L114b1. The task is to bring the ogre himself, ATU 328.

.14.-.17.21.23.27.-.32.

The character consistently steals various objects from the ogre's house and finally catches or kills him.

Kabiles, Arabs of Morocco, Algeria, Catalans, Italians (Ticino, Veneto), Sicilians, Maltese, Corsicans, Sardinians, Irish, Bretons, French, Walloons, Palestinians, Arabs of Syria, Tibetans (Amdo), Marathas, Sinhales, Serbs, Croats, Albanians, Moldovans, Greeks, Bulgarians, Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Ugric Russia, Galicia, Pokutye, Poltava), Belarusians, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Balkarians, Ingush , Kumyks, Avars, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Turkmens, Latvians and Kazan Tatars.

North Africa. Kabila [from across the 7 seas, a man carried 7 apples for his 7 wives; someone asked him for an apple, he gave him half; all wives ate an apple, and the half ate gave birth to Amor Ennefç; brothers came to the cannibal, she offered to feed their horses; the AE horse ate only coal and salt and did not die; the cannibal asks how to know that the brothers are sleeping; six say they will snore; AE that there will be stones fall into the hearth; cannibal about herself: all the animals will scream, make sounds; she fell asleep, the brothers rushed to the horses, they are dead, they all rode AE horse together, got to their father; one of the brothers says 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 cannibal, 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 an iron chest, suggested to the cannibal get in, brought her father, released her, 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 put him in a date box; she planted; asks to show his finger, he sticks 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]: Rivière 1882, No. 8:225-230; The Arabs of Algeria [retelling in Nowak 1969, No. 197:199-201; an angel advises the 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 will be ready to give birth to the first, a white mare will come to the palace; 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. beret this foal for himself; he is still a boy, but he is superior to his brothers in everything, who strive to destroy him; they decide to leave it 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 the guli's house; B. asks Gulya how to know when she is sleeping; 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 his headscarves ghuli daughters and hats on their brothers' heads; gulya kills her daughters, brothers run away; gulya pursues, but does not cross the river, because then she will no longer be guli; brothers advise father to tell B. get 1) chicken laying golden eggs from the guli; B. has a talking horse, with its help he took out a chicken; 2) a carpet (the horse tells you to pour lice and fleas onto the carpet, the gulya throws the carpet out the window); 3) the gulya itself - supposedly that beauty; unrecognized B. brings Gula a chest that supposedly saves him from death; Gulya climbs into it, B. slammed the lid shut, delivered it to his father; at the crossing of the river, gulya really turns beautiful; makes marriage a condition for the king or someone in return 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 cauldron; they offer to rush into boiling water; B. is unharmed, the king is cooked, B. received the throne, married a beautiful ghoul, executed his brothers; Gulya is gone, and the talking horse became beautiful - B.'s wife]: Filleul de Pétigny 1951:64-85; Arabs of Morocco [same paraphrase as for Algerian Arabs]: Nowak 1969, No. 197:199-201; Algerian Arabs (Tiaret Plateau) [Amar Zadam is the youngest of seven brothers, he is considered useless; he is sent to buy horses and 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, they call visit the cannibal Ouma Djidda; everyone takes her food, shares salt with her, AZ says he has enough ash bread (so he does not owe her anything); the brothers fall asleep, the cannibal asks AZ, sleeps Does he say that the rooster is interfering; she eats the rooster; the donkey is the donkey; so he makes her eat all the living creatures; she falls asleep, he wakes up the brothers, they run; they ate cannibal salt, so she catches up with them eats horses, AZ carries the brothers on his mare; the father tells AZ to 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 - carpet (AZ sprinkles thorns into it); father tells me to bring the cannibal herself; unrecognized, AZ comes and says that his mother is dead, could the cannibal measure whether the chest is tall; the cannibal lies in it, AZ brings the chest to his father; he opens it, the cannibal eats it and the AZ brothers; he and his mother leave]: Aceval 2005, No. 108:123-128.

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 instead; then lures the ogre into the chest and brings him to the palace]: Cardigos 2006, No. 328:80-81; Italians (Ticino, Veneto): Keller 1981 [father 13 sons, he decided to get rid of the youngest Tredichino; tells me to bring 1) amulets that stop 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. takes them away); 2) the blanket above the sorcerer's bed (T. climbs under the bed, pulls the blanket, the sorcerer thinks it's his wife, is going to beat her; after making sure that she slept, tells throw off her 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; 4) himself the sorcerer and his wife; T. puts on a wig, attaches a beard, comes to the sorcerer under the guise of a master who sells the coffin; he wants to check whether the coffin is tall; his wife lies down in it, his wife is next to him; T. bobs up the lid, brings the coffin to the king; he pays a lot of money to catch monsters; the father will make sure that T. is no worse than his brothers]: 186-189; Widter et al. 1866, No. 9 (Veneto) [father has 13 sons; younger Tredesin ("thirteenth") left home, hired a rich man; the maid did not hurt the young man; tells the owner that T. can bring the blanket from the Bear's bed; T. went and brought it; in the morning the Bear, as usual, ask their talking to a 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; the bird repeats his answer; maid: T. will bring the bird itself; T. invited the bird to try a new cage, brought a bird; maid: T. will bring the Bear himself; unrecognized T. came to the Bear, said that T. died and he did 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 burned down)]: 134-137; Sicilians: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 5 [after the death of his father Peppe receives a dilapidated cape and date tree branches, Alfinu is an old bag and a tree trunk, the younger Ciccu horn and fruits; only Chikku hears three fairies give the cape the ability to carry anywhere, the bag filled with money, the horn if you blow it, - create and clean the fleet; brothers give C. a cape and bag; lives luxuriously; the king brings his wife and daughter to him; the daughter lures the bag; when C. comes for her, the king also forces him to give the cape and horn; brothers agree to share dates; each carries his basket to the palace; P. replies to the counter that he has dirt in the basket; sees that he is so in the palace; he is given 50 blows with a cane; the same with A. he replied that there were horns in the basket, received 150 blows; C. replies that dates; the opposite half eats, spits the seeds back into the basket, dates in it again; the king takes him to duty; the brothers say that C. can 1) bring the ogre's sword; the skate 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. tells the cannibal that C. is dead, it is necessary to make a coffin; asks to try it on, bobs up, brings; 3) to marry the most beautiful woman; the horse orders to give the fly honey, release the fish, free 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 dropped shawl; birds bring a shawl, fish bring a ring; princess wants C. to jump into a hot oven; the horse teaches you to rub it beforehand, C. is unharmed, it is done 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 the 13 brothers always comes back first, receives soup from his mother; others are jealous, tell the king that he 1) can steal the cannibal's blanket; the 13th climbed under the cannibal bed, grabbed the blanket at night and ran away; 2) steal the 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 to bake the 13th, he pushes the cannibal into the oven himself; universal turmoil, the 13th takes the pillow; 4) bring the ogre; the 13th pretends to be an old monk, brings the cannibal a box, says that the 13th killed their boss, asks what the 13th is, the cannibal says that As tall as him, 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; the Maltese [dying, the father blesses to be elder the youngest son named the Thirteenth (he is a hunchback or a boy with a finger); he steals speedboat boots from the cannibal; is hired by the king; envious brothers persuade him to give T. difficult assignments; an old woman, an old man or a father helps to fulfill them; 1) steal an ogre blanket with bells on it; T. hides under the cannibal's bed, pours lice, fleas, bedbugs there; the cannibal throws off the blanket, T. takes it away ; either T. brings another blanket to the king; 2) steal from the ogre a golden chicken with chickens, a magic mare, or a silver bell; he feeds a mare, or bring another king; he rings every now and then into the bell so that the ogre stops paying attention; 3) steal the ogre's ring; he grabs T.; T. adjusts so that the ogre eats not him, but his wife; 4) deliver the cannibal himself; T. comes unrecognized, invites the cannibal to try whether the iron cage in which the enemy should be placed is strong; brings the cannibal in a cage, he is burned; with his speeding boots, T. remains held in high esteem for royal service]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 328:81-86; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 58 [the owner tells his boy to bring the blue and yellow birds that the sorcerer has; the boy brought ; bring his horse; the boy went into the stable, the horse started, the young man gave him sugar, hid; the sorcerer came, did not notice anything suspicious; the boy took the horse away; bring the gold-woven blanket out of bed a sorcerer; the boy poured lice, fleas and bedbugs on the sleeping sorcerer and his wife; they began to itch and threw the veil on the floor, the boy took him away; now the owner orders to kill the sorcerer's wife; she wanted to cook pork, the boy pushed it into the cauldron; the sorcerer himself was chipping firewood at that time; the peasant advised him to put his fingers in to pull out the wedge; his fingers were pinched, he had to cut them off; the owner ordered him to kill sorcerer; the boy trapped the sorcerer's stairs, he hit him and the boy beat him with a stick], 69 [there are 12 sons in a poor family; the younger 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 he 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 his 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 rush nuts at the ogre and his wife when they were eating; the cannibal threw his wand at him, S. took it away; get the ogre's golden horse (got it); the blanket on the ogre's bed (got it by throwing lice); chicken with chickens; S. captured, locked in the cellar for fattening; when the ogre's wife went down to pick him up, he killed her, put the meat to cook, returned to the king; bring the cannibal himself; S. brings the chest, says the cannibal that it is for S.; The cannibal went inside to see if the chest was strong, S. locked it; the king ordered the ogre to be burned along with the chest and S. married to his daughter; S. asked the king not to execute his brothers]: 134-136, 153-156; Sardinians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 328:216-217.

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 (Canada) [the widow has sons Georges, Charles and Jean; Jean was nicknamed Parle; war broke out, the older brothers came to the king, P. after them; the elders told the king that P. was not related to them - 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 bed giant; P. asked and received an invisibility cloak and file to cut with one wave of the chain with which the boots were attached; brought boots; brothers: P. boasted to steal the moon from the giant; to carry out an assignment, P. asks the king for a bag of salt; pours it into the 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, when playing which everyone dances seven miles away; P. tries to get it in the same way (cuts a chain into that the moment when the giant sleeps and snores), but the giant grabbed him; P. advises to feed him first in the basement; the giant tells his daughter to guard; the giant's daughter and wife heat the stove, P. collides them, carries them away violin; brothers: P. boasted to 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. I would like to conclude it; the giant lies down to try it on, P. closes it, brings it to the king; having found out what was going on, the king burned the 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 it; Jean climbed an oak tree and noticed light in the distance; they went out to the castle; young woman : the cannibal Goldbeard lives here, run; they have nowhere to run; she hid them in the basement behind a barrel, but when ZB returned, he went there for wine, smelled the children, and picked up the barrel and saw them; his wife hid them the knife and the ZB went to bed without stabbing the children; they were left to sleep in the room where the ZB daughters sleep; Jeannot noticed that they had gold crowns on their heads, their brothers had taken the crowns; at night, the ZB went out to slaughter the boys, and stabbed his own daughters; the boys ran away through the window and came to town; the king took them in pages; the ZB killed people and destroyed everything for two or three years; 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 still defeated all the giants and wants to try to defeat him; put sleeping pills on the ogre; cut off his beard and brought it to the king; Jean married a princess, but 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 started 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 arrived on an iron cage cart, told the ogre that his offenders were now alone in the palace; he got on a wagon and was brought in; burned in the square; Jeannois married a younger princess, all brothers received the title; this is where the mother found sons]: Carnoy 1883:241-251.

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

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Amdo) [a fat man is missing, the youngest of three sons goes in search; meets a monster, says he is his brother; brings a yak, says he did not eat fatter meat; the monster replies that the father of three sons he ate was fatter; the young man reports this to his brothers; the elders beat the monster; the youngest comes to him again, asks for a sturdy chest to put the offenders in it; climbs inside, testing for strength; asks the monster to climb, because it is stronger; closes the lid, the monster is unable to get out]: Tshe dbang rdo rje et al. 2007:160.

South Asia. Marathi [the couple has 12 sons; then another was born, named the Thirteenth (T.); his parents love him, his brothers hate him; they tell him to bring a singing and dancing tree from the two-headed country giant; after waiting for dark, T. began to dig up the tree, and it began to sing; the 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 call 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 is chasing, T. shouts that he will come back again; the brothers demand to bring the giant's head; 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 with them; they stayed at the Rakshava, who put them to bed in in the same room with his sons; at night, the younger brother changed the red blankets for white ones that the Rakshasa sons had, the Rakshasa ate the sons; the brothers were hired to herd goats; the elders told the owner that the youngest could bring a Rakshasa parrot; then a horse; the youngest stole a parrot and a horse; a golden pillow; the 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 try it on; boils 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. negotiating 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); Greeks (Kalymnos) [old people have seven sons, six older ones are sloppy; decided to go to work in Asia Minor; the youngest 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.: prepare thin bundles so that the cannibal is more knit; 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 his daughters; the brothers have time cross the river; the younger one 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 with 41 bells; 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 horse the cannibal; 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 her, put a part out of the window the cannibal who returned ate the bodies, not knowing that it was his wife; brothers: bring the cannibal himself; T. cuts trees in the ogre's forest; says that T. is dead and he makes him a coffin; the cannibal volunteered to help; T. suggests 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; Bulgarians [three (nine) brothers go to look for work; they are hired to work in the cannibal field (snake, deva, etc.); he sends his younger brother with a letter to his wife, telling him to prepare the giver; he replaces letter: accept the applicant and his brothers, marry a daughter; brothers live with the king; by his order or on his own initiative, the younger brother steals the cannibal 1) a blanket, a horse, a bird; comes unrecognized, says the cannibal that his enemy is dead; he helps to make the coffin, goes to check if it is suitable; the young man closes the lid and brings the coffin to the king; the hero is married to the princess or is richly rewarded]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 328:128-129; the Greeks [{apparently this story}; the hero makes a box, offers a fight to lie in it, bobs up]: Potanin 1899:197.

Central Europe. Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [wife gives birth to 12 twin sons, younger Dolmanesh; they diverge along 12 roads; D. frees a tied fox, is hired by the owner of mares to herd them for three years; if at least one will be lost, his head will be cut off; the hostess puts D. to sleep, turns mares into clods of earth, the fox tells him to hit the clods, they become mares again; the same with haystacks; with the transformation of mares into a hen with chickens; D. takes a foal for service, which turns into Tatosh's horse; T. orders to marry 12 sisters from the kingdom of far away; after collusion, orders the woman's sleeping brothers and daughters to be swapped; the woman cuts off the heads of her daughters; 11 brothers return home, D. goes on; contrary to T.'s advice, picks up a horseshoe, golden feathers, three golden hair; D. is hired by the poganin king, his servants report golden hair, the king orders their owner to be brought; the horse cuddles the mother, D. takes her 13th daughter; she agrees to become the king's wife if he gets the horse whose horseshoe D. has; T. orders him to coat him with skins, tow, shower him with ash, fights another horse, D. throws a bridle over him, brings him; get the bird whose feathers; T. turns into a drake, begins to drown gold, D. is enough; bring that woman, whose daughters D. killed; T. in the image of a man tells her that he wants to make a barrel in which to drown D., invites the woman to climb into it, whether she is strong; closes it, brings it; the girl wants D. to swim in with boiling milk, T. cools it down, D. comes out handsome; the tsar jumps into milk, cooked]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:224-231; Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Ugric Russia, Galicia, Pokutye, Poltava), Belarusians [A boy steals treasures from an unclean (witch): a wonderful horse or goat, a golden lantern, a self-drunk jug, etc.; the unclean dies]: SUS 1979, No. 328:121; (cf. Russians (Voronezhskaya, 1966, Sredny Ikorets village, Liskinsky District) [The boy plays a horn in the field, he is frightened by a bear, he is volunteered to bring her alive. He asks the fox for directions to the bear's house, who explains (in a hazel tree), but warns that she will eat the boy (now she is tearing up a wolf on the mountain). He finds a bear cub in the hut, who also warns that the bear will eat the boy, opens the door for him, the boy tells him stories, for which the bear hides him in the attic. The bear cub asks the mother not to eat the boy, if he suddenly comes to their house, she promises. He brings the boy out, he promises to play with the bear, the bear doesn't touch him. The boy undertakes to build a hut, brings a box on wheels from the village, puts a bear and her son inside and brings her to the village. People want to kill the bear, but the boy won't allow it, she gives her word of honor that she won't eat people. He takes animals to the forest and begins to guard the sheep]: Kretov 1977, No. 17:31-32).

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 his bag); 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 them, 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; The Adaui jumped after him and crashed]: Shakryl 1975, No. 72:326-333; Ossetians [five servants envy Abaikutsykk, who is singled out by Aldar; suggest that he 1) take the giant's horse; into the barn of 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 makes a coffin for A., asks the giant to try it on; when the coffin strong, brings the giant to Aldar; he eats Aldar and five servants; sees A. in a tree, asks how he climbed; he tells him to pick up stones, then jump; the giant crashed, A. took possession of all the property]: Britayev, Kaloev 1959:223-226; 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 kart, a girl comes out from there, C. marries her]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:301-310 (=Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:138-141); Avars [three brothers got lost, came to a house where Kart with three daughters; youngest Every time the chilbeek fool answers cards that he is awake, sends cards to bring water with a sieve, puts cards in the place of her daughters' brothers; at night she cuts off the heads of her daughters; finds not C.'s head in the bundle, but her daughter; running away (the same every time), C. crosses the bridge from ash, K. cannot catch up with C.; the ruler tells C. to bring the cards 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 by 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 each of them is 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. Turkmens [Kelzhe-batyr is incredibly strong; eats half a pound of wheat at home; goes with other boys for brushwood, but only sleeps in the forest; replies that he does not want to waste his energy on trifles; divas invites the boys to his place; 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 water with a sieve; then K. asks to make scrambled eggs from eggshells, for the shell to melt in the oil; the divas cannot again, the boys are leaving in the meantime; the khan is ready to shelter them on the condition that K. brings a gold carpet from the diva; K. asks for a bag of needles; K. quietly The diva sticks them into the golden carpet; he thinks that the carpet is full of fleas, throws them 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 the cauldron teases him, throws him away; the khan demands the diva's golden chicken, K. asks for the poultry's net; worries the chicken, it cackles, the diva throws it away (all this time he tried to melt the shell unsuccessfully); khan tells the diva himself to be brought; K. puts on a goatskin with bells tied, replies to the diva that he is a lion, has come to eat him; allows him to hide in the chest he has brought; brings a chest with the diva to the khan; diva went out, tore the khan to pieces; K. advises the diva to first wash him off chicken manure, then eat it; in the bathhouse he offers to dive into the cauldron; 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. Latvians [six smart brothers go to hire; 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 a fool I was able to read; this is not a master, but hell, tells you to kill the bearers; the fool changed: give an end to gold; the brothers rode away, the fool hid in the forest on a plain filly, the filly gives advice; all seven they hired another master, he made a fool 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; himself trait; filly: let the master give a coffin with iron hoops; the fool tells the devil that he is an angel, that God promised to give the devil one soul in this coffin, let the devil lie down and measure; closed the coffin, brought it in it trait; 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 being ate carrion; hares come running back; brothers advise telling the fool to talk to three boxes; guests gather, the fool talks about everything; when it comes to the fall that the master ate, he tells stop; drove the brothers away, gave the fool his daughter]: Niedra 1952:103-110.

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.