L130. One eye for three, ATU 328*.

.11.15.16.26.-.28.31.

Two or more characters have only one eye for everyone.

Benga, Spaniards, Italians (Tuscany), Germans, Chinese (Fujian), Ancient Greece, Russians (Arkhangelsk), Norwegians, Danes, Western Sami, Karelians.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Benga [husband and wife have one eye for two, they pass it on to each other; the husband climbs a tree for honey, sheds his honeycombs to his wife; they throw their eye to each other; a bird that flies takes it away; husband turns into ant nest, wife into termite]: Nassau 1915, No. 9:35-36.

Southern Europe. Spaniards: Childers 1977, no. G121.1.2* in Uther 2004 (1), No. 328*: 218; Italians (Tuscany) [in response to his prayers, the childless king hears the question: does he want a son who dies or a daughter who will run away; he has chosen a daughter; when the girl turned 16, the prince fell in love with her, bribed the maid and they got married; the princess gave birth to a boy; when he grew up, he tried to talk to his grandfather, but he does not want to know him; the young man says that for his grandfather, he would get the head of a witch; king: this is what I want (he believes that the young man will die); the old man gives a flying horse and teaches me to go to two women who have one eye for two; when one passed another eye, the young man took it and gave it back in exchange for a mirror to look at the sorceress, otherwise you will become petrified; the young man drove up to the witch, sitting backwards on his horse and looking into the mirror; cut off her head the fallen drops of blood turned into a snake; the young man put his head in a bag, drove back and on the seashore saw the princess eaten by the dragon; showed the dragon the witch's head, which turned into the stone sank to the bottom; the young man married the princess, brought her with him, showed his grandfather the witch's head, and he turned into stone; everything is fine]: Calvino 1980, No. 84:304-308.

Western Europe. Germans (conditionally north, no data on where the text was recorded): Meyer 1921:26 in Uther 2004 (1), No. 328*: 218.

China - Korea. The Chinese (Fujian, entry 1) [nine brothers have one eye for all; decide to drown themselves in the lake; they are saved by a divine carp, they see the light, become saints]: Eberhard 1937, No. 154:206; (cf. Yuan Mei 1977, No. 222 [four demons are blind, the fifth has one eye; one demon sniffs - a person falls ill, all five die; eat whoever their one-eyed friend points to]: 215-216).

The Balkans. Ancient Greece [the tragedy "Prometheus Chained", attributed to Aeschylus and staged no later than 430 BC; Prometheus, addressing Io: "<... > Sultry /Kisfena's fields you'll meet Gorgonins, /And three Forkids, gray-haired girls/Like swans. They have one eye/And one tooth. The ray has not yet penetrated to them/Daytime sun and night month" (trans. A.I. Piotrovsky)]: Aesch. Prom. 793-797; [About the Incredible by Palefat (probably 4th century BC): "And they tell a ridiculous story that Forkys had three daughters who had one eye for three and used it on queues. The one who was going to put it in her head and looked at it like that. And so, passing their eyes to one another, they all watched. So Perseus, coming up to them quietly from behind and taking their eyes, said he would not give it back unless they told them where the Gorgon was. (At least that's what they say.) And he cut off her head, came to Serif and, showing her head to Polydect, turned it into stone. And it is also ridiculous for a living person to become petrified when he sees the head of a dead person. What kind of power does a dead man have?" (per. V.N. Yarkho)]: Palaept. XXXI; [The Mythological Library of Pseudo-Apollodor (I-II centuries): "Perseus, led by Hermes and Athena, came to Fork's daughters Enio, Pefredo and Dino. They were descended from Keto and Fork, were Gorgon sisters, and were old women from birth. All three had one tooth and one eye and exchanged them one by one. Perseus took possession of this tooth and eye, and when they asked him to hand over the stolen goods, he promised that they would show him the way to the nymphs. These nymphs wore winged sandals and a shoulder bag called kībīsis; they also had a hat. When Fork's daughters brought him to the nymphs, he gave them his eye and tooth, and from the nymphs he got what he tried to penetrate them for. He put on his bag, attached his sandals to his ankles, and covered his head with a hat. When he put it on, he saw whoever he wanted, but others did not see it. Taking a crooked steel sword from Hermes, he flew over the ocean and found the Gorgon sisters sleeping. Their names were Steno, Evriala, and Medusa. The only mortal among them was Medusa, which is why Perseus was sent to bring her head. Gorgon's heads were covered with dragon scales and had fangs the same size as wild boars, brass arms, and golden wings on which they flew. Everyone who looked at them turned to stone. Coming close to his sleeping sisters, Perseus, whose hand was directed by the goddess Athena, turned away and, looking into the copper shield where he saw Gorgon's reflection, beheaded Medusa. As soon as the head was cut down, the winged horse Pegasus and Chrysaor, Gerion's father, jumped out of the Gorgon" (trans. V.G. Borukhovich)]: Apollod. Bibl. II. 4.2; [The Catasterisms by Pseudo-Eratosthenes (1st-2nd centuries): "The tragic poet Aeschylus in the Forkids {whose text is lost} tells us that the Gorgon had Forkida's guards; they had only one eye at all and handed it to each other during the watch. Perseus tracked them down at the very moment of transmission and, snatching an eye, threw it into the Triton Swamp. After capturing Gorgon asleep, he cut off the head of Medusa, which Athena placed on her chest, and gave Perseus a place among the constellations where he can be seen with the head of the Gorgon" (trans. A.A. Rossius)]: Ps. -Erat. Cataster. XXII; [Astronomy, attributed to Guy Julius Gigin (turn of era): "The tragic poet Aeschylus says in The Forkids that the Grays were the guards of the Gorgon; we talked about this in Book I of Genealogies. It is believed that they all had only one eye and that they exchanged one eye and carried guards one by one. Perseus grabbed this eye as they passed it to each other and threw it into the Triton Swamp. So, after blinding the guards, he easily killed Gorgon Medusa, who was sleeping. It is said that Minerva then carried her head on her chest. A certain Evgemer says that Gorgon Medusa was killed by Minerva, which we will discuss in detail in due time" (trans. A.I. Ruban)]: Hyg. Astr. II. 12.2; ["The First Vatican Mythograph" (compiled at the turn of the 1st and 2nd millennium by an unknown medieval compiler): "Fork had three daughters, Spheno, Eurial, Medusa, who looked with one eye and

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [Fedor Tsarevich is walking in the garden, someone is calling; this is a gloomy grandfather (DU) from an underground pantry; asks his father to get the key and release it, promises to help; F. asked for the key and unlocked the door; expelled; he was given a soldier as a companion; he asked him to go down to the well; pulled it out after F. changed his dress and status; went on: 7 wives were picking berries, for all one eye; F. asks the DU to give them eyes; came to another king, F. became a groom; the soldier persuaded the servants to say that F. could get Mary blue-haired from the kingdom of far away; the remote control orders not to take from the king the ship, pretend to do it himself; those ripe women sent for their son, everyone can do something special; Marya demands to eat all the cereal (one of the servants ate); drink all the kvass (the other drank); wash in a hot bath (DM himself blew and cooled); Marya rushed from the ship into the sea, the servant drank it, she was returned; she rose into the sky as a star; the stargazer found an extra star, the shooter shot, M. fell on ship; everything opened; M. married the tsar, and the royal daughter married F.]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:211-215.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians [two brothers are lost, spent the night in the forest; three trolls come up, they have one eye for three; the older brother hits the next troll in the ankle with an ax, the front one drops his eye; boys pick it up, demand gold by the eye; trolls call their old woman, who brings two steel bows, a bucket of gold and a bucket of silver; the boys (with an eye on the trolls) return home]: Asbjíø rsen, Moe 1960:9-12 (translated in Asbjørnsen 1987:72-80); Danes [a young man or two brothers get lost in the forest, meet three giants who have one eye for all; brothers steal an eye, returned in exchange for gold]: Uther 2004 (1), No. 328*: 218; Western Sami (Sweden) [a boy guards the royal garden and kidnaps the only eye of two giants]: Qvigstad 1925, No. 328*: 17; Karelians (but maybe Finns) [the old man carved a doll out of an alder chock; the old woman put it in the cradle and rocked for three years; the chock became a boy, he immediately asked his mother for bread; became handsome and strong man; the sun, month and dawn are gone, people live in darkness; the king has a potion; anyone who drinks three bottles can free the dawn, six months, nine can sun; 9 only Alder Chock (PTS) could; those who drank 6 and 3 bottles went with him; woman: an evil man is to blame; he cursed the sun for being hot, a month prevented him from stealing, dawn woke up early; they were taken away by 9-, 6- and three-headed snakes; half of the city is crying, half laughs; the king must eat his eldest daughter to the three-headed snake; if he does not give it back, the serpent will eat half of the city; the hero, who drank three bottles, cut down two snake heads; threw his shoe, his companions they let the dogs down, they tore off their third head; dawn has risen; half is crying again, half is laughing; the middle daughter; the six-headed serpent from the sea; the sixth head was torn off by dogs; the month has risen; the third day is the same; youngest daughter; PTS cut down 7 heads; snake: look, the sun is rising; the serpent turned around, PTS cut down another head; look, your house is burning; the serpent did not look; your wife is disgraced; looked, PTS cut off her head; the last one was torn off by dogs when OCH threw his shoe; on the way back, OCH, turning into an ermine, overhears the conversation (with women who are wives of snakes?) Syuoyatar snake mothers; will starve, cover the tables; if they hit the cross with a sword, then there will be no hunger or tables; thirst (forest lake is the same); sleep (bed); whoever repeats my words will turn into blue cross; PTS destroyed tables, a lake and one bed; the companions have already rushed to the other two, S. ate them, took their horses and chained them; walking through the forest, PTS sees 9 blind girls and an eye on a stump; S. girls dazzled, leaving them one eye for everyone; he gave them back their eye, they taught them to get the horse back from S.; PTS cuts chains; S. gives all the girls eyes to see who is there; but they say no one; S. came by herself , grabbed the OCH; first ate the girls for deception; will let the PTS go if she gets Katrina from the beautiful Kii River; OCH sails in a boat, meets, takes five with him: Psar, Spoon Khrapun, Vaper, Eater, Aqudier; Kennel pacified the dogs; Spoon Khrapoon protected from the fire when they set fire to the barn where the swimmers slept; The vaper froze the hot bath; The Eater ate cows and sheep; Wonos brought water in the sieve; PTS received K.; Through clothes wine leather/The body glows under the skin/The bones under the body are visible/In the middle, the heart beats; on the way back, the companions one by one stay where the PTS picked them up and take what they brought with them parts of the boat; a narrow hollow remains; so that K. does not soak the hem, PTS picked it up with his little finger; S.: if you touched K. even with a finger, let him break off; gnaw off his little finger; PTS: if you tormented blind sisters, let the sword break off; gnaw off his little finger; PTS: if you tormented blind sisters, let the sword break off cut you into 10 pieces; cut you; PTS burned parts of S.'s body, took the horse, silver and gold and K. as his wife; when they saw PTS, the parents became younger; PTS ask where his comrades are; I had to tell you, he turned blue cross; Katrina was married by the king, she gives birth to healthy sons and daughters; the storyteller was given a waxhorse, a turnip saddle and a pea whip at the wedding]: Concca 1991:134-154.