L114A. A waking child. 11.-.14.17.23.27.29.30.

One (usually the youngest) of a group of boys or girls (children) enters with them into the house of an ogre or cannibal. The cannibal is going to kill the visitors when they fall asleep. The youngest consistently answers the cannibal why he is awake, forcing him to carry out new assignments instead of attacking sleepers. Brothers (sisters) run and escape.

Mbundu, Ronga, Ashanti, Dagari, Bambara, Soninke, Tende, Loma, Liela, Songhai, Bachama, Lango, Kalenjin (Marakvet), Dinka, Shilluk, Nubians, Sudanese Arabs, Malgashi, Algerian Arabs, Palestinians, Syrian Arabs, Nepalis, Greeks, Adygs, Abkhazians, Abazins, Ingush, Kumyks, Avars, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Persians, Vakhans, Turkmens.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Mbundu [two sisters go to the old woman for a tutorial, their younger sister Muyongo followed them; she does not drink wine, does not fall asleep, hears and sees the old woman turn into a double-headed woman at night monster; the old woman (obviously to check if those who come are sleeping) consistently asks for fire, a pipe, tobacco, water; each time the girl replies that she will not give her that she is still small; in the morning tells her sisters everything; the next night, the sisters fill the hut with brushwood, run away, climb a tree above the river; an imaginary old woman and other monsters burn the hut thinking it is girls; a tree, they gnaw on it; a big bird takes the sisters to the other side for the promise of the middle one to go beyond it; turns into a man; three years later he flies back to his native country in the form of a bird; a wife with children they run after her, her husband decides to stay with them]: Nekrasova 1975:41-46; (cf. mbundu [when hungry, lions agree to send a young lioness in the form of a woman to the herd owner; she will marry him, kill him, the herds will be eaten by lions; a man marries a woman -werewolf, goes to bed with his new wife in a separate house; his little son cries from another wife, his father has to take him with him; at night, the son notices that the woman has turned into a lion, wakes his father up; so several times; finally, the husband takes care of his wife himself; says he will go take his son to another house, tells people to set fire to the house where the new wife is; the lioness burns down]: Abrahams 1983, No. 94:338-342); ronga [u Macingue 10 daughters; a bird calls them to the house of the Man with the Big Club (BBD); they don't want the younger brothers with them, the lousy one, she goes; at the crossroads, she advises them to follow a narrow path, they walk along a wide path; At night, the BCD asks the girls three times if they are sleeping, the youngest replies that mosquitoes do not give, he hides her; she tells her to run, put baskets instead; the BHD breaks them, thinking that she is killing the girls; the Toad hides the girls, swallows them, sends a bird to their father; the girls come back, everyone honors the youngest]: Junod s.a., No. 8:84-87.

West Africa. Ashanti [eight sisters go looking for husbands, do not want to take their younger brother Kwasi Gyinamoa with them; he goes; hitting his cow's tail with his whip, tells the three-jet waters to part ( white, red, black) rivers; in an empty city, an old woman took off her head, put her head on her knees, looked for insects in her hair; when she sees them, she puts her head in place; gives girls her eight husbands sons; at night, KG sees the old woman's teeth turn red to eat the girls; promises to fall asleep if the old woman brings him water in a leaky calebass; outweighs the amulets from the old woman's sons on her sisters; at night, an old woman burns her sons' necks with her teeth; those who come run away; an old woman in the form of a young girl comes to their village; promises to marry someone who pierces her calebass with an arrow; this is done by KG, but his uncle marries; at night, an imaginary girl takes his eyes out, takes him away; knowing that the old woman's granddaughter is pregnant, GK comes disguised as a pregnant woman, says that her husband has fallen, lost his eyes; the old woman gives replacing the eyes of Uncle GK, GK inserts them back to him; bathes with other children, the old woman takes him away; leaves him in the vessel at home to cook, goes for spices; KG knocks with pebbles, the old woman's granddaughter believes that these are nuts, she wants it too, opens the vessel, the KG kills her, puts her skin on, puts the meat to cook; KG and the old woman eat the brew; the old woman adorns her imaginary granddaughter with gold jewelry; KG runs away, gives jewelry to her relatives; the old woman is chasing; the rustle is still heard along the trail, it is the old woman chasing the KG]: Rattray 1930:221-227; dagari [9 girls went for baobab leaves; did not want to take the tenth is scabies, but she followed her; the witch came to the house to hide from the weather; everyone fell asleep, the scabies hears the witch sharpening the knife, asking what she was doing; so several times; when the witch went to get a stick to kill the girls, the scabies woke them up, told them to run; they ran, climbed the tree; the witch came with her granddaughter, she noticed the girls, the witch hit them with a pole, only scabies did not fall; the witch went after her, she went down from the other side of the tree, revived the witch's sisters with a stick, they ran home]: Métuolé Somba 1991:167-168; scrap [two brothers they stay in the forest with a woman inviting them to spend the night; their younger brother followed them, although they drove him away; usually a woman turned into a monster in the attic, ate guests; the boy does not sleep at first says she's hungry, then she's a hard bed, asks me to sit next to him; finally she goes up to the attic, turns into a monster, but the boy wakes up the brothers, they run away]: Schwab 1947:450; Lyela [seven older brothers go to look for brides; the youngest eighth follows them; they come to the cannibal's house; the youngest asks her to do impossible assignments, she does, he realizes that he has a demon in front of him; at night, the brothers change places with the cannibal's daughters, she kills her own daughters; the brothers run away, the cannibal pursues them]: Steinbrich 1996:211-216 in Goldberg 2003:346; Soninka [the witch has 7 daughters; everyone who comes to bed with them dies; Marandénboné (Maran, Son of Misfortune) tells her older brothers not to be afraid and go to the girls; their mother leaves them with her daughters' brothers, and M. stays with the sorceress; at night she gets up and is about to go out, but M. asks her to pour water on him, bringing water to the basket, as his mother does; the witch tries all night bring water in a basket; when the witch fell asleep the next night, M. told the brothers to switch seats with the girls and cover them with their clothes; at night, the witch cut the throat not of her brothers, but her daughters; boiled blood, M. asked for it to be given to him; tells the brothers to run; in the morning she tells the witch that her daughters are still sleeping; in the village of M., the witch turned into a baobab; many boys climbed on him and their witch took it away, but M. felt deceived and did not climb; the same with the donkey (the children who climbed on it disappeared, M. remained); he moved into the white heifer given birth to by the witch's cow; ordered the kidnapped children to grab the tail , ears, etc., heifers, she took them home; one day the witch caught M., brought them home, put them in three bovine skins, went to make a fire; M. promised the witch's little daughter to feed her, she freed him, he put her inside a bag of skins, the witch burned it; when the daughter started screaming at her, she did not believe it; M. told the witch that she had killed her last daughter, ran away]: Monteil 1905:115-123; bachama [(also Kodo, Somono, Senegal, Bambara); the hero, usually the youngest of a group of brothers, accompanies them against their will; they come to the cannibal's house, the youngest is awake when others fall asleep; the cannibal asks why he's awake, he makes up reasons, asks for water in a leaky calebass, the brothers run away]: Paulme 1976:242-276 in Goldberg 2003:346; dark [girl rejects suitors , marries a demon, goes with him; her younger brother followed; at night, the demon sharpens a knife; the brother says he does not sleep because it is cold, asks for clothes; then coughs, asks the demon to bring water net; while he is away, brother and sister run away, escape]: Cronise, Ward 1903:178-186; songhai (kado) [Amadou Kekidiuru talked to his mother while in her womb; went to look for his mother's brothers and found himself with them in a cannibal village; the cannibal chief told the prisoners to boil water to cook them; at night, the cannibal comes in with a spear; A.: I am awake yet; I need what he gave me at that time Father is stars to eat; the rest of the night the cannibal tried to catch stars; so for 4 days; on the fifth day: if you want us to fall asleep, bring your two daughters for my uncles; she brought; A. cut off his hair and put it like a wig on his uncle's heads; the cannibal gutted her own daughters; the prisoners ran home; the cannibal turned into a Yuyuba tree on the edge of the village; the children climbed it, but A. understood who it was; the tree took the children to the cannibal village; A. turned into a dove; the cannibal ordered the shepherd to bring the calf tomorrow; A. told the shepherd not to worry and entered the body of the cow, which became as if pregnant; when the calf was born, the cannibal noticed that it had a human face; the calf, becoming A. again, brought the captive children home; but the cannibal turned into a boat by the shore; the children sat in she and she took them to a cannibal village; but A. turned into a peacock and took the children home; the cannibal became a girl, came to the village, married her younger uncle; A. warned in vain; ordered to build a house larger; told her husband and his brother to have their eyes fall into her hands; took them to her village; A. came there disguised as a cannibal daughter who had been away for a long time; took his eyes and inserted them into his uncles]: Paulme 1976:244-251.

Sudan - East Africa. Lango [beautiful Awil wants to marry a handsome man; rejects the Swamp Goat; marries Colobus; against her will, her lame sister goes with her; in her husband's house she hears him sharpening stab a knife and eat his wife; sends him to water her ulcer for water; the sister still sleeps; sends it again, because she was carried water in a basket at home; the sisters run away; the husband throws a grain grater after her, injuring A. in the leg; sisters run home; their father makes a trap pit, Fat Man fails, father kills him]: Driberg 1923:454-456; kalenjin (marakvet) [coming back from the dance, the guys left first; said girls who would lay leaves at the fork on the path to take; the cannibal peeked, put the leaves on the path that led to her; the girls came to the cannibal, she took the form of an ordinary women, fed; there were 5 grown girls and a girl named Tamining; her mother did not want to let her in, then gave her food; T. told the girls not to eat what the cannibal offered, gave her food; when at night, the cannibal was going to eat the girls, T. jumped up; the cannibal again took on the human image, asked why the girl was awake; T.: before going to bed, my mother tied a leather rope to my hand; the next once: until they bring me water from the savannah; the cannibal ran into the savannah, and T. woke the girls up and told me to run; T. fell behind, asked her throat to bow the tree to get there; the cannibal ran past and then returned to her place; when T. returned home, at Gorlinka's request, T.'s father and brother sacrificed goats, alcohol and honey by the tree]: Chesaina 1997:80-81; Dinka [Diirawig is more beautiful than others girls; her brother Teeng refuses all her suitors because he wants to marry her; mother doubts, sends her father to ask; so all relatives; finally, her maternal aunt agrees; T. is preparing the wedding, stabbed his beloved ox; the kite grabbed and carried away the oxtail, threw D. on her knees; she recognized the tail of her brother's favorite ox, went to find out why he was stabbed; her younger sister, Nyanaguek, told her everything gave a knife: let him cut off his testicles in the morning, when his brother-husband has not yet woken up; when T. is going to get together with his sister at night, the lizard warns him not to do so, he lies down again; then grass; rafters; in the morning - walls, utensils, rats; T. fell asleep without getting along with D.; N. woke her up, D. cut off her brother's testicles and he died; the sisters began to beat drums in a special way; when they heard, the girls should get together and dance, and everyone else is not allowed to come; D. told me what happened now she will go to the forest; girls: you and me, because this can happen to us; they didn't take little girls with them, but N. had to take it, otherwise she promised to raise the alarm; the girls settled on the border of the land of people and the land of lions; built a village; found an anthill with an inexhaustible source of grain and meat; the girls were seen by a lion, not decided to attack, returned in the form of a dog; only N. felt the danger; at night the lion knocked to ask D. to open it; N. in response gives the names of the girls, about each of them that she sleeps; lion: why don't you sleep? G.: I want to drink, but I only drink water brought in a wicker vessel; the lion tried to bring water in the basket until dawn; so many nights; D. wonders why N. is losing weight (from lack of sleep), but she does not have anything says; finally confesses; D. stays with her for the night and tells her not to answer; in the morning he breaks, D. wants to kill him with a spear, but the lion promises to become a brother; brought cattle, ordered the bull to be slaughtered and feed him to tame him; saliva on his face, a puppy pops out of it, the puppy is killed, the lion is given boiled meat; so 4 times; then hot broth is poured into his mouth; he is fed milk for several months; the lion tells the girls return to the village, taking all the cattle; became a young man - D.'s new brother; D. was the first to know her younger brother, who was young when the girls left; he understood this by D.'s resemblance to his mother; everyone is happy; The chief's two sons, both named T., want D. to marry; D.: I will marry someone who will give my new brother four wives; after getting married, D. gave birth to 12 children; the 13th had the nature of a lion; as a baby, he got up, He put on clothes made of skins and sang; stabbed his claws at his brothers and drank their blood; the lion brother offered to kill this child, but D. refused; but when he grew up and continued to drink blood, he still killed him]: Deng 1984:78 -90; shilluk [woman gives birth to daughter Nyajak; people hear a drum, children go to the sound, think it's a holiday in a nearby village, don't know it's a lion village; N. insists he'll go with everyone; at night replies that she is awake, hungry, let the ram be slaughtered; the lion brings meat; the same ox, the goat; N. sends the lion to bring water in the basket, wakes the children up, tells them to run, stays alone; the lion rushes at her, but every time she disappears, returns home; the lion comes, takes the form of a sycamore; N. warns not to approach her, but the children climb for the fruit, the lion takes them away; N. comes in the form of an old man, asks for water; then turns into a rat; while the lion is away, tells the children to run; the lion in the form of a girl comes to brother N.; he does not believe that it is a lion, at night the lion takes out his eye; N. comes disguised as an old woman, says that she is the sister of a lion who was once carried away by the wind; the lion gives her the eye of N., warns her not to be carried away by a crow - they will eat it during the meal; leaves; N. turns into a crow, grabs an eye, brings to his brother; the lion decided not to come again]: Westermann 1912, No. 88:213-217; the Nubians [seven girls went for firewood, they were caught by night, they noticed a big and weak light, decided to go to the big one ; they came to the cannibal, who gave them crushed bones, mixed with her milk; one said that others prevented her from eating; they, having already taken food in their mouths, spit it it it out; in the morning Fatma the Beautiful hears the cannibal sharpening knife, coughs loudly, replies that 1) camels are interfering (the cannibal shouts to the drovers to take them away), 2) bulls (the same), 3) wants to drink, asks for water from an unopened calebasa, an unburned clay vessel, from the net; the cannibal cannot collect water, while the girls run away; the cannibal asks God to create their wedding on the way so that F. can stay to watch and dance; the girls run to the river, ask for a crocodile translate them, promise him food; when he carries the cannibal, they shout that this is his food, he drowns, eats the cannibal; girls get married; options (11 versions): cannibal name Su'luwwa, Silha, Itkal, Irkabi; Fatma is kind to cannibal children, they ask their mother not to eat girls; human bones, 1 girl eats, girls hide food in holes; F. complains that goats and horses interfere; bring water in a sieve; cannibal eats the girl who ate bones; the cannibal eats her own daughters instead of girls; creates distracting obstacles in the way of girls: weddings, bracelets and pendants (girls rush to collect them) sea; crying people, date palms, ornaments, a thorn in F.'s leg; girls hide in a tree, lower the cannibal's rope, cut it off, it falls, breaks]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1978 in Goldberg 2003:342- 343; Sudanese Arabs [when a woman is pregnant with her fifth son, he says from her womb that his name is Ab Daba Daba; no need to slaughter a ram for his name; mother hit a ram on the back, back turned into knives; brothers do not want to take him on a hike; he rides a ram, helps them win; the night caught them on the way, they went out to the light, there is a cannibal with five daughters; only A. does not sleep, hears how the cannibal sharpens the knife; answers her that mosquitoes keep them awake; she drove out the mosquitoes with smoke; then the ram; she tied the ram; the moon; while she was driving the moon, A. woke up the brothers, swapped their places with her daughters cannibals; she stabbed her daughters, went to bed; in the morning the brothers rode horses, A. on a ram; came back, shouted to the cannibal who she had stabbed; she chased; tried to grab the ram by the tail, but there were knives, she cut herself; at home A. told the brothers not to bring anything from the market without showing him; but the brother bought the girl, brought her; A. says she is a transformed cannibal; at night she took her brother's eyes and ran away ; A. came to her on a ram, wearing a woman's dress; said that he was her sister Halima, came to mourn her daughters; in the evening: I have an eyeless slave, have any eyes in return; when he left, shouted who he was, cured brother; second brother bought a mare and sat on it during the wedding; A. tried to stop him, but he was tied up; the mare carried the rider into the river and he did not return]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 19:108-110; Sudanese Arabs [By the river, Fatma's older brother's horse slipped on strands of hair; the brother promised to marry the one whose hair was, even if it was F.; F. persuaded seven girls to run with her, or their brothers would do it also; before the wedding night, she went out to pee, pierced a pre-prepared wineskin with water, you could hear the murmur of the stream, the girls managed to leave; in the desert they came to the cannibal; she offered them milk and one of the girls tried it; at night F. replies that she is awake; asks them to go to calm the dogs in a distant village; and other tasks (not named); in the morning they asked the cannibal to bake bread for them on the fire that burns there; it was the sun; she tasted it, but she didn't bake bread; when she came back, she found only the one that tasted milk; she broke her neck and ate it; the girls asked the tree to become small, they climbed on top of it then they asked him to be tall again; they stuck knives around; they lowered the cannibal's rope, picked it up and threw it several times; knives pierced her and she died; the girls moved on; F. began to look in her head old man; asks how he can be killed; old man: pierce a thorn into the crown; F. did so, put on old man's skin; the girls began to live in a cave; merchants passed, their camel began to chew on the entrance straw; the merchants dismantled the girls; one of them is crooked; says to the merchant: they took the curve, but left the flower; the Sultan's son heard, came back, took the imaginary old man; when they go, F.'s jewelry rings; "These are mine bones"; F. chose to herd geese rather than sheep to be able to swim; the slave sees her removing old man's skin; she deprives him of speech (apparently by witchcraft); at home he points to F., but nothing can say; F.: he is crazy, he should be burned with iron; burned to death; this is how almost all slaves died; the Sultan's son went to spy himself, climbed a tree, stole F.'s ring; at home offered to play checkers: the winner will take off the skin; F. won twice, but did not exercise her right; then the Sultan's son won; married F., but hid it from people; one day F. came out, people fell breathless from her beauty; she sprayed them with blood from her little finger, everyone came to life; everything is fine]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 21:114-118; Sudanese Arabs (baggara) [the woman has 4 adult sons, she is pregnant again; in the forest not can raise brushwood on his back; the son from the womb asks if he can help; how to get out? refuses to be born normally or through his mouth, wants through his little finger; his name is Abu Saraera, he was born fully armed; with him a white ram with razors on its tail; he came on a ram following mother; at home he tied his weapon around the neck of a ram and sent it to the savannah; the AU brothers do not like it: let the mother keep it with her, but he will not go hunting with them; the AU burned her hairs unnoticed by his mother a ram; a ram with weapons appeared, the AU rode on it, caught up with the brothers; they came to the drone, she has 4 daughters; the AU warns not to sleep with girls and not to drink or eat anything; brothers: you will still point out spend the night with the cattle; the AU let the sheep go; the gulya gave milk to the horses; when the brothers fell asleep with the girls, the AU gave the brothers girlish hairstyles and the girls men's hairstyles; answers the gula that she is awake: her cattle is too much voices loudly; gulya slaughtered the cattle; next time the AU answered as if through sleep; seeing men's hairstyles, Gulya cut off the heads of her daughters; the brothers rode horses, AU on a ram; gulya chases and shouts: those who drank my milk die; the brothers' horses have fallen; the AU put the brothers on his ram; the gulya caught up and grabbed the ram by the tail; but there are razors; she hurt herself and stopped the persecution; came to AU's mother's house as a beautiful girl; AU kicked her out, but her older brother accepted her happily; when she fell asleep, she pulled out one eye for him and returned to her; people begged AU to go get her eye back, elder the brother was guilty; the AU came to the drone under the guise of an old woman; ordered to tell the maid that he (i.e. the old woman) was Guli's sister; pretended to defecate with hair, bones, scraps of human and animal skin; gulya believed it was her sister; she complains that the manager of her cattle and slaves has lost an eye and now she has to do everything herself; gulya: I can give it; - How can I insert it? - Lubricate the eye socket with black goat milk; AU returned the eye to his brother; the gulya turned into a big tree in the middle of the village; the children climbed on it and began to play; the AU drove them away, but their parents were indignant; the AU became cutting roots is like iron; gulya has become a ghoul again and took away all the children; parents are willing to pay dearly for the AU to return the children; he went to the drone again; Guli has a pregnant cow with a bell, she is watching for the kidnapped children, and the gulya knows where the children are by the sound of the bell; AU replaced the calf in the cow's womb; she calves; the calf kicks in the stall, wants to see his mother; when the cow and the children have gone away , AU took his form, killed a cow, hung her severed head with a bell on a tree; the wind shakes her, the bell jingles, the gulya thinks that the cow and children are in place; the AU returned all the children to their parents; when clouds rise, AU is not visible; and when lightning, he throws a razor out of his ram's tail and can split a tree or kill a person]: Frobenius 1923, No. 27:299-308; malgashi: Anpetkova- Sharova 2010 (I'm driving) [two sisters reject grooms; finally marry two handsome men; Besurungula's younger brother goes with his sisters; notices one of the husbands's tail; in the evening they ask their wives if they are sleeping they; they are silent, B. replies that mosquitoes, geese, cows interfere; they immediately eat geese and cows; sisters at first do not believe, then pretend to be sleeping, hear everything for themselves; brother and sisters leave for themselves wooden figures, run away; throw corn, werewolves come back for a basket; sisters pray to God to create a river and boat, cross; run home; parents say that no one came and watered werewolves are drunk, killed]: 448-451; Haring 2007, No. 37 (Madagascar, Reunion) [Malagasy source, there are several records in Madagascar; there the character performs feats, saves brothers from monsters; in The bar version only has a neck and head; Réval wants to go wandering; parents say that he is disabled - half his body (vertically); in Reunion, the hero also defeats monsters; runs away from them, throwing objects behind them that turn into obstacles; saves traitor brothers, brings a captive ogre; in the Antandroy version (southern Madagascar), he asks three witches to bring him water, each time he replies what they brought in the wrong vessel; finally, he says he is used to bringing him water with a net]: 58-61; malgashi (Tulear County) [parents decide to leave three children in the forest, to be eaten by the cannibal Bibibe; twice the place is familiar, the children are back, the third time they stay in the forest, climb a tree, call their parents, B. took them away; the youngest advises to fatten them first; says that they don't get fat because B.'s pets get in the way; B. kills his animals; children run, climbed a tree, B. rushed to break it, crashed to death; in his stomach, children find a purse with money that belonged to one of those B. ate earlier; the children returned to their parents, everything is fine]: Haring 1982, No. 3.2.327t: 389-390.

North Africa. Algerian Arabs (Tiaret Plateau) [Amar Zadam is the youngest of seven brothers, he is considered useless; they send him horses and guns; he puts a needle under the hoof the best horse, spoils the bolt the best gun to get him; the brothers think to get rid of it, call him to visit the cannibal Ouma Djidda; everyone takes her treat, shares salt with her, AZ says he has enough ash bread ( because of this, he does not owe her anything); the brothers fell asleep, the cannibal asks AZ if he is sleeping; he replies that the rooster is interfering; she eats the rooster; the donkey is a donkey; so makes her eat all the living creatures; she He falls asleep, he wakes up his brothers, they run; they ate cannibal salt, so she catches up with them, eats horses, AZ carries brothers on his mare; father tells AZ to bring cannibal chicken; AZ quietly pokes the chicken with a cane, she rushes around the house, the cannibal throws her outside, AZ takes it; the same is the carpet (AZ sprinkles thorns into it); the father tells me to bring the cannibal herself; unrecognized, AZ comes and says that his mother died, could the cannibal measure whether the chest is tall; the cannibal lies down in it, AZ brings the chest to her father; he opens it, the cannibal eats it and the AZ brothers; he and his mother leave]: Aceval 2005, No. 108:123-128.

Western Asia. Palestinians [the man has two wives: his brother's daughter and an outside woman; both are childless; the sheikh advised him to go to a ghoul, who will give conception grenades; the man greeted the ghoul, otherwise he would eat him; The ghoul sent to his older brother; he sent him to their sister; the man venerated her long breasts and covered a handful of her torment; she told her to go to the garden; the ghoul sleeps there - put one care under him, covered himself with the other ; grab two grenades and run; on the way home, a man ate half a grenade intended for his wife, who is his brother's daughter; she gave birth to a half-boy, and the other wife Hassan and Hussein; they grew up ; the brothers went hunting on horseback, and Polovinka went on a lame goat; as soon as he caught the deer, gave it to the brothers, for which they allowed them to burn his seal on their backs; at home he told his mother and showed the seals; when they They went hunting again, then came to the drone; the brothers say that their horses eat barley with milk, and Polovinka said that his goat eats chaff; says that he will not fall asleep until the gulya brings him water in his wineskin; she brought it, he made a hole in it so that water would drip on him; then says he would not fall asleep without a stuffed rooster; then stuffed lamb; this is how the night passed; in the morning Half tells the brothers to run; gulya tells the milk in the bellies of the horses to thicken, the horses stopped; all three brothers flew home on the Halves goat; Half promises to bring the gulya herself; dressed up as a halva seller; gulya ate everything and climbed into the box finished eating the leftovers, and the Half slammed the lid shut; she was burned in the drawer]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 6:84-88; Syrian Arabs [the husband of three childless women received apples that cause pregnancy; two wives they ate an apple each, and the third half; the deferred soul mate was eaten by a donkey; the first wives gave birth to Hassan and Hussein, and the third to the baby Nuss Nassis (Halbsogroß); the brothers go hunting on horseback, animals are shot, NN rides a goat, hunts birds; the drone tells the brothers that she is their aunt (their father's first wife), leads them to her; at night, NN hears her muttering to herself that she will eat the visitors; NN says that he is hungry, the drone cuts the ram; and so until dawn, everything wants and demands something; in the morning, the brothers tell the ghoul that their horses are drinking strained water; the hula runs to filter the water in the well; at this time the brothers gallop away, but the drone magically stops the horses, all three return home on the goat NN; NN. buys a chest, comes to the drone under the guise of a merchant; offers to climb into the chest to see what of the goods she likes; she slams the lid; the drone was burned along with the chest]: Kuhr 1993:79-81; (cf. Palestinians [(=Muhawi, Kanaana 1989:84-88); the sheikh tells his husband to give his three childless wives an apple; he gives his eldest wife half by eating the other himself; the wife gives birth to a boy with one ear, one ear, one with an eye, half a mouth; when the brothers are grown up, the Half does not ask for a horse, but for a thin sheep, not a scourge, but a whistle, a toy gun; the brothers herd the sheep, the woman invites them to spend the night, only the Half understands that she is a transformed Wolf; lies on a camel thorn to stay awake, tells her brothers to run at night; the witch lured their horses with oats, all three sat on the sheep Halves, got home; Half puts a lamb in a big bag, comes to the witch, she bends over to get what she has in the bag, half shoves it into the bag, brings it, she dies along the way, he takes her gold, gets rich, gets married ]: Spoer 1931:150-152).

South Asia. Nepalese [three brothers are young men, the youngest is a rat; they all went to look for a wife for him; they came to a cannibal with a beautiful daughter; the ogre gently received them, put them to bed; the Rat hears how she sharpens knives; says she only falls asleep at home if she gets something sweet; the cannibal brings me; next time: bread like her mother's; then: in order for me to fall asleep, I must marry your daughter and beat me into the cymbals; everyone woke up, the wedding ceremony had to be completed; the brothers and Rat's wife ran home]: Sakya, Griffith 1980:160-162.

The Balkans. Greeks [there are many daughters and a boy in the family; they went to get firewood, they got to a maiden; sisters fell asleep; virgins: who is awake? boy: our mother did not leave buffaloes in the barn, but killed to give us food; virgins kill buffaloes; then the same: cows; brought water in a sieve; the maidens caught the boy, but he got out and put it instead yourself in a calf bag]: Dawkins 1916, No. 7:437-439.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygs [the children went for strawberries; baby Gulyatsu got out of the cradle and went with them; the children got lost; G. noticed smoke from the tree; there was an old goose (N.), G. fell to her breasts, after which she cannot eat it; at night N. sharpens iron teeth; G. does not let other children fall asleep; says that the cow is mooing; N. kills her; sheep bleat - strangles goats and sheep; wild roosters crow; N. runs into the forest to strangle roosters, children run home, G. stays by the road under an oak tree; N. comes there riding a rooster; G. pretends to be abandoned; N. brings him home, hangs him in his wineskin; he became a mouse, gnawed a hole, hid, filled his wineskin with dishes; N. began to beat the wineskin with dogwood splinters; G. shouts: I'm here; she puts it in another wineskin, runs again for splinters; the same: G. puts chickens and roosters in his wineskin, N. them killed; third time: puts a dog in her wineskin; kills N. by throwing millstones at her from the attic; brings home bulls pulling treasure carts and daughter N., she becomes his sister]: Kerashev 1957:258-264 (=Maksimov, Kerashev 1953:159-167); Kabardian people [an old woman gives birth to a bunch of little men, throws them on the roof, where they die; one hides in a cup; the old woman is sorry that she threw it away, hidden opens, his name is Kulatsu; he takes lunch to his father in the field; four robbers meet him; he asks to take him with him, climbs into the stall, shouts loudly what ox to drive the bull out; the robbers tell him not to make noise ; K. carries the cauldron, sitting under it, people do not understand where the voice comes from, run away; after climbing into the cauldron, K. screams from there, the robbers also run away, K. takes their horses and property; along with others boys come to the witch; at night she hears her sharpening her teeth, screaming that at that time her mother fed them hot dumplings; chicken sauce; the witch cooks dumplings, cuts the chicken and makes the sauce; K.: in this while the mother watered us, carrying water with a sieve; while the witch goes to fetch water, K. takes away the golden lintel; the boys ran away, and the witch grabbed K. and put them in a bag; while she left, K. put the cat in the bag, and himself runs away, carrying a lintel; the witch killed the cat; K. offers the riders he meets to prop up the mountain, supposedly, it falls, steals their horses; tells the herd that he got horses where the Khan's village is being robbed; the herd runs there, K. steals the herd; the same with the herd of bulls and the shepherd; K. brings the mother's cattle; horsemen, herds, shepherds come to visit K.; at night he stains their beds with the contents of bovine intestines; they ran away, wealth remained]: Tambiev 1900, No. 5:31-33 (=Sokolov, Broydo 1936:117-120); Abkhazians [poor Samkyanyk asked the prince for a knife; he promised to kill him if he lost it; S. lost it a knife, called the children, they tore the grass, found a knife, but night came, they came to the old cannibal woman; S.: I can only fall asleep if you take care of me, as my mother looked after me - she brought water in the sieve, cooked and fed; the old woman went to get water, S. woke up the children, told them to run, stayed himself; the sieve swelled, the old woman brought some water, cooked them; the old woman found S., put them in a bag, went for it with an iron stick; S. put a dog in his bag, the old woman killed the dog, found S. again and went to get a stick (he put a rooster in his bag); ran away, promised the shepherd to cure his eye, smeared lamb with droppings, ordered him to sit until sunset, took the herd away; the old woman came, explained to the shepherd that he had been deceived; then S. tied oxtails to sticks and drove them into the ground: the land caught the bulls; sent the owners for with shovels, at that time she hid the bulls among her sheep, said that the earth had swallowed the bulls; the old woman said that S. was a deceiver; S. pretended to hold the cave vault, asked seven people to hold them He would bring seven stakes on horses; the pursuers explained to people that S. was a deceiver; S. returned to his prince, mixed his herd with his own, taught the prince to order that guests should not go out into the yard at night; the pursuers came, they were fed, they fell asleep, S. stained them from behind with the contents of the mutton intestine, and put the gut next to the old woman; at night everyone runs away in shame, the old woman thinks that her gut has come out of her, all the wealth remained with the prince; envious people advised the prince to send S. to deliver the adaui; S. ordered to make a strong cart, came to Adaua covered in black, ordered him to get into the cart, locked the door, delivered adaus to the prince; ordered to open the cart, and he climbed onto the rock and jumped off it; the Adaui jumped after it and crashed]: Shakryl 1975, No. 72:326-333; Abazins [Kabizhchikun is a "little pleshivets", as tall as nail; went with the other children to buy nuts, tired, asked me to carry it; night came, the children came to the cannibal's house; everyone lay down on the floor; K.: mother hangs me in a wineskin from the ceiling beam; before going to bed she always fed khampals; the cannibal cooks khampals; fed chicken; cooked chicken; carried water in a sieve and watered me; it's already morning, the children ran away, the cannibal is still collecting water with a sieve]: Tugov 1985, No. 100: 297-299; Ingush [Jantelg and his two friends went down a hole in the ground, where yeshap and 63 heads killed by him; at night J. sees yeshap sharpening a knife; says he does not sleep because his mother always slaughtered and cooked him a bull for dinner; yeshap killed and cooked a bull; J. requires another bull cooked in milk and flour; yeshap interferes with porridge, J. pushed him into the cauldron, then cut him with a sword; yeshap's blood revived the dead with him]: Malsagov 1983, No. 31:146-167 (=Tankieva 2003:259-260); Kumyks: Barsov 1882, No. 5 [12 sons ask their father to marry them to 12 daughters of the same father; the father came to Kart, she spun her wool, promised to give them his 12 daughters; the brothers have arrived; at night the elder Baiburak tells him not to sleep; Kart replies that he is not sleeping - the cows are mooing; Kart slaughtered the cows; the chickens cackle - the same; while Kart and one daughter were slaughtering chickens, B. put the remaining 11 brothers in their place, and hid them behind the door; Kart stabbed her daughters; in the morning told the rest to bring the elder boy's head, the younger's leg and the middle arm; the brothers run, Kart pursues; B. asks God to create a forest (Kart gnawed), the sea (could not cross); the brothers envied B.; told the khan that he could get a blanket under which 3000 people could hide; B. climbed onto the roof to K. began to stab her with a stick with a needle at the end; K. decided that the fleas were biting, threw off the blanket, B. took it away; Kart was chasing, B. asked God to create a needle forest behind him, then the sea; brothers: B. has a goose, who predicts the future; Kart asks the goose: where is B. now; goose: standing outside the door; Kart tore off the goose's head; the same with the second goose; with the third; Kart saw B., tied it to the table, went after acquaintances; B. freed himself, threw Kart's daughter into the fire, took the goose; delivered Kart herself; B. ordered an iron chest to be made, disguised as an old man, began to tell Kart that B. killed his 12 sons; what was in the chest he is resting; Kart lay down there, B. brought it to the khan; climbed the tower, dug a hole in front of the entrance; Khan opened the chest, Kart ate it and everyone else; fell into a hole, B. stayed alive]: 134-137; Kapiyeva 1974 [ the old man has 12 sons, 11 are evil, the younger Baiburak is kind; the old man goes to look for brides for them; Kart-Enem offers to marry them his 12 daughters; brothers come and spend the night at CE's; B. hears her sharpening a knife ; says she does not sleep because 1) geese are screaming (CE slaughtered geese, leaving three magic ones); 2) cows are mooing; CE slaughtered cows, B. told brothers to run; CE chases on an arba without wheels, B. throws stone (mountain), stomps (abyss), CE stops chasing; brothers want to destroy B., persuade Khan to send him to CE for 1) a magic blanket; B. comes secretly, stabs CE at night with a needle, she thinks that fleas bite, throw away the blanket, B. takes it away, CE pursues (same episodes); 2) magic geese; B. hides behind CE's door; she asks each of the three geese where B. is now, they are responsible for what by the door, CE does not believe, tears off two heads, then grabs B.; he advises calling his relatives to eat; tears the ropes, takes the goose away; 3) bring CE herself; B. pretends to be an old man, says that his an iron chest protects against heat and cold, invites CE to climb in for testing, brings it to the khan; he opens the chest, CE swallowed it; saw B. on the tower, stumbled, fell into a hole, crashed]: 87-92; Avars [three brothers got lost, came to a house where cards with three daughters; the younger Fool Chilbeek answers cards every time that he is awake, sends cards to bring water with a sieve, puts the brothers in their place daughters of cards; at night she cuts off the heads of her daughters; finds the head of not C., but her daughter in the bundle; running away (the same every time), C. crosses the bridge of ash, K. cannot catch up with C.; the ruler tells C. to bring card-owned 1) zach (blanket?) ; H. stabs sleeping cards from the roof, she thinks that there are fleas in the tsakh, throws it away; 2) the cauldron (C. throws stones at the roof, splashes of fat fly into the cards, she throws the cauldron away); 3) the golden goat (C. stabs it with a stick, the goat bleats, throws it away); 4) the cards themselves; H. meets cards in the form of a beggar, she asks to make a strong chest; climbs into it, it falls apart; the next strong, C. closes cards in it, brings; C. climbs the tree, the nucleers open the chest, swallows everyone's cards; C. throws bags of flour from the tree at it, the cards burst, the swallowed people and animals come out; there is no daughter of the ruler; C. cuts finger cards, a girl comes out from there, C. marries her]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:301-310 (=Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:138-141); Georgians: Chikovani 1954 [seven brothers are going to marry, the youngest is Bototina; one, the second dev offers his 7 daughters, the brothers refuse, agree to the third's offer; at night B. replies to the deva that he is awake, the roar of oxen interferes; dev killed all the cows, left one that gave one nipple butter, the other milk, the third cream, the fourth matsoni; B.: your chickens cackling; dev killed chickens; B. swapped the deva's sleeping brothers and daughters; dev killed your daughters, the brothers ran away, managed to cross the hair bridge; B. was hired as a laborer to the king; he orders to bring 1) a deva carpet (B. stabs the deva with a needle, hiding under the ottoman, he thinks that there are fleas in the carpet, hung it in the yard, B. took it away; 2) the deva cauldron; B. lets himself be caught, advises the deva to hang it over the cauldron for the night, the fat will flow; untied the rope, carried the cauldron; 3) the deva himself; B. comes as a carpenter, the devil measures the chests, B. stabbed him, brought it to the king, climbed the tower, opened the chest; dev ate the king and his entourage; asks B. how he climbed the tower; B.: set fire to the hay, jumped into the fire, the flame raised me; the devil burned down, B. received kingdom]: 86-89; 1986 [nine poor brothers go to work as laborers; younger Hutkunchula asks an old woman for water; she sends brothers to a deva who needs shepherds; he only lures workers to eat them; the brothers fell asleep, dev asks who is awake; H. replies that he is because the geese are screaming; dev swallows the geese, asks again; the cows are mooing (the same); the horses are laughing; H. wakes up the brothers, they are running, he locks the door from the outside, the brothers and H. manage to cross the river, the devil is afraid to step on the shaky bridge; H. carried the talking goat away from the deva; the king took her away, demands a flying carpet in return; H. returned to the maiden, stuck her the carpet with needles, dev lay down, pricked, threw away the carpet, H. took it away; the king only awarded H. a hat; envious brothers persuade the king to send X. to bring all the deva's treasures; H. says to the deva that the king ordered he should make a flying chest, but H. pulled out all the nails; dev asks him to make a chest; H. offers to try it on, brings the chest to the king, hides in a tree with a piece of salt; the chest is open, the devil eats the king and viziers; H. replies to the deva that he flew up a tree with a block of salt on his chest; dev agrees to lie under a tree, let H. shed salt on him; killed by dropped salt]: 64-68; Armenians [cattle were killed an old cannibal woman so as not to interfere with the boy's sleep]: Gullakian 1983:283; Azerbaijanis [one woman has a tiny son, his name is Dwarf; decided to go with other children for firewood; the mother gave them a piece of bread and butter to take care of; K. tells others to collect and carry his share of firewood, and then himself; the children are lost; K.: Where dogs bark, dogs will tear up, we must go where light; this is a diva's house; when he is going to eat the children, he asks if everyone is sleeping; K. says he is awake - his mother cooked scrambled eggs for him; the diva cooked; carried water from the river with a sieve; the diva went to the river, and the children ran away and crossed over to the other side; divas: how did they cross? K.: tied a millstone to his neck; the diva drowned]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:474-477; Turks: Stebleva 1986, No. 12 [Keloglan ("Bald") tells his mother that he will marry a giantess; rushes to suck her chest an old deva woman; she hides him from her sons, turning him into a broom; they promise not to eat her brother; at night K. does not sleep, asks him to cook new food; when she is away from need, the old woman ties a rope to him ; K. bandages, runs away; The frog hides him in a hole in the water, sits on top himself; the turtle hides him under the shell; the hedgehog under the millstone; does not answer the old woman's questions; she is furious three times swallows it, he holes her stomach three times, goes out; she dies; K. brings home the giantess's ears, says he married her]: 35-39; Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 161 [poor children come to the giantess; she waits until they fall asleep, but the youngest always comes up with reasons why he does not sleep (he wants halva, pilaf, roasted lamb, bring water in a sieve), she has to fulfill his whims until morning; giantess puts the youngest in a bag, but he replaces himself with a foal; climbs onto a roof or tree; the giantess asks how he got in; he comes up with different ways (to put various objects on top of each other; put hot iron in his ass, etc.), the giantess dies; or the boy runs away on horseback; a frog, a toad, a hedgehog hide him; the giantess swallows a hedgehog three times, he gnaws through her stomach, she dies]: 177-179.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Aliev et al. 1958 [=Rosenfeld 1958:100-102; husband and wife ask God to send a baby; one pea flew out of the pot, became a girl; she and other girls go to the field to collect spikelets; divas comes, calls them to her place; at night asks who is awake; Pea says that before going to bed, her mother gives her scrambled eggs and halva; divas brings it, G. wakes up the girls, everyone ate, falls asleep; divas again asks, Goroshinka replies that after dinner, mom always brings water from the crystal mountain from the river of light in a sieve; when the diva reached the river of light, morning came, the girls took the diva's things and left; G. remembered that she had forgotten the golden spoon; the diva entered the house, put it in a bag, went to get brushwood to carve G.; she made a hole in the bag, put a goat in the bag, hid in the corner; the diva scored the kid to death, opened the bag, saw his favorite kid; found G., asked how to eat it; she says to bake a cake, wrap it in it; G. pushed the diva in tone, he was fried, she took it spoon, returned to mother]: 223-225; Osmanov 1987 []: 221-222; Marzolph 1984, No. 327 (Mazendaran, Khorasan, Kerman, Azerbaijan, Markazi) [stepmother persuades her husband to get rid of the children so that all the food is eaten she and he got it; or the children ate halva, filled the pot with mud, and a little halva on top - the father was furious; left them in a deserted place; they ate bread and want to eat the youngest; he finds an underground diva who intends to eat the children, but when asked if they are sleeping, the youngest answers each time that they must first bring food; treasures; a saddled horse; water in a sieve; or the children burned the diva and him mother in the stove; either they swapped places with the diva's children and he ate their own children, not those who came; or they put the diva in her pants with water-soaked flour and he thinks he is dirty; the children run away and Diva brings home treasures; he chases and drowns trying to cross the river]: 74-76; Vakhans [the older brother enters the diva's house; at night he asks who is sleeping and who is not sleeping; the guy is silent; the diva kills his club, he and his wife eat it; the same goes for his middle brother; younger Samadyk replies that cows do not let him sleep; divas kill cows; the same sheep; camels; divas tell his wife that S. will kill them; they decide to leave tomorrow, taking a full butter churn; S. hides in it; urinating on the way, the diva thinks that the sun has melted the butter; then he sees S.; at night S. swapped places with his wife diva; he throws him into the sea not S., but his wife; out of grief he threw himself into the sea; S. took his wealth]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 59:459-461; Turkmens [Kelzhe-batyr is incredibly strong; eats half a pound of wheat at home; goes with other boys for brushwood, but only sleeps in the forest; replies that he does not want to waste his energy on trifles; the diva invites the boys to his place; only K. does not sleep; replies that he is used to having his mother drink before going to bed his water from a sieve; the diva cannot collect water with a sieve; then K. asks to make scrambled eggs from the eggshell so that the shell melts in the butter; the divas cannot again, the boys are leaving in the meantime; the khan is ready shelter them on the condition that K. brings a golden carpet from the diva; K. asks for a bag of needles; K. quietly sticks them into the diva's golden carpet; he thinks that the carpet is full of fleas, throws them away; K. takes the carpet away; Khan the diva demands a golden cauldron, K. asks for a poker; with her K. taps the cauldron quietly on the cauldron, the diva thinks that the cauldron is teasing him, throwing him away; the khan demands the diva's golden chicken, K. asks for the poultry network; worries the chicken, she cackles, the diva throws it away (all this time he tried to melt the shell unsuccessfully); Khan tells the diva himself to be brought; K. puts on a goatskin with bells tied, answers the diva that he is a lion, he has come to eat it; allows him to hide in the chest he brought; brings the chest with the diva to the khan; the diva went out, tore the khan to pieces; K. advises the diva to wash him from chicken manure first, then eat it; in the bathhouse offers to dive into cauldrons; he jumps into a cold water cauldron himself, a diva jumps into boiling water, dies; K. brings home a golden carpet, a cauldron and a chicken]: Erberg 1953:93-100.