to the attic; for silence, the old man takes a lot of money from everyone; the husband comes, sits down for dinner; at this time an old man with a goat comes down, says that he was in court - in the attic all the judicial brethren; the colonel expelled his lovers and his wife, the old man returned with a goat and money]: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:344-348).

Central Europe. Luzhitans [the guy grazes the headman's cow and his own; asks what to do if a cow drops a cake on a bird's nest in the meadow; mother: kill her; son: ours too; mother: ours too; he killed his own cow, the mother is desperate; the guy went to sell the skin; wants to stay in the hut for the night; sees a hostess feasting with her lover through the window; knocked; the hostess decided that the husband has returned, hid roast in the oven, wine under the bed, pies in the closet; then the owner came up, the guy came in with him; the bag touches the bag at the table, the cat has a cow's skin, it creaks; guy: yes, shut up; explains what's in the bag he is a predictor; indicates the places where food is hidden; the owner wants to buy a fortuneteller, the guy asks to give him a chest (in which his lover) for him; Dali's chest with a cart, the guy took him home; threatens to drown his lover, received 300 thalers from him; when he learned that the farmhand had received 300 thalers for his skin, the elder stabbed his own, could not sell it; the guy persuaded him to leave him in the sheepfold overnight, let the wolf go there; in the morning the elder came to the boy to take him to prison, but the mother said that her son was dead; the elder went to relieve the need on the face of the deceased; (the story is cut short with reference to similar ones)]: Schulenburg 1882:40-41; Poles: Sumtsov 2015 [two smart brothers, the third stupid; the foolish man took the skin off the cow, brought it to the tavern, where he stayed for the night; saw from the attic what the shinkarka was taking priest, wine, honey, roasts, sweets on the table; the husband has returned; the priest hides in a tar barrel, then in a barrel of feathers; the bedkeeper knocks on the skin with a stick, asks what she says to him; answers the priest, what the skin said - there is sweets in the closet; then there is a point to the stove, to the komora; the hidden treat is back on the table, a devil like a priest runs away, the shinkar buys the skin for an expensive price; (the same story in a fairy tale about a queen who knew no trouble; the priest hides under the stove where the Queen was lying; he took his dress; the lady fell ill in fear; the queen undertakes to treat her; pours boiling water under the stove, expelling the naked priest, who is mistaken for the demon of disease, Samiec, "guest", Belarusians have a knot)]: 76; Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 1535 [the poor man's last cow (horse) died, he carries the skin to the city to sell; (by the road fills it with wasps and bees); or caught and took a crow with him; stayed for the night in a house where his wife receives a lover; suddenly the husband returns, the wife hides treats, hides his lover under bed; the guest creaks his skin or stings the crow; pretends to tell him where the food is hidden; the husband buys the skin and also gives him a chest in which the lover; he pays not to drown him; when he returns, the poor man takes a measure from his brother, a coin sticks to her; the poor man explains that he received the money by selling the skin (or his mother's corpse); the brother stabbed a cow (horse) or killed his mother, tries to sell the skin, or body; puts the poor man in a bag to drown, leaves him for a while; the poor man screams that he does not want to be king; the shepherd changes places with him, is drowned, the poor man brings sheep, says that from the bottom; the brother himself throws into the water, sinks]: 81-82; Slovaks [after the death of their father, two older brothers shared the property, and the youngest was assigned to live in a barn; cannot share the only cow; decide: in addition build two new barns to the old one; whoever cow enters will take it; the cow goes to the old stable to her younger brother; then the brothers slaughtered her, the youngest was given only skin; flies and hornets flew at her; the guy rolled up and sewed his skin to keep the hornets inside, went on a journey; in the evening he knocked on the miller; only his wife was at home, reluctantly agreed to let the beggar into the attic; he hears her kind to her lover, wine on the table, pickles; suddenly a knock on the door; the husband suddenly returned because the cart broke; he is hungry, his wife offers old sour cabbage soup; hides food; tells his lover to climb into a barrel of feathers, but he first climbed into a barrel of resin; when he learns about the beggar, the husband tells him to go down; the guy says he has the truth with him - a skin with perfume buzzing inside; spirits first talk about pies, then wine and roast, then the devil in the barrel; the devil is pulled out, beaten, he pays off, two hundred gold; the guy seems reluctantly agrees to sell the truth for the same hundred gold; when he leaves, his catches up with the mill, gives 200 gold, asks to remove the truth from home; the guy advises to make a hole in his skin and carefully release the hornets; the guy came back, started a farm; told his brothers about fools ready to buy the truth; they slaughtered their cows, came to the miller, let dogs in and beat them; the brothers destroyed his house; the youngest collected the fragments in three barrels, took them; said to the owner of the inn that he was carrying royal money and he was told to stay only at this inn so that, if anything, he would know where to look; at night, the robbers brought three barrels of money; in the morning they slept, the owner was afraid get up before the robbers left, gave the key to the cellar; the guy took the robbers' money, he was not caught up; he told the brothers that the inn owner does new and old, pays for shards; brothers they smashed what was at home, took them to the inn, on the way the robbers took everything from them, they returned naked and beaten; put the youngest in a bag, carried him to drown; went to the healer for advice: what was the best throw into the river, forward with his feet or head; the guy screamed that he did not want to be king; the shepherd heard, swapped seats with him, drowned, the guy brought the herd, said it was from the bottom; the brothers saw in the water reflection of sheep, jumped head forward; the youngest married and healed well]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 48:244-252; Russians (Karelian Pomorie, Kolezhma; a brief summary of the text from Karelian's archive branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences) [a fool passes off the skin of a murdered heifer as a sorceress; at the night, a rich man finds the mistress's lover, receives a lot of money for this; brothers, envious of a fool, kill their cattle, do not receive money; they want to kill a fool, they mistakenly kill the mother; a fool carries the mother's corpse to church, accuses her priest of her death; a frightened pop gives a fool money, asks to keep a secret; brothers take revenge on a fool; die themselves]: Razumova, Senkina 1974, No. 485:400; Russians (Vladimirskaya, Pereslavl-Zalessky u.) [the soldier went on vacation, drove the demon out of his master, then picked up an owl; by evening he wrapped him in a friend's house; noticed that the hostess was treating his friend with vodka and fried lamb; then the owner came in, the wife had time to do everything hide; the soldier also came in, shakes the owl, it squeaks; the soldier: says that there is lamb in the oven, and there is vodka in the closet; and under the stove there is a lover; the owner beat his lover, bought an owl in 150 centuries; a lover came, saw an owl, showed her fist, the owl grabbed him and the hostess; at that time the owner returned (he only pretended to be gone for a long time); caught up with the soldier and added him 100 rubles: the bird also keeps lovers]: Smirnov 2008, No. 3:65-66; Russians (Moscow) [two brothers are hard-working, and Vanka is a lazy person; ordered a stuffed calf, asked his brother to take the calf into the herd; he does not go, his brother whipped, his head fell off, V. threatens to sue, his brother gave the cow; V. stabbed her, went to sell her skin, picked up a slaughtered crow on the way; the mill let her sleep; V. noticed where the food was hidden and that there was a lover clerk in the house; a miller returned, calls the traveler to the table; he says that he is going to sell a wonderful bird; supposedly with a hint, the crow shows where the food is; and in the chest - hell; the clerk runs out in flour and feathers; the miller bought a crow for 300 rubles; V. tells the brothers that he earned money for the skin; they slaughtered cattle, they give one and a half rubles for the skin; the brothers put V. in a bag, went to drown, went for a drink; the old man drives the herd; V. says that in a bag cleansed of his sins; the old man took his place; the old man was drowned; V. brought sheep, says that from the bottom of the river; the brothers drowned]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 89:227-230; Russians (Kurskaya, Mokhovsky District) [To get bread, a man and his wife feed their neighbors with their cow's meat, but guests do not give bread. A man sells cow leather in the city for three rubles, and on the way back he stays in the house for the night. The man notices that a lover comes to the hostess, she hides him and the man underground when she sees that her husband is returning from the war. The man threatens his lover that he will scream, and so on lures him all the money (450 rubles), then shouts "Robbery" and runs out of the underground, his lover runs after him, both in threshing fluff, his husband takes them for hell. The man tells his neighbors that he sold cow leather for 450 rubles, one of them is trying to sell the skin of his cows, but he is taken to the police and beaten there "so that he knows the value and does not stir up people." The same thing happens to two other neighbors who claimed too high leather prices. They are angry with the man, put him in a bag about to drown him, none of them want to sin, the man advises them to bring a pitchfork and put him in the water on them (so that the sin stays on the pitchfork), in their absence he he sings loudly that he is given a royal position, but he is not literate, a master rides by, changes places with the man (gives three horses, money, half of the estate). Neighbors throw away the bag with the master, see the man in new clothes, who says that he received wealth when he was in the maritime kingdom. Neighbors ask their wives to throw them into the water and drown, the sergeant sees this, beats his wives. The surviving neighbors set fire to the man's house, he stuffs his clothes with straw and puts him by the window. The man asks the carpenters to move his new hut to the village overnight, tells his neighbors that he complained to God about his fate and he offered him to choose a hut in the village and lodged him and his wife there. He chose a simple house because the man is "unenvious" and was brought down from the sky on a wire. Neighbors do not believe the man, but no longer try to teach him a lesson]: Aristov, Pavlov 1939:63-66; Russians (Voronezhskaya, p. Bolshaya Vereyka, 1925) [A citizen goes to visit his wife, stays in the village, drinks water from a well and drops his jug, takes off his shirt, goes down into the well and pulls it out. The girl takes the shirt away at this time. The man hides in hemp in the garden, hears his wife seeing her husband off "at night", advises him to come later so that she can bake pancakes. The man hides in the house under the stove. A lover comes to the hostess. When her husband returns, the lover hides under the stove, she tries to hand him pancakes and vodka, but the man grabs the treat. A man, naked after jumping into a well, lures his lover's clothes, threatening to sing loudly. The husband leaves the house, the man runs out from under the stove unnoticed. He returns to the house and informs the owner that an unclean spirit has developed in his house. He persuades the hostess's lover to run out from under the stove when he rattles with a poker. He runs out, the owners are frightened, convinced of the man's abilities]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 11:80-82; Ukrainians (Kiev) [the wife pretends to be sick, the husband goes to work, and the wife takes the ass; the husband meets a man, says that his wife told him to get "hellebore", bake a biscuit on ice, get the root of a Tatar potion; the counter puts her husband in the queue (genus of reeds), asks his wife for overnight stay, says there is glass in the kula; the wife asks me to sing a song; he sings about taking a makogon (a kind of pesta); his wife does not like the song, she takes a makogon, hits the cake to break the glass; husband pops up, nailed his priest, awarded a passerby for curing his wife]: Sumtsov 2015:74-75; Ukrainians (Poltava, Romensky y.) [Rich Mikola and poor Mikolka become cronies, the former has stallions, the other has one nag. Mikolka asks to borrow his godfather's horses to plow, people report to Mikola, he is angry, kills the oath, and takes his horses. Mikolka takes her skin to the fair in Sokirivka. On the way, she asks to spend the night, but the sick hostess does not let him in, he climbs into the barn, sees that a pop is visiting her, then her husband comes back, hides the snack on the stove, and her butt in the box. Mikolka asks the owner to let him in, he lets him in. Mikolka presses the skin under the table - says that there are treats on the stove, then that devils are in the house, points to the chest, the owner instantly cuts the "patched" priest with an ax. The owner gives Mikolka a few measures of gold in gratitude for the spell. His wife takes a measure of gold from Mikola, who discovers coins stuck in the measure, and Mikola explains that he became rich selling horse skin. Mikola skins horses, but sells them for 3 rubles and wants to slaughter Mikolka. He realizes the plan of the godfather, puts his mother in his place, takes her to the fair with her head severed off in the morning, attaches her head to her body, asks the kvass to bring her mother kvass, which touches her head, she falls, he asks Mikola not to tell anyone what happened, pays in gold. Goes back to his wife, repeat with a measure. Mikola repeats the godfather's actions again, cuts her mother and daughter, takes him to the fair, and takes him to a madhouse. A month later they let go, want to drown the godfather, puts him in a bag, leaves him at the church. Mikola shouts that he is being sent to heaven in a bag, and a master rides by, ready to switch seats with him. Mikola leaves in a carriage in riches, and Mikola throws her master into the water. At home, she discovers that her godfather is alive and rich again, Mikolka says that he pulled the cattle by the horns from under the water. Mikola asks his wife to throw it into the water in a deeper place]: Gnedich 1916, No. 1514:37-40.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygi: Tkhamokova 2014, No. 1359A [a man robbed naked breaks into someone else's house and hides under the bed; a loser lover hides here; the first threatens him with exposure; that pays him off with his clothes; after running away, the man returns under the guise of a healer; invites her husband to drive evil spirits out of the house; for a large fee he expels his lover by scalding him with boiling water], 1535 [with the help of a supposedly speaking bird, the guest exposes the owner's unfaithful wife; the dishes hidden for the lover go to the husband and the guest; the wife kills the "wonderful" bird; the cunning takes a lot of wealth in compensation for the loss]: 198, 207; Terek Cossacks (art. Ardonskaya) [Peter has three horses, Petrushka has one; while plowing, Petrushka shouts that his horses are; Peter kills Petrushka's horse; he carries her skin to the city to sell her skin; goes to the hut, asks to let her go spend the night; the hostess allows you to stay in the yard; the owner arrives; Petrushka sees that the hostess's lover is hiding in the chest; the owner invites Petrushka into the house; he says he has horse skin a magician who knows what they have in their house; the owner asks to speak; Petrushka pushes the skin, it makes a noise; Petrushka: the magician said that there is vodka and fried chicken behind the stove; the hostess who cooked them for her lover, replies that she forgot to get them; Petrushka drinks and eats with the owner; pushes his skin again; assures that there is a devil in the chest; agrees to kick him out for the measure of gold; having received an award, rides a master's cart with a chest to the sea; lets his lover go for silver; comes home, sends his son to Peter for a measure; Peter smears its bottom with glue; Petrushka measures money, returns the measure, to on the bottom of which several coins are stuck; Peter asks where the money comes from; he replies that he sold his horse's skin for a measure of silver; Peter rips off his horses, takes them to the city, tries to sell them for the same price; they laugh at him; he comes to Petrushka at night to kill him; kills his mother-in-law, with whom he changed places; Petrushka puts her on a cart and supports her with chopsticks; drives up to the dukhan, drinks; the strangler offers a glass to his mother-in-law, pushes her, she falls; Petrushka accuses him of murder; the strangler gives a measure of silver, buries his mother-in-law at his own expense; Petrushka sends his son to Peter for measure; he sees coins stuck to the bottom, asks where the money comes from; Petrushka replies that he sold his mother-in-law; Peter kills his wife, takes her to the city; after leaving prison, he puts Petrushka in a bag and carries her to drown in sea; walks into church on the way, leaves the bag at the fence; Petrushka says to an old man passing by: "Lord, I'm still young, and I'm being taken to heaven!" ; the old man is jealous, gives Petrushka his cattle, climbs into a bag; Peter throws them into the sea; sees Petrushka with his cattle; Petrushka: "Have you seen bulbs? I'm the one who picked cattle from the sea. Y! How much of it is there!" ; Peter asks to throw him into the sea, reaches the shore himself; Petrushka throws him into the water and returns home]: Gusev 1893:358-363; Lucky [a beggar with a learned crow climbed onto the roof; sees the merchant's wife with lover, and the merchant has just returned; the wife hid everything, pretended to be sick; the beggar knocks; pretends to understand what the raven is saying; why is the tired owner given oatmeal and buza, although in the house dumplings with eggs; the same is pilaf; a cauldron with sweets; a plate of halva; a man is hidden behind the chest; wife: this is a neighbor; the lover confessed everything, was beaten; the merchant drove his wife away, married the beggar to his own a relative and made him an heir]: Khalilov 1965, No. 84:260-263; Dargins [the fool climbed the tree, began to cut the branch on which he was sitting; a passerby warned that he would fall; when he fell, a fool marveled at the mind of a passerby; ran after him, asked when he would die; passer-by: when you go up the slope and your donkey will let the air go three times; when this happened, the fool of tears from the donkey lay down on the ground; the wolf ate donkey; crows, magpies flocked to peck bones; the fool grabbed the magpie, put it in his bosom; told people that he had a visionary falcon; one man took him to him; the fool noticed that there was a lover in the house; the wife gave to the husband and guest dry bread and sheep cheese; the fool clicks the bird on the head, it gives a voice; he each time explains that the visionary falcon indicates where food, wine, lover are in the house; lover, followed by his wife, followed by her husband is running away, the fool took all the goods for himself]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 106:464-466 (cf. also No. 108:469-470); Georgians [the bell earned money at the wedding, and when he returned to his wife, it turned out that his pocket full of holes and everything was gone; he went on a journey again, caught a magpie on the way, went to spend the night in the house where the hostess was waiting for his lover; he came, but then the husband appeared, the lover hid in a wine jug; called the bell to have dinner; he shakes his magpie, she gives a voice; explains that the magpie indicates hidden wine; tortillas; lavash; turkey; tells you to buy the magpie in boiling water in a jug; poured boiling water, hidden died; in the morning a bell takes money from a woman for a promise to bury her lover; put her on a donkey, let the donkey eat wheat, he is pushed, the body fell, the bell accused his father of killing, he was paid; he went into the mill, a bear broke in, the bell pressed the door with a millstone; the merchant came in, opened the door, the bear ran away; the bell: by order of the king, I taught the bear to dance; the merchant gave gold and silver]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 150:298-300; Armenians [the couple has a son, Ahdilak, an ox and a donkey; the father called the workers to squeeze bread; A. ran to his mother: the father ordered to slaughter the ox, cook kebabs; mother in horrified, A. cuts the ox; the father ran - also terrified; A. ran to the workers: the king is coming, everyone will be poisoned, the field must be burned; burned; left on a donkey; you knocked on the house, the young hostess did not let him in; he still came in, tied a donkey; a lover came, a woman cooked a roast goose, halva, put a pot of water on the fire; the husband came, the lover hid in the well; the husband: whose donkey? wife: some guy, came in without asking; husband: call him; A. pretends to understand donkey tongue; donkey said where halva and goose are; that hot water is poisoned, it must be poured into the well; lover scalded to death; at night, a woman asks A. to help take the corpse away; A. leaves him on the threshing floor, lies down himself, a donkey there; in the morning the owner pushes the body, A. says that he killed his sick father; the owner paid off; A. brought 10 oxen brought his parents ten more grain than he burned]: Ioannisian 1968:150-155; Azerbaijanis [after his father's death, Azat squandered everything; caught forty; noticed a woman cooking pilaf and halva, and when he sees the wanderer, he hides everything, but a young man leaves the house; in the evening he came to that house for the night, the owner invited him to dinner; A. slowly presses his magpie, and gives a voice, A. says that the bird prophetic; it is strange that there is pilaf and halva in the house, and there is only bread and cheese on the table; the hostess explained that she forgot to serve; the owner bought forty; later A. brought a donkey to the village; he should be fed raisins in the dark stable, and When the robbers appear, release them, he will defeat them; sold the donkey; when he was released, the donkey rushed to the robber mares, they fled]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:470-473.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [boy Hasan-Zanoza (H.) went to his aunt for vinegar; meets, agrees to take it with him, carries a jackal, a crow, a scorpion, a dog; in his aunt's house he tells a scorpion to climb into the box matches, put a jackal in her shoes, a crow to relieve her need when a woman looks at the sky, turning to God, a dog to grab her aunt by the leg if she tries to go down to the basement; H. climbed into the basement steal vinegar, the jug's lid broke, the aunt wanted to light the fire, planned misfortunes fell on her; mother H. cooked soup, splashed it into a crow jug, poured it into a jackal plate, and dogs, the scorpion killed; the crow's head was stuck, the jug broke, the corolla remained around the crow's neck; H. promised to remove it if he croaked every time H. pushed him in the side; H. and the crow came to to her aunt, she has a lover; H. sees how she hid pilaf and her lover when her husband came; the crow pushed, he croaks, H. explains: why for a man there is pilaf under the cauldron, and for her husband bread and onions; the aunt hid lover under the stairs; in the morning she told him to leave, sprinkling millet with her - she would bring him lunch; H. heard that his lover's trail had been erased, scattered millet on the way to the field where his aunt's husband worked; the husband was surprised that his wife brought lunch; next time with straw scattered; the aunt asks the sacred tree how to dazzle H.; H. himself hid in the tree, tells X. to feed X. for 40 days with pilaf and chicken; full X . pretends to be blind; aunt tells animals to be driven away, H. hits her lover with a stick, says he is blind; kills his lover by pouring boiling oil in his face; aunt asks to bury the dead; H. tied the corpse to the donkey, brought him to the field, the owner hit him, H. accused the man of killing his father; received a ransom; brought the "father" to the caravanserai where the Lures were staying; said that his father could die if the strangers will spoil the air; poured paste into the sleeping lures; the Loures fled in fear, H. buried the corpse, took the goods of the Loures; tells the widow that her late husband had, he sells greens at the entrance to hell; the widow gives a golden watermelon, asks to give it to her husband; father-in-law ran to look for the deceiver, did not find it; H. brought all his mother's wealth]: Osmanov 1987:416-423; (cf. Uzbeks [=Afzalov et al. 1972 (2): 332-340; 40 bald people in one village, one smart, Yuz Muhammad, asks not to be called bald (Kal), for this he cuts a cow for others, him they continue to call Kal; he makes overshoes out of his skin, sells one farmer, who sends him to his wife to pay for grain, Yum notices his lover's house; deliberately sprinkles wheat and collects it until the owner arrives; the woman hides her lover in Korchaga; the owner falls asleep and Yum listens; as soon as the woman serves her lover food, coughs, the woman rushes into the room, Yum eats food; the woman thinks it's a cat; puts a pot of oil on the fire; takes it off; Yum coughs again; the lover gets out of the korchaga, falls into boiling oil with his feet; Yum slowly takes him away, for which he gets from housewives purse gold; says 39 bald people that he received money for overshoes; they slaughter their cows, laughs at them, they burn Yum's house; he is lucky to sell ash, says that these are valuables if a woman will sit down the bag, they will turn into ash; bai's wife sits down, he gives a bag of silver; 39 bald men try to sell ash; Yum's mother is almost beaten to death; he takes her to bay, bai pushes the donkey, the old woman falls, dies, buy gives 10 bags of wheat; 39 bald men beat their mothers in vain; Hume runs away, tells the shepherd that he does not want to be a casino, changes clothes with him; 30 bald ones drown the shepherd; Yum brings rams, says that from the underwater kingdom; 39 bald sheep take the reflection of sheep for a herd in the water, drown]: Afzalov et al. 1972:332-340).

Baltoscandia. Latvians [Rich and poor. A rich farmer kills a poor farmer's horse (cow). The poor man goes to the bazaar to sell his skin. She stays overnight with the hostess, who receives her lover. When the husband returns, the poor man tells him that the skin can guess and gets paid for it. The envious rich man also wants money, kills his horse, but fails]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 1535:357; Veps [Sidor's wife has a lover; in winter she deliberately released cattle; S. ran out in home clothes to help; at this time, the wife let her lover in and locked the door; replies to her husband S. at home; S. spent the night in the barn by the priest; returned home in the morning; the wife asks where he was: night spent with her, and went somewhere in the morning; since he slept in the barn with a bull, he is now pregnant; S. went to give birth; saw a dead body, cut off his legs with boots; spent the night in the house, lay down on the stove, boots with legs next to him; At night, the hostess put a newborn calf on the stove; S. decided that he had given birth; afraid that he would be forced to take the calf, left; when she found boots with legs, the hostess decided that the calf had eaten the overnight shelter; the calf was killed and thrown downhill; at this time, the soldier heard S.'s wife negotiating with her lover: if her husband came, he would hide it in the basement; he would put the roast in the oven; S. calls the soldier to his place, with him a seagull caught; the soldier pretends to be prophetic: he says that it is hot in the oven; vodka behind the flap; hell in the basement; the soldier went down there, hit his lover, drove him off forever; the soldier sold the bird Sidor]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 34:135-138; Karelians: Evseev 1981 [the poor man caught a hawk in his snare, carried to sell it; on the way he looked into someone's house, where the hostess is feasting with her neighbor; knocked, he was not let me in; the owner came up, led him into the house, the hostess managed to remove the dishes and hide her lover; the guest under the table presses his foot on the bag, the hawk squeaks; guest: I have a prophetic bird, pies are hidden in the dresser; in the stove hot; neighbor into the underground; the owner went down, the neighbor escaped and ran away; in the morning the owner bought a prophetic bird for a hundred rubles; the guest ordered the hawk to be fed bread, water and milk; when the owner left, the neighbor came again; the hostess showed the hawk's bare ass, he pecked her, she called the neighbor for help, the hawk grabbed his beard; then the owner returned, beat his wife and neighbor; sent the hawk seller a hundred more rubles - painfully good]: 297-298; Concca 1959 [a rich brother tells the poor that they give a lot of money for the skin of a dead horse at the fair; the poor man completely died his horse, could not sell his leather; put his leather in a bag , went home, the skin creaks; went into an empty house, hid; the hostess receives her lover, tells me where she hid the money; the husband comes, the poor man comes down from the stove; creaks his skin, pretends to have it prophetic: tells where pancakes, pies, roasts, money; the owner gave half the money; at home, the poor man tells the rich brother that he became rich by selling leather; he killed his horses, went to sell leather, his imprisoned]: 164-166.

Volga - Perm. Udmurts [Yurmash is a rich brother, Ertemey is poor; often asks for a loan of bread; Y. advises him to sell his colorful cow; but she died on the way to the bazaar; E. went to wander, accidentally caught an owl, went to the hut on the edge of the village; there was a pop with a woman; the owner drove up, invited me to spend the night; the wife had already hidden the food, was feeding her husband with breadcrumbs; the owl gave a voice, E. says that she indicates where the fried is in the hearth goose; a bottle of wine behind the stove; a prankster in the underground; the owner gave 500 rubles, the pop a thousand; E. smeared his face with soot; the owner did not even have time to hit him with a stick, so terrible; the pop ran away, the owner bought an owl for 500 rubles; E. says Y. that he sold a colorful cow for 2,000 fish; and potato soup is also expensive in the bazaar; Yu was fined at the bazaar for selling smelly poison]: Kralina 1960, No. 93:272-275; Marie [the older brothers killed Kokshavuya's only horse; he went to the bazaar to sell his skin; in the evening he looked out the window of the house, where the mistress and the priest were there; K. heard that if her husband returned, the hostess would hide his priest in chest; K. was sent to the hayloft, but the husband returned and ordered him to be returned to the hut; K. promises to expel the devil; whispers to the ass to give all the money, jumped out of the chest naked; the owner paid generously; K. returned , said that he raised money for the skin; the brothers slaughtered horses, took them to sell their skins, received a penny; K. swapped places with his mother, the brothers killed his mother, not him; K. brought his mother as if alive, a barber began to give her vodka; K. accused him of murder, he paid; the brothers killed their wives, took them to sell them; they were exiled to Siberia, K. healed well]: Chetkarev 1948:154-158; Chuvash (Simbirsk Gubernia, 1907) [the rich man hit the poor man's horse, it died; the poor man took off his skin, put it in a bag, went to the same house for the night; before that, he saw through the window how the hostess treated his lover; the husband came, the hostess hid the food in the stove, the lover into the chest; the poor man pushed his bag, he creaked; said that there was a sorcerer in the bag; he pointed to the food in the oven, to the hell in the chest; the owner bought a "sorcerer", and the poor man also took the chest so that the hell wouldn't interfered with the owners; by the river he pretended to drown the chest; the man in the chest paid off; the poor man returned, told the rich man that he sold the horse's skin for 4 scoops of money; took the scales from the rich man, returned it, sticking a coin; the rich man stabbed his horses, went to sell their skins, he was mistaken for a madman; the poor man's grandmother died, he put her in his place, at night the rich man came and hit her with an ax, thinking that it was his offender; the poor man dressed his mother as alive, brought her home, asked for water, the owner's daughter pushed her grandmother, the poor man accused her of murder, received 3 buckets of money; asked the rich man again for the scales, returned it with a coin; the rich man killed his grandmother, went to sell, people almost grabbed him; the rich man carried the poor man in a bag to drown, went to church; the poor man hears the shepherd complaining about life, invites him to get into the bag, steals him the herd, the rich man drowned the shepherd; when he learned that the poor man had brought the herd from the bottom, the rich man asked him to drown, the poor man became rich]: Chuvash tales 1937:46-52 (=Sidorova 1979:179-182, =Eisen 1993:328-333); Kazan Tatars [the carpenter made a wooden bull, left it in the field; the shepherd took it for a real one, drove it with others, he did not go, he hit him, his head fell off; the carpenter got a cow for a bull; at home stabbed him, took off his skin, carried to sell, got caught in the rain, picked up a soaked crow, spent the night in the mill; when I was already asleep, I heard a clerk come to the hostess; then the miller came; the hostess hid the scribe in the wool pit, she also hid the treat; the miller also invited a passerby; the carpenter says that he has a prophetic crow; pulls her tail, she croaks, the carpenter says that the crow indicates the places where it is hidden food; a genie sits in a hole with wool; a clerk jumps out and runs away; a miller buys a crow; a miller tells his wife that he sold the skin for 300 rubles; neighbors slaughtered the cows, they were ridiculed at the bazaar; they hired a man and he pushed the carpenter into the river]: Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 103:394-397; the Bashkirs [older brother Zakir has three horses, the younger Shahir has one; Z. took Sh. sell horse meat, stopped in the same house on the way; saw that his wife had hidden her muezzin lover in the chest; undertook to drive Satan out, opened the chest, received gold from her husband; said that he had sold it for a high price horse skin; Z. killed his horses, got nothing; at night he came to kill S., accidentally killed his mother; S. dressed up the corpse, came to the same house, the daughters took the old woman to drink, S. accused them of murder, received gold; Z. believes that S. sold the deceased, killed his mother, went to sell, he was beaten; Z. carried S. in a bag to drown; went away for a stone; S. tells the shepherd that all the sea fish can be seen in the bag, he changed places; Z. drowned the shepherd, S. brought the herd, said it was from the bottom; Z. ordered himself to be drowned]: Barag 1990, No. 153:356-359.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Sidelnikov 1962 [crossing the mountain, Aldar-Kose fell asleep from fatigue and the Baiguz (owl) bird sat on him; he caught it, went down to the valley, went to the yurt; there was a mistress and lover; lover advises: hide him in a chest, and when his husband comes, give him water and feed him; when he falls asleep, he will kill him; A. came in, ate, is in no hurry to leave, feeds the baiguz; the husband came; A. tells him that his bird is bucks; the husband complains that he is childless; A. spins around the yurt, the baiguz squeaks, A. says that there are no children in the chest; A. pours boiling water into the chest, the horseman runs away screaming; the owner promises a better horse and buys a magic bird for 50 horses; they feasted for a week, then A. drove his herd]: 353-358; (cf. Sidelnikov 1958 [=Daurenbekov 1979:324-329, =Kanbak-Shal 1985:9-149; the youngest's nine older brothers were nicknamed Piskun; after his father's death, he got only a lame bull; the bull was stung by a snake; P. pretended to be himself stabbed him, because the skin is more expensive; in one house he exchanged his skin for grain; when he heard a lover who came to negotiate with the hostess to kill her husband, he specially scattered wheat and collected it before the owner arrived; the wife hid her lover in her stupa; P. tells the owner that there is a snake in the mortar, it is necessary to cook jelly; P. poured the hot jelly into the stupa, she swayed, the owner generously rewarded him, and the hostess gave him even more that he had buried his lover; the brothers slaughtered the bulls, went to sell their skins, burned P.'s hut out of revenge; he brought a bag of ash to the khan's wives, said it contained gold, but it would turn into ash if someone wishes the khan to die; there is ash in a bag, the wives filled the piskun bag with gold so that he would not give them away; the brothers burned their kibitki, went to sell ash, mistook them for crazy; they put P. in a bag, carried them drown; the khan died, the brothers ran there, P. told the bay that they wanted to make him the new khan, they changed, his brothers drowned him; P. promised the shepherd to cure him of his sores, told him to sit with his head for a day a goat's skin, stole his herd; told the brothers that his late father gave them to him at the bottom; the brothers saw the reflection of sheep in the water, jumped into the water, drowned]: 369-377).

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakasy [Rymka's widow's son went to sell cowhide, no one bought it; on the way back he went into the house; in the hall he heard that the house was a mistress with a rich lover; said that he was an acquaintance of her husband; the husband arrived, the hostess hid his lover under the floor, R. climbed into the same place; hears the owner complaining - not a single shaman has cured him; R. tells his lover that he wants to sing; for silence he gives him first the money, then gives all the clothes; putting them on, R. quietly goes out into the yard, replies to the owner that he is a shaman; the owner asks him to be treated; R. orders to put gold in a cup of water; explains that he is naked in the underground demon; the owner drilled holes, R. pours boiling water into them; the scalded lover jumps out, the owner whips him; in the morning he says he feels much better]: Balter 1986:110-114.