L114B. Quest: Bring the ogre's possessions, ATU 328.

.14.-.17.21.23.27.-.32.

After receiving a task or on his own initiative, the cunning person enters the character's house (usually an ogre) several times, each time taking one of his belongings or one of his family members.

Kabiles, Arabs of Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Catalans, Spaniards, Portuguese, Italians (Tuscany, Umbria, Rome, Campania, Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Puglia), Sicilians, Corsicans, Sardinians, Maltese, Irish, British, Scots, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein), French, Walloons, Bretons, Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Marathas, Sinhalas, Serbs, Croats, Albanians, Moldovans, Greeks, Hungarians, Bulgarians , Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Ugric Russia, Hutsulshchina, Galicia, Pokutye, Poltava), Belarusians, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Balkarians, Ingush, Kumyks, Avars, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Bakhtiyars, Turkmens, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Finns, Karelians, Western Sami, Norwegians, Icelanders, Faroese, Icelanders, Swedes, Danes, Kazan Tatars, Mordovians, Mari, Chuvash, Komi.

North Africa. Kabila: Rivière 1882, No. 8 [from across the 7 seas, a man carried 7 apples for his 7 wives; someone asked him for an apple, he gave half; all wives ate an apple, and the half ate gave birth to Amor Ennefç; the brothers came to the cannibal, she offered to feed their horses; the AE horse ate only coals and salt and did not die; the cannibal asks how to know that the brothers are sleeping; six say they will snore; AE - that the stones will fall into the hearth; the cannibal about herself: all the animals will scream, make sounds; she fell asleep, the brothers rushed to the horses, they were dead, they all rode AE horse together, got to her father; one of The brothers say that the cannibal has a carpet, the father tells AE to get it; AE poured thorns into the carpet, the cannibal threw it away, AE took it away; the same: get a mill that grinds salt; AE began to beat the mill with a cane, the cannibal tells her to calm down, then threw it away; the same with the bowl that makes couscous herself; the same - tamis qui tamise le couscous; the cannibal herself - supposedly beautiful; AE brought iron the chest, invited the cannibal to climb, brought it to his father, let her go, she ate his father, chased AE; the old man advised me to glue the donkey's back, AE stuck; said that thin, let the cannibal plant it in a box of dates; she planted; asks to show her finger, he puts a spoon, a rat tail; then his hand; the cannibal goes to call other cannibals, her three daughters must cook AE; the blind man is told to kill him; she asks to show how AE's parents danced, and he asks to show where the knife is; killed her, put on her skin, the cannibal's daughter is eaten instead of AE; one of the sisters recognizes the victim's eye; AE burned them all]: 225-230; Paulme 1976 [{short retelling of the French translation, Berber original Moulièras 1893, Lacoste translation 1965:136-153}; Mek'id'ech is a dwarf, the youngest of 7 brothers; once came to the forest (poppies), where He has not hunted yet; the cannibal's daughter advises him to leave, but he stays; consistently at night she steals a blanket, carpet, coffee grinder, plate from a blind cannibal; the brothers are jealous, trying to repeat his tricks, get into trouble, he saves them; the cannibal grabs M. and keeps them in a jug; he persuaded her daughter to let him go; hid upstairs; tells the cannibal to climb up the pile of firewood, go down, set fire to the firewood, the cannibal burned down; M. brought her daughter to her parents' house, who swore that she would remain human (i.e. she would not avenge her mother); wedding, everyone is happy]: 134-136; Algerian Arabs [retelling in Nowak 1969, No. 197:199-201; an angel advises a childless king to take a new wife; warns that sons will be born and the latter will destroy the rest and the king himself; when the wife is ready to give birth to the first, a white one will come to the palace mare; that's what happened; 5 sons were born, and the sixth was Busetta ("six-toed"); at this time the white mare gave birth to the same female foal; B. takes this foal for himself; he is still a boy, but in everything surpasses the brothers, they strive to destroy him; decide to leave him in the forest where the gulya lives; but it turned out that they themselves also stayed in this forest in the evening; they came to Guli's house; B. asks Gulya how to find out when she sleeps; gulya: when the voices of all animals can be heard from my womb; B.: and I sleep when my eyes are wide open; at night B. changed the scarves on the heads of Guli's daughters and the hats on his brothers' heads; Gulya kills her daughters, the brothers run away; the gulya pursues, but does not cross the river, because then it will cease to be guli; the brothers advise the father to tell B. to get 1) chicken laying golden eggs from the guli; from B. a talking horse, with his help he took out a chicken; 2) a carpet (the horse tells me to pour lice and fleas onto the carpet, Gulya throws the carpet out the window); 3) the gulya herself is supposedly that beautiful; unrecognized B. brings a chest to Gula, who supposedly saves him from death; gulya climbs into it, B. slammed the lid shut, brought it to his father; at the crossing of the river, gulya really turns into a beauty; sets the condition for marriage that the king or someone then in return he went down to the lower world to take care of his deceased father, grandfather, great-grandfather; the king sends B.; he returns with three old men who have a huge pot; they offer to throw themselves into boiling water; B. unharmed, the king was cooked, B. received the throne, married a beautiful ghula, executed his brothers; the gulya disappeared, and the talking horse became a beautiful wife B.]: Filleul de Pétigny 1951:64-85; the Arabs of Morocco [ The same retelling as for the Arabs of Algeria]: Nowak 1969, No. 197:199-201; the Arabs of Algeria (Tiaret Plateau) [Amar Zadam is the youngest of seven brothers, he is considered useless; they send him to buy horses guns; he puts a needle under the hoof the best horse, spoils the bolt of the best gun so that he gets them; the brothers think to get rid of him, call him to visit the cannibal Ouma Djidda; everyone accepts her treat, shares salt with her, AZ says he has enough ash bread (so 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; she eats the rooster; the donkey - donkey; so makes her eat all living creatures; she 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 her mare; father tells AZ bring the cannibal chicken; AZ quietly pokes the chicken with a cane, it rushes around the house, the cannibal throws it outside, AZ picks it up; the same is the carpet (AZ sprinkles thorns into it); the father tells me to bring it herself cannibal; unrecognized, AZ comes, says that his mother is dead, could the cannibal measure whether the chest is tall; the cannibal lies down in it, AZ brings the chest to his father; he opens it, the cannibal eats it him and the AZ brothers; he and his mother are leaving]: Aceval 2005, No. 108:123-128; the Arabs of Egypt [the man has 39 sons with his first wife and Mohammad from the second; they leave and are hired to serve the Sultan; envious brothers persuade him to tell M. to get 1) the ogre's sword; M. steals it from the sleeping giant; 2) his flying mare (the same); 3) his treasure chest; the cannibal grabbed M., he advises first fatten him; he pushes the ogre's wife into a boiling pot, puts on her clothes; the ogre eats meat, notices his wife's earring; M. runs away; the spirit from the chest advises M. to take everything for himself and become a sultan]: Nowak 1969, No. 184:188.

Southern Europe. Catalans [the hero rises to heaven on a beanstalk, comes to the ogre's house; deceives him of money and valuables, goes down; eventually lures the ogre into the chest and brings it to earth]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 328:80; the Spaniards [the princess will only marry the one who gets 1) the giant's wallet; he keeps it under his pillow; Juanillo arrives, grabs his wallet, brings him; 2) his flying horse (X. grabs, leads); 3) a blanket with bebunchiki (the same); 4) the giant himself; H. comes and offers to go in a closed wagon to where the thief is; locks the giant and him wife, brings to the palace; opens the box, the giant and the giantess go out, H. kills them; marries a princess]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 328:144-147; Portuguese [the hero works as the king's gardener , seduces the princess with golden hats stolen from the ogre; at the instigation of the hero's envious brothers, the king sends him to bring the ogre's treasures; 1) a horse; 2) a blanket with bells; 3) a parrot; 4) another; the hero runs away, leaving another person in his place; then lures the ogre into the chest and brings him to the palace]: Cardigos 2006, No. 328:80-81; the Portuguese []: Dias Marques 2019, No. 116:193-196; Italians (Tuscany, Umbria, Roma, Campania, Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Puglia), Sardinians: Sirese, Serafini 1975, No. 328:77; Italians: Basile 2018 (Naples) []: 315-321; Calvino 1980, No. 11 (Piedmont; 717-718: Calvino added the old lady's motif; the original assistant is the enchanted queen) [the pear tree owner sends 4 baskets of pears to the king every year ; one day there were not enough pears and a man hid his little daughter under the pears; in the palace they noticed that someone was eating pears, they found a girl, called Perina ("Grushka"); she grew up, everyone likes it, maids they envy, they tell the king that P. boasted to get the witch's treasures; P. walked past an apple tree, a peach tree, reached a pear tree and climbed on it to sleep; in the morning, the old woman under a pear asks where P . goes, gives them fat, bread and millet; P. comes to three women who wiped the oven with their hair; gave them millet for this purpose; gives them bread; comes to the blood-red river; the old woman taught them to say:" Wonderful red water, I'm in a hurry and I'll try you"; the waters parted, P. crossed to the other side; the door to the palace constantly opens and slams shut, P. greased it, passed, grabbed the box with with treasures, ran; the witch tells the doors to slam shut, the river to drown P., the dogs to grab, the stove to burn; the door, the river, dogs, women at the stove praise P. and refuse to prevent her; on the way, P. opened the box, the chicken with the golden chickens ran away; P. reached the pear tree, where the old woman placed the runaway back; advised her to ask the king for a chest of coals in the basement as a reward; she they brought a chest, a prince jumped out of it, married P.], 51 (Bologna) []: 35-37, 157-162; Keller 1981 (Ticino) [the father has 13 sons, he decided to get rid of the youngest Tredichino; orders to bring 1) amulets, stopping the thunderstorm with bad weather (T. climbs onto the roof, throws stones, the sorcerer thinks he is rattling, takes the amulets outside to stop the thunderstorm, T. picks them up); 2) the blanket above the sorcerer's bed (T. climbs under the bed, pulls the veil, the sorcerer thinks it's his wife, is going to beat her; after making sure she slept, tells her to throw off the veil; T. takes him away); 3) the sorcerer's parrot (T. gives him sweets the parrot shouts that T. wants to kidnap him; T. hides; the sorcerer thinks that the parrot is fooling him; T. takes the parrot away; 4) the sorcerer himself and his wife; T. puts on a wig, attaches a beard, comes to the sorcerer under the guise of a craftsman who sells the coffin; he wants to check whether the coffin is tall; lies down in it, his wife is next to him; T. boils up the lid, brings the coffin to the king; he pays a lot of money to catch monsters; father make sure that T. is no worse than his brothers]: 186-189; Widter et al. 1866, No. 9 (Veneto) [the father has 13 sons; the youngest Tredesin ("thirteenth") left home, hired a rich man; the maid did not hurt the young man; tells the owner that T. can bring a blanket from the Bear's bed; T. went and brought it; in the morning, the Bear, as usual, asks his talking bird about the weather, and she replies that il tempo si è bell' e buon, but T. did what he wanted; maid: T. can steal the Bear's horse; T. feathered his hooves with straw, stole it; the bird repeats his answer; the maid: T. will bring the bird itself; T. invited the bird to try a new cage, brought a bird; maid: T. would bring the Bear himself; unrecognized T. came to the Bear, said that T. was dead and he was making a coffin for him; asked him to try it on, nailed the lid, brought it to the owner; says that the maid boasted that she could sit on a pile of straw (? Strohtriste) and not burn if set on fire; (the maid is burned)]: 134-137; Kotrelev 1991 (Tuscany: Florence) [a pregnant woman steals parsley from the sorceress's garden; they catch it, let her go for a promise call the child Petrushka, gives it to them; the woman gave birth to a girl, called Petrushechka; when she grew up, the witches reminded her mother of the promise, she had to agree; 1) the witches brought P. into the dark the room, told to make it white, paint the walls with birds; the witch's cousin Meme suggests doing everything if P. lets herself be kissed; she refuses, M. is happy, does everything anyway (the same when each new act of help); 2) the witches are told to bring a Belle-Jullar box from the witch Morgana; M. gives two pots of lard; tells you to lubricate the hinges of Morgana's gate, throw bread to the dogs, give an awl and give the shoemaker (he pulls his hair out of his head and beard, sews Morgana's shoes), give the cook a panicle so she doesn't shovel the ash with his hands; P. takes the box, Morgana's guards refuse to detain her; along the way opens the box, little men and the orchestra jump out of it; Meme appears, puts them back; 3) the witches are going to cook P., tell them to boil the pot; M. advises to say that there is not enough firewood; P. and M . lights blow out in the barn are the souls of sorcerers, the last is Morgan; they take possession of all the sorcerers' property; married, began to live in Morgana's Palace]: 101-105; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 58 [ the owner tells the boy who works for him to bring the blue and yellow birds that the sorcerer has; the boy brought him; bring his horse; the boy went into the stable, the horse lit, the young man gave him sugar, hid; the sorcerer came, did not notice anything suspicious; the boy took the horse away; brought a gold-woven blanket from the sorcerer's bed; the boy poured lice, fleas and bedbugs on the sleeping sorcerer and his wife; they began to itch and they threw the blanket on the floor, the boy took it away; now the owner orders the sorcerer's wife to be killed; she wanted to cook pork, the boy pushed her into the cauldron; the sorcerer himself was chipping firewood at that time; the peasant advised he put his fingers in to pull out the wedge; his fingers were pinched, he had to cut them off; the owner orders to kill the sorcerer; the boy put a trap on the sorcerer's stairs, he hit him and the boy beat him with a stick], 69 [in the poor family has 12 sons; the youngest Spella invites the brothers not to be a burden to their parents and leave; they took pickaxes and shovels, came to the forest, to the ogre's house, began to work in the bliss of the garden; sleep feeds them; in the evening puts on everyone's hats; S. tells the brothers to slowly take off their hats and wear them to the cannibal's 12 daughters; at night, the cannibal cut off the heads of their daughters; the brothers ran away and hired the king to serve; he made S. in charge; the brothers were jealous, told the king that S. boasted to get the cannibal's gold stick; S. began to throw nuts at the ogre and his wife when they were eating; the cannibal threw his wand at him, S. took it away; get it the ogre's golden horse (got it); the blanket on the ogre's bed (he got it by throwing lice); chicken with chickens; S. was captured, locked in the cellar for fattening; when the ogre's wife went down to pick him up, he killed her, put the meat cook, returned to the king; bring the cannibal himself; S. brings the chest, tells the cannibal that it is for S.; the cannibal climbed inside to see if the chest is strong, S. locked it; the king ordered to burn the cannibal along with the chest and marry S. to his daughter; S. asked the king not to execute his brothers]: 134-136, 153-156; Sicilians: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 5 [after the death of his father Peppe receives a dilapidated a cape and branches of a date tree, Alfinu - an old bag and tree trunk, the younger Ciccu horn and fruits; only Chikku hears how three fairies give the cape the ability to carry anywhere, the bag - to be filled with money, the horn, if you blow, create and clean the fleet; the brothers give C. a cape and bag; he lives luxuriously; the king brings his wife and daughter to him; the daughter lures the bag; when C. to her, the king also forces him to give her cape and horn; the brothers agree to share the dates; each carries his basket to the palace; P. replies to the person he meets that he has dirt in the basket; in the palace he sees that so yes; he is given 50 blows with a cane; the same with A., he replied that there are horns in the basket, received 150 blows; C. replies that dates; the opposite half eats, spits the bones back into the basket, in it again dates; the king takes him into service; the brothers say that C. can 1) bring the ogre's sword; the horse in the royal stable promises to help; C. asks the women to bring him bags of lice, pours the ogre into bed, he tosses and turns, takes off his sword, C. takes it away; 2) deliver the cannibal himself; C. says the cannibal that C. is dead, a coffin must be made; asks to try it on, bobs it up, brings; 3) bring the most beautiful to his wife woman; the horse tells me to give the fly honey, release the fish, release the eagle from the trap; the horse dances in front of the princess, she asks for permission to ride, the horse takes her away, C. also jumps on the horse; on the way, the princess throws a ring into the water; promises the king to marry him if C. returns her ring and shawl; birds bring a shawl, fish bring a ring; the princess wants C. to jump into the hot stove; the horse teaches rub it first, C. unharmed, becomes handsome; tells the king to rub himself with fat; the king burns, C. gets the princess and the throne]: 28-40; Crane 1885, No. 18 [the youngest of 13 brothers always come back first, receive soup from their mother; others are jealous, tell the king that he 1) can steal the cannibal blanket; the 13th climbed under the cannibal bed, grabbed the blanket at night and ran away; 2) steal an ogre's horse; the 13th gives the horse pies, takes him away; 3) a pillow with bells; the cannibal grabs the 13th, fattens it in a barrel, he first shows a mouse tail, finally a finger; the cannibal tells his wife bake on the 13th, he pushes the cannibal into the oven himself; general turmoil, the 13th takes the pillow away; 4) bring the ogre; the 13th pretends to be an old monk, brings the cannibal box, says that the 13th killed their boss, asks what the 13th is, the cannibal says that his height, the imaginary monk offers to get into the box, closes it, brings it to the king; he shackled the ogre in iron, brought the 13th closer to him]: 90-94; Maltese [when he dies, the father blesses his youngest son named the Thirteenth (he is a hunchback or a boy with a finger) to be the eldest; he steals speedboat boots from the cannibal; is hired to serve the king; envious brothers persuade him to give T. difficult errands; an old woman, old man or father helps to fulfill them; 1) steal an ogre blanket with bells on it; T. hides under the cannibal's bed, pours out there are lice, fleas, bedbugs; the cannibal drops the blanket, T. takes it away; or T. brings another blanket to the king; 2) steal a golden chicken with chickens, a magic mare or a silver bell from the ogre; he feeds a mare, or bring another king; every now and then the bell rings so that the cannibal stops paying attention; 3) steal the cannibal's ring; he grabs T.; T. adjusts so that the cannibal does not eat him, but his wife; 4) deliver the ogre himself; T. comes unrecognized, invites the cannibal to try whether the iron cage in which the enemy should be placed is strong; brings the ogre in a cage, that burn; with his speeding boots, T. remains held in high esteem in royal service]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 328:81-86.

Western Europe. Irish [young man steals cannibal treasures, including cap of darkness; cannibal dies]: Jackson 1936:286; Bretons [Allanic begged with his mother, and when grew up, went on a journey; met a young man like him, Fistilou; made a pipe out of a straw, and F. danced, so they made money; bought a violin, but people did not like playing it; came to Goulaffre's cannibal castle; his two daughters and wife liked him; G. brought the murdered man, ate them; gave the young men red hats for the night and white hats for the night; A. overheard that G. was going to eat them; changed them hats; G. cut off the heads of his daughters; the young men ran away; G. pursues them, wearing boots by leaps and bounds; when he fell asleep, the young men took them off him, ran away, came to the king; F. envies A., says that he can get them there is more game than a prince; A., thanks to his boots, has caught a lot of game; he is favored by the king and prince; F. tells everyone about Allanik's leaps and bounds; the king tells A. to get the stolen goods from him Gulyafrom half the moon and a barrel of gold; G.'s moon hangs on the tower, shines at night; A. snuck in, stole, brought it to the king; he now demands gold; having received special scissors, A. cut off the chains on which a barrel of gold hung; he fell on G., who was sleeping, he woke up and grabbed A.; A. advised him to put him in a bag and beat him with a tree trunk, and then only cook; G. walked away, A. began to shout that he was a poor father family, wanted to take brushwood to cook, and G. grabbed it; G.'s wife heard, released A., he planted it instead of himself; G. beat her to death with a tree, and A. took gold, gave it to the king; now the king demands G. himself; A. orders to make a carriage with a heavy golden box, which will slam shut behind whoever climbs into it, and inside for nails to stick out; A. comes to G. unrecognized; says that A. caused evil, suggests G. to get into the gold box - he will take him to A.; G. climbed, the hatch slammed shut, A. brought G. to Paris; the box was covered with firewood, set on fire, G. burned down; A. married the royal daughter, appointed F. general, forgiving him everything]: Luzel 1870:1-21; the French (Haute-Marne) [the English king hunted in France, chased a bird, did not catch it, spent the night in a poor house; the hostess was just in time gave birth, the king agreed to be a godson, named the boy Eugène (E.); left a letter - let the young man appear with him when he is 17 years old; E. set off; before that, the godmother (marraine) warned that if he met a hunchback or a crooked one, he should go back; E. returned twice, but the third time his humpback classmate Adolf went with him; at the inn, A. stole from him the horse; when E. caught up with him, he made E. swear that he would say that he would say that he was the king's godson, A., and not E.; the king believed; promised to give his daughter to his godson, but she was kidnapped; all the courtiers fell in love with E. (who was called A.) and A. was hated; A. says that E. boasted to get a giant's mule; the old man teaches: the giant has a thrush, he sings loudly, he must cross the sea when the thrush sings; the giant gave the mule on the condition that E. would return it later; A. persuades the king to tell E. to get the giant's thrush; the giant gave the thrush with the same condition; the giant's lantern (the same); find and return the king's daughter; the old man teaches you to ask for help; he tells you to build a ship without using iron, take with you a mule, a thrush and a donkey, 300 virgins; on the way, the giant weaves, the virgins spin; on the way, a fish castle, they it is necessary to crumble the bread, the fish missed the ship; the king of fish let his fin call it; then the ants - E. gave them millet, the king of ants gave them a paw; then the rats (gave bread - wool); crows (meat is a feather) ; giants (E. gave a lot of bread - a hair from the king's beard); the princess in the queen's castle with silver legs, turned into a lioness spewing fire; the lioness is glad; the queen orders to bring 300 measures of canvas, woven by virgins (E. gives); further tasks: 1) a garden on the site of the mountain (the giants removed the mountain, the rest of the helpers set up the garden); 2) bring living and dead water; the crows gathered, but no one knows where is the water; two old drunken soldiers appeared; the first was imprisoned, but released at the request of the second - otherwise he would not bring water; they went underground, collected water; the queen sent pigeons knock over the bowls, but the crows drove them away; the giant teaches: first demand that the Queen restore her human appearance, then kill her by splashing dead water in her face; returning to her father, the princess asked to postpone the wedding for 8 days; said she dropped the ring into the sea; the fish did not know where the ring was, the same two drunken soldiers took it out; the princess asked for her castle, where she lived with the Queen; giants, ants and others delivered; then A. called E. to hunt, shot him, threw him into a hole; the princess saw crows, revived E. with living water; E. showed the king his letter, married the princess; A. was burned alive]: Cosquin 1886, No. 3:32-43; the French (Canada) [the widow has sons Georges, Charles and Jean; Jean was nicknamed Parle; war began, the older brothers came to the king, P. after them; the elders told the king that P. was not them relative - let him fry the meat; but the king liked it; the brothers, out of envy, said that P. boasted to get the leaps and bounds under the giant's bed; P. asked and received a raincoat- Saw the invisibility and the file with one wave of the chain with which the boots are attached; brought boots; brothers: P. boasted to steal the moon from the giant; to carry out the task, P. asks the king for a bag of salt; pours it into a cauldron in which the giant's daughter cooks food; the giant cannot eat salted brew, sends his daughter to fetch water; because it is already dark, she takes the moon with her; P. grabs the moon, brings it to the king; brothers: P. boasted to get a giant's violin, where everyone dances seven miles away; P. tries to get it in the same way (cuts the chain with a file when the giant sleeps and snores), but the giant grabbed him; P. advises to fatten him first in the basement; the giant tells his daughter to guard; the giant's daughter and wife heat the stove, P. pushes them together, takes the violin away; brothers: P. boasted deliver the giant himself; P. dresses as king, comes to the giant, complains about P.; doubts whether his closed wagon is strong enough to catch P. and be imprisoned in it; giant goes to try it on, P. closes it, brings it to the king; after finding out what was going on, the king burned P. brothers in wooden cages, and P. married the king's daughter and inherited the kingdom]: Delarue 1957, No. 328:330-334; walloons [the widow has boys Jean, Jeannot and Jeannois; she went with them for brushwood and lost them; Jean climbed an oak tree and noticed light in the distance; they went to the castle; young woman: the Golden Ogre lives here Beard, run; they have nowhere to run; she hid them in the basement behind a barrel, but when ZB came back, he went there for wine, smelled the children, and picked up the barrel and saw them; the wife hid the knife and ZB went to bed without stabbing them children; they were left to sleep in the room where the ZB daughters sleep; Jeannot noticed that their brothers had gold crowns on their heads; at night, ZB went out to slaughter the boys and stabbed their own daughters; the boys ran away through the window and came to the city; the king took them in pages; ZB exterminated people for two or three years and destroyed everything; the king agrees to give Jean a daughter if he brings him the ogre's golden beard; Jean came to ZB, he did not recognize him; Jean says he has so far defeated all the giants and wants to try to defeat him; put sleeping pills on the cannibal; cut off his beard and brought it to the king; Jean married a princess, but He did not receive a noble title; now Jeannot asks Mary, the younger sister of Jean's wife; the king demands to bring a ZB sword; Jeannot tells ZB that he has come to measure who will knock out more wine; ZB began first, fell asleep, Jeannot brought a sword, married M., but did not receive the title either; Jeannois asks for the hand of the youngest princess; the king orders to deliver the ogre in an iron cage; Jeannois came on an iron wagon -cage, told the cannibal that his offenders were now alone in the palace; he got on a wagon and was brought; burned in the square; Jeannois married a younger princess, all the brothers received the title; then his mother found sons]: Carnoy 1883:241-251; Englishmen, Scots, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein): Uther 2004 (1), No. 328:216-217

Western Asia. The Arabs of Syria (Damascus), Iraq [the man has 39 sons with his first wife and Mohammad from his second; they leave and are hired by the Sultan; envious brothers persuade him to order M. get 1) the ogre's sword; M. steals it from a sleeping giant; 2) his flying mare (the same); 3) his treasure chest; the cannibal grabbed M., who advises to fatten him first; he pushes the ogre's wife into a boiling pot, puts on her clothes; the cannibal eats meat, notices his wife's earring; M. runs away; the spirit from the chest advises M. to take everything for himself and become a sultan]: Nowak 1969, No. 184:188.

South Asia. Marathi [the couple has 12 sons; then another one was born, named Thirteenth (T.); his parents love him, his brothers hate him; they tell him to bring a singing and playing (musical) tree from the country two-headed giant; after waiting for dark, T. began to dig up a tree, and it began to sing; a giant came running, T. hid; so twice; the third time the tree kept silent, the giant could not catch up with T.; he promised to come again; the brothers sent T. for the all-seeing mirror of a two-headed giant; the giant saw T. in his mirror; grabbed him, let his wife cook; T. offered to fatten him first; T. got fat; the giant went to invite guests; forgot to lock the door; T. went out, killed the giant's wife with a club, put a block of wood in bed and covered her with clothes, hid her corpse, put old meat supplies in the cauldron, took away the mirror; the giant chases, T. shouts that he will return again; the brothers demand that the giant's head be brought; T. found the giant swimming in the lake, pierced his heart with a dart; brought the brothers' head, they left T. alone]: Knight 1913: 86-111; Sinhalese [the father asked his three sons what they had learned at school; only the youngest knew, the older father drove them away, but the youngest also left in them; they stayed at the Rakshava, who put them to bed sleep in the same room with his sons; at night, the younger brother changed the red blankets to white blankets that the Rakshasa sons had, the Rakshasa ate the sons; the brothers hired to herd goats; the elders told the owner that the youngest can bring a Rakshasa parrot; then a horse; the youngest stole a parrot and a horse; a golden pillow; a Rakshasa grabbed him, went for firewood; the young man ran away from Rakshasi and married her, although the owner of the herd offered him his daughter]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 127:309-310.

The Balkans. Serbs [the hero makes a coffin, invites the dragon to lie in it and mark it; bobs it up, brings it to the king]: Potanin 1899:197; Croats (Dubrovnik) [father died when the 13th son was born; brothers grew up, went on a journey, stayed at the ogre's house for the night; the hostess warned that her husband would come in the evening; the youngest is awake, hears how the hostess teaches her husband to distinguish sleeping young men from her own daughters: boys have red hats, girls have gold chains around their necks; younger brother puts hats on girls, chains on brothers; in the morning the brothers left, the youngest went alone, hired to make coffee for the king; brothers They were jealous, told the king that his cook could steal the ogre's blanket; the young man came to the ogre and advised him to fatten him first; he put him to sleep on the floor; at night the young man began to pull the veil; The cannibal decided that his wife was pulling the veil, threw the veil on the floor, the young man brought it to the king; the brothers advise telling the younger to bring the golden talking cannibal parrot; the parrot flew with the young man, because he gave him sugar; bring the ogre himself; the young man brings the chest, pretends to be looking for the ogre's enemy to fry alive; the ogre climbs into the chest to see if he is strong, the young man brings it to the king; The cannibal was burned, the young man received the princess and then the throne]: Schütz 1960, No. 6:54-60; Albanians: Serkova 1989:48-55 [Changaloz and his two older brothers are hungry; the man advises them to squeeze the millet field , then the owner will feed; the owner is a cannibal with one eye in his forehead; C. lies that he is illiterate, One-eye sends him with a note to his wife, telling him to prepare the sent; C. replaces the letter with an order feed the messenger; at night, C. tells him to exchange the blanket with the sons of One-Eyed, who kills sons, the brothers run away; the elders tell the king that C. can 1) bring the best homespun blanket (C. sprinkles vetch seeds into the yard of One-Eyed, he thinks that millet falls in the sheaves, puts a blanket, C. takes it away); 2) get the fastest horse (C. feeds the One-eyed horse with raisins, he first calls the owner, but H . hides, then takes the horse away); 3) bring One-Eyed; unrecognized C. cuts a nut, supposedly to make a coffin to the Changaloz he killed; asks O. to try on, bobs up, brings it to the king; offers the brothers open the lid; they are afraid, then he burns One-Eyed through the eye cover with a spit; drives around town; gets the king's daughter]; Lambertz 1952 [Dedalija wanders, meets, takes a man as companions resting on the mountain so that the mountain does not fall on it, he thinks rests on the sky so that the sky does not fall; they come to the cave, there is an old woman, she closes the iron door behind them, with her son, the Cyclops Katallâni and his wife; those who come pretend to fall asleep, D. hears K. negotiates with his mother to fry the visitors; when the inhabitants of the cave fall asleep, D. freshens the sheep, pulls their skins over himself and companions, burns K.'s eye with a hot skewer; K. and his mother unsuccessfully try to find people among the sheep, release them along with the sheep; D.'s companions, out of envy, persuade the king to send D. to bring Cyclops horse; D. digs a dig under the stable wall, rolls a stone to the door; the horse calls K. twice, K. promises to beat him for a false alarm; D. promises a good life for the horse and leads him to the king; companions they suggest sending D. to bring the Cyclops ring; D. made his way to the cyclops, took off the ring, hid it in his mouth, but he caught it, chained it, hung it on a hook; when he goes hunting, he tells D. to fry; he pretends that she does not go into the oven, asks Mother K. to show, fried her herself, brought the king a ring; in the evening K. and his wife found a fried mother; the companions persuade the king to send D. to bring K. himself; D. cuts down the forest, says K. that D. is dead and he must make him a coffin; asks K. to climb into the coffin to try on whether he is tall; he hammers with nails, brings him to the king on a cart; he ordered to drill a hole, looked at K., told drown the coffin together with D.'s companions; and he married a princess]: 9-21; Moldovans [the elderly have a son, Alistar Fat-Frumos; when they die, they tell him to smell the basil, A. gains strength; is hired as an employee to the dragon; he puts his son under a red veil, A. under a black blanket; A. changes places with the dragon's son, who kills his son; A. after running, carrying an unquenchable candle, the dragon pursues only to the river; A. is hired to the master, the envious groom says that A. boasted 1) to bring the dragon horse; A. chipped in with a fly, disturbs the horse until the dragon tells him not to laugh anymore; took the horse away; 2) steal the dragon kushma (headdress); A. chipped in with a cat, but was caught, the snake began to feed him; A. asks the snake to show him how to sit in the oven, shoves it itself, takes the kushma; 3) the dragon himself; A. pretended to be a bochar, asks the snake checks for holes, bobs it up, brings it; the master wants to look at the snake in the hole, he sucked it through it; at home A. finds a girl: the snake stole her and turned her into a candle]: Botezatu 1981:181-190 ( =Moldavian tales 1968:410-419); Bulgarians [three (nine) brothers go to look for work; they are hired to work in the field of an ogre (snake, deva, etc.); he sends his younger brother with a letter to his wife, telling him prepare the applicant; he replaces the letter: accept the applicant and his brothers, marry a daughter; the brothers live with the king; by his order or on his own initiative, the younger brother steals the cannibal 1) the blanket, a horse, a bird; comes unrecognized, tells the cannibal that his enemy is dead; he helps to make a coffin, goes to see if it is suitable; the young man closes the lid and brings the coffin to the king; the hero is married to a princess or richly rewarded]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 328:128-129; Greeks (Kalymnos) [the elderly have seven sons, the eldest six are sloppy; decided to go to work in Asia Minor; younger named Thirteen secretly follows them; brothers ask the ogre to hire them to squeeze the field; cannibal: if you press faster than I knit sheaves, I'll give my daughters for you, otherwise I'll eat them; T.: cook thin ones ligaments to knit the cannibal more; at night, T. shows that he is awake, the cannibal does not dare to kill his brothers; on the third night, T. puts the cannibal's daughters on his brothers and vice versa; the cannibal stabbed daughters; brothers have time to cross the river; the youngest shouts that his name is T., and this is just the beginning; brothers are hired by the king; envious elders say that T. volunteered to steal the cannibal blanket since 41 with a bell; on the way, T. divided the carcass between the mice and the cat, they offered help; filled the bells with cotton wool; T. quietly pulled off the blanket, the cannibal and his wife each think that the other is pulling him towards him; brothers: bring a talking cannibal horse; the horse calls the owner, the cannibal told his wife to fry T., went to invite his brother to visit him; T. pretended not to know how to get into the oven, the ogre's wife shows, he fried it, put it out from the window, the cannibal who returned ate, not knowing that it was his wife; brothers: bring the ogre himself; T. cuts trees in the ogre's forest; says that T. is dead and he is making him a coffin; the cannibal volunteered to help; T. offers to get into the chest to try it on, closes it; the king asks to open the chest and then fry the ogre; he swallowed the envious brothers, fell into the oven himself; the king married T. to his daughter]: Paton 1901, No. 17:93-97; Hungarians: Domotor 1988, No. 328:467

Central Europe. Poles [the hero comes to the giant (helping the king, inciting envious rivals, etc.), steals his property, then lures him into a box (coffin), brings him to the king]: Krzyż anowski 1947, No. 328:37; Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Ugric Russia, Galicia, Pokutye, Poltava), Belarusians [Boy steals treasures from an unclean (witch): a wonderful horse or a goat, a golden lantern, a self-drunk jug, etc.; the unclean dies]: SUS 1979, No. 328:121 {the plot is not noted on the main territory of the Russians; one record from the Baikal region}; Belarusians (Orshansky u., Stary Tolochin, 1888-1891, from peasant Maxim Fedosov, 42 years old, illiterate; Russian retelling to Vasilenok et al. 1958:94-109) [Grandfather and woman live, no children. My grandfather dreams that he needs to collect bird eggs in the forest and get the children out of them. He does this, finding 31 eggs on 30 birch trees. Baba is incubating them, and three weeks later their sons left. Pop baptizes everyone, gives everyone different names, but the youngest doesn't get a name. He is called Little Baby (MM). After a year, they get big, asking their father for a job. The father buys 30 braids, the youngest does not get it. He goes to watch his brothers mow. The brothers leave 2 pieces unmowed. MM breaks the oak tree and mows the remaining 2 parts with it. They collect 31 sheaves. On the first night, 10 brothers are on guard, one sheaf is stolen. On the second night, the other 10 brothers are on guard, stealing the sheaf again. Same for the third night. On the fourth night, MM. is sent. He asks his father to forge him a bullet at 30 pounds. He checks her, throws her up, she splits against his forehead. He asks for a bullet of 35 pounds. He's going to guard. A mare and 31 foals come running, MM jumps up on the mare, hits her, she asks her to let her go, gives MM foals. He takes them to their father's house, sons divide stallions among themselves, MM gets the worst. They arrange a good farm. After three or four years, the sons go around the world, and MM stays with their parents. A year later, she buries her father, then her mother, rents out the farm, and goes to pick up her brothers. It catches up with them in three months. They go together, they come to the forest. There is a hut on a chicken leg, Baba Yuga has 29 daughters, and she sends her brothers to her sister, because there are not enough daughters for all the brothers to marry. The next Baba Yuga has 30 daughters. The third one has 31. The third Baba Yuga feeds her brothers, they choose a daughter and go to bed. The stallion tells MM that Baba Yuga wants to kill them with a self-sword, advises brides to wear hats and impose scarves on brothers. That's what MM does. The sword cuts the heads of daughters, the brothers run away. Baba Yuga has three goats, the first one catches up with MM with her brothers, MM wins, kills the goat. The brothers went to the service of the king, MM made everyone the main thing. The brothers are jealous and tell the king that MM can get Baba Yuga's self-sword. MM steals the sword, Baba Yuga catches up, MM kills the second goat. The king gives MM a new rank. The brothers are jealous and tell the king that MM can get Baba Yuga's samogula. MM steals harp, Baba Yuga catches up, Baby kills a third goat. The king gives MM a new rank. The brothers are jealous and tell the king that MM can find out why the sun stood in one place for three hours. MM goes to the sun, and on the way he meets the miracle of Yuda Fish Whale, on which everyone rides across the sea. The fish asks to know how long it takes to lie like this, promises service. MM comes to the dugout, where for a month or a month he tells you to put on a fur coat and hide behind the stove so that it's not so hot. The sun comes, says that it stood in one place for three hours, looking at Panenka Bagpipes, and the fish can sail away if they spit out the 40 ships they swallowed. MM returns to the king, gives the fish an answer on the way, they spit out the ships and sails away. The king gives MM a new rank, orders that Panenka Bagpipes be brought in. The stallion advises to take fruits and drinks from the king. MM does this, going to the seashore, opens a buffet. Panenka Bagpipes swims up to his tent, buys a glass of sweets, asks him to put it on the paddle. He comes back, buys a stronger glass, asks him to put it on the paddle. He returns, buys a glass of the strongest, asks to put it on the paddle, MM refuses, because it is expensive, passes it in his hand, grabs the panenka and takes it to the king. The king gives MM a new rank, lives with his father for two days and is going to marry. Panenka demands her chest from the bottom of the sea. MM throws a sword into the sea at small fish, Whale Fish swims out, orders them to find the chest. The chest is found, MM drives 300 miles away, catches the chest, and takes the king. The king gives MM a new rank. Panenka demands gold keys to the chest from the bottom of the sea. MM launches a self-sword at medium fish into the sea, Whale Fish swims out, orders them to find the keys. They don't find the keys, Baby throws a self-sword into the sea at big fish. They find the keys, MM drives 500 miles away, catches the keys, and takes the king. The king gives MM a new rank. Panenka Volynka demands to build a cathedral across the river, a bridge made of gold and silver, plant grapes along the road, dig a ditch around the cathedral, light a fire in the moat, and hang a cauldron with resin. The king is telling MM to do this. The stallion advises asking the boy to take pity. Panenka Bagpipes tells him to go to bed and sweep the bridge the next day. The king gives MM a new rank. MM goes through the cauldron and the king has failed. MM and Panenka are getting married]: Romanov 1901, No. 32:286-297; Belarusians (Mogilevskaya, Western 1888-1891, Vysokovskaya Vol., Orsha U., from Kr. Yakov Ignatova, 76 l, illiterate) [The old man and the old woman have no children, the old man sends her to the city to buy 12 eggs to incubate, raise 12 sons, baptize him on 11, forget on the 12th, come back, the pop baptizes him with Kashevar and a good fellow; sons they grow up quickly, help in the field, the elders mow, the cook cooks; while the older brothers sleep in the afternoon, the Kashevar mows the most, the brothers think that God helps; it also repeats when they shovel and put haystacks; every night someone steals a haystack, 2 older brothers can't do anything, Kashevar is called; 12 pounds are forged for him, the first mace breaks into Kashevar's hand, the second withstands the test, the Kashevar goes to guard the haystacks at night; at midnight a mare with 12 foals comes running, picks up the haystack and leaves, the Kashevar falls off the haystack; the next night a mare comes again with foals, the Kashevar jumps at her from the haystack, the mare takes him by air to the thirtieth kingdom, the Kashevar hits her with a mace, the mare returns him to his father's yard, he instructs the brothers to build a stable for 12 stall; The cook flies again on the mare until it gets tired and agrees to do his will - brings 12 foals to the yard; the Kashevar gives the mare to his father, the foals to the brothers; the brothers go to choose their brides; The cook gets the weakest horse, lets it get caught in the field, then saddles and drives the others through the air; the cook flies up to the hut on a chicken leg, and there are 12 pillars with rings near the hut ( horseback riding), ties a horse, enters the hut, the grandmother says that her sister has 12 daughters; Kashevar leaves and goes to the next hut on a chicken leg - history repeats itself; Kashevar goes to the third hut on a chicken leg, there is a grandmother ("legs in the garden, tits under the table"), a mother of 12 daughters, sit down to talk, brothers come; Kashevar goes out into the yard, meets Nastasya Priokrasya, she tells how recognize her among 12 doves and 12 girls; grandmother calls to the upper room, 12 doves appear, Kashevar finds out, then everyone turns into 12 identical girls, and he finds out again (Nastasya gives a sign every time), they get married; Nastasia gives her husband a handkerchief to call her when it is difficult; after the feast, the young go to the barn, Kashevara's horse warns that her grandmother has already sent for the torturers to cut their heads; on the advice of the horse , change clothes, Nastasya goes out into the garden, Kashevar's horse takes him (and his brothers with him), his grandmother in a stupa goes in pursuit; on the River of Fire, using Nastasi Kashevar's handkerchief, is building Kalinov Bridge , crosses, destroys the bridge with a wave of a handkerchief, grandmother cannot cross the river, it is agreed that Kashevar will visit again; brothers let horses out into the meadow, horses slaughter each other, brothers start from - for this, they argue, they kill each other, the Kashevar takes their bodies to the river, cries and leaves on his horse; on the way, Kashevar finds a shining feather, the horse discourages them from taking them, because in the pen "an ax and a chopping block, mortal shirt", Kashevar takes the pen for himself for beauty; the landowner exchanges the shining feather from Kashevar, offering his daughter as his wife, but Kashevar goes after Nastasya and brings her to the landowner's house; on the way back, the grandmother on a stupa tries to catch up with them, cannot cross the river of fire, they again persuade them that Kashevar will still visit; the landowner falls in love with Nastasya, wants to marry, sends Kashevar to his grandmother (witch) for a wedding dress (the witch herself) for Nastasia; The cook arrives on horseback, turns into a black cat, steals the witch's keys, takes the dress, the chase story repeats; Nastasya demands a wedding a ring (the story of turning into a cat, stealing a ring from a witch and then chasing is repeated) and wedding candles from the church, a cook flies to a witch, changes clothes with a shepherd, his horse turns into a lamb with gold and silver hair, distracts attention, Kashevar steals wedding candles from the church, the story of the chase repeats; for the 4th time Kashevara is sent (Nastasya demands) for with self-dancing harps (the story of turning into a cat, stealing, chasing repeats); Nastasya demands horses, Kashevar, on the advice of his horse, lures a mare (who has returned from his father to a witch) and the rest of the horses, animated by the mare, during the chase near the Fire River, Kashevar promises not to come to visit again; the Kashevar goes to the kitchen to relax, he is cut to pieces, boiled and fed to dogs, a horse Kashevara cries, asks Nastasya to collect the bones, the little finger is on the second time, the horse breathed 3 times: the cook becomes whole, moves and rises, becomes more beautiful than before; the landowner ("pan") decides to become more beautiful in the same way, but he is simply eaten by dogs; The cook stays on the estate]: Romanov 1901, No. 39:360-370; Belarusians [33 sons and two more and Ivan the Fool go to marry; at the woman- yagi has the same number of daughters; I. tells me to change those clothes for the night; baba yaga returned and chopped her daughters; the brothers have come to the king; they say that I. can get Baba Yaga harp, who play themselves; a horse I. promises to get it, they galloped, brought harps; a rooster that can be heard all over the world; the same; get Queen Alain; the horse created a bridge, a garden, food and drinks; the queen went out, fell asleep, they took her away; A. promises to be the wife of someone who gets living and dead water; horse: I'm dead now, I must hide in his corpse, grab a crow and demand living water from his parents; I. tore the crow, revived it; and the horse revived; A. killed I. in front of the tsar and revived it; the tsar also wants; A. did not revive him; wedding]: Romanov 1887, No. 37:228-232; Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina) [31 brothers want to marry girls who were sisters; the youngest is called: Thirty-one (T.); horse: sit on me and leave yours to graze; they come to the witch, she has 31 daughters; the horse tells T. to switch places with their daughters at night witches; the witch cut off the heads of her own daughters; the brothers rode off; the horse thirty-one: tell her we will come to her again; T. and his oldest brother hired the king, the rest of the brothers went another way; the elder was taken by a groom, and T. was taken as a cook, the eldest is envious, he tells the king that T. can get 1) bread that the whole army cannot eat; horse: that woman's bread; the horse gave ointment: if anoint, you will become a broom; the woman sweeps it, goes to bed, T. takes the bread; the horse tells the woman to shout again: we will come again; 2) a flask of wine that an entire army cannot drink; the horse teaches you to become an ant, carry it away flask; 3) the most beautiful woman in the world; the horse tells you to take 8 buffalo skins and special horseshoes from the king; dig a hole overseas; the horse rode in it, the stallion rode, runs, looks for a horse, is tired; when the horse came out , ripped 8 skins on him, but T.'s horse won; T. got off the tree, sat on his horse, and the beauty standing next to him on that stallion; behind them, a herd of mares across the sea; beauty: who will milk my mares? king: the one who brought; T.'s horse makes every mare stand without moving, T. fed up milk; boiled milk; T. furkil's horse, T. swam, became handsome; the king threw himself into the milk and boiled; T. married a beautiful woman, reigned]: Zinchuk 2006a, No. 94:278-283; Czechs [the king has 7 sons; the youngest Yalmir is weak, has difficulty walking; the brothers go to see the world; at night the old man makes Y. healthy and strong , gives a white horse; he instantly caught up with his brothers; paid for them at the inn; they did not recognize him; they come to a cannibal with 7 daughters; I quietly pour out the wine; when everyone lies down, the cannibal tries to see if the brothers are sleeping; first hits with a broom, then burns tar on her chest; each time she says that they sleep six times, she sleeps the seventh; I change the cannibal's brothers and daughters, she cuts off her heads daughters; brothers gallop away in the morning; I open up to my brothers, they envy that he was the best; horse: I asked you not to open up to your brothers, now there will be trouble; they all hired the king; brothers they told him that I could get birds that the king did not have; the horse took Y. back to that cannibal; in three rooms, birds in silver, gold, diamond cages; we must take a plain bird in a wooden cage in the fourth room; I. brought a cage and the horse ordered the bird to be released; in the morning the royal garden is full of birds; now the brothers offer to send Y. to get animals; (still the same, but instead cages - chains on animals); in the morning in the king's garden, deer, rabbits, squirrels, etc.; the brothers offer to send Ya for wine; the horse tells you to make a rope and net out of his two hairs; we must go down to the cellar, take a vessel with a wooden cork, not vessels with silver, gold, diamond, and run; or jump into the net and the horse will pull it out by the rope; it happened; the king found that the wine in the vessel was not decreases, no matter how much you drink; the king appointed I. as first minister; brothers: get the princess from the golden castle in the middle of the sea; the horse tells you to ask the king for plenty of bread, wine, etc.; this was fed to three giants; In addition, Y. released fish into the sea and fed the eagle; the giants built a dam to the island; the princess went with Y., but demanded that the king deliver it to the golden castle; I fed the giants again; they delivered castle; the princess demands the lost key; the fish found it; the princess demands the water of death, life and youth; I. walked along the dam that had been built, but the waves understood it; the eagle pulled out and showed the sources of water; then moved the horse to where the horse was; the princess rubbed the king with different water, but accidentally twice with the water of death; after that it cannot be revived; the princess called King I., and he called her Queen; the brothers were burned by the people alive; the horse tells him to cut off his head, a white dove flies out of his body and hides in the sky; I. rules and is happy with his wife]: Curtin 1890:370-405; Slovaks [the peasant has 12 sons, 11 despise youngest Yanko; hired by the king, a year later each received an ox; next time a cow; then a horse; I. is afraid to choose a strong horse; a thin horse advises him to choose him; the brothers galloped off; the skate : Shall we jump like the sun or like the wind? I.: so as not to suffer; a brass horse and a copper horseman, I. ends up in the inn before the brothers, who say they saw the bronze horseman; next time he saw the bronze horseman; the next time he was silver; gold; the brothers ask their father to marry them; he sees an old witch plowing on 6 horses; she says that she has 12 daughters; whips horses, they turn into 12 girls; before the wedding, the horse teaches me: not to sit in in the middle, say that he is the youngest, must watch the horses; do not drink wine, eat soup, roast, pour them out unnoticed; wine will become a piece of glass, soup with a brush, roast with a comb, hide them under clothes; let the brothers lie in the place of the witch's daughters at night, and they in the place of the brothers; at night, the witch cut off the heads of her daughters, thinking she is killing young men; the horse tells them to jump away, pick nothing up along the way; the witch throws a golden horseshoe, Y. asks if to pick it up; horse: pick it up, it will be bad, you won't pick it up, even worse; I picked it up; the horse tells you to throw the comb (a mountain covered with dense forest); then the same: a witch throws a golden pen, I. throws a brush (prickly thickets); golden hair - glass (sea, the witch stops chasing); reconciled with his brothers, the skate tells him to be hired to serve the king; other grooms (in some versions these are brothers Y.) burn candles, but I. did not; the grooms saw that I. illuminated the witch's golden horseshoe stable; the king demands a horse whose horseshoe; they rode to the witch and while she was sleeping, I stole from under. pillows keys, took the horse away, hid his sword; shouted about it to the witch, she chased, but could not cross the sea; the grooms reported that Y.'s stable was bright again, the light from the pen; the king demands a bird; I took it off my waist The witch's sleeping keys, broke her sword, took the cage with the duck laying the golden eggs; the third time, golden hair, the king demands a girl; the sleeping witch holds the keys in her teeth, I carefully took them out, broke them the witch's sword, unlocked the third room, took the golden girl away; from across the sea shouted to the witch that he would not return to her again; she turned into tar out of anger; the girl only wanted me, the king was going to execute him; the skate tells me to boil the pot of milk, absorbed the heat, I. swam, turned gold; the king also decided to swim, the horse regained the heat, the king cooked; I. became king]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 8:36-46.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians [poor Samkyanyk asked the prince for a knife; he promised to kill him if he lost it; S. lost his knife, called the children, they tore the grass, found a knife, but night came, they came to the old woman- cannibal; S.: I can only fall asleep if you take care of me, as my mother took care of me - she brought water in a sieve, cooked and fed me; the old woman went to get water, S. woke up the children, told them to run, himself stayed; the sieve swelled, the old woman brought some water, cooked it; the old woman found S., put it in a bag, went to get an iron stick; S. put a dog in his bag, the old woman killed the dog, again found S. and went to get a stick (he put a rooster in the bag the same thing); ran away, promised the shepherd to cure his eye, smeared him with lamb droppings, ordered him to sit until sunset, took the herd away; the old woman came and explained to the shepherd that he was deceived; then S. tied oxtails to sticks and drove them into the ground: the ground caught the bulls; sent the owners behind shovels, at which time she hid the bulls among her sheep, said that the earth had swallowed bulls; the old woman said that S. was a deceiver; S. pretended to hold the cave vault, asked seven people to hold, he would bring seven stakes on their 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 him to forbid guests to 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 lamb intestines, and put the gut next to the old woman; at night everyone runs away with shame, the old woman thinks that her gut has come out of her, all the wealth remains with the prince; envious people advised the prince to send S. to deliver the adaui; C . ordered to make a strong cart, came to the Adaua covered in black, ordered him to climb into the cart, locked the door, brought the adaus to the prince; ordered him to open the cart, and he climbed onto the rock and jumped off it; Adaui jumped after him and crashed]: Shakryl 1975, No. 72:326-333; Ossetians: Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [five servants envy Abaikutsykk, who is allocated by Aldar; suggest that he 1) get a horse giant; giant A. turns into wheat grain, brings a horse; 2) a samovar boiler and a self-scoop bucket; A. brings; 3) bring the giant himself; A. says he is making a coffin for A., asks the giant try it on; when the coffin is strong, he brings the giant to Aldar; he eats Aldar and five servants; sees A. in the tree, asks how he climbed; he tells him to pick up stones, then jump; the giant crashed, A. took possession of all the property]: 223-226; Byazirov 1958, No. 61 [Eight brothers. The strongman changed the blankets of his brothers and daughters of the giant at night, and he killed his daughters; the strongman poked the giant's awl and takes away the chair, the bed finally takes the Uaig himself in the chest]: 328; Balkarians (western 1965) [poor Khuduychik asked the king for work; the king: to deliver a tree for the arba from the land of five-headed emegen; H. cut, took away the tree; crossing the border of the land of emegen, replies to the fact that X. deliver the tree to make a yoke (the same); deliver the emegen itself; H. comes to cut down trees; says he wants to make a chest catch H. in it; emegen helps; agrees to try it on, gets inside, H. he nailed the lid, brought the chest to the king; the king opened the chest, emegen killed him, ran away; at this time H. climbed the ladder to the throne; emegen: lift me up; H. raises emegen several times and pretends what he can't hold; when he falls, emegen loses one of his heads every time; after killing emegen, H. took the throne himself]: 364-366; Ingush: Tankieva 2003:252-254 [mother died, Tourilg lives with father and stepmother, she wants to lime him, pretends to be sick, asks him to bring 1) the door from the hut of a witch living seven mountains; T. slowly entered the witch's house; when she began to leave, the door did not open, she broke it and left, T. brought the door to his stepmother; 2) the witch's bowler hat; T. quietly throws pebbles into the brew, the spray burned the witch, she threw away the bowler hat, T. brought it; 3) the witch's mattress (T. hid under the bed, stabs with an awl, the witch threw away the mattress, T. brought it); 4) the witch herself; T. came to the witch unrecognized, said he was making chests, offered to try it on, closed the lid, brought it, climbed the tree; the witch jumped out, ate stepmother and others, asks T. to pick her up; he lowered the rope, the witch fell, crashed], 255-257 [about the same]; Kumyks: Barsov 1882, No. 5 [12 sons ask their father to marry them to 12 daughters one father; father came to Kart, she spun her wool, promised to give her 12 daughters; the brothers arrived; at night the elder Baiburak tells me not to sleep; Kart answers that she is awake - the cows are mooing; Kart slaughtered cows; chickens they 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 slaughtered her daughters; in the morning told the rest to bring the older young man's head, the younger leg and the middle arm; the brothers are running, Kart is pursuing; 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 can hide 3000 people; B. climbed onto K.'s roof, stabbed her with a stick with a needle at the end; K. decided that fleas were biting, threw off the blanket, B. took it away; Kart was chasing, B. asked God to create behind he has a needle forest, then the sea; brothers: B. has a goose that predicts the future; Kart asks the goose: where is B. now; goose: is standing outside the door; Kart tore off the goose's head; the same with the second goose; with third; Kart saw B., tied it to the table, went to get friends; B. freed himself, threw Kart's daughter into the fire, took the goose; delivered Kart herself; B. ordered to make an iron chest, disguised himself as an old man, became tell Kart that B. killed his 12 sons; that he was resting in the chest; 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 him and everyone the rest; 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 12 daughters; brothers come and spend the night at CE's; B. hears her sharpening a knife; says she's awake because 1) geese are screaming (CE slaughtered geese, leaving three magic ones); 2) cows are mooing; CE slaughtered cows, B. told the brothers to run; CE chases on an arba without wheels, B. throws a stone (mountain), stomps (abyss), CE stops chasing; the brothers want to destroy B., persuade Khan to send him to CE for 1) magical with a blanket; B. comes secretly, stabs CE at night with a needle, she thinks that fleas bite, throws away the blanket, B. takes it away, CE pursues (same episodes); 2) magic geese; B. hides behind CE's door; that asks each of the three geese where B. is now, they say that outside the door, CE does not believe, tears off two heads, then grabs B.; he advises calling his relatives to eat; tears the ropes, takes the goose away; 3) bring CE herself; B. pretends to be an old man, says that his iron chest protects against heat and cold, invites CE to climb in for testing, brings Khan; he opens the chest, CE swallowed it; saw B. on the tower, stumbled, fell into a hole, crashed]: 87-92; the Avars [three brothers got lost, came to a house where Kart with three daughters; the younger Fool Chilbeek answers cards every time that he is awake, sends maps to bring water with a sieve, puts cards in the place of the brothers-daughters; at night she cuts off the heads of her daughters; finds the head in the bundle not C., but her daughter; running away (the same every time), C. crosses the bridge of ash, K . can not catch up with C.; the ruler tells C. to bring the cards belonging to 1) tsach (blanket?) ; C. stabs sleeping cards from the roof, she thinks that there are fleas in the tsakh, throws it away; 2) the cauldron (C. throws stones from 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; C. meets cards in the form of a beggar, she asks to make a strong chest; climbs into it, it falls apart; the next is strong, C. closes cards in it, brings; C. climbs a tree, the nukers 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 his 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 who gave butter with one nipple, milk, third cream, fourth matsoni; B.: your chickens are cackling; dev killed chickens; B. swapped deva's sleeping brothers and daughters; dev killed daughters, brothers ran away, managed 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. carried it away; 2) the deva's cauldron ; B. lets himself be caught, advises the deva to hang him over the cauldron for the night, the fat will flow; untied the rope, took the cauldron; 3) the deva himself; B. comes as a carpenter, dev measures the chests, B. stabbed him, brought him 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 hay, jumped into the fire, the flame raised me; dev burned down, B. got the 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; 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 thing); the horses are laughing; H. wakes up the brothers, they are running, he locks the door outside 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 deva, stuck the carpet with needles, the 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. tells the deva that the king told him to make a flying the chest, but H. pulled out all the nails; dev asks to make a chest for him; 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. answers deva who 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 [the miller has a wise goat, three brothers have a wise goat - a wise horse; the elder brother and the miller bet, putting the horse against the goat: who will hide three times; the elder brother called the guests and showed the goat; he stabbed himself, ripped himself off, fried himself, fried himself, he cooked three types of food, served it to the guests, and when they ate, he was alive, running and bleating; but when the older brother's wife invited her lovers (pop and elder) to visit and demanded that the goat do it But he turned his back to her; she hit the goat with a stick, stuck, followed by pop and many others; finally, her older brother let them go; not wanting to stay in a house like this, the brothers left; came to the fire, there an old woman with three daughters; the youngest is in danger, tells them to change seats and hats with the girls; at night, the old woman came to strangle the brothers and strangled her daughters; the brothers are fleeing; the youngest was hired the king is jealous of the groom, the elder and the middle; they tell the king that the youngest can bring that old woman's horse; the queen teaches what to do (lure the horse with raisins, put a bag over her head); bring a miracle from the old woman tree; queen: take a self-playing saz, the old woman will sharpen her teeth and think that you are on the ceiling; the bag will tear, from there salt and pepper into her eyes; at this time, cut down the tree with a diamond ax; bring herself old woman; ring bells, the old woman will think that it was the angel of death who came for her, then put her in a basket, nailed it and tied it with ropes; the guy brought the basket to the king; ran away, hid in the cave behind a millstone; the old woman (who also took the form of a lion Azrail) put her head in the millstone, the guy knocked him over, crushed her]: Ioannisian 1968:110-123; Turks [three brothers go to look for work, get to giant; (var.: at night they change places with his daughters, he kills and eats daughters); he gives the youngest a letter to his wife instructing him to fry the messengers; the letter is changed, the brothers are well received; the elders bet with the younger one that he will steal 1) the giant's bed cover (the young man pulls him, and the giant and his wife think they're each pulling the veil over themselves), 2) his horse (the horse several times starts laughing until the giant stops paying attention), 3) the mirror, 4) the ring that is in the giant's wife's belly, 5) the giant himself (first kills his wife when she is going to fry the young man, then locks the giant in a coffin - supposedly his enemy is dead, we need to check whether the coffin is tall); encourages the giant to rush into the well; in the palace, the coffin is opened, the giant eats everyone or only The young man's brothers; the young man climbs a tree, the giant dies after him; the young man becomes a padishah or marries a princess; the smell of a giant makes everyone unconscious; the young man revives everyone except his father and brothers]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 160:175-177

Iran - Central Asia. Bakhtiyary [every day a person brings seven partridges from hunting for himself, his wife and seven daughters; invites his wife to take his daughters to the mountains, and they will get the partridges alone; the father took his daughters to the forest and left; from now on he can't get a single partridge; the girls have come to the diva Alla Zingi; he waits for them to fall asleep to eat them; to stay awake on his own, he cuts his leg and sprinkles salt on the wound; asks are girls sleeping; older Tamti: I'm awake; AZ: what do you want? seven horses with saddles; divas bring horses; then seven bags of jewellery, ten bags of salt, ten bags of needles and shoetails, ten bags of syrup and melted butter; sisters sit on horses, they take what the diva brought with them and jump away; throw salt, needles and awls, then a wineskin with syrup; AZ licks the syrup, thinks it's T.'s blood; sisters crossed the pond; divas: how did they cross the pond? T.: leave your foot on a white stone; but it's just white foam, the divas are drowning; the sisters dressed as men, came to town; seven princes offer them to play ball; the sisters lost, the princes got them in property, but when they find that they are girls, they marry them; parents are looking for sisters, they come, they don't recognize them; daughters open up and keep them]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 51:317-320; Turkmens [Kelje batyr is incredibly strong; he 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 himself; only K. does not sleep; replies that he is used to having his mother give him water from a sieve before going to bed; the diva cannot collect a sieve of water; then K. asks to make scrambled eggs from the shell of eggs so that the shell melted in oil; the diva cannot again, the boys are leaving in the meantime; the khan is ready to 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 golden carpet is a diva; he thinks that the carpet is full of fleas, throws it away; K. takes the carpet away; Khan demands a golden cauldron, K. asks for a poker; K. quietly taps on the cauldron, the diva thinks that his cauldron teases, throws it away; the khan demands the golden chicken diva, K. asks for the poultry's net; disturbs the chicken, it cackles, the diva throws it away (all this time he tried to melt the shell unsuccessfully); the khan tells bring the diva himself; K. puts on a goatskin with bells tied, replies to the diva that he is a lion, has come to eat him; allows him to hide in the chest he brought; brings a chest with the diva to the khan; the diva went out , tore the khan to pieces; K. advises the diva to first wash him from chicken manure, then eat; in the bathhouse offers to dive into cauldrons; he jumps into a cold water pot, the diva jumps into boiling water, dies; K. brings home golden carpet, cauldron and chicken]: Erberg 1953:93-100.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [199 options; after the death of their father, 7 sons drank the estate, were hired as laborers; someone steals mowed hay; only the youngest Jonas manages to catch a mare with seven stallions; J. got the most inconspicuous; they decide to marry the 7 daughters of the Bone Woman, who is on the island; the horse teaches Y. to wave a handkerchief, the waters have parted; tells them to exchange blankets with the girls at night; the saber cuts off that heads; the skate tells you to run; the sea has parted and closed behind, the bone woman does not cross; the skate does not tell you to pick up the pen, J. picked it up; the brothers, out of envy, tell the king that 1) J. can also get a bird; Bone Woman's bird; J. became a cat, the bone woman brought him into the house, he took the bird's cage; 2) a sword that cuts and defeats the attacking enemies; J. became a bird, the Bone woman brought it into the house, that took her sword away; 3) the sea maiden (while she was at the ball, I could not see the moon and sun for three days); the horse teaches me to put a table of wine on the shore, the maiden came out of the water, became intoxicated, fell; maiden to the king: I'll go out when you become handsome, you have to bathe in boiling milk; J. jumped and became handsome, the king disappeared into milk; J. married a virgin, became king]: Kerbelite 2014, No. 154:401-408; Latvians [six smart The brothers go to work; the father wanted to leave the seventh fool at home, but he also went; they hired a master, he sent him to his wife, gave a note; only the fool could read it; it's not a master, but hell, orders to kill the bearers; the fool changed: to put an end to gold; the brothers rode off, the fool hid in the forest on a plain filly, the filly gives advice; all seven were hired by another master, that fool made a footman, the brothers are jealous, they say that a fool can steal a golden bird from hell; the master sent, the filly brought it; the same is a golden bird cage; the devil itself; filly: let the master give the coffin with iron hoops; the fool tells the line that he is an angel, that God promised to give one soul in this coffin, let the devil lie down and measure; closed the coffin, brought a devil in it; brothers: a fool can drive and bring all the hares; the filly tells you to ask the gold and diamond pipes to collect hares; the fool sells the hare to his master's daughter for money, and to him for eating carrion; the hares come running back; the brothers advise you to tell the fool to speak from three boxes; guests gather, the fool talks about everything; when it comes to the fall that the master ate, he tells him to stop; he drove the brothers away, gave the fool daughter]: Niedre 1952:103-110; Swedes [a giant settled across the lake; the king tells the thief to get his gold items: a chicken, a sword, a lamp, a harp, promises to marry a princess; young man He swam across the lake in sauerkraut, lured the golden chickens with grain, put one in a bag and returned; the sword hung on the wall of the barn; the young man throws pebbles at him three times through a hole in the roof; the giant is angry that the sword is ringing, He throws it away, the young man takes it away; the third time he quietly poured salt into the dough; the giant began to scold his wife why the bread was too salted; the wife went to the well in the dark to knead the dough again, and took the lamp; the young man pushed it into the well, took the lamp; the fourth time the giant caught the young man, began to fatten it; two weeks later he told his wife to cook it; the young man pretended not to know how to sit on the baking sheet ; the giant's wife began to show, he shoved her into the stove; filled her robe with straw as if she were standing, took the harp and ran away; when he saw a boat in the distance, the giant tried to drink the lake, but burst; the young man married princess]: Schier 1971, No. 16:75-79; Western Sami [Sisseløna, the youngest of three sisters, did not wear clothes but was covered in hair like a goat; the older sisters did not take her with them; the king promised prince and half the kingdom of the one who steals three things from the troll; 1) a golden chest; S. came at night and took away the chest; 2) a bull with a bell on which the troll rides like a horse; S. took the bull out, put it in the bell took the grass across the river; the troll saw S., brought him to him, put it in a bag, hung it in the kitchen, went to look for a stick to beat her; at this time, the troll's wife began to cook porridge, S. began to laugh, said that she saw something beautiful in the bag; the troll changed with her, fell asleep in a bag; S. brought the bull to the king, and the troll killed his wife, thinking that S. was in the bag; the troll chased S. again, saw on the other shore, tried to drink the river, burst; S. got the prince and half the kingdom]: Pollan 2005, No. 14:75-76; Norwegians [three brothers were hired as employees in the royal castle; the youngest was Pinkel, his eldest they envy, they said that P. could bring 1) a golden lantern to the trollichs; P. sailed to the island of trolls, poured salt into the porridge through the chimney; the trollich sent her daughter for water, she took the lantern; P. pushed her into water, took the lantern; 2) the golden goat of the trollich; P. jammed the door of the trollich's house, she did not bother, left the door open for the night, P. wrapped the bells around the goat's neck with wool, took him away; 3) gold trolls fur coat; P. came, invited the trollich not to cut it, but to feed it to death with porridge; quietly fills the bag under his clothes with porridge; pretends to fall, the bag burst, the trollich decided that P. had burst, ran after her daughter, leaving her fur coat in the house, P. took away her fur coat]: Suritz 1991:99-102; Icelanders [Queen Ring chased a doe, got lost in the fog, parted with his companions; on the shore there is a barrel, next to a woman, there is a ring in the barrel; R. wants to take the ring, the woman offers to get it, pushes R. into the barrel, closes the lid, pushes it into the sea; when the barrel is washed ashore, R. went out; a giant picked it up and brought it to his wife; R. lives with them, helps them; he is not allowed to go into the closet behind the kitchen; he sees that there is a dog there, asks for her as a reward; she says her name is Snati-Snati; came to live with the king, gained confidence; Raudur envies, advises you to test Ringa; 1) who cuts down more trees; Snati tells you to ask the king for two axes, cuts together with the owner, cut twice as much as Raudur; 2) get two ferocious wild bulls, bring skins and horns; S. kills more, helps Ring kill less, freshens carcasses; 3) get a gold coat, a gold playing board and the usual gold that the king has lost; king promises the young man a daughter if he gets everything; S. tells him to get a bag of salt; lifts the young man up the mountain, where in the cave there is a family of giants, in which a son and a daughter; the young man quietly sprinkles salt into the giants' soup; thus thirsty; the daughter went to get water after her parents gave her gold; S. and Ring push her into the water, take the gold; the same with the son of giants (they take the fur coat); the same with the giantess (the playing board); but the giantess got out of the water; they killed her by stabbing a hot rod and drenching her with boiling water; Raudur to the king: Ring cut off my hand; Ring testified that he had cut off the hand that reached out to kill him at night; S. he threw off his skin and turned into a prince himself, also named Ring; only one Ring could spell the other; the first Ring burned the skin; it was his giantess stepmother who bewitched him; she was also a doe, a woman by the barrel, and a giantess in a cave; the first Ring married the princess and the second to the first's sister]: Poestion 1884, No. 21:171-186; the Danes [brothers Poul, Peder and younger Malek were hired by the king; M. is diligent on the stable, the elders envy him, say that he can get 1) a mountain troll ram that throws off his hair every step; M. made a boat out of sauerkraut, a mast from a shovel handle, a sail from an apron, sailed to the island and took the ram away; 2) a trolling lamp that illuminates everything; M. poured trolls of salt into the cauldron, she went to get water, taking a lantern, M. threw it into the well, swam away with a flashlight; 3) the troll rang, that rings to three kingdoms; M. got caught, advises the troll to fatten him first; M. pretends not to know how to get into the stove, the trollich showed it, he fried it, ran away, taking the bell and the girl who should was to feed him; the troll burst in anger, becoming small cream; M. got a princess, promised his brothers to show how eagles fly in the sky, blew up gunpowder, there was nothing left of the brothers]: Suritz 1991:61-67; the Finns [a cannibal and his wife live on one side, Helli lives with two brothers and father on the other; says he will kill the ogre, the brothers laugh at him; all three came to the ogre, he suggested they married their three daughters; for the night he laid red sheets for the girls and white sheets for the boys; H. changed them, the cannibal cut off the heads of their daughters, the brothers returned home; Z. came alone to pick up two cannibal horses from golden and silver-haired; only his wife is at home; H. volunteered to give the horses a drink, took them away; the cannibal screams from the shore: Did you steal? X. - me! (so after each episode); H. came to pick up the ogre's money; he was not at home again, H. volunteered to bake bread, found a chest of money and took it away; a gold and silver blanket; drilled a hole in the ceiling, became to drip yeast, the cannibal thought that the blanket was raw because the roof was leaking, took another one; H. pulled the first blanket upstairs and carried it away; the golden bell; when H. tried to take it, it rang; the cannibal went to invite guests, told his wife to fry H.; he pretends not to know how to sit on a shovel; the cannibal began to show her, he shoved her into the oven; filled her clothes with straw, put her to bed; the cannibal with the guests they ate the cannibal; when he came to the shore, the cannibal began to look at the sun, went blind and disappeared]: Salmelainen 1947:80-84 (=Concca 1991:238-244); Karelians (Kalevala District) [the king has 25 sons; he learned from the book that one woman has 25 daughters; the brothers went to marry; the youngest went forward; in the hut, the old woman interferes with her nose with hot coals; the guy answers cleverly, she calls him the sister's son, promises to take his brothers spend the night, tells him to go to the sister of the woman who has a daughter; herd her horses, ask for an poor skate for work; the horse says that there are a hundred stakes around that house, 75 already the heads of the grooms ; the mother of the daughters promises golden oats if the brothers let their horses into the stable; the youngest says that their horses eat only burning coals; in the evening, dancing to a self-playing accordion, forest animals dance; horse: the old woman will bed her daughters in one half of the room and you in the other; you have to switch seats and put her hats on the girls; at night, the old woman cut off the heads not of the young men, but of her daughters; the younger brother tells flee; the old woman looks into her magic mirror and sees that she has killed her daughters; the brothers were hired to serve the king; the elders are jealous of the younger; they tell the king that their brother can get that old woman's golden cross; the skate carried the guy across the river threshold; tells the old woman to give bread to the dog so as not to bark; the guy took the cross; get the old woman's mirror (the same); get the old woman's accordion; when they rode back, the old woman tore off the horse's leg; he tells him to be killed and buried; the old man suggests changing the accordion to a whip that brings the dead to life; the guy killed an old man for trial; killed and revived a crow that has arrived; and He did not revive the old man; he revived the skate; the brothers are even more jealous: their brother promised to get the maiden Päivela as a bride (Päivolan neiččyön morsiemekse); the skate takes the guy to the top of the mountain, there a hole, lowers it on his belt; he goes into the hut, it's warm there; P.'s mother says that her daughter goes to the edge of the sky to fry the sun; walled up the guy in the oven so that he does not burn, only her eyes can be seen; when the daughter threw off her fiery clothes, his mother released the boy, P. went with him, picked them up, brought them to the king; P. says that it will become a fire pit: whoever jumps on horseback will get it; when the guy jumped, the fire in the pit went out; the king fell into a hole, burned down; the boy became king, the maiden P. became queen]: Onegin 2010, No. 20:226-233; Estonians, Veps, Faroese, Icelanders: Uther 2004 (1), No. 328:216-217.

Volga - Perm. Tatars [12 brothers work as woodcutters, and the 13th is at the court of the padishah; 12 are jealous, they say that Thirteen can bring a stallion a diva; the old woman gives a comb and a mirror; 13 disturbs the stallion and hides in the hay; diva stops paying attention to laughing; 13 jumps away, throws a comb (forest), a mirror (river); brothers: 13 promised to bring a diva blanket; the old woman teaches to throw a diva of ants; that scolds his wife for not shaking out the blanket, threw it into the canopy, Thirteen took it away; brothers: he can bring the diva himself; the old woman teaches the young man to pretend that 13 is dead and he is preparing a coffin for him; asks The diva tries on, bobs up the lid; on the way, a one-eyed aunt diva; Thirteen promises to insert her second eye, burns the first one; clings from below to the goat; blind looking for the offender, throws the goat through fence; Thirteen threatens to release a diva, the padishah has to give his daughter]: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 71:376-390; Mordovians [the old man found 12 eggs in the forest, 12 of which hatched, Zavarza; they went to look for wives; Baba Yaga sends to her older sister, who has 12 daughters, gives a handkerchief (if you wave, there will be a sea of fire) and a stallion; he tells Zavarza to change clothes with Baba Yaga's daughters at night; she stabbed her daughters, was left alone for Z.; she agrees to marry him if he 1) collects her mother's stallions; Z. brought in, waved his handkerchief, Baba Yaga could not cross the Sea of Fire; 2) steal her mother's harp- samogudes; they are on her chest, she grabbed Z., locked her in a barn; the stallion tells me to play the harp, the locks have fallen apart, Z. brought the harp; 3) the mother's jawbone; Z. pulled out her jaw, brought it; 4) jump into boiling water; the stallion cooled it, Z. unharmed; Baba Yaga's daughter jumped after him, the stallion made the water hot, the girl boiled]: Evseviev 1964, No. 36:262-264; Marie [two smart brothers, the youngest Ivan is a fool; when he dies, his father tells him to put his coffin in the grave, but not to fall asleep for three days and watch at night; the older brothers pay I. to guard instead of them; on the first two nights, the father tells I. what he will tell him something (important) on the last night; I. tells the brothers that he did not see anything special; on the third night, the father tells I. that on Ivanovo night he should go to the forest, meet him there, he will help I. marry I. daughters of the priest; on Ivanovo night, two devils in the forest can not share an invisible hat, a towel that wipes clean himself; I. tells the hell to run to the fir and back, will give things to the fastest; puts things on himself an invisible hat, takes a tablecloth and a handkerchief, goes home; hides what he has obtained in a chest; the pop promises I. 100 rubles if he manages to steal his stallion; I. in an invisible hat comes to his ass, puts on his clothes , solders the drunk guards, takes the horse away; the pop pays money; promises his daughter if I. steals the blanket, feather bed and pillow from the bed; I. makes a stuffed dead man, puts him by the window of the poppy bedroom; pop with a hit they run to another room, I. takes what he needs; now the pop tells him to steal his wife; when the pop goes to visit, I. throws one boot along the road, then the other; when he sees the second boot, pop leaves his wife to guard the horse, returns to pick up the first one; I. sits in the place of the priest, brings him home; the pop thinks that the horse has suffered and his wife may have died; tells her to look for her; she has I.; pop allows I. to steal his daughter; in an invisible hat, I. entered the popovna's bedroom, put him to sleep with sleeping pills, brought him home; covered a magic tablecloth, dried himself clean with a magic towel; popovna fell in love with him; I. he also stole the horse's wagon - the dowry; the pop blessed them; I. decided to steal the stallion, and the hell in the same house, the baby; the devil asked I. to replace the baby with a birch chock, he took the stallion out of the stable himself; the real baby sneezed, and said, "Get healthy!" , the devil immediately disappeared; the owners woke up; I. ordered to beat the imaginary baby, he became a chock again, she was thrown into the fire]: Beke 1938, No. 48:457-476 (S. 476-484 about I.'s adventures in Moscow); Chuvash, Komi: Uther 2004 (1), No. 328:216-217