L116A. Roe deer with golden horns.
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While chasing a roe deer (doe, deer), the hero finds himself in the locus of a demon or wizard; a roe deer is a bewitched person or demon.
Algerian Arabs, Germans (Mecklenburg, Hanover; also the South?) , Arabic written tradition (One Thousand and One Nights), Palestinians, Syrian Arabs, Tibetans, Shans, Bru, (Thais, Zyaray), Sindhi, Punjabi, Kumaoni, Bengalis, (Slovaks), Ossetians, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Bakhtiyars, Persians, Latvians, Icelanders, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Mongols, Nanais.
North Africa. The Arabs of Algeria [the king forbids three sons to approach the mountain, even puts guards around; after his death, the elder prince goes there, sees the gazelle, pursues it, disappears; the same middle and younger; the king's brother takes the throne; learns that the king had a daughter, she also disappeared on this mountain; all four missing return, but the princess is silent; her uncle summons magicians and wise men, but no one can a silent person to talk, everyone's head is cut off; one prince accidentally spied and overheard how the carpenter carved the girl's figure, the blacksmith made hinges to move the limbs, the tailor dressed the girl, the perfumer perfumed, the holy man turned to God and the girl came to life; the prince promised to get the deceased to talk, but to do this, gather all the courtiers and, on pain of death, tell them to remain silent; says a story about a girl and asks who she should belong to; everyone is silent; then the princess says that to the one who revived the figure; wedding]: Filleul de Pétigny 1951:191-209.
Western Europe. The Germans (Mecklenburg) [the king chased the doe; is about to catch up, but cannot aim his spear; the satellites are behind; he rode after her across the bridge, the bridge after him collapsed, and the doe turned into an old woman; she brought him to the castle, where her three daughters are; the elders are angry and ugly at the mother, the youngest is beautiful and affable; the witch wants to marry him to the eldest, and he wants the youngest; the elders are watching him; the king and the youngest are fleeing, the middle one pursues; the youngest has turned herself into a rose bush and the king into a rose; the mother sent the eldest, the youngest turned herself into a merry-go-round, and the king into the owner - sitting and reading a book; the witch herself is chasing; the girl is the lake, the king is a duck; the witch lured the duck with bread, grabbed it, but slipped off the shore and drowned; at the gate, the king left the bride and went inside; his father was already dead, his mother was alive; they began to celebrate the king forgot his bride and everything that happened to him; the girl created a dress with stars for herself; she did not sell for gold, only for the night with the prince, now the king; his mother sprinkled him on a sleepy potion; the next day, gold-sewn handkerchief; the servant told the king not to drink before going to bed; the king saw the bride and remembered everything; wedding]: Bartsh 1879, No. 3:477-479; the Germans (Hanover) [the miller picked up a box floating along the river, in he is a boy; he and his wife raised him; at the age of 14 he said that he wanted to be not a miller, but a hunter; learned from a hunter; once he chased a white deer; he led him to the castle and disappeared; covered inside a table, a bed is made; at midnight someone enters: his face is rough like a bear and cold as ice; in the morning a voice: come again; the young man went home and returned to the castle in the evening; this time the face is less rough and slightly warm; smooth and warm the next night; the princess and then her parents enter the room in the morning; the young man disgraced them; the king gave him a daughter; wedding]: Colshorn, Colshorn 1854, No. 21:69- 72; Germans (south?) : Cerf 1992:29-36 [orphaned brother and sister came to the old people, they raised them; the young man found an old gun in the cellar; the old man does not tell him to hunt, but the young man secretly goes hunting, chasing all day long roe deer with golden horns; she hides in the thickets; the young man goes out to the hut; an old woman approaches him, touches him with her key, turning him into stone; the sister goes in search, the old man teaches him what to do; the girl does not chases the roe deer, enters the cave without fear of animals threatening her; takes the stick out of the dragon's mouth; then the animals caress her; she touches the old woman with the end of the stick, she falls dead; touching stones, revives the bewitched; touches the roe deer, who turns into a prince, next to a castle; the prince explains that the witch and her dragon son turned the kingdom into a forest, subjects into animals, and a roe deer prince they forced wanderers to lure; the king and the queen appear - they were the foster parents of brother and sister; the prince married the girl], 53-76 [the old woman predicts to the childless king that he has a son will be born, but he will disappear at the age of 12; when Ferdinand is 12 years old, he goes with his parents to a wedding, chases a deer, loses her way; an old woman appears, offers to carry him, carries him across the river to her house; she has 3 daughters, the youngest Lenore; after a while, the old woman tells 1) to scoop out the lake with a spoon (L. drains it); 2) turn the forest into firewood (L. performs); 3) build a palace not out of wood, brick or stone (L. builds from gold and silver); 3) choose a bride among the old woman's three daughters (L. has a speck of blood on her forehead); at night L. turns 2 pillows into people, the young run, the old woman hits the pillows with an ax ; the middle sister is chasing, L. turns herself into a mug of beer, F. into a mug lid, tells her sister to hit her teeth; older sister (cherry tree and thorny bush, thorns scratched); old woman, L. turns herself and F. into two ducks, they swim across the river; an old woman sends her daughter a dowry in three boxes across the river; the prince leaves L. to prepare a reception at his father's castle; L. tells no one to kiss, the old nurse kisses, F. forgets everything; L. became a townsman, the prince's three servants take turns coming to her; the first she asks to close the door, he sticks to the hook; the second to the scoop by the stove; the third to a calf in the yard; the king marries a prince, the wedding carriage breaks down outside the house where L.; she gives the door to the boards to repair the carriage, asks her to take her to the wedding; wears the first dowry dress given mother; the young gives way to F. for the night for the dress, but puts F. to sleep; the next day, the glob in the carriage broke, L. gives his scoop; the same; on the third day only that calf moves the carriage; the servant told everything F., he waits for L., but she accuses F. of forgetfulness, retires to the castle between earth and sky; F. goes in search; two giants argue over leaps and bounds; F. invites them to race, runs away to boots; the other two giants, an invisible coat; the third is a saddle that carries through the air; F. gets to the mother of the Month, the mother of the Sun, the mother of the Wind; only the Wind knows where the castle is - he dried his clothes there washed before the wedding; F. appears in front of L.; her new fiancé himself says that if old keys are found, new ones are not needed; F.'s wedding with L.]
Western Asia. The Arabic Written Tradition (One Thousand and One Nights) [false story; King Taygamus had no sons; the stargazers said he would only have a son from King Khorasan's daughter ; King Khorasan agreed to marry; stargazers predicted misfortunes for his son after 15 years; his name was Janshah; at the age of 15, D. chased the gazelle, the gazelle jumped into the boat, she was caught, but D. and his servants went to by boat to an island at sea; the father sent letters about his son to all the islands; D. went to land on the wrong island to which he sailed; sent half of the servants deep into the island, remaining in the boat; he was taken to the palace; the island belonged to monkeys; the monkeys sank the boat, made D. king; he ordered his servants to help the monkeys defeat enemies; found a stove with a prophecy: the one who became king of the monkeys will be able to get out from islands only after passing to a city where there is not a single believer of the true faith; the monkeys chased the prince, but they were destroyed by ants; in the city of infidels, D. hired a merchant, received a payment in advance; his they sewed the donkey in the belly and the bird carried the carcass to the nest; precious stones were around; D. threw stones to the merchant, and he left without showing how to go down; D. went to look for a way out, came to the palace; the owner forbids open one door; D. opened and saw three girls dressed as pigeons coming to swim; a year later they flew in again; on the advice of the owner of the castle, D. hid one of the girls's clothes; this is Sitt Samsha, she agreed to become the prince's wife, he returned her feather clothes and they flew to the prince's country; Taigamus built a palace for D. and the secondary school; the secondary school smelled her clothes hidden under the floor of the palace, ordered D. looked for her in the Takney jewelry fortress and flew away; D. came to a man with whom he already lived, hired the same job, was sewn into a horse's skin; refused to throw stones out of the merchant's nest; came again to to the owner of the palace; he does not know about the fortress T.; one of the birds took D. to the king of animals; he called on the animals to ask about T.; the animals do not know; he sends D. to his older brother; the brother does not know, sends to The sorcerer, to whom animals and mountains are subordinate, called animals and genies; one bird said that it knew where T. was, took D. there; the king of jinns, i.e. the father of the secondary school, ordered that every person be brought to him; wedding; the couple were taken to the kingdom of D.]: Salye 2010 (2), nights 499-530:64-101; Palestinians [Tsarevich Jamal Ed-Din hunted unsuccessfully for a long time; finally saw a gazelle; as soon as she approached her, she was far away again; he let his companions go; chased for 5 days; the gazelle disappeared, a castle appeared; D. pushed back the stone door, placed a horse among six horses, lay down among 6 men; their sister came in, she counted it; when they found D., they were amazed: he pushed back the door, which they could only push back with six; the brothers asked D., explained that the gazelle was their sister Guzlan; they passed her off as him; went to look for six sisters to marry; D. defeated one army of Franks; one man cut off his ears and nose and sent him to his king to talk about what had happened; the old woman advised me to give her a ship and gold and silver, sailed to D., said that everyone on the ship was killed, let her throw off her rope; pulling her, she dragged D. onto the ship and brought him to the King of the Franks; they were going to execute him, but Princess Hilâ ne took it, they fled on that ship, taking that old woman; D. executed the old woman, he now has two wives: H. and G.; he frightens G. every day when he hits the ground behind her with a club; H. advises to say: not brag about your strength, the princess of India is stronger than you; G. came to that princess, won the fight and she became his third wife; G. brothers returned; D. decided to visit his parents; he was warned not to follow the road on which the evil black man; he went; first the Indian princess fought the black man; then D. defeated him, spared him and he became his friend; they came to Father D.; began to live in the palace; enemies attacked; D. left the black man with his wives and went to fight alone; the king father came to the chambers of his son's wives to invite G. to sleep with him; she washed him, lathered him and pushed him naked out the window; the guards found him, took him away to prison; the next day, the vizier took him out of there; the king ordered the destruction of his son's castle; they began to shoot cannons, but the black man caught the balls and threw them back, destroying half the city, for he was a demon; D. returned and cut off his father's head; reigned; called G.'s brothers to live with him]: Littmann 2016:267-282; Syrian Arabs [chasing the gazelle, the prince finds himself in the castle, the gazelle turns into a girl, he marries her; an old woman lures him onto a ship, he is captured by the King of the Franks; the king's daughter falls in love with a young man and runs with him; after hearing about the mighty Indian princess, the young man goes to her, breaks down the door, which no one could discover, the princess defeats, takes her as his wife; returns to his father with three wives; on the way, the black man who promises to serve him, the soul of a black man in an apple, defeats; the boy's father wants to take away his wives, but A black man destroys his army; a young man kills his father and becomes ruler of the city]: Nowak 1969, No. 135:147-148.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [Chapter 6 in Tibetan Geser; Mongolian version published in Beijing in 1716; a powerful ogre comes to Geser disguised as a llama and turns him into a donkey; his people ask for help Lord Aju Mergen, a sorceress; her eyes are fathom-long, her eyebrows hang on her chest, chest to her knees, her teeth stick out, she leans a seven-planted staff (9 fathom-long); she comes to the ogre's castle to return G.'s wife, who is there. Rogmo and G.-Donkey himself; she manages to bring out the donkey and he becomes human again; G. and AM compete to see which of them is the best hunter; AM: beyond the pass is a doe surrounded by a yellowish glow; G. pierced her with an arrow from forehead to croup, but the doe continued to speak and disappeared into the castle; G. demolished the gate with an ax, entered; there was an old woman, the cannibal's sister, through her body an arrow; G. turned into a child; an old woman asks him if this arrow was fired by the asur, the king of water spirits, the gods, Gesar? G.: I'll pull out an arrow if you swear to be my wife; the old woman swears; G. pulls out an arrow, after which the old woman swallows both him and AM; then she belches and they go to the ogre; he runs away in the form of a wolf a tiger, a swarm of mosquitoes, a swarm of flies; then turns into a llama again; G. sleeps on him; in a dream, a disciple comes to the llama; in the end, G. takes the image of a disciple himself and burns down the house in which the ogre was staying ; it howls, screams and turns to ashes]: Mátéffy 2017:339-340.
Burma - Indochina. Shany [Punkalit's elder brother is king, the youngest is a prince; he got a wife for P. from a magical land, where he also received the daughter of the king of the naga and the daughter of the king of birds rukh; P. chased the deer, appearance who was received by the cannibal; then she became a girl, the king took her to the palace; she took the image of his brother and went to his wife; P. threw her brother in prison; Sakia (probably one of Indra's names) went down, all explained, P. killed the cannibal, released his brother]: Milne 1910 in Kornev 196:26-35; bru [rich Ania chased a doe, she turned into a girl, agreed to become his wife; ordered to get rid of first wife and her son; A. saw an old man in a dream, who ordered not to kill his wife and son, but to show his new wife a knife soaked in the blood of a dog; the boy and mother came to the forest, the mother was kidnapped by giants, the boy his maternal grandfather sheltered him; he grew up, married his cousin; found his mother and, fighting, killed giants; came to his stepmother, who ran away with a doe, but the young man struck her with a spear; A. returned his wife and son]: Nikulin 1976:195-207; (cf. Thais [the princess finds a crocodile egg, keeps it, the crocodile was born, grew up, went into the river, kills people; people tell the king to sacrifice the royal daughter; the king sends daughter to the river; she takes her beloved cat with her; throws herself into the water and stays on the lotus flower; the crocodile wants to grab her, but attacks the thorns on the stem and dies; the cat does not recommend the princess return home; Rakshasa grabs the princess, makes her daughter; the neighboring king hunts, chases the golden deer (Indra took his form), who leads the king to the Rakshasa house and disappears; the king brings the princess to her place and marries her; when the princess gives birth, the former wife says that she gave birth to a log; but everything ends well]: Low 1836:348; zyaray [the leader has an evil and lazy elder wife Fa, kind younger Fu; the chief chased the doe, she turned into a girl, he brought her into the house; when she gave birth, Fa lowered three newborn boys in a jug into the river, replaced her with countersinks; advised them to send doe wife live in a pigsty; old woman Pom picked up a jug, raised boys; Fa saw them, gave poison; Pom buried the dead in the same jug outside the garden; a tree grew with three flowers, Fu all I understood, lit a fire, the flowers became boys; they grew up, defeated the robbers, took their treasures; freed their mother, left the leader's village with her]: Nikulin 1970a: 250-253).
South Asia. Sindhi [the prince is chasing a gazelle with golden horns, she hides in the lake; a voice tells him that this is Lake Peri, they will appear in a year; in a year the prince hides in an iron cage, peri they bathe, he hides their clothes, demands the one whose name is Sedyan; makes him his wife; but she does not talk to her husband; a year later he sends him hunting, tells the maid to bring those clothes with the doors closed; puts on and flies through the chimney, saying that the prince will be able to return it within a year; the prince comes to the cannibal shepherd, who throws him into his goat pen, where there are already many people; every evening he puts one on the skewer, leaves it to fry, falls asleep himself; the prisoners drink milk; Peri S., in the form of a whirlwind, pours out the poisoned milk that the prince was going to drink; that night he heated his skewer, burned the ogre's eyes; he stabbed the ram, put on his horns, the ogre let him in; on the other side of the pit, the ogre called out, he rushed, failed, the prince finished him off; he came into the house, hid, three witches came there, killed him, cooked and they ate the goat, collected the bones, cast a spell, but the goat did not revive; this means that the cannibal shepherd was dead; the witches led to hyenas, went to the shepherd, but the prince shouted that he had killed the shepherd; witches rushed back, but Peri S., with the help of her friends, caused wind and rain, the hyenas were washed away by a stream; at the request of her daughter, Peri's father sent a horse to the prince; he arrived, the wedding; a son was born; S. flew away, telling him not to look to one of the rooms; the old woman said that there was sister S., who was more beautiful than her; but there was a parrot; he was a demon who fell in love with S. but was cunningly caught; he took the prince and his son, S. saw it, her Twelve friends repulsed them, and S. put the parrot back in the locked room; Peri's father sent his son-in-law, wife and son back to their homeland; there the vizier seized power, but his army was defeated with a magic club; the prince put his father back on the throne]: Schimmel 1995, No. 22:140-147; Punjabi [the fakir promises the king that his 7 wives will finally be born; wives ask the king not to hunt on the north side - they have bad things premonition; he violates the ban, pursues a white doe with golden horns; finds himself alone in the gorge; a gold-haired maiden was white in the hut; she was a doe; agrees to become the king's wife if he brings her the eyes of the seven former wives; having blinded the wives, the king threw them into the dungeon, and the new queen hung a necklace from her eyes around her mother's neck; each wife gives birth to a boy, they eat him; the youngest kept the pieces, fed others, did not let her baby eat; the boy immediately grew up, made a way out, brought food to the women; once met the witch queen; she promises to help him regain the eyes of the blinded, sends a letter to his mother with a letter on a shard ordering the death of the applicant; he comes to the city where the princess promises to marry only the son of seven mothers; the young man marries her; she replaces the letter with an order fulfill all the young man's requests; the old woman gives 13 eyes, and she has already eaten the 14th; the young man gives his own mother's sight back one eye, and the other for her is himself; the witch queen sends it back to his mother with a cow who is not running out of milk, again writing the command to kill the giver; the wife replaces the letter; the young man pretends to be demanding the skin of the cow's guardian yoga for a drum, which is paid off by a cow; the same for the third time: a rice stalk with 1000 branches that ripens in a day; the young man's wife builds a palace next to the king's palace; he comes, everything is explained, to the witch queen executed]: Steel, Temple 1884, No. 10:98-110; Kumaoni [the king chases an antelope, she turns into a goat, a princess, goes with him to the palace; at night he smears the lips of seven queens with horse blood, accuses them of devouring horses, the king throws his wives into the ditch; each gives birth to a boy, eats six, the seventh does not eat herself, does not give her own; the boy comes to his father; the Rakshasi wife asks her husband to send the young man to bring the comb with her homeland, gives a letter asking her to eat the giver; on the way, the yogi replaces the letter, teaches her to ask what's in the bowls, kill an old woman, take the life of six people, bring her stepmother's life with him; prince kills stepmother, returns queens, reigns]: Minaev 1968, No. 43:101-104; Bengalis [hermit (religious mendicant) gives the childless king a means for his wife to give birth to twins; when sons they will grow up, he must give one to him; the eldest of the twins goes, takes a puppy, a young hawk, along the way; the hermit tells him not to go north; the young man chases the deer, he turns into beautiful; offers to play dice; the young man loses the hawk, the dog, himself; the tree he planted at home dries; his brother goes, also takes the dog and the hawk; wins; Rakshasi gives the hidden ones, warns that the hermit kills those who serve him; there are already six skulls in the temple of Kali; if he is seventh, the hermit will gain strength; Rakshasi teaches the elder prince to pretend not to know how bend down, ask the hermit to show him, cut off his head; when a young man cuts off the head of a hermit, those killed earlier come to life; Kali gives the young man strength]: Day 1914, No. 13:187-196.
(Wed. Central Europe. Slovaks [Blahoslav lives with his mother, hunts; one day he sees a deer with golden antlers; he seems to ask him to ride after him; when his horse's strength is running out, B. rode to the castle and shot the deer; but instead of a deer, I found my arrow pierced the board on which the invitation to the castle was laid and the bed was prepared; three girls appeared, asking them to endure three nights of suffering to spell them; at night, the demons began to beat him, but then disappeared and he fell asleep until morning; when he soaked his hand and hair in the well in the morning, they turned silver; he tied his hand so that he could not see; at the end of the third night, B. came to the chapel; there the younger princess wrote on his sword the name of the castle where he should come to pick her up, for they themselves are now free and are leaving the castle; B. rode there, let the horse go; hired kitchen; when the younger princess came there, B. showed his silver curl; on the third day she asked this worker to bring her food; the girl asked to wait until the day her father would pack suitors and each of the sisters will throw a handkerchief to whoever she wants as her husband; that day she left him B.; the king wanted to throw B. out, but when he saw the silver curls, he understood everything; wedding; B.'s mother came to live with young]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 47:240-243).
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians: Liberinsky 1981 [Uryzmag laments that he could not get a doe; Soslan chased her, she disappeared into a cave; the doe was the daughter of the Sun Atsyrukhs, she was protected by 7 Waigs; S. invulnerable, the Waigi agree to give him A., but they demand to build an iron castle, and in the corners on a sheet of Aza tree, as well as a hundred deer, tours and other animals; Shatana gives them a necklace - draw them a circle a castle will appear; the animals will be given by their owner Afsati; the Aza tree grows in the land of the dead, where Barastyr is the owner; S. Let the leader stop talking for him; when he enters another world, S. sees the torment of sinners; agrees to dance with the girls, but as soon as she tries to grab one, she easily throws him into the river, and then pulls him out; the dead get full looking at the food; the old man endlessly carries stones in a basket without a bottom to the mountain; some spouses cannot fit under the skin of a bull, while others are hare enough; S. cannot lift the one lying on the earth is crazy, only went knee-deep into the ground; S. sees the Leader without a head, then his head rolled and sat down; explains the meaning of what he saw; those girls who died before marriage danced; stones on the mountain is worn by the one who robbed others; spouses: some quarreled, others lived together; all human virtues in an unbearable amount; Barastyr gave the leader Az leaves for S., asked Soslan to wrap the horseshoes of Soslan's horse backwards: the dead chased, but decided that the horse was galloping in the opposite direction; V. tells him not to pick anything up on the way; S. picked up an old hat; began to beat the horse to say what he would die from ; horse: my hooves are vulnerable, I will be pierced from below; S.: and I have knees; horse: you killed us, because that hat was Syrdon; Syrdon tells the devils in hell to shoot up, their arrows pierced the horse; dying, he tells fill his skin with straw and ride a scarecrow; Syrdon heard the devils firing hot arrows, the straw horse burned down; Soslan came on foot and received A.]: 164-183; (cf. Ossetians: Dzagurov 1973, No. 74 [seven brothers came to the seven-headed giant's house; he put them on a skewer, fried them and ate them; the father turned his daughter into a doe, the hunter chased her, shot her, began to fry, the doe came to life, ran away, became a girl again and returned home; he came in her footsteps, said that he had never seen such a miracle; father: this is not a miracle; talks about his dead sons; hunter comes to that giant, throws his property into the fire, says that the giant could cook firewood for the guest's arrival; pretends to eat a huge amount of meat; in fact, he quietly throws him under the bench; cut the giant's little finger, seven came out of there, killed the giant]: 336-339); Georgians (Imereti) [the tsar says to 40 sons that he cannot divide the kingdom between them: let everyone will get himself land and his wife; the younger prince is a thing; tells the brothers not to spend the night in the same house; they stopped, fell asleep, the prince killed the 6-headed girl with an arrow, cut off and hid his ears in the basement killed an old woman at home, took the keys to the treasure chests, quietly returned to his brothers; the same at the next night (7-headed maiden, not treasures, but 40 girls); the third time the prince fell asleep himself; fire-breathing Devi opened the exits from home; let the princes go for promising the younger to get him the queen of the kingdom of women; his servants, who should be named devi, will be transported across the seas; the prince showed the ears of two to the brothers the other girls, gave the keys and said that he put their rings on the girls' fingers; the black man carried them across the Black Sea, the red man through the red Sea; three are arguing over the flying carpet, the invisible hat, the tablecloths- sorrows; the prince fires arrows - who will bring it earlier; he picks up wonderful objects himself, flies invisible into the kingdom of women; the old woman talks about the queen; she lived with the king, they went to hunting, chasing a deer, a deer turned into a woman who turned them into deer; the queen reindeer ran to the kingdom of women and was disgraced here; she was elected queen; the prince became playing the chonguri, the queen and the maids fell asleep, he flew with the queen on a flying carpet; she knows what will happen next; when he saw her, the fire-breathing Davy laughed and burned himself; the prince carried the queen back and returned home; 40 brothers married 40 girls]: Glushakov 1905, No. 5:40-50; Armenians [the childless king ate an apple given to him by a dervish, he had two sons; one was taken away by a dervish and wanted to destroy , the young man killed him; chased the doe, which turned into a girl; the old woman turned the young man into stone; the twin brother followed his path, turned the old woman into stone, freed his brother]: Gullakian 1983, No. 303:16- 17; (cf. Nazinyan 1969 [the prince let the top go, which broke the old woman's jug; she told the prince to fall in love with the beautiful Pomegranate Seed; the prince went in search, chased the doe, she whizzed into the hut in it no doors, no windows, he cut the wall; a grenade on the bed, the prince cut a grenade, the princess came out; she was kidnapped by a three-headed Khovt, his soul in three birds, birds in a box; the prince took the box, went first kill three devas who fought Hoft for the princess; the prince first killed the devas, then cut the box and killed the birds, the hoft died; the wedding; three apples fell from the sky]: 144-147); Azerbaijanis (recorded in Shusha) [Shah Abbas (SHA) hunted for two days, got nothing; turned home and then a deer ran by; telling the squad to return and hand over power to his wife, if he disappeared, he rode after the deer; but the vigilantes decided to divide the kingdom among themselves, and SHA lost sight of the deer; fell asleep at the crossroads; when he woke up, a man in front of him; says that the deer galloped along the middle road; there is an inscription "road happiness"; on the first pillar there is the "road of death", on the third pillar there is the "road of misfortune"; SHA awarded the man and drove along the middle road to the castle; the old man let him in; said that the deer was his daughter; a beautiful woman came out Ziba-Isabella (ZI) has a wart on her cheek like that deer; she already has a fiancé, but since SHA is the lord of Persia, she agrees to marry him; wedding; SHA decides to visit her kingdom; gives her wife a bracelet: if a son is born, let him put it on his right hand, and if a daughter, on his left hand; the Shah has put things in order in his kingdom in two years, but he has no children from his first wife; SHA returned to the second in her castle; there is a son Salim Khan; SHA made him heir and returned to her home; to find a friend for her son, Zi came to the Persian prince; he took Zibeida's summer daughter; agreed that the boy and girl would alternately live with both parents; when S. is 12 years old, SHA sent a letter asking him to send a son to him; but neither S. nor Z. want to go to SHA; S. and Z. ran away, they are already 16 years old; they began to live with Z.'s parents, and then S. went to his father to ask for permission to marry; in the city he was imprisoned because all the girls fell in love with him; they wanted to execute him, but saw a bracelet on his hand and SHA realized that S. was his son; soon died, S. inherited the throne and married Z.]: Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 14:121-128; Turks [three sons of the padishah are hunting; the elder is chasing a deer, he jumped over the fence, the prince after him; an old man in the garden : this is not a deer, but a witch; Shah's daughter Gul-Sultan is in the castle, she never laughs; a tiger and a lion are chained, they are ready to tear the prince apart, but the girl opened the window and fell in love with him, and the prince, when she saw her, fell unconscious; the nanny brought him to life, brought him to the princess; she told him to run; the tiger and the lion broke their chains, followed him; the princess tells him not to be afraid of them; the padishah cannot resist the girl's beauty, but he can't do anything out of fear of the tiger and the lion; he also married two other sons]: Dmitriev 1967, No. 12:91-94.
Iran - Central Asia. The Bakhtiyars [Malik Ahmad has seven wives childless; he asks the dervish for a son; he gives a pomegranate to eat with his wife, let him send one of his born sons to him; they conclude a written contract; twin boys are born, grow up; the dervish came, showed the document; his elder brother Malik Mahmad left with him, left the younger Sultan Mahmad a ring: in case of trouble, he will fall off his finger; the old man on the road tells the young man that the dervish wants to kill him; tells him to be the first to drink from the stream, cut off his head when he bends down, immerse his saddle and horse in water; MM does so; crossing the stream, along with the horse becomes (as it were) gold; falls into a snowstorm; the people who saved him see that he is golden, marry the elder's daughter; when hunting, MM follows the gazelle, gets into a cave, hears singing, the sound of strings instruments and drums; there is a beauty surrounded by maids, she was a gazelle; she fights against those who came; if MM defeats her, she, if not, she will chain him, put him in a stall; she won the ring fell off SM's finger; he goes in search; meets an old man who tells us what happened to MM; to defeat that girl, you have to grab her hands; SM finds a place by the river where the dervish's blood ; gets into a snowstorm; he is also rescued, mistaken for MM; he puts his sword between himself and his wife MM; in a cave he wraps the girl's arms, throws him to the ground, frees prisoners, takes a gazelle girl as his wife; MM returns to his wife]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 32:212-219; Persians [the son has grown up, asks his mother what kind of garden he is not allowed into; the mother cries back; he climbed into the garden, chased a gazelle, she turned into a girl; agrees to marry a young man if he answers her question; the room is full of suitors who could not answer; What did the Flower (Gol) do to the cypress branch (Sanoubar) - "cypress") and what did Cypress do to the Flower? A young man spends the night under a tree, hears three feather-doves talking; Gol is a butcher in the city, in front of his shop a dog in a gold collar; he cares for her; you have to get to him; the old man gives the young man a pen - if you burn it, a bird will arrive and save him; the butcher agrees to let the young man in for the night on the condition that he cuts off his head in the morning; during dinner, Gol feeds the dog food, and the woman in the cage throws leftovers; the butcher agrees say that the woman's name was S.; she was a beloved wife, but had a lover; G. began to fight with him, his wife grabbed G. by the scrotum, but the dog grabbed his wife's leg; G. killed his lover, put S. in a cage, now takes care of the dog; in the morning the young man burned the feather and the Seamorg bird took it to the gazelle girl; she was ready to become his wife, but he told Simorg to take her to Mount Kaf and throw it to the predatory beasts; the young man remained bachelor]: Osmanov 1987:105-109.
Baltoscandia. Latvians [son promised to a mermaid; an old man gives him a guard ring; son settles a dispute between animals, they give him the ability to turn into a lion, eagle, dog and ant; he flies to royal palace, marries a princess; chases a deer while hunting, jumps after her into the water, but cannot get out of the water - the ring is left at home; the wife goes to look for her husband; a mermaid (she was a deer ) allows the wife to talk to her husband, who tells him to bring the ring; the next day, after receiving golden apples, the mermaid allows her wife to kiss her husband; she gives him the ring; as a punishment, the wife must burn for 7 years; husband and mermaid try to defeat each other through various transformations; finally, the mermaid turns into stone; the husband throws him into the flames, it turns into a wife]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 316:275; Icelanders [Queen Ring chased a doe, got lost in the fog, parted with his companions; on the shore of the barrel, next to a woman, 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; he is not allowed to enter the closet behind the kitchen; he sees what is there dog, asks her as a reward; she says her name is Snati-Snati; came to live with the king, gained confidence; Raudur is jealous, advises you to test Ringa; 1) who will cut down more trees; Snati tells you to ask for the king is two axes, chops together with the owner, chopped 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 for Christmas a gold coat, a gold board and the usual gold that the king has lost; the king promises the young man a daughter if he gets it all; S. tells him to get a bag of salt; lifts the young man up the mountain, Where in the cave is a family of giants, in which a son and daughter; a young man quietly sprinkles salt into the giants' soup; they are thirsty; the daughter went to get water after her parents gave her gold; S. and Ring push her together into the water, they take gold; the same with the son of giants (they take her fur coat); the same with the giantess (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 King: Ring cut off my hand; Ring showed that he cut off the hand that reached out to kill him at night; S. shed his skin and turned into a prince himself - also named Ring; only Ring could spell the other; the first Ring burned his skin; it was his giantess stepmother who bewitched him; she was also a doe, a woman by a barrel and a giantess in a cave; the first Ring married a princess and the second married the first's sister]: Poestion 1884 , No. 21:171-186.
Turkestan. Kazakhs [Khan dreams of a bird, flowers fall from its mouth, pearls from her eyes; three sons go to look for it; Asan is going to return along the road, Usen may return, youngest Hasan will not return; H. sees the gazelle, wants to shoot it, but the gazelles surrounded him, looked plaintively; the old woman Zhalmauyz-Kempir turns him into a gazelle; her daughter regains her human appearance, gives an arrow to kill the mother, sends it to the tree where the bird is Samruk's nest; H. kills the boa constrictor crawling towards the chicks, they eat pieces of the boa constrictor's body, they say that the rain is their mother's tears, the wind is from her wings; Samruk does not Eats H., brings virgins to the country, he cuts off the meat from his thighs, lets her eat, she heals his wounds; he takes the bird, leaves a note to the sleeping daughter of Khan the virgins, returns to the bride; brothers they lower H. into the well, cut off the rope, the girl runs away to the steppe; the daughter of the Khan of the Virgins accuses Asan and Usen of lying, they are executed; finds Hasan and his wife, leaves the bird to his father]: Sidelnikov 1964:84-90; Kyrgyz [Khan named Garshas has only son; returning from hunting, he saw a roe deer at the entrance to the cave; she ran into the cave; the young man looked - the cave was beautiful; she became a roe deer again and galloped, jumped over the fortress wall; Khan G. orders to surround the fortress, promises to execute the one whose head the roe deer will jump over; she jumped over the head of a deva named Echermat and ran away; E. chased her, followed by Khan's warriors; towards the caravan of another khan's son; he gives the caravan to the warrior leader and asks him to say that E. was killed; he took E. himself; said that he was looking for a beautiful woman from the city of Chynmagyn ( apparently, Chin-Machin); E. asks to leave him to sleep for 40 days, and then promises to get the girl; tells him to wait 40 days; on the way to Cinmagun, each of the bridges was guarded by 5 guards; bells on the bridge; E. turned around as a child, he took water in his mouth, began to pour water into bells; then turned into a fly and flew across the bridge; then 40 elders; E. pretended to be a dervish named Majurup; one elder did not believe it; by evening he fell ill, he was taken to the mountains and left; then 40 girls; E. pretended to be an orphan girl; she was taken to watch the fire in the hearth; the girls got used to her; she taught them blindfolded and blindfolded games towards each other; E. went further, there were 40 horsemen on the road; E. pretended to be an orphan boy; he was taken to look after horses; E. developed timidity in his horses, they took the riders to nowhere; 40 dogs, E. threw their bones; the sycamore tree branches into the sky, at the foot there is a seven-headed dragon, at the top in a golden cage there is a girl guarding the golden cage of Dev Semuruk {from the Simurg bird}; E. turned into a dragon with 15 heads; when he saw him, the 7-headed dragon left; E. flew to the sycamore tree as a bird, persuaded Deva Semuruk to take the girl to the khan's son; then Dev Semuruk left, and dev E. fell asleep for 40 days, telling the khan's son and girlfriend to follow the dog; but they fell behind and got to the deva brothers; the girl hid in the thickets, and the khan's son was thrown into a bucket of salt water; but the dog realized that the Khan's son in trouble, E. woke up, he went to the house of the devas, called, they went out one by one, he tore off their heads; E. fought with the seventh deva for a long time, the girl helped E. win by throwing a lasso over another deva; E. asks the girl not to open one door in the caravanserai; she opened, there are two calves tied there: black and red, black asks him to untie; became a black maiden and does not tell you to untie the redhead; she untied, both The deva took her away; she gave birth to a boy out of fear; E. broke into her, teaches her to tell the deva that her teeth hurt, let her bring a dental remedy; then the girl must pinch her son to cry; say what she wants know where the soul of a deva is; dev: go all over the land 7 times to get to a place where there are two mountains; at their foot there is a lake, a capricorn grazes by the lake, a heavy key to the cave in Capricorn's stomach, it has two pigeons: black and red; these are the souls of two devas; E. overheard this, killed a black dove, brought a redhead, tells the deva to let the prisoners go; dev let go, E. brought him to his home in Kuykap (Mount Kaf); put a yurt to the khan's son and his wife; but E.'s elder daughter-in-law harbored envy of people; threw the scorpion into the pond where Khan's son and wife were swimming; E. saw and hit the scorpion with a click, but at the bottom a drop of scorpion blood fell on the girl's face; E . began to suck blood; Semuruk descended from heaven and showed a scorpion hidden by Edirmat's elder daughter-in-law; E. drove her away; Semuruk took the khan's son and wife to him; when he was flying, some stars collided and fell down; so we see shooting stars]: Sabyr uulu 2008:331-335; Uighurs (Guma) [Shah Bahram was the lord of the world; once went to the steppe; Maninaqash man galloped by, his brought to the SB; he said he was looking for SB; told the king of China that the king of China was offered the beautiful Malika Dil Aram, but he did not have the money to buy her; shows her portrait; SB fell in love, gave up business; the beauty was bought and brought him, he married her; once chased an antelope; M. offered to tie an antelope in the legs, then cut his throat; SB pierced the four legs of the antelope with two arrows, the fifth at the throat; M. praised, but SB thought she was arrogant, tied her legs and arms to her hair, threw her in the desert; then sent for her, but M. disappeared; to distract the SB, they built seven palaces, each beautiful; each tells story; first girl: the king of Jaipur was given a mirror by a beggar; the one who told a lie about him has a blacker face, the truth will turn white; the king tells the beggar to say that he saw no one more generously than the king; his face turns black; the king finds that man, who gives him slaves and slaves; the king makes him his vizier, and the girl makes that man's daughter; others also told stories; M. came back, SB went with her, both drowned]: Jarring 1951 , NO. 9:77-97.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Mongols (the Mongolian version of Geser, published in Beijing in 1716; the text is folklore, not bookish) [the cannibal in the form of a llama comes to Heser; turns him into a donkey; G. Rogmo meets the cannibal; people seek help from Mrs. Aju Mergen; she takes the form of an ogre's sister, she has eyebrows to her chest, chest to her knees; lures R., she rides Osle-G; G. regains human appearance; G. and AM go hunting; AM tells you not to miss, shooting at the flame on the head of the fallow deer; the arrow pierced the entire body of the fallow deer, but it galloped away and disappeared into the fortress; G. broke the gate with an ax, turned into a boy, saw an old woman (this is the ogre's sister) with an arrow through her body; the boy agrees to pull out an arrow if the woman agrees to become his wife; she swears that G. pulls out an arrow, the old woman swallows G. and AM, later burps; G. lures the ogre, who has become a llama, into the hut, burns it in it]: Mátéffy 2014.
Amur - Sakhalin. Nanais [a three-legged roe deer tells a lonely mergen that her older sister is waiting for him, the roe deer; the mergen comes, the pudi says that the roe deer is her younger brother, lures people and kills them; in the evening, a lame boy came; the pudi told me to take skis without ties tomorrow; he rolled down the river, and the boy fell into it; the mergen returned, the boy is at home; the next day, on the advice of pudy, Mergen sits on that a tree branch that is towards the mountain; the boy has to sit on a branch towards the river, it breaks, he falls into the water; the next day the boy chases animals; you can't shoot a male deer (you'll die yourself) or a female (the pudi will die), you have to shoot a three-legged roe deer; the boy tells you to shoot deer, the mergen does not shoot; does not tell the roe deer, the mergen shoots, the boy is killed in front of him; the poody is happy to come to live in the house Mergen]: Aurorin 1986, No. 34:206-208.