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Ethnicities and habitats

L15H. The outer soul: consistent investments.

(.11.) .12.14.-.17.23.27.-.37.

The object in which the character's life is concentrated is in another, the one in the third, etc. (such as an egg in a duck, a duck in a hare, a hare in a chest, etc.). Or the animal that contains the character's soul turns into other animals while running away. It talks about three or more investments or transformations.

(Mbundu), Bambara, Berbers, Morocco, Kabiles, Tuaregs, Tunisia, Italians (Liguria), Maltese, Spanish, Basques, Portuguese, Sicilians, Maltese, Corsicans, Ladins, French ( Upper Brittany, Switzerland), Bretons, Germans (Grimms), Irish, Scots, Thousand and One Nights, Punjabians, Romanians, Moldovans, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Albanians, Gagauz, Slovaks, Poles, Russians ( Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Moscow, Ryazan, Voronezh), Western Ukrainians, Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Kabardian, Adygs, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Ingush, Georgians, Megrelians, Armenians, Turks, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Yagnobes, Shugnans, Kafirs (Kati), Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Karelians, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Western Sami, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Udmurts, Kazakhs, Uighurs, Dungans, Chulym Turks, Altaians, Tubals, Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Baikal Buryats, Southern Selkups, Dolgans, Okhotsk Evens, Nivkhs.

(Wed. Bantu-speaking Africa. Mbundu {looks like a recent European borrowing}. [parents pass off their eldest daughter Luanda as King of Birds, middle Mukaji as King of Antelopes, youngest Mbezhi as King of Pisces; wife gives birth to a boy; peers tease him for being married to animals; young man goes looking for them, well received, sons-in-law give her a feather, a bunch of wool, scales; the Serpent King kidnapped the daughter of the king of Angola; the young man must return her or will be executed; birds, antelopes, fish show the way; kidnapped says that the death of the King of Snakes is in a bird, that in a cage, in a stone, a stone at the bottom of the sea; fish take out a stone, antelopes break it, birds kill a bird; a young man marries a rescued one]: Nikolaeva 1975:53-60).

West Africa. Bambara [the snake takes the newlywed women, eats it on the seventh day; it cannot be killed: a new one grows in place of the severed head; Ntyi goes to look for his wife; at the lair, the snake N. hears him the wife asks the snake what his life is; the snake: there is a wild bull in the forest, there is a roe deer in it, a guinea fowl in it, a dove in it, an egg in it; a fly will fly out of a crushed egg, sit on me; a lion, a panther, an eagle, a hawk, a fly, a stone are convinced of N.'s fearlessness and patience, join him; they consistently kill a lion, etc., the serpent dies; N. returns his wife, the leader rewards him]: Klipple 1992:126.

North Africa. Berbers (Morocco?) [The ogre kidnaps the man's wife; answers the husband who comes for her that his soul is in an egg, in a dove, in a camel, a camel in the sea; the man digs a hole on the shore, the camel comes out of the water, fails, a man gets an egg, an ogre dies]: Casajus 1982:30; the Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [the Sultan finally had a son, Sidi Mohammed (SM); he imprisoned him in an underground palace, with his servant teach him; when his mother accidentally discovered SM, the sultan cut off her head in front of his eyes; after that, SM was able to go out into town; one day he came across an old woman; she yelled: to marry Aruaj ben Ilak! (AI); SM went in search; on the way he bought a young man named Sidi Mohammed Bu Rjilat (BR), whom the local sultan hung by the legs for not wanting to reveal the secrets of magic to him; he promised get AI - let the SM send his father's army back; get the guards drunk, they fell asleep; swapped the lamps at the AI's bedside; sent SM; AI gave him an earring, bracelets from his arm and leg; SM presented them her father; he agrees to marry if SM indicates which cocoon (the closed space where the bride is) - AI; BR suggested; on the way home, BR warns: until they reach his land own efreet, SM must not get off the horse, otherwise his wife will be kidnapped; but he got off his horse as needed, AI disappeared into the air; BR went to efreet, who kidnapped BM; asked the shepherd what he does when she brings sheep; shepherd: I knock on the gate with a stick; the new wife, who was kidnapped by Ifrit, lets me in and lets me out in the morning; BR changed clothes with the shepherd, found AI, told her to find out what life was like efrita; in the middle of the sea there is a tree, a dove on the tree, three eggs in its nest; to break the first, the efrita will be engulfed by a red flame, the second will be blue, the third will remain only ash; with the help of its efrites BR got eggs; when efreet died, the prisoners were sent home; SM, AI and BR go three; at the bridge, two girls cut off the heads of travelers; SM cut the bridge with a sword, took one girl for himself, gave the other to BR; now two wives each; weddings; AI gave birth, and BR's wives fell ill; only the blood of a newborn will cure them; SM sent him a son to slaughter; but it turned out that BR only wanted to test a friend, he had a son himself; but wrote that more blood was needed; SM sent a daughter who was born by his second wife; friends are happy and have married children]: El Fasi, Dermenghem 1928:151-164; Kabila [Sultan's son Mohamed kills citizens; the old woman promises to save the people; brings the jugs to the spring, begins to fill them with acorn shells; M. broke the jugs; the old woman tells him to marry Thithbirth better - 70 suitors have already died; M. went on a journey, met a fellow traveler; took off the ring from the dead son of the cannibal, showed it to the ruler of the city, who demanded the second one, M. took it out; on the way they hear a talking bird; when they arrived at T., M. sings the same song as the bird says he invented it himself; T. demands a bird; M. brings it (the bird flew into the cage itself); Father T. will give his daughter if 1) M. finds her; the bird indicates to M. that she hid under father's seat; 2) identify T. among 70 identical girls; T.: I will be on a lame horse; after receiving T., M. took her home, giving her companion another woman; the cannibal stole T.; M. came and asked the ogre where he was life; the cannibal% in an egg, in a throat, in a camel, in the sea; M. took out an egg, the cannibal died; M. brought T. to his father's city, who promises a herd to the one who would kill his son; the warrior came to M., blinded him and left him in the desert ; the eagle showed leaves that restore sight; the elders denied the Sultan the right to take his son's wife; M. killed his father and reigned]: Rivière 1882:187-192; Tuaregs [there are enough scoops in the genie's well brothers, gives their sister for promising to give him; one of the brothers follows her, the people they meet answer that she passed 10, 9, 8, etc.; hides under the genie's bed, stabs him with an awl, he thinks that ants bite; replies to his wife that his soul is in an antelope horn, there are 10 bags one in the other, in the last 10 boxes one in the other, in his last hair; the wife pulls out her hair, the genie dies]: Casajus 1982:27-28; Tunisia [the sultan wanted to marry his son, but he only wanted to marry Muhabbil; taking his closest friend, he went in search of a girl; they came to the city, where they were they said that M. was the king's daughter, but he hides her and her sister from everyone; then the prince dressed in the skin of a gazelle, and his friend pretended to be a clown, took the drum, so they entertained everyone; the king invited them and took them away for the whole night to the princesses, whom he hid under the throne; the prince took off the ring from M.'s finger, put his own on her instead; the next day, the prince and his friend changed into normal clothes, came to ask for M. and her sisters; the king made a condition to find brides; they pretended to be looking, on the seventh day they said that princesses could only be under the royal throne; the king was distracted, friends grabbed the princesses, ran away; a friend distracted the pursuing warriors, took them with him, and when he returned, he saw that the prince had turned to the waist into stone; this was done to him by a genie who took the princesses; a friend found a genie, settled down to him as a shepherd, persuaded the princesses to agree to marry a genie if he told him where his spirit was; he said the prince's friend went in search, saved the eagle's eggs from the snake, the eagle carried him through 7 of the seas, and he gave him the meat of a snake, divided into seven pieces; found a camel, took out his heart, a chest from it, from a sparrow's chest; the prince's friend divided the camel's meat into seven pieces, He crossed the seven seas again on an eagle; the genie disgraced the prince, but the prince's friend still killed him; they took the princesses, returned to the prince's father, the sultan invited the princesses father to the celebration; wedding]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 87 in Korovkina MS

Southern Europe. Italians (Liguria) [the widow's son Juanine goes on a journey when he is strong enough to knock down a pine tree with his foot; tames an indomitable horse, the king takes him into service; the queen the magician kidnapped the Body-Without Soul (TD); the servants tell the king that D. is ready to release her; D. leaves, divides the donkey's carcass between Leo, Eagle, Dog and Ant, they give him the ability to turn into these animals; an eagle, an ant enters the castle of TD, tells the Queen to know where TD's life is; she is in a black egg, a black eagle, a black dog, a black lion; turning into animals, D. killed black people, got it egg, TD died, king married D. to daughter]: Kotrelev 1991:37-40; Sicilians (Palermo) [one of the two merchants allows his son to go overseas with his childless friend; the young man's ship sank, but himself he escaped and found himself in an enchanted castle; his mistress and everyone around him will be disgraced if the young man spends a year with her without seeing her or revealing her secret to anyone; one day he asks permission to visit relatives; the owner of the castle gives a treasure ship and a wand that will instantly take him to the right place; at home, the father and his friend spent all their savings on the lawsuit: the young man's father accused his friend of killing his son; everything was clarified; however, the young man let his mother slip and she gave him a candle to light and look at his wife at night; a drop of wax fell, the wife woke up; now she can be saved either by winning sorcerer: there is a rabbit in his stomach, a dove in the rabbit, three eggs in the dove, they must be brought; the young man was hired by shepherds; the owner warned not to let the cows into the forest: there is a sorcerer, he also kills cows, and people; the young man drove them there on purpose; he fights with the sorcerer all day; he says he would defeat him if he had bread and wine; the young man says he needs bread and milk to win; they disperse for the night; the next day, the shepherds made bread and milk for the young man and he killed the sorcerer; brought three eggs to his wife; she placed the imperial crown on him; told him to throw three eggs from the balcony; after that all the bewitched spoke, life revived]: Calvino 1980, No. 171:611-616; the Spaniards (Andalusia, Leon) [caballero, in search of a lion, a greyhound dog, an eagle and an ant that could not share the animal's carcass; he divided it, each gave him a fur (pen, etc.) that gives him the ability to turn into an appropriate animal; the princess kidnapped by the giant tells Caballero that the giant's life is in an egg in a porcupine in the palace; after becoming an ant, the caballero entered the palace, spent three nights with the princess; the giant smells a man; after becoming a lion, the caballero attacked the porcupine; he ran away turning into a hare, the lion became a dog, chased, the hare a dove, the dog an eagle, he grabbed a pigeon, the caballero became a man, took out an egg, smashed the giant on the forehead, he died, the caballero married princess]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 302:34-37; Basques: Barandiaran 1962a, No. 13 [Canillo fisherman caught a fish (red first pagel), she asks to let her go, promises wealth; the fisherman let go, He became rich, but he became impoverished again; he caught the same fish again; it promises wealth if the fisherman gives it what he will be the first to meet at home; he thinks a dog will come out, and Canillo's son younger has come out; it is necessary send him to houses by the sea; there lives a devil who has taken the form of a fish; in the house, the devil makes noise on purpose, throws him into the sea; he swims to the shore; a lion, a dove and an ant ask him to help them divide a dead horse; he gives the lion meat, a pigeon of giblets, an ant bones; they give it the ability to turn into a lion, a pigeon, an ant; in the form of a dove, K. flies to the house a line; nearby is beautiful; asks where life is the line; in Mount Iparrarre, his brother, he has a hare in his stomach, a dove in a hare, an egg in a blue one; K. flies to that mountain, is hired as a shepherd; the owner orders not to take sheep to the mountain, the hell will kill them there; K. drives them up the mountain, fights the devil in the form of a lion, the sheep eat fresh grass; the maid spies, hears K. dreams of a piece of bread; on the third day she brings bread, K. the line wins; in the form of a dove, flies to the first line, enters his house as an ant, breaks the egg on his forehead; returns to his father; he, having become rich, became arrogant, but when he recognized his son, he took him to him]: 62-68; Webster 1879 [the poor man agrees to take Malbrook's newborn son as godson; he gives money, disappears with a baby, also dubbed Malbrouk; young M. grew up, released to his parents on three days; returns with two brothers; they change hats with three daughters M. for the night; the elder M. mistakenly kills their daughters, the brothers run away; the king has three daughters missing; the older, middle brothers are afraid go down to the bottom of the well; M. goes down, kills two snakes, goes upstairs with two princesses, whom he intends for brothers; goes looking for a third; divides a sheep between an ant (head), a hawk (giblets), a dog and a wolf (both half a carcass); they make it possible to turn into any of them; the woodpecker reports that the princess overseas has a body without a soul; M. flies there like a hawk, an ant hides on the princess's chest, she persuades the monster to tell me where his life is (there is a fox in a wolf, a dove in a fox, an egg in a blue); M. gets an egg in the form of animals, the monster dies, M. brings princess to the king; says that she will get a dowry first; steals a cow from elder M., from whose horns diamonds fall (the shepherdess distracts), the moon (pours out water, you have to go get water at night, shine); when goes after the violin, is caught; asks M.'s wife to untie it, he will help cook firewood; cooks it for himself; M. gets a wife, then a throne]: 77-87; Portuguese [(many records); the hero shares correctly food between animals, they promise to help him; either brothers or animals married to his sisters help him; turning into animals (the ones that helped him), the hero helps to be kidnapped by an ogre princess, finds out where the ogre's life is (an egg in a dove in a chest in the sea)]: Cardigos 2006, No. 203:59-60; the Maltese (many options) [the sorcerer kidnaps the princess; the hero shares the fallen a donkey between ants and other animals, they give it the ability to take their form, promise to help; thanks to transformations, it enters the sorcerer's palace; the kidnapped finds out where it is hidden the sorcerer's soul (in two eggs, eggs in animals, etc.), the hero gets them, the sorcerer dies]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 302:40-45; ladins [someone gave the man money and he had to promise to give him his son; the father brought his son to the sea; that man brought the young man into a dark room; suddenly a window opened, followed by three girls with flowers; then once, they gave him a candle and a flint - let finds out who else is in the room; a young man lights a candle - that man sleeps there; girls: he can only be killed if he gets a heron egg in his head; when he leaves the room and crosses the fence, the young man found himself in the forest; a lion, a hare, a heron and an ant are arguing which of them people love the most; the young man praised everyone; they gave him the ability to take their form; the young man was hired to herd sheep; the owner forbid drive them over the mountain; but they went there; the young man sees a bush, a girl under it; the dragon came for her; the young man became a lion, fought, the dragon left; the same day, when the princess was waiting for the dragon together with his sister; on the third day, all three princesses kidnapped by the dragon; this time the young man ate not bread and water, like the dragon and like himself for the first two times, but meat and wine; ripped the dragon's belly apart , a hare jumped out of there; the young man became a dog; a heron flew out of the ripped hare; the young man became a heron, caught up and killed the first heron; there was an egg in it; the sorcerer inside the castle; the young man became an ant, climbed into the crack; broke an egg on the sorcerer's forehead, he died; there were three girls in the garden - the same ones who were waiting for a dragon; he married the youngest; they served me soup and was so given in the ass that he flew here]: Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 94:249- 254.

Western Europe. The Bretons [prince falls into a hole; in the lower world he is hired by the owner of the castle; he leaves for a year, tells him to take care of birds and horses, beat one skate, clean up pistols; prince accidentally pulls a needle out of the head of a sparrow, which turns into a princess, her brother's horse; she teaches what to do; the prince asks the owner of the castle for a sparrow, a skate, a bad gun, shoots, a lock collapses, the prince, birds and horses turn into people again, return to earth; someone kisses the prince, the soulless body immediately takes the bride away; the prince receives a magic tablecloth from the old man, feeds the ants, saves fish, a hermit who rules birds promises to help; ants help him rise in the form of an ant to a castle hanging in the air on chains; the princess finds out that the kidnapper's soul is in an egg, a dove, a hare, a wolf, a chest at the bottom of the sea; fish take out a chest, a dove flies out, the chief of the birds sends a hawk, the prince curls an egg, the giant dies, the castle collapses; wedding]: Luzel 1995:78-92; the French (Haute-Brittany) [a soldier was returning from war; he saw a fire in the winter forest; a wolf, an ant, and a seabird roast a ram on a spit; they invited him to share a meal and he separated the meat so well that they gave him the ability to turn into appropriate animals; the soldier took the opportunity to fly home as a bird; found out that the sorcerer who killed six wives - the giant is invulnerable to fire, water, or iron; now he has taken his seventh wife, the princess; the soldier entered her chambers with an ant, asked her to know what the sorcerer's life is; he replied to his wife that he would die if crush an egg on his stomach; it's in a dove, a dove in a hare, a hare in a wolf, and a wolf in the belly of a sorcerer's brother, who lives 8,000 leagues away; the soldier went to get the egg, telling the princess to hang a red one on the window tape every time the sorcerer is not at home; flew to the sorcerer's brother as a bird, hired a cow shepherd; accidentally found a peasant's sword with the inscription: my owner always wins; ripped open the sorcerer's stomach, the wolf caught up and tore the wolf that jumped out, and then the hare, the bird caught up with the pigeon and took possession of the egg, handed it to the princess, who crushed it on the sorcerer's stomach; sent it to the king father; he received a soldier for a deceiver and put him in prison, but he escaped as an ant; a princess arrived and a soldier married her]: Sébillot 1880, No. 9:61-65; the French (Switzerland) [a stranger gave the man money, for this he gave him his son; the young man is left in a dark room; then a window opens, there is a vegetable garden and three girls; they explain that the life of the giant owner is in a magpie egg; the young man leaves, meets, takes as an assistant to a lion, a dog, a magpie, an ant; they give him the strength to take the form of these animals; he sees a princess given to a dragon; in the form of a lion he fights him, the dragon promises to give the princess another day; but with the second princess; with the third - this time a lion kills a dragon; by a hare, a young man turns into a hound, catches up with him; from a hare forty, catches up with a magpie, takes an egg; the giant's house closed, a young man enters there in the form of an ant, breaks an egg, a giant dies, a young man marries a younger girl]: Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 46:141-147; Germans [the witch has three sons; she is the eldest turned into an eagle, the middle to a whale, wanted to make the youngest a wolf or bear, but he ran away from home; the queen is languishing in captivity in the castle of the golden Sun; 23 young men have already died trying to rescue her; two the giant is arguing over a hat that takes him anywhere; the young man offers to give it to him: he will go and give it to the first one who reaches him; wearing a hat, he is transferred to the Sun Castle; royal ugly, its true appearance is only visible in the mirror; to kill the wizard, you have to take out a crystal ball and show it to him; a ball in a fire egg, an egg in a bird, a bird in a bison; if the egg falls to the ground, that's it will burn and melt; the young man killed the bison, the eagle brother caught up and killed the bird, the egg fell into a hut by the sea, the whale brother filled it with water and extinguished the fire; when he saw the ball, the wizard said that his power was gone, lord the castle will be a young man, his brothers are disgraced, he marries a queen]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 197:572-574 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:440-441); Irish: Curtin 1975 [the weaver and his daughter go for firewood; the rider asks to give him his daughter, offers as much gold as the girl weighs; the weaver agrees, tells his wife that the daughter is missing; the same with the second, with the third daughter, they give silver and copper for them; weaver He buries treasures, tells the truth to his wife; a son is born; at school he learns about the fate of his sisters, goes to look for them; shares bread with a red-haired man; he gives a sword of sharpness, a fabric of abundance, a cape of darkness (i.e. invincible sword, magic tablecloth, invisible cape); the young man consistently comes to his sisters; their husbands, a ram, a salmon, an eagle, take the form of people at night; give the young man a piece of wool, a piece of fin, feather; a young man comes to a beauty kidnapped by an ogre giant, seriously injures him; a giant tells the beauty that his life is in a chest at the bottom of the sea, there is a duck in it, an egg in it; salmon is pulled out the chest, the rams break it, the eagles kill the duck; the beauty breaks the egg, the giant dies, the young man marries the kidnapped, takes the giant's treasures, visits the sisters, brings his wife home, returns magic items for a red-haired man; he says he is the brother of a ram, salmon and an eagle]: 26-36; McManus 1915 [a noble man forgets to lock his daughter's house when he leaves; the eldest says he will marry an officer the middle one is for the soldier, the youngest is for the white deer; a week later, the grooms take their wives; the youngest answers the Deer that he wants to see him as a man at night and a deer during the day, and not vice versa; a year later she goes to visit the house, the husband warns not to drop a tear; at home she gives birth to a boy, he is taken away; the same year later, she gives birth to a girl, drops a tear into her handkerchief; when she returns, the Deer's house is in ruins; she goes after her husband's cart, she consistently gets to his three sisters, who give her scissors that make clothes, a magic tablecloth, a comb that makes her hair beautiful; she finds her children's sisters in their homes, her daughter has lost an eye, she inserts a fallen tear into her eye socket, her eye recovers; her husband goes over a mountain of needles; the wife has been serving a blacksmith for a year, he forges iron shoes for her; she crosses a mountain; in that world her husband has another wife, she sends her husband's clothes to wash, on which the earthly wife sprayed blood before parting; blood is not washed off, laundresses are executed; earthly wife easily washes off stains; buys three nights with her ex-husband for magic items received from his sisters; the new wife gives her husband sleeping pills; on the third night, the servant tells him what happened, he does not drink sleeping pills; the husband explains to his earthly wife that life is new - in a mole, you have to throw an egg at it, it's in a duck, a duck in a lamb that kills a lamb, an earthly wife throws an egg at a mole; a new wife dies, a family reunites]: 185-191; Scots [the siren asks the fisherman for a son in exchange for a rich catch; he says he is childless; she gives three seeds for his wife, a mare, a dog, and three seeds to plant; they will give birth to three sons, foals, puppies; three trees will grow, if one of the brothers dies, the tree will dry up; since then the catch is rich, but when the eldest son is 3 years old, the father must send him to a siren; she extends the deadline twice, but A 14-year-old boy tells him to make a sword for him, goes by himself; helps the dog, falcon and otter to divide the sheep's corpse fairly, they promise to help; he hires to herd the king's cows, but pasture scarce, cows are not milked, so the shepherd is not fed; the next time he came to the green pasture; the giant said it was him, wanted to eat it, but the dog ran, jumped on his back, the young man cut it off the giant's head; next time the same with the second giant; the princess must be given to the three-headed monster; the young man goes with her three times to the lake, cuts her off on the head; each time the general attributes victory himself; before the battle, the young man falls asleep every time, the princess wakes him up with one of her jewelry on him; the general is unable to raise his severed heads, the princess marries the young man; his monster drags him into the lake, the princess buys him back with her jewelry; the monster kidnaps the princess herself; the blacksmith replies that the monster's life is in an egg, in trout, in a crow, in a white-footed fallow deer on the island ; dog, falcon, otter help catch them all, the monster returns the princess, dies; nearby is a castle from where they do not return; the young man goes, the old woman kills him; the tree has dried up at home; the same with middle brother (the princess takes him for her husband, they are so similar); the younger one cuts off the old woman's head, but she picks it up, puts it back; a dog rushes at her, her younger brother kills her with her own sword (or with a rod? Slachdan druidhach), he also revives the brothers; the older brother receives the throne of his father-in-law]: Campbell 1890 (1), No. 4:72-85.

Western Asia. One Thousand and One Nights [episode from The Tale of Seif al-Muluk; Seif al-Muluk finds a black palace with a girl named Devlet Khatun; she was brought here by the son of the king of the jinn, who spends three days with her in week; DH is the princess's dairy sister, who C is looking for; she says that the genie's soul is in the goiter of a sparrow, and a sparrow is in a box, a box in a box, a box in seven caskets, they are in seven drawers, boxes in a marble chest that is drowned in the sea; S., using a ring, a gift from the prophet, pulls out the genie's soul, kills it; the genie becomes ashes; DH and S. build a ship from the door of the palace, sail to the city, where the king is uncle DH; the girl meets her father; S. lives with them in the city]: Salle 2010 (2), nights 768-770:568-573.

South Asia. Punjabi [the fakir lets the queen eat barley grains, she gave birth to a boy; he grows up, takes the Knife Grinder, Blacksmith, Carpenter as his companions; in a demon-devastated city, the Grinder cooks, the dwarf on horseback demands to give him food, turns into a giant, hangs the cook on the banyan tree, eats everything; the same with others, but the prince kills the demon; people come back, the prince makes the Grinder king, leaving the barley stalk: if it dries up, the prince is in trouble; the same in another city, the old woman devours the food, the prince kills her, the Blacksmith remains king; in the third city, the Carpenter becomes king; the prince goes alone, sees the ruby that the river carries; upstream a tree with a golden basket, with a beauty's head in it, drops of blood fall in rubies; he puts his head to his body, the beauty comes to life; she is a kidnapped princess, a genie decapitates her when she leaves; she provokes the genie to tell her where his soul is; she looks like a bumblebee in a goiter, a lark in a cage on a tree, guarding a dog and a horse; we must shift the hay away from dogs to horse, bones on the contrary; the prince did everything, the genie died; the princess washed her golden hair in the river, put one on a sheet, let him go down the river; the king saw him, the old woman promised to find a woman; came beggar, persuaded the princess to find out what the prince's life was like; prince: in my sword; the old woman first changed her sword, then put it on fire, the prince rushed to the palace, but fell decapitated; the old woman delivered to the princess to the king; the barley stalks have dried up, the prince's friends have come, the blacksmith fixed his sword, the prince has come to life; the carpenter comes to the kidnapped, offers to sit in the palanquin, he flies away; the king's sister who sat down with the princess and that the old woman is thrown down; everyone goes back to the prince's father]: Steel, Temple 1984, No. 5:47-58.

The Balkans. Romanians [in fairy tales, the soul of an ogre or witch is in three worms, crickets, beetles, moths; they're in a box, the one in a partridge, it's in a hare, he's in a goat, she's in a pig]: Murgoci 1929:249; Moldovans: Botezatu 1981:17-27 [=Moldavian tales 1968:286-301; dragons stole the Sun; husband and other people go looking for him, wife gives birth to a son named Ion, aka Fat-Frumos; talks about his father; the Black King sends him for the Sun; he takes a skinny oath, this is a magic horse; FF consistently defeats dragons: Evening-, Night- Midnight, giants, cuts off their heads; in In the last fight, the eagle sprinkles water on the strength of the FF, not the giant; FF turns into a rooster, a fly, listens to the dragon's wives promise to turn into a well, an apple tree, a grape bush (drunk, ate apple, berry will die); FF releases the Sun from the dungeon; the Black King tries to catch the Sun, falls from the roof, dies; on the way back, FF cuts down a well, an apple tree, a vine, black blood flows; mother of dragons pursues, FF hides in the forge, throws a hot club into the stalker's mouth, she dies; FF searches for Limbe-Limbeu, the father of dragons; kills a pig, a hare in it, a duck, an egg, three beetles , the third flies to the castle; the castle watchman kills the beetle without knowing that LL's life is in it; FF kills the watchman, burns LL's corpse], 265-275 [the royal couple had a son in old age; adviser: old men they are getting younger after swimming in Saturday water; the king and queen came to Saturday water and were younger, but the serpent took the queen as a payment for their youth; the prince grew up, is extremely strong, the advisers whisper that this one would took the queen away from the snake; the prince asks his father who his mother is; the king: a white flower; the prince does not believe, he is ill; promises to recover by drinking water from the base of the palace; raised the palace and lowered the king to hand; he had to tell the truth; the king teaches him to ring a bridle by the sea; a thin horse came out with his side torn off; jumped so that the rider hit the ninth heaven; on the way to Saturday water, he jumped over the abyss; the prince found his mother, tells the snake to ask the snake where his strength is; the serpent: under the table; the prince: clean it up; on the doorstep; the prince: gild the threshold; the serpent: beyond 9 seas and kingdoms at the dairy lake Kabanikha with blood with steel teeth, two rams butting in it, sparks flying, a quail in sparks, a box in it, three crickets in the box; on the way in the forest, three eagle chicks ask for help: Leia Palea will eat them; a witch has arrived, the prince defeated and killed her; the chicks hid the prince in the younger feather so that his mother would not swallow him immediately when she arrived; the eagle brings him to the lake, leaves the feather to burn if necessary; the prince killed the wild boar, sheep, summoned an eagle, flew to the snake, he is sick; when the prince tore off the head of the second cricket, the serpent agreed to give him the whip of good luck; the prince tore off the head of the third; the whip of luck carried the prince from mother home, father gave him the kingdom]; Hungarians [when he dies, the poor man tells his three sons that, according to the sorcerer, one of them will return the stolen sun and moon, but he does not know who exactly; the king about I learned this and called the brothers to him; promises to make the heir to the one who will cope with this task, and make his assistant viceroy; the younger brother is Kiss Miklos (KM), the elders laugh at him; the king orders to choose horses and weapons; the elders take the best horses and swords, the KM take a seedy and dirty skate, a rusty sword; the horse turned out to be a six-legged horse conceived by the wind that eats hot coals, the sword by themselves; brothers come to the country for 49 kingdoms, across the sea of Operentsia, behind a glass mountain to the silver bridge; KM tells them to hide under the bridge and wait for the 12-headed dragon, whose moon is tied to the saddle ; the dragon's horse stumbled for the first time, the dragon realizes that it will fight KM; KM ordered the sword to cut off his heads, he cut off; KM gave the horse with the moon to his middle brother; the same at the golden bridge, the 24-headed dragon; KM told the sword to cut off the dragon's heads, but they grew back; KM began to fight on its own, but could not defeat it; the dragon: would become a blue flame and the dragon would become red; when the red rose above the blue one, the KM brothers threw at he, as the KM asked them in advance, a piece of sulfur, the red flame went out; sending his brothers with the moon and sun home, KM took the form of a gray kitten and climbed into a house where the mother and wives of dragons overheard them conversation; younger dragon wife: I will become a spring, if the brothers take a sip of water, they will die; the elder's wife will turn into a pear with poisoned fruits; the mother of dragons asks to support her eyelids with an iron beam weighing 1200 pounds so she can see; promises to turn into a mouth such that the upper jaw is in the sky and the lower jaw is on the ground;: swallowed KM and his brothers; the kitten rushed out, the dragon threw it at him the beam and immediately went blind, because her eyelids closed her eyes again; KM reached her brothers on his horse in two jumps and all went home together; on the way, KM cuts a spring and a pear with a sword, bleeding from them; the brothers see an open mouth approaching, hide in the house of the lead melter (Lead Friend, SD); they pour molten lead into the mouth of the dragon, who is dead; now SD offers KM to fight; drove KM into the lead floor with his little finger; lets go for promising to get the Green Daughter of the Green King for him; let the older brothers go; they claim victory over dragons, marry princesses, the elder becomes king; they let the moon and sun horses go to heaven, but they began to shine sadly; KM goes in search, meets, companions Runner, Drinker, Obedala, Freezing in Fire, Seeing far away, Strongman throwing an iron club; The Green King (ZK) demands that Pluto bring his daughter's wedding dress faster than the local runner; but ZK sent his old witch mother to run for more in the evening, and the Runner ran only in the morning; he overtook her, received a dress from Pluto, but on the way back the witch persuaded him to take his time and go together; put him to sleep, grabbed the dress box and ran; Seeing this, the Strongman threw his club, knocking out a horse skull from under the Runner's head, on which the witch placed his head; the Runner overtook the witch again, took away the box and handed it to ZK; he demands to hold night in an iron oven; The freezing oven cooled; ZK demands to eat and drink an incredible amount of meat and wine (Oatmeal and Drank performed); KM got the princess, but as soon as he admitted that he had got her for the other, she disappeared; The seer saw her in the whale's belly, Vipivalo drank the sea, the Runner brought the whale, the KM took the princess out of his belly; the princess was gone again; the seer saw her in an apple hanging in ZK's garden, The runner brought it; for the third time, the princess in a cocoon hanging in the sky; the strongman knocked down the cocoon with a club, the Runner ran and caught the princess; KM let the companions go; told the princess that she should find out what the power of SD was; while he was talking to KM, the princess magically opened 7 iron doors to the basement, took gold out of the lead barrels and told the jeweler to gild the threshold; SD went furious and began to beat princess, but she changed herself with a feature and lay down on the bed; promised not to gild anything else if SD said what his strength was; he refused; then she gilded three more thresholds; still the same; 7 thresholds; after SD admitted this: in a silk meadow under the seventh bush there is a hare, he has an egg under its tail, a hornet in the egg, its strength is in it; at night, the princess reported this to the KM; he became a hound, caught a hare, then flew out hornet; SD died; KM and the princess arrived in the KM kingdom in a luxurious chariot; the sun and moon immediately shone brightly; the sage explained everything to the old king; KM said that as heir to the kingdom of SD and ZK, he leaves this kingdom to his brothers; KM and his wife still rule two kingdoms if they didn't die]: Curtin 1890:477-516; Hungarians: Shustova 1994 [the tree in the princess's garden has grown to heaven; a tornado carried her to heaven; the pig tells the swineherd Janosh to ask the king to sew 7 pairs of clothes and 7 pairs of buffalo shoes and climb wood; when the clothes and shoes are worn out, he will reach the sky; I have come to the kidnapped princess, she convinced the 9-headed dragon not to kill him; the dragon tells him to take care of the horse with five legs, but not to give hot coals; the horse asks for give, I. gives, the horse turns from a thin nag into a powerful horse; but the dragon immediately caught up with them; wanted to kill, but got drunk and fell asleep; the horse explains that the dragon's power in 9 wasps in the pot is in the hares in the boar's head; carries I. into the forest, kills the boar with his fifth leg, I. kills a hare and wasps; finishes off a dragon with a sword; a horse brings me and the princess to the ground; wedding]: 149-158; Klimo 1989 [in the princess's garden a tree with branches to the sky; the 9-headed dragon living at the top took her away; the pig tells the swineherd about this, gives a magic handkerchief, teaches him to climb a tree, wearing out 7 pairs of shoes; there the dragon has a pig's brother: a flying horse; the dragon took the young man as a groom, but ordered not give the horse what he wants; it's hot coals; after receiving them, the horse became flying, its coat was golden; the young man brought a bridle, saddle and spear, but at that time a dragon appeared; the young man persuaded him to drink first wine; the dragon became intoxicated; the young man on horseback galloped into the forest; there was a boar, a hare in his head, a bottle in the hare's head, it contains 9 wasps; when the young man crushed them, the dacon lost its strength, the young man cut off his heads; the horse lowered him and princess down; wedding]: 131-138; Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 302 [the hero, despite the ban, opens the fortieth room, frees the snake (black wind, arap) imprisoned in it; he takes the hero's wife; the hero finds her, the wife cunningly asks the kidnapper where his life is (in the egg; in the pigeon, the one in the boar); the hero destroys the egg (pigeon) himself or with the help of grateful animals, the kidnapper dies], 302A [400 princes are wandering; they violate the mother's prohibition to spend the night in a certain place (the edge of a well, a spring, a mountain); on the first two nights, while the brothers are sleeping, the youngest kills snakes (lamia, hal), goes down to the well, frees 400 girls, they change rings with 400 brothers; on the third night, the arap on a wonderful horse agrees to spare the brothers if the youngest gets him a princess, takes brothers hostage; the hero agrees, receiving his horse from the arap; with the help of a horse and brothers with wonderful abilities, the hero performs the king's difficult tasks, receives a princess; the horse reports that strength arapa in eggs, they are in a dove, a dove in a boar; the hero becomes a shepherd at the priest; fights with the boar, wins with the help of the priest's daughter (she supplies water); the hero presses eggs, the arap dies; the princess the hero marries his father, marries 400 princesses with 399 brothers]: 101, 104; Serbs [a dragon in the form of a hare lures, swallows an older, middle brother; the youngest asks a dragon living with a dragon An old captive woman will find out what his strength is; she kisses a stove, a tree, then the dragon says that his strength is in a sparrow, that in a dove, in a hare, in a boar, a dragon in a lake in a kingdom far away; The prince is hired to herd sheep on the shore of that lake, fights every day against a dragon coming out of the waters; when a local king sends his daughter to kiss a young man, he kills a dragon, dogs, a falcon grab a boar, a hare, sparrow; before killing a sparrow, the hero learns from him where the prisoners are in the dungeon; frees people from all over the kingdom]: Karadzic 1854, No. 8:65-76 (=Wratislaw 1890, No. 43:223-231, =Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:23-29); Albanians [the sister's three brothers are married to the Sun, Month and South; they decide to visit them; they spend the night three times, each time one brother guards the others; the elder killed the lamia, did not say brothers about it; the same middle; the youngest too, but the lamia managed to extinguish the fire with her tail; the young man sees the light in the distance, goes there; on the way he meets the mother of the night, asks her to prolong the darkness; she promises to do so, but he does not believe and binds it; when he goes to a light source, he sees a huge cauldron with 12 ears standing on fire; picked it up, lit the torch, and put it in place; the 12 robbers are amazed by this force: they can lift it up the cauldron only together; they led the young man to rob the king; breaking through the wall, they climbed into the stable; the young man stayed outside; raised the alarm, cut off the thieves as they got out; left it there his knife; on the way back he freed the mother of the night; the king found the dead robbers and a knife; ordered a tavern where food is free, but let everyone tell us what they did; older and middle The brothers told how each killed a lamia, the youngest also about robbers; the king gave his daughter for him; on the occasion of the royal wedding, prisoners were released; half of them were made of iron; the young man persuaded the king free him too; as soon as the king broke his shackles, the monster swallowed the princess and flew away; the young man asks the king to give iron shoes and a staff, promises to return the princess in a year; comes to his sister, whose husband is the Sun; she she hid her brother, the Sun senses a man, but promises not to touch her brother-in-law; advises to ask the Month; he sends to the South; the South also does not know where the Iron Man is, directs him to a huge falcon, tells him to approach he is behind and threatened to slaughter him if he does not tell him where the Iron Man is; the falcon tells him to prepare meat and fix his wings - he is too old; they are flying to a high mountain, the young man cut off the last piece of meat from his thigh; when he reached, the falcon regurgitated this piece and grew it back; the wife hid the young man, but the iron found him, drank blood, and spit out his skin and bones; the falcon saw, flew between the crushing mountains, picked up the beak of the swallow's milk, revived the young man with it; he taught his wife to pretend to be dead and ask her husband where his strength is; iron; in a broom; the wife burned the broom, but nothing happened; pretended to be sick again; iron; on the mountain there is a boar, he has a silver fang, a hare in his fang, and there are three pigeons in the hare, they are strong; the young man came to the shepherd, asked about the boar, he heard, the young man began to fight with him; boar: I would like to sharpen my fangs racine de gouet; young man: I would have flour, fried fish and wine; the shepherd brought everything, the young man killed the boar, took out pigeons; turning two heads, the young man came to the Iron Man, killed third, the iron died; the falcon brought the young man and princess to the king; everyone is happy]: Dozon 1991, No. 15:121-134; Albanians: Lambertz 1952 [two brothers decide to marry the giant Vampiri's wife and woman from overseas; they meet V., he swallowed them, then belched them, brought them home; they agree with his wife V. that she will find out where V. keeps her life; V.: in the garden; in the door; the wife covers the garden, the door with a handkerchief; V. : in the mountains in the heart of a bear; the twin brothers cut off the bear's head, a fox jumped out, a hare in the fox, two doves in the hare, they brought them to V., killed them, one married his wife V., both went to pick up a wife for another; they eavesdrop on the devil in the hole telling his son to throw 3 black and 3 white stones into the sea, a bridge will appear; forgets to say "who hears will petrify"; they returned with Woman Beauty of the World (Kleine Schöne der Erde); only the eldest went to listen to the devil's conversation with his son again; hell: the bride has 3 snakes in her stomach, they will kill the groom on her wedding night, and who will hear and tell petrified; comes to listen again during the wedding; hell: the bride has already killed 30 suitors; snakes must be killed when they start crawling out; whoever hears and gives will petrify and go blind; brothers demanded that the groom do not go to the bride on the first night, but leave him in the room; kill the serpent; in the morning he told everything, became petrified; a year later, after giving birth to a son, the wife sends her husband to listen to the devil; hell: if you kill son, brothers will come to life; the wife killed the baby herself, dripped blood on the statue, the brother came to life and the baby too]: 21-29; Gagauz [the king has 40 sons, 39 want to marry; the youngest fortieth Bald beret the last horse left; every time she tells the brothers that the parking lot is dangerous, but they do not listen; the giantess came, gave wine, 39 fell asleep, Bald secretly followed the woman, she tells her 40 sons kill those who come; Bald kills them one by one when they leave home; marries brothers 39 daughters of a giantess; the same at the next night with another giantess; Bald hung her by the chest, negotiates with beautiful; on the third night, the giant closes the door; releases the brothers on the condition that Bald stays with him; tells him to get the daughter of the Turkish king; Bald meets three arguing over an invisible hat and a flying carpet, which is controlled with a whip; The bald one shoots: the one who brings the arrow will receive a hat, the second will receive a whip, the last is the carpet; he picks up objects and flies away; at night in the princess's bedroom eats left food, moves the candlesticks; on the third night, the hat accidentally slept; The bald man brings the girl to the giant, telling her to say that she has 40 days of mourning for her father and telling her to find out the rear {object what her soul is } a giant; that: a pole; a broom; the girl decorates them every time; then the giant says that there is a lake in the Goose Forest, there are three ducks and a drake, there is a stone in the stomach, there are three flies in the stone; the Bald man took out flies, killed one, then the second, the third, the giant fell ill and died; Bald married a girl, and married the first one he kept for himself; 39 brothers married 39 daughters of the giantess]: Moshkov 1904, No. 63:113-120.

Central Europe. Slovaks [There is a dark country where the sun doesn't shine. The king has a horse with the sun on his forehead, from which light emanates. So that people can live, he takes him from one side of the country to another. Suddenly, the sun horse disappears. People are desperate. The king and his army are going to look for him. They find a lonely hut in the forest. In it, a tall man reads a big book. He tells the king that he has read about him and that it is useless to find a horse with an army, let him rely on him and find it. He asks him to keep a brave warrior as a servant. The soothsayer and servant travel through six countries, staying in the seventh, where three siblings, married to their sisters, rule, and their mother, a striga (witch). The soothsayer turns into a green bird and asks the queens that their husbands will appear in the evening, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. A visionary waits at the bridge and kills the elder and middle brother king. The youngest comes on a sunny horse. The visionary fights with him, their swords break, then the visionary offers to turn into wheels and roll down the mountain. Whose wheel breaks will give in. The king wants to be a cart wheel, but invites the visionary to be lighter. The visionary wants the opposite, the king agrees. The cart wheel breaks the lung. Weven claims he won, and the king replies that he just broke his fingers. Then they turn into blue and red lights, trying to burn each other out. An old beggar walks by. The red fire promises him a kreutzar if he floods the enemy with water, and the blue fire promises him a penny. The beggar loves a penny more, floods the king's red fire. The blue fire turns into a visionary, thanks the beggar, calls the servant, and they leave on a sunny horse. The old haircut decides to take revenge, takes her three daughters in an armful, sits on the rake and flies. The seer, and especially the servant, is hungry; he sees an apple tree by the road. A seer cuts an apple tree with a sword - blood is shed. This is the elder queen. The seer forbids the servant to drink from the spring, cuts it - this is the middle queen; he does not let the rose pick, cuts the bush - this is the youngest. A little magician with a golden bridle selects a horse. The visionary becomes the boy's servant. The boy is eager to get a princess living in a poplar castle that grows out of the sea. The visionary takes the ship, buys ribbons and jewelry, and goes to the castle as a merchant. Kidnaps a princess who comes down to look at the merchandise. She tells her to ask what the magician's power is. He tells her that there is a tree, a deer grazes under it, a duck in a deer, a golden egg in a duck, and a magician's heart in the egg. A visionary kills a deer, a duck, drinks an egg. The princess gives the ship to return home, picks up a sun horse and flies it to his country. When they cross the border of a dark kingdom, the light from the horse's forehead illuminates the country, people rejoice. The seer renounces half of the kingdom, gives his horse to the king, and returns to his home to rest]: Němcová 1857:215-229 (=Wenzig 1857:156-157, 182-191; =Wratislaw 1890, No. 11:75-82); Poles [the guy served with a butcher, went on a journey; in the forest, a lion, a hound dog, a hawk and an ant drove an ox, asked him to kill and divide him; the guy gave meat to a lion, bones to an asu, a tripe to a hawk, an ant - head; everyone gave a fur, a feather, a paw, they will allow them to turn into these animals if they wish; the guy flew to the mountain as a hawk, entered the house as an ant, there is a captive queen; the guy teaches to learn from the dragon the cherished word; dragon: only someone who can turn into a lion, a hawk and an ant will take you away from me; the guy flew to the royal's father; they say that every night a wolf comes and cuts a wild boar, takes the heart away - probably for the queen; the guy was hired as a swineherd; a wild boar tore in the form of a lion, a hare jumped out of it; the hound caught up, tore the hare - the duck flew out; the hawk caught up, tore the duck, the egg in it, there is a golden key in the egg; the guy flew to the queen, unlocked the door; the royal dragon in human form, but with hooves; the lion defeated him, he spread resin; the guy with the royal collected gold and diamonds, returned to the royal father; wedding]: Shcherbakov 1980:50-54; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, 1908; Lapinskaya volost, now Karelia, 18-year-old girl A.S. Filatova, lived as an employee in various in the villages of Pomorye, composes ditties and songs/"folk poetess"/, illiterate) [The Tsar and the Queen notice that someone steals turnips in their garden at night and sends their sons to watch. The two eldest sons didn't see anyone. The youngest Ivan sat on the fence, "sings songs, counts the stars", sees a humped man tearing his turnips, comes up and helps him pick up. The man invites Ivan to his dungeon, Ivan takes his brothers with him. They stay at the entrance, Ivan comes in, beats the man at cards, the man invites Ivan to guess which of the birds is a parrot, a bird, a white swan. Ivan goes out to think on the porch (smoke), the Mukhtotska dog suggests that it is a fly, a mosquito and a louse. The old man gives Mary Tsarevna for Ivan with a large dowry. Ivan's brothers lift Mary in their belts, as soon as they started lifting Ivan, cut off his belts, and he fell into the dungeon. She walks into her grandmother's backyard hut, asks how to get home, she shows the way past Jaitsna Babitsna's hut, warns that she will want to eat Ivan, put it in the oven and advises her to ask show how to sit in the heat properly. He gives Ivan a brush, a comb and a mirror to escape from Jaicna-Babica's chase. Ivan followed his grandmother's advice, put Yaitsna in the oven and ran away. She knocked out the stove flap with her feet and chased Ivan. He throws a comb, a forest grows, Yaytsna gnaws through it, throws a brush - a mountain appears, it gnaws through it, throws a mirror - a river of fire appears, it rushes into the river and burns down. Ivan comes to his city, goes to his grandmother's house, who says that Maria-Tsarevna visits her. The grandmother puts Ivan in the closet and asks where her longing is, the princess replies: "The ram has a horn", the grandmother has gilded her horn. She put it on the table, then Marya said that her longing was in the lake, in the stone chest, duck, egg, and longing in it. Grandma and Ivan caught a stone and took out an egg. Ivan drops it and can't find it, the hare brings the egg. My grandmother put Ivan in the closet, made scrambled eggs out of eggs, and treated Mary to her. Marya's longing passed, Ivan came out of the closet, they told the truth to the tsar, expelled the brothers from the kingdom and got married]: Tseitlin 1911, No. 10:5-7 (=Azadovsky 1947, No. 15:102-105); Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [Ivan Tsarevich sees how 12 swans flew to swim, threw off their feathers, became girls; hid his clothes alone; she asks for return, promises to sail on two ships in 2 years; in 2 years the envious uncle asked for a comrade, stuck a sleepy pin in I.; the girl did not wake up, left a note: I will sail in 3 years on 9 ships; the same; after the third time she wrote that she would never see I.; I. ordered to tie 3 pairs of iron bast shoes, 3 staffs, hats, caftan, prospira; met, did not kill a lion, bear, pike, everyone promises to come in handy; bast shoes and the rest wears out; there is a hut on chicken legs, birch bark heels; "Turn your eyes to the forest, the gate to me"; gives a ball, he rolls towards her sister; sister gives another - to her third sister; bride I. comes to her once a month; her father He put the longing in the egg, the egg in the box, the oak turnkey box on the island, threw the key into the sea; you have to get the egg, the old woman will make scrambled eggs out of it, the bride will eat and remember I.; the lion moved I. to the island, the bear knocked down the oak tree, the pike took out the key, the old woman made scrambled eggs, Marfida (that's her name) ate, remembered I.; the old woman turned I. into a needle, stuck it into the wall, and now took it out; I. comes to Father M. to marry her; he tells me to find the bride among the 12 sisters (a white fly will curl above her); M. tells I. to take the horses and run; turned I. into a chapel, a watchman herself; a well and an old woman with a scoop; a ruff and a pike; a king perch is chasing; pike perch: gnawing the ruff from the tail; there are thorns, the perch is over; seeing I.'s bride, the uncle died of envy]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:123-128; Russians (Vologodskaya; from Afanasyev's collection, p. 84) [nannies cannot calm the newborn Ivan Tsarevich; the tsar himself shakes, promises to marry him Beloved Beauty - three mothers a daughter, three grandmothers a granddaughter, nine brothers to his sister; so three times; on on the ninth day after birth, the prince gets up and goes for the promised NC; old man: your father has 30 horses; they led the grooms to drink them into the sea; which horse will move forward, raise the waves at sea, take it; the chosen horse tells me to lie down, he shoves; shoved twice, the third time did not - such power that he would not hold the earth; I. comes to the old woman, she sends her to her older sister, she sends her to the oldest; she called fish and reptiles, then animals, birds; only the Mogol bird knows where NG lives; is ready to carry it, but needs a supply of meat and water; there was not enough meat, I. cut off a piece from the calves of both legs; when he reached, M. regurgitated and stuck back; I. spent the night at his grandmother's backyard; she hardly woke him up, he got up, beat the heroes who came to marry NK; so three times; I. took NK to his kingdom; when he fell asleep for 9 days, Koschey the Immortal took NK; I. came when he was not, taught NK to find out from Koshchei what his death was; he replies that in a broom; in an oak tree; NK gilded a broom; tyn; Koschey admitted that in an egg, an egg in a duck, a duck in a coconut (bottom conifer with roots), coconut swims into the sea; on the way I. did not kill a hawk, bear, pike; the sea threw the cocoor ashore, the bear broke it, the hawk caught up with the duck, the pike picked up the egg; I. put the egg from hand to hand, and then crumpled it, Koschey died; wedding; and I was here, drinking honey wine, flowing down my mustache, not in my mouth]: Burtsev 1895, No. 41:177-195; Russians (Moscow) [the tsar has sons Vasily, Fedor, Ivan; orders to shoot; where the arrow falls, there is his wife; I.'s arrow in the frog's paws; the tsar orders to bake a cake; the frog shed its skin, went out onto the porch: babysitters, bake like that the priest was at the festival; the king orders the elder daughter-in-law to give the cake to the poor brethren, the middle one to the hungry in prison, the youngest to eat himself; the carpet (the same); the frog goes to the feast as a beauty; I. burned his skin, The princess turned into a cuckoo, flew out the window; I. goes to look; in the forest a hut on a chicken leg is spinning; turn your back to the forest, in front of me; Baba Yaga: Koshchei's wife, his death in an egg, an egg in a duck, in a hare, in a bear, in a casket, an oak casket on an island in the sea in the thirtieth kingdom; gave a ball, we must follow it; I. did not kill a bear, a she-wolf, a falcon, a pike; everyone promises to come in handy; when I. got a chest, a bear killed that bear, a wolf caught up with a hare, a falcon caught up with a duck, a pike took an egg out of the sea; I. took a needle out of the egg and broke it; Koschey died, I. returned his wife]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 37:89-91; Russians (Ryazan) [the queen was walking in the garden, she was carried away by a whirlwind; three sons went in search; the eldest two cannot, the youngest Ivan Tsarevich picked up a stone that covered the hole in the ground; tells him to lower it on a rope; a girl in the garden, a serpent arrives, I. knocked down all three heads for him; the princess called her brothers, these are Wind, Whirlwind, Storm; they answer that the kidnapped queen overseas from the Cat the Immortal; gave a horn call her brothers, they carried him across the sea; cancer, wolf, kite ask not to eat them, promise to help; Ivan's mother turns him into a spider, hides him in cracks; says K. that she dreamed of his death; K.: my death in an oak tree in the forest, under it a chest, a hare in it, a duck in a hare, an egg in a duck, a needle in the egg, his death in the needle eye; I. found, opened the chest, the wolf caught up with the hare, the kite caught up with the duck, the cancer took out an egg that fell into the sea; K . died; on winged horses, I. and his mother flew to the exit to earth, the princess in the same place; the brothers pulled the women out, and I. left; he blew into the horn, the Whirlwind carried him to the ground; he began to live with the old woman in the city; she says that the brothers brought her mother and girl; the girl demands the dress she had; Whirlwind, Wind, Storm are getting; the shoes are the same; the girl came to the old woman, recognized I.; the brothers were forgiven]: Samodelova 2013, No. 64:71-74; Russians (Voronezh) [The boy wants to kill the wolf, but in exchange for his life he tells us where to find the chest in which the life of the Serpent Gorynych is hidden (Immortal Kashshei" ). The boy finds and kills a hare, shoots a duck, takes an egg. He meets two devils fighting over a samobic baton, the boy fires a bullet and says that the owner will be the one who catches it, the devils run away, the boy takes the magic weapon. The boy comes to Snake Gorynych to free his sister, puts a baton on the Snake, crashes the egg, and he dies. The boy brings his sister home. She says that the Serpent ate people every day, hung their heads on a wattle fence. The mother asks why she went there, and the daughter says that that's why her mother cursed her. The mother tells everyone how she suffered without her daughter and promises never to curse]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 36:160-161; Russians (no place of recording) [the little prince is promised nannies in wives Vasilisa Kirbityevna (V.); he grows up, goes for his wife; the debtor is beaten on the square, whoever buys it, will take his wife from Koschey the Immortal (K.); Ivan Tsarevich (I.) buys him, this is Bulat well done (B. ); B. brings V. for I., returns twice, chasing; at the night, K. kidnaps V.; I. throws his ring into the milk with which V. washes, asks to know where K.'s death is; he first replies that in a broom, in a goat (V. decorates them); on the island there is an oak, a chest under an oak tree, a hare in it, a duck in a duck, an egg in a duck, there is the death of K.; I. spares the dog, the eagle, the crayfish, they grab a hare, a duck, an egg, K. dies; B. listens to the conversation of 12 cabbage rolls turned into girls; dog, horse, cow I. will attack him, kill him; whoever tells him will petrify; B. kills animals, I. tells him to execute, he says becomes stony; two years later, a voice made of stone asks I. to slaughter his son and daughter; from their blood B. comes to life, children also come to life]: Afanasiev 1958, No. 158:369-375; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia; p. Zbui of the Zemplin Committee of Hungary) [the emperor has no children, he walks to sorcerers; one replies that the queen spat in the water, swallowed saliva by fish, brought offspring, and the queen has no children; it is necessary catch this fish in the lake under a stone slab and cook it, but so that no one else tries it; the maid tries the fish, the queen eats the fish, throws the bones to the dog; the maid, queen and dog get pregnant and through nine months give birth to a boy; the emperor is frightened; the advisers order to hire nurses; the boys have grown up and went to school; the son of the female Yanko has learned all the sciences and languages; the king is happy; I learn from books that Once there was a sun, a month and stars, but now there is nothing, the earth is covered in darkness; asks his father, the king says that three shufflers (dragons) have arrived; a 24-headed sun grabbed a sun with 12 heads - the month that had was a star; three royal sons saddle horses, went to look for the sun, the month and the star; the father told them that his brother, i.e. their uncle, studied to be a blacksmith in the Shedzmerice Region; the hell brought a letter: brother serves as a blacksmith for these three shufflers and their paternal uncle Laccibrade, who is elbow tall but has a long beard; the sons must go to Schedzmeritz, where their uncle is; there he is 100 meters Iron gates up, 24 comrades blacksmiths and 24 students; taking a letter to their uncle, the blacksmith, the brothers come to the Shedzmerice region, knock, the gate rings, the uncle comes out; making sure that their nephews are welcome accepts; knows where the lights are, because he is the blacksmith of kidnappers, whom he calls devils; one has a house made of gold, the other has silver, the third has copper; they are 24, 12, 6 miles away, respectively; their girlfriends - 48, 24, 12 miles away; at noon everyone leaves before midnight to see a friend - then you have to come; the princes will come to the copper house and the copper gate, where the weakest (with a star); he has a bridge from him to his home friends; his horse does not walk on the ground, only across the bridge; you have to take out one board in the evening to make a hole; I must sit under the bridge and listen to the shuffling go home; the shuffling sits on the horse, the ground is shaking; his horse comes across the bridge to the hole, gets scared, rushes back; the shuffling calms down: there is no horse like him and no good man like him; only his mother-in-law Gynjibaba said she saw Suchiy Yanko, but if he met now, the shuffler would cut him to pieces; I.: I'll cut you down, blows all your heads off, sits on the shuffler's horse, takes his sword and star, throws a star into the sky, she rises to his seat, becomes lighter; the brothers go to the 12-headed shuffling; Y. breaks two silver plaques from the silver bridge; the shuffle promises to chop Suchiy Yanko, mentioned by G. throw meat away to magpies and crows; I blow 6 heads, then 6 more; each one cuts off the end of her tongue, hides it in her pocket, lets go of a month; tells my brother from the maid that he will have a 6-headed horse, brother from the queen - 12-headed, he himself will take the 24-headed shuffler's horse; invites the brothers to take the sun, they are afraid; leaves them the spoon given by the uncle for the matitsa: if it has blood, hurry to help; pulls it out bridges 4 gold plaques; the shuffler promises to chop the son of the dog mentioned by his mother-in-law, throw it away to magpies and crows; I.: I will do it with you; they fight for 24 hours; both ask crows for help, but I promise the more. meat; the shuffling breathes fire, the crows stuff weeds into his mouth, take away the sun, it rises to the sky; the shuffling throws fire even more, the crows in their beaks carry water, pour on I., others grab the shuffling legs, he fell, I killed him, cut off the tip of his tongue from each head; there is blood on a spoon behind the matitsa, the brothers take their horses out to flee; when I appear, they say that they were going to help him, he accuses him they lie, share horses; on the way home, their mother-in-law's hut of shufflers drive home; her daughters met there; I became a cat, climbed through the chimney, the youngest daughter, whose lover had 6 heads, recognizes Me by my eyes, the other two confirm; Gynjibaba: I would know if I saw it; the youngest looks up one century to her mother; G. sees Y., tells his daughters to put him in fur; they think that they did it and burned the fur from which, But I am a sorcerer and escaped; a mother tells one daughter to become a red handkerchief and lie on the road, strangle his two brothers and horses; the other with a silver pear, the fruits of which brothers and horses will choke; the third should become a meadow with silk grass and a well in the middle, people and horses will die from its water; I cut the handkerchief crosswise with a sword, it pours blood knee-deep to horses; the same with a pear, with a well; royal The brother, the chief blacksmith, orders the Iron Gate to be opened because her nephews will run away from G.; she chases with her mouth open, the young men rush to the uncle's yard, his students and comrades close the gate and G.'s eyelids are supported; G. demands to show her Y.; he tells the audience to take up one leaf, and he lets G.'s head into the yard and lock the gate with a key; G. is amazed that some worthless killed six (her daughters and shufflers); Y. replies that he will not let her go; let her become a horse that runs around the light in an hour, better than the Sharkani ones; G.: you can't wait; I ask my uncle for workers with with hammers; they hit G. on the head, she asks for mercy, but does not agree to be a mare; I tell you to hit harder; G. swears to serve faithfully; iron stirrups and a saddle are forged for her; I sit on horseback, take it in my hand a strand of flax lights him, linen does not have time to burn while the mare runs around the world; his uncle praises him, gives him a letter to his father and punishes him not to react, no matter what wonderful things he sees on the way; the brothers go home, towards the ditch is old Laccibrad on a hare, followed by his casing and beard; he says that I am not a man; I dismount, L. is in the saddle and flies away on a horse; I tell my brothers to notify father that the sun, the month and the star are already in the sky, and he will go for the horse, which was made in his uncle's forge out of sharkanikha; he returns to his uncle, he reproaches him for his disobedience, tells him to take a hammer and go to the plain, where L. herds a mare and sleeps on iron saddles and stirrups; he must crush his head, take a mare; when he finds L., Y. decides that he is so small that he is not dangerous, grabs the mare, shouts at L.; he wakes up, hits Y. with stirrups and a saddle; I beg for mercy, L.: his sister will no longer wear I., for although Y. beat her, L. himself beat him, so we should honestly leave; I leave; my uncle sends him back; L. agrees to give the mare if Y. brings him a princess from the other side of the world; uncle: it's in the seventh land, it's easy to get there, any novelty you see must be taken with you, the royal daughter will be given for him ; on the way, Y. sees, takes with him hungry (he gets bread on carts), drank (drinks the river, but can't get drunk), cold (he can't warm up near the fire in 12 fur coats and 12 covers), throwing a hammer at the end of the world; crossing the whole world in two steps; having a huge eye and seeing everything; the king receives them, offers to eat a thousand oxen and bread out of three thousand measures of flour in one supper, drink a thousand barrels of wine and a thousand vodka; Y.'s companions eat and drink everything; the king puts him to bed in an iron house, sends blacksmiths to bring bags of coal, kindles a fire; the freezing one takes off one fur coat and one cover, the coals go out, everyone goes to bed; the craftsmen bring more fire; the freezing one sheds two coats and two covers, the coals go out, the craftsmen freeze to death; the king orders in three hours go to the end of the world and take leather and gold to the craftsman to cast a ring and sew shoes; companion Y. steps once and finds himself with the master; on the way back he enters the city, where Sister G. lets he sleeps, puts his horse head as a pillow, takes his ring and shoes; half an hour before the deadline; the seer sees the sleeper and sister G.; another companion throws a hammer, knocking his horse's head out from under the runner's heads; he catches up with sister G. in one step, takes away his ring and shoes, and the other steps he finds himself at the wedding; I. and the princess are married, given the wagon and the army to accompany him to the border; L. pretends to be married stuck in the swamp, Y. tries to help, L. pulls him knee-deep into the swamp, runs on his horse with his wife; I. rides a Sharkan horse to the Shedzmericki region to visit his uncle; uncle: go to the oak grove, where there is a hollow, through it you will get to a city 7 miles deep into the earth, in the city a three-story house on a duck leg is L.'s home; Y. finds a house, hides by a well, meets his wife: let him know where L. has power; L. to his wife: he is called to war, whoever he helps will win; in response to his wife's persuasion, he explains that a wooden deer drinks water near the well, a chamois in it, a hare in the chamois, a duck in a hare, two eggs in the duck; if you break one, he will lose half his strength and both will die; if you take a golden apple on a gold cord and put it in your pocket, you can take the house with you; L. goes to the seventh land for a month to war; I cut animals with a sword, breaks one egg; L. flies home on a mare - he is still stronger than I.; I break the second egg, L. falls, I kill him; turns the house into an apple, takes his wife home, stops by my uncle on the way, he advises him to return to his homeland and secretly build the house; his father's servants discover an unknown house; the princes are guarding a possible enemy, warmly greeting his brother, he says that he has obtained a mare and married a tsar's daughter from the seventh land]: Gnatyuk 1898, No. 8:39-54; Belarusians (western in Pogar, Bryansk Gubernia) [Fedor Tugarin has to give his sisters for Wind, Hail, Thunder; he finds three for the sake, beaten by Anastasia the Beautiful; he comes to her, their horses graze together, which means that they should not fight themselves, but marry; A. does not tell you to look into the closet, where the Serpent is hanged by the rib; F. lets him go, he takes A.; F. comes to his sons-in-law; takes A.; the horse tells the Snake that we will have time to squeeze the wheat, grind it, eat it; The serpent catches up, kills F., his sons-in-law revives him with live water; A. learns from the Serpent that his horse is from a herd of a woman who kills shepherds (gives them a sleepy potion, mares wander); learns that the Snake's death is in a stone on the island, in which there is a hare, duck, egg, yolk, pebble; F. divides the prey of wolves, bees, crayfish; they bring mares, F. takes a short stallion as payment, takes A. on it, kills the Snake with a stone in the forehead]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 160:383-387; Belarusians (d. Petrashi, cr. Eph. Grigoriev) [The Tsar lived with his son. The son got married, his son was born, and he died. The grandfather and grandson are left. My grandson became 7-8 years old and his grandfather sent him to school. The grandson studied and studied and began to teach the principal. The director says to his grandfather that his grandson goes to Jewish women at night. The director let merchant sons who studied at the same school take on his grandson. They surrounded him, and he was in them with clods of earth, and whoever he falls into is in the spirit. My grandfather decided to send his grandson to the immortal king. I wrote him a letter and sealed it. The grandson needs a mace with him. They make one out of 100 pounds of iron for him. He is so small, says his grandson. My grandfather threw another 100 pounds of iron - they made a mace of two hundred pounds. The boy threw it, drank tea, the mace flew back and split against his knee. Another 50 pounds are added - the grandson throws a mace, which comes back and only bends against his knee. The grandson thanks his grandfather, takes the letter, the mace and leaves. Comes to the sea. It hits the sea with a mace, passes through it. He appears to the immortal king. The king prints out a letter and it says to kill his grandson. The king feels sorry for the boy. He writes a letter to his grandfather. And at the very walls, caps hang 500 pounds each. He gives his grandson such a hat - "a hotel to his grandfather", thinks that his grandson will not carry such a burden. And the grandson puts it on his head, takes the letter and goes back. The sea hits again, and it's dry where it hits. He comes to his grandfather − "Grandpa, the immortal king sent you a gift!" − puts a hat on his grandfather's head, he is crushed and dies. The grandson was afraid that his grandfather had ruined, took a mace and went home. He goes, meets a man with white peas in his box. "Pea, throw peas - let's go around the world." He throws that peas, they go together. They come to the pond. They meet Barbel there. They're trying to persuade him to abandon his pond. He quits, the three of us go. They're coming to town. There is no one there - everyone was eaten by the immortal king. They see that the bathhouse is being heated. We were ready to see who would wash in that bathhouse. Three swallows are arriving. They took off their dresses, turned into girls and went to the bathhouse. The grandson asks Gorokhovik to lock the doors in the bathhouse. The older sister in the bathhouse tells the younger sister to open the door. The youngest kicks the door with her knee, Gorokhovik flies off in 15 miles. Three sisters turn to swallows again and fly away. The next day Gorokhovik returns with the door, installs it back and returns to his comrades. The same story repeats itself: the bathhouse is drowned, the girl swallows arrive, the Barbel supports the door, the middle sister hits her with a knee, the Barbel flies off 5 miles away, returns. On the third day, Knight Davidonovich (grandson) supports the doors. Her older sister hits her with her knee, but the door only flies up, opening the entrance to the bathhouse. And we caught girls there. Everyone got his equal: Gorokhovik was the youngest, the Barbel was middle, and Knight Davidonovich was the eldest. And the eldest wanted to take the Filthy Serpent ("sweet smok") away. The next morning, he summons the Filthy Serpent "to fire". Lots of people are coming. The younger sister advises Gorokhovik to collect stones with which he will beat everyone, but the Snake tells him not to touch, or the Pea will disappear. That's what he did. After beating them all, he met the Serpent, they bowed in front of each other and parted. The next day, the same thing happens with Barbel (he defeats everyone not with stones, but with a mustache). On the third day, it's the same with Knight Davidonovich (he has a mace), but he does not heed his wife's advice and fights with the Serpent. He hits him three times with a mace, the Serpent is alive, and even jumps to Lixander Vidonovich, hits him on the forehead, and he falls asleep. The serpent grabs his wife and flies away. And his friends stay in town with their wives. Lixander Davidonovich has been lying in that place for a year with his mace. One grandmother felt sorry for him for two hundred years, turned over him, and he got up. She said that his wife, the Filthy Serpent, was dragged across the seas, and told him to buy two greyhound dogs and two drakes at the bazaar and go overseas. That's what he did. He comes to the sea, hits it with a mace, goes to the other side. He meets a shepherd, asks where to look for the Serpent. The shepherd points him to the palace and says that the Serpent leaves home every other day. The next morning, Lixander Davidonovich comes to the palace, the Serpent is not there, he meets his wife. She feeds him, gives him water, hides him in a chest, and he tells her to find out where the Snake's soul is. The Serpent arrives: "I feel it smells like the Russian spirit!" His wife convinces him that it was him who was flying around the world, grabbing it, he imagines himself. Sit down at the table and she asks him where his soul is. The serpent laughs, says it's in a broom. The next day he leaves, and she decorated that broom with flowers and put it on his bed. He comes back, senses the Russian spirit, his wife dissuades him, he sees a broom on his bed, laughs at the "idiot woman" - how is it possible to have a soul in a broom! She's crying, she wants to know the truth. He points to her a white goat - his soul is supposedly in him. The next morning the Serpent flies away, the wife dresses the goat in gold and ties it to the table. The serpent comes back, throws the goat away. He sees that his wife "deeply feels sorry for him." At night, she asks him again, and he finally talks about a white stone in the middle of the sea, a duck in a stone, an egg in a duck, and a candle in that egg. If you blow out a candle, get the spirit out of it! The next morning, the Serpent flies away again, and Lixander Davidonovich crawls out of the chest. He goes to the sea and sees a white stone. He goes to him, clearing the sea with a mace. He reached the stone, hit it with a mace three times, and a duck flew out. He put a drake on her, they threw it on the water. The greyhounds swam, caught a duck and brought it to him. He tore up the duck and took out an egg. He comes to the palace. The Filthy Serpent has already fallen ill. But he had a whip of three cowhides. When he sees Lixandr Davidonovich, wants to hit him with a whip, and he pulls out an egg and hits it - the egg crumbles, and then the Snake has a spirit out. Liksander Davidonovich and his wife cut his body to pieces and burned him, but stayed in the palace themselves]: Romanov 1901, No. 13:117−123; Belarusians [Vasily Pepelyshka (VP) asks his father to order him an iron club; threw it over the clouds, put his knee up, the club crumbled into pieces; the VP orders to make a club out of his iron, he is satisfied; leaves, meets Goryn the hero (throws mountains with a pitchfork), Dubovik- a hero (pulls out oaks), a hero boulder (throws boulders), takes companions; they live in a hut, opposite the bathhouse; 4 doves fly there, throw off as girls; each of the heroes takes turns trying prop up the door; girls kill everyone easily; VP found those killed in the corner of the bathhouse, blew, revived, beat the girls with a wire whip, they agreed to become wives; their father is born of Tsmok, immortal; Tsmok expels the army, the heroes beat him three times, fell asleep; the VP fights with Tsmok himself, the severed one grows, Tsmok killed everyone, took his daughters in chains home; the mare from above is golden, from below the silver one revived the VP, and he revived the VP companions; VP came to his wife, told him to find out what her father's death was; first he replies that there was a goat; in a pig; she adorns and dresses them up; Tsmok admits that there is a stupa in the mountain, a hare under her, a duck under the hare, there is an egg under the duck, there is death in it; the VP broke an egg, married that princess]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:154-162; Belarusians [a matchmaker came for the elder, younger sister, they went out onto the porch, blown away by the wind; brother Ivan the Peasant Son goes to look for them, enters the house, the hostess tells me to marry her; do not look through the door, which is tied with bast, covered with mud; he opened it, Kashchei is on chains; asked for three buckets of wine and three loaves, three alder logs and three aspen logs; ate and drank, broke the chains with logs, took Mary Krasa; I. found M., took it; K. asks his three-legged horse if we will catch up; horse: dinner and go to bed, we'll catch up in the morning; the old man returned M. twice; I. came to his sisters, one married to the Sun in a copper house, his son-in-law gave a falcon; the second for Thunder in the silver house gave a dog; I. took M. for the third time, K. caught up with him and killed him; Thunder and the Sun grabbed the crows, ordered the crow to bring alive and dead water, revived I.; he tells M. to find out where K.'s soul is; K.: island, oak, hollow, hare, duck, egg; Baba Yaga needs to get a horse like K.; I. went for K.'s soul; let go of the queen of flies, she promised to help; the same king of crayfish; sparrow; Baba Yaga orders mares to herd; flies, crayfish bring mares; they order to choose the reward of the horse in the scab; Baba Yaga orders to collect the sown poppy; sparrows collect; I. received a horse, he brought it to the island, I. got an egg with K.'s soul; I. took M. away, his horse told K.'s horse not to approach; I. broke an egg, K. died]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:115-122; Belarusians [Vasily Pepelyshka grew up quickly, ordered blacksmiths a 20-pound mace, it crumbled; ordered to make it stronger and heavier; went travel; meets and companions Gorynya, Dubovik, Boulder; everyone says that he is not strong, but somewhere VP; they live in a hut, take turns housework; four doves fly in, turn around beauties, soaring in the bathhouse, one of them easily kills the hero with a roller, then the VP revives him; when he stays alone, he grabs women and hits them with a wire whip until they agree to become faithful wives; their father is Tsmok ("serpent"); sends an army several times, the heroes easily destroy it; he goes by himself, fights with the VP, kills him, because he is immortal and cut to pieces comes to life; the mare revives the VP, he his companions; he comes to the kingdom of Tsmok, agrees with his daughter that she will find out where the father's life is; he first says that in a goat, in a pig, a daughter begins to decorate them; then: in an egg, a duck, a hare, a stupa on the mountain; VP took out and broke an egg, married that princess]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:154-162; Belarusians (Mogilevskaya, Western 1888-1891, d. Novaya Bych, Bykhov. u., from kr. Pavel Ivanova, 45 years old, illiterate) [The wife gets lost in the forest, she is carried away by a bear, after 3 years she gives birth to her son Ivashka a bear ear; after 3 years he grows up and leaves, meets Duba-Dubovik and Gora- Gorovik, three of them go; they find a house, leave Goro-Gorovik to cook dinner, go hunting themselves, Kashchei ("Koschey") appears, demands to bring him into the house, put him at the table and serve food, eats the ox, flies away, Gora-Gorovik cuts another ox, puts it to cook, comrades come, the meat is raw, Gora-Gorovka does not talk about Kashchei; the same is repeated with Dubo-Dubovik; Ivashka remains to cook dinner on the third day, Kashchei arrives, Ivashka refuses to obey his orders (does not bring him into the house or sit down at the table), drags Kashchei into the forest and pinches Kashcheev's beard in the oak crevice, his comrades return, Ivashka feeds they follow Kashchei, but he flew away; the three of them go after Kashchei, come to the forest, Dub-Dubovik clears the road, Gora-Gorovik digs up a mountain, find a huge stone and a hole under it, make cowhides belt, Ivashka goes down, agrees that in a year his comrades will be in the same place; Ivashka goes underground, finds a copper house, where the girl says that they have not seen a Russian person here, they live behind Kashchei the Immortal, the girl offers to marry, but Ivashka spends the night and goes to look for Kashchei; she reaches the silver house, there is also a girl sitting there, the story repeats; Ivashka reaches the golden house, there the girl warns Ivashka that Kashchei is stronger; Kashchei arrives, senses the Russian spirit, the girl calms him down and finds out where Kashcheev's death is hidden (there is a casket in the sea, a hare in the casket, a duck in a hare, an egg in the duck, Hit Kashchei on the forehead with that egg); Kashchei flies away, the girl tells Ivashka, he takes a gun, wants to kill a wolf and a kite (and eat it) on the way, but the animals ask for mercy and promise that they will be useful, Ivashka sees sea cancer on the shore, does not kill, but helps him sail into the sea; in gratitude, the cancer brings Ivashka a casket from the sea, Ivashka breaks the lid, the hare runs away, the wolf catches the hare and tears it, the duck flies away, a kite catches her, tears her apart, Ivashka carries an egg to wash it in the sea, but drops it, the cancer returns the egg; Ivashka comes to Kashchei, hits the forehead with an egg, Kashchei dies; Ivashka takes the girl, regrets leaving her a golden house, a girl takes an egg, rolls it around and the house gathers in an egg, Ivashka puts the egg in her pocket, the second girl collects a silver house into an egg in the same way, the third a copper house; they come to going upstairs (exactly a year has passed), comrades pick up the girl from the copper house, argue who will marry her, she assures that she is "more beautiful" than her, raise girls from silver and gold houses, decide marry them, and the first as servants, and Ivashka cut off his belt on the rise so that he breaks; Ivashka ties a stone instead of himself, his comrades cut off his belt, the stone falls back, Ivashka grieves and leaves; hides from the cloud under the oak tree, birds scream, he climbs an oak tree, covers the chicks from the rain, then gets off and hides, the bird Half-Gritsa arrives, promises to thank his chicks for saving his chicks deliver it upstairs, Ivashka must prepare 2 barrels of any meat; Ivashka collects 2 barrels of snakes, frogs, mice, ties the barrels under the wings, they fly, Ivashka throws meat from barrels, meat into the bird's mouth ends, Ivashka cuts off his caviar; the bird takes him out into this world, finds out what kind of meat was at the end, expectorates, caviar grows; Ivashka comes to town, is declared a shoemaker ("Ivanichka Drunkard"), She does not know how to sew, she lives with a Jew; a girl from the golden house promises to marry someone who sews the shoes she had in her golden house, Ivashka takes an order through a Jew, drinks for two days, on the third day, she rolls a golden house out of the egg, pulls out her skulls, the Jew takes her skulls; the girl asks for the same dress - the story repeats, the third condition is the same crown; Ivashka goes into service to to the blacksmith, pulls out a wreath in the same way; the girl comes to the blacksmith, finds out who made the wreath; they get married; Dub-Dubovik and Gora-Gorovik marry two other girls, each living in their own house]: Romanov 1901, No. 36:340-347.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [Akhmet-Achay Ozenbashsky came to the padishah of the devas; there Elmaz Khanum kidnapped by deva; AA tells her to find out what the deva's soul is in; in a fly, a bubble, in a pot, in a tin, in an iron a chest at the bottom of the sea; AA took out and killed a fly, the deva did not show up again]: Mirer 1940:236-239; Kalmyks [the girl is passed off as an unloved one, she agrees to run away with the shepherd; when she secretly leaves the house, she is carried away by a bear; she gives birth to a son Alvat Khar; he pushes back the stone that blocked the entrance to the cave, kills the stalker bear, comes to her parents with his mother; his grandfather brings him an iron cart staff, he goes on a journey; he wins and takes the son of the mountain (moves mountains), the son of the ear (listens), the son of water; they take turns cooking, the old woman eats everything, ties the cook with her hair; when AH remains, he ties the shulmusk with his hair behind the bush, but she goes into the hole; his brothers lower him on a rope; there the daughter of the khan of the upper land Talvat explains that the eyes and soul of the old woman in three chicks in a chest in a boar in a reed swamp; AH kills a wild boar, takes out the chest, knocks down the chicks that have flown out with an arrow, kills one at a time, the shulmuska dies, AH sends three girls upstairs; when it's AH's turn, the companions cut off the rope, he injured his thigh; broke the mouse's thigh, the other brought leaves, cured; he cured his own; in three poplars, a yellow snake ruins Khan Garudi's nest; AH hacked down a snake, chicks they told the mother, she tells him to prepare meat and water, takes AH to the ground; he cuts off the last piece from his leg; the bird puts it back; AH comes to the country of Khan Talvat, where his rescued daughter they give him for one of the heroes; the rescued person recognizes him, he drives away his companions]: Basangova 2002:81-94; Abkhazians: Inal-ipa 1977:38-40 [Uahsit defeated the giant, became friends with him; he said that The seven Ajvaeishaa brothers (the gods of hunting) have a sister; there are petrified suitors around their house; it is Kalaur who is hung from chains between heaven and earth for molesting a girl; he insults those who pass by, and when they they swear back, they become stony; W. defeats the bride, wins and takes K., takes them back; K. kidnaps the bride; she finds out where his soul is, reports W.; W. kills a bull, chamois in a bull, in a sulfur hare, there are three swallows in the hare, two of them = eyes, the third is the soul of K.; W. kills them]; Inal-ipa et al. 1988, No. 12 [in the steppe, Wahsit defeats the hero, he becomes his sister; his six brothers died striving for a distant fire in the east; W. goes, does as his brother told him; the giant is chained to the sky, he molested the sister of the hunting god Ajveipshaa; W. does not respond to his praise and swearing; Sister A. cannot defeat W., marries him; her brothers again tell him not to answer the hanging giant; W. hits the chain with a sword, the giant carries his wife; the swineherd lets W. wear his skin; W. comes to The kidnapped wife recognizes him by her eyes, finds out where the kidnapper's soul is; W. kills a bison, there is a chamois in it, a hare in the chamois, a pot in the hare, there are three birds in the pot - the soul and two eyes of a giant; W. returns his wife]: 73-81; Shakryl 1975, No. 42 [father tells his sons Mac, Mazhv, Hyanchkut to guard his grave for three nights; H. comes all three times; catches a black, bay, white horse, they promise help; the king will give out the youngest daughter will take the princess's diamond ring for the one who jumps to the top of the tower; H. participates in competitions incognito three times, achieved his goal on a white horse; has taken on his former form; the king orders to gather everyone men, H. presents the ring, he and his wife are settled in a hut; the king is sick; reluctantly also vows H. to go to look for a cure; on a black horse, H. cuts fish into the sea, in which a roe deer, a hare, a casket, The casket is a sparrow, his brain is the cure for the head; H. gives it to his older sons-in-law for their severed index fingers; the same is the medicine for the back (horse's bay; bear bones; severed little fingers); from abdomen (white horse, deer milk, horse puts his sons-in-law's hoof brand below his back); X. defeats enemies, is wounded, the wife recognizes the sling; everything turns out, H. gets the kingdom]: 213-229 (=Bgabzha 2002:201-213); Kabardian people [wives Mysyr Pasha and Efendyko Ismela see a floating apple, eat, give birth to sons named Safyl and Mylyga; both are brought up by EI; he gives M. a horse, S. - a bundle with a portrait of a girl; S. and M. goes to look for her, three old men consistently tell how their brothers died looking for Bartey Janos; S. and M. and their companions sail across the sea, one S. swims out; comes to a beauty kidnapped by another, asks you to know where the other's life is; he lies twice (the wife decorates the door leaf and peg with flowers); life is in three flies, they are in bone gas in a brass box in a steel chest in black stone, who guards a lion; S. catches and crushes flies, returns with a woman and treasures; in the village of a BJ woman in a golden chair descends from the sky; S. plays the reeds, BJ is fascinated, marries S.; she saved M. and his companions, M. marries the one S. brought from the frost]: Khut 1987:143-154; Adygs: Karashev 1957 [Esmuko Eskhot herds the horses of the psha (prince); the bastard (snake) cordones off the herd with his body; lets her go for promising to come to him; gives him a daughter; tells him not to turn to the left road on the way to his father; she turns; his wife's two sisters died there; Aliregu-Algoj (pshi devils) kidnapped and the youngest, but the bastard defeated him, nailed her to the ground with seven hooks; HER is weakened by one hook, AA jumps up, carries his wife; three men at the bridge tell HER that a giant will now come on a boar; wins by driving into the ground; the giant advises to tie his gut around his waist; HER throws his gut on a tree, which cuts the trunk; HER cuts off the giant's head, she hides in a hole; three men lower IT in the basket; HER finishes off her head, sends three girls upstairs; the youngest warns that the rope will be cut off, tells her to sit on a white ram, he will take it upstairs; the rope is cut off, SHE sees sheep fighting, jumps on black, he lets him down into the AA world; SHE throws his wife's ring into the maid's jug, meets his wife, tells him to find out where AA's soul is; in willow (wife decorates willow); in three flies in a box, she's in a hare, a hare in a fox, a fox in a boar in the reeds; Tlepsh makes three unmissed arrows for HER; SHE kills a boar, a fox, a hare, presses one fly; AA asks to finish him off as soon as possible; SHE crushes other flies after AA gives a flying carpet and a stone and towel that make old people young; on the carpet SHE and his wife rise to the ground; forgives her companions, marries them rescued women; makes the mother young; frees his father from his pads, kills a psha tyrant]: 131-141; Ossetians: Dzagurov 1973, No. 45 [a childless person is told to slaughter a black chicken, his wife must eat a goiter; a female eats a crawler, gives birth a golden-haired boy, the wife is ordinary; the female's son performs the tasks of seven waigs (cannibal giants), who give their sister for the woman's son; tell them not to open the eighth chamber; the woman's son opens, frees the seven-headed Waig, who takes his wife; the female's son goes looking for her; finds three comrades (one carries the church, the other runs with millstones on his feet, the third drinks the sea in a sip), they let him down on a rope to the lower world, he sees a kidnapped woman; she finds out that the soul of the Waiga is in swallows, those in the casket, the casket in the hare, etc.; the female's son killed the soul, the comrades pulled the woman upstairs, they threw off the rope; in the corner of the house, the suki's son found Waiga's mother, one fang above the sky, the other in the underworld; she tells him to grab the right horn of the ram, which accidentally grabs the left one, does not rise to the ground , but falls into the seventh lower world; where the dragon does not provide water, devours women; the son of a female kills a dragon to save the prince's daughter; he advises to contact Orlitz, who flies to earth once a year; The Zaliag serpent devours her three chicks every year; the female's son kills him; the chicks hide the female's son; the rain gushes, then the sun shines, then the wind blows; the chicks explain that the rain is their mother's tears, rays the sun comes from her eyes when she sees that the chicks are alive, the wind is from her wings; the bird puts the female's son on his back, who throws her wineskins with beer, bovine carcasses, and finally cuts off a piece of leg; she does not swallow , when he reaches, puts his muscles back; the son of a female kills traitors, reunites his brother with his wife, revives him when the devils turn them into stone]: 162-177; Ingush [the prince has a tree with gold with leaves, someone steals them; three sons take turns guarding; only the youngest does not fall asleep, cuts off someone's finger and head; follows a bloody trail; takes a tree puller, drinks the sea as companions, sharpshooter; they lower the prince's son into the hole; the girl says that they are three daughters of a three-headed eagle, their father has been cut off one head and finger; she asks her father what can kill him; he answers that there is a ram around the corner, there is a hare in it, a duck in the hare, there are three chicks in the duck; the prince's son kills them all, the companions raise the girls upstairs, the youngest leaves the prince's son a ring; tells touch a white horse, it will take you to the upper world; red - stay here, black - you will find yourself lower; companions cut off the rope; the prince's son touches the black one; the old woman says that Sarmak ( dragon) closed the water; the Sarmak gives water three times, then the prince's son kills him; the padishah sends him to the eagle on the black mountain; the young man kills the snake that devours chicks every year; the eagle takes him to the ground; meat not enough, he cuts off his flesh from his leg, on both hands; the eagle regurgitates the meat, puts it back; under the guise of a shepherd, the young man comes to the wedding of the rescued princesses; the youngest recognizes him by the ring; the young man kills traitors, marries, marries two princesses to his brothers]: Malsagov 1983, No. 1:23-29 (=Kibiev, Malsagov 1973:155-171); Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 32 [the prince breaks a jug with an arrow an old woman; she tells him to fall in love with the sister of nine devas; his peer son of an old woman (SS) walks with him; the mother of the devas asks to raise the millstones, wants to run over the SS, he seems to accidentally knock out her millstone teeth; one her fang has plunged into hell, the other rests on the sky; the devas give her sister to the prince; he takes her key, finds the Kremen-deva locked; he grabs the prince's wife, flies away; the SS takes the priest as his companions , carrying a church, water bread (drinking the river), a rumor (listening to ant war), eyed (watching the arrow fly for a year), tearing mountains, running with turf on his feet; they find Kremen-deva, go down to to him under the SS ground; the kidnapped finds out where he keeps his soul (deer, roe deer, hare, casket, three chicks); the SS kills the deva, frees horses and women, the devas feast at the wedding, the prince reigns ], 63 [the prince buys a beautiful handkerchief, goes to look for a craftswoman; buys and feeds a shackled maiden, whom people mercilessly beat; he brings it to the craftswoman's castle, tames the devas who almost killed the prince; the craftswoman becomes the prince's wife; supplies water to the shackled maiden, who shackles, carries her away; she finds out that his life is in a deer, in a box, in three chicks; the prince's assistant catches the chicks, kills them; the prince and his wife return to their father; feast; dev sees that an army is coming at the prince, smashing him; leaves, but promises to always help]: 83-94, 266-274; Megrelians [attacked by the Turks, one daughter-in-law left the baby in the forest, ran away; the king's son, who liked to hunt, saw Ndemi, on whose chest a boy of his age was playing; asked the king for an army; ordered to overlay burn the clearing with straw; Ndemi ran away, the boy stayed; he was taught to live like a human being; he is smart and strong; the king forbade his son to enter the same room; Ndemi's pupil broke down the door, there is a portrait of a beautiful woman - daughter of black ndemi; the king had to let his son go, Demi's pupil went with him; black ndemi gave his daughter, but warned that a white ndemi from the lower world could kidnap her; the prince sent Ndemi's pupil told his father about the wedding; at this time, the white ndemi took the bride; the pupil Ndemi ordered him to be lowered through the hole into the lower world; the swineherd said that the white ndemi was having a wedding feast; disguised as a beggar, the Ndemi pupil approached the bride; advised her to find out what the soul of the black ndemi was; he first said that in the dog, the wife began to caress the dog; then: in a deer in the forest; a ndemi pupil shot a deer, a hare jumped out of it, a box in the hare, containing two flies; the pupil Ndemi blinded them; he came to the black ndemi, tortured the flies, he died; the pupil of Ndemi sent them to the ground in the basket the princess and gold; when the servants picked him up, they cut the rope; he clung to the stones, climbed to the ground; he and the young went to the prince's kingdom; at night, Ndemi's pupil does not sleep; three angels on tree: the young's father will give him a gun, it will shoot him; give him a young dress, it will burn it; whoever reveals the secret will petrify; Ndemi's pupil ordered to give the gun and dress to the servant and maid - both died; A young son was born; the pupil of Ndemi uncovered his sword and looked; the boy shouted that he wanted to kill him; he told everything and became petrified; old woman: weld a hundred ears of Ndemi and a son, pour it on a stone; Ndemi's pupil came to life, and the tsar's son also recovered]: Petrov 1890, No. 2:279-291; Megrelia [the handsome and strong son of poor Geria ("little wolf") shot the old woman's jug and smashed it; old woman: it would be better if you got the only sister of 12 demi living in 12 mountains; G. went in search with his Mathikochi dog; when he crossed 6 mountains, the trees began to fall; voice: only G can go against me .; G.: This is me; rokapi (witch family): sorry for you, they did not return from there; G. drove 6 more mountains, followed by Rokapi's older sister; she gave her three-legged horse; Demi's horse tells me to turn the cauldron over; Demi's sister agreed to marry G.; horse: When Demi sees the cauldron turned upside down, they will be surprised and frightened, because they are all barely able to turn it over; Demi gave sister G., but warned that the Black King will not want to give it up; G. easily destroyed the CC army, and then engaged in combat with his terrible assistant Qvamuritz Khami; he killed him; G.'s wife demanded three months of delay; otherwise let the CC be with her she fights herself; ChC was afraid of this and agreed; G.'s parents went to look for him; saw how some snakes killed others, and then two snakes revived those killed by living water from the river; G.'s mother took water, M. brought him to his son's body and she revived him; he met a huge boar, fought with him for a long time and cut it in half; a wild goat jumped out of the boar, G. killed her; there was a box in the goat, with three swallows in it; G. killed two , grabbed the third; at this time QK was fighting in agony; G. killed the swallow, QK died; G. destroyed everyone in the royal palace and returned home with his wife]: Wardrobe 1894, No. 3:118-124; Armenians [Badikan comes to the steel cannibal Khan-Boh; he makes him an assistant; asks for the daughter of the Eastern king to get; B. and the princess fall in love, B. takes her away, promises to save her; the princess asks where X. keeps her soul; invincible white the bull drinks from the spring every seven days; in the bull there is a white fox, there is a casket in the fox, there are seven birds in it; B. fills the stream with wine, the bull stinks, B. cuts off his head, kills the fox and birds; takes Princess Kh.]: Ganalanyan 1965:158-161 (=Khachatryants 1933:78-84, =Karapetyan 1967:158-161); Turks [when dying, the padishah tells him to guard his grave for three nights; whoever copes with this will receive the throne; three sisters must be passed off as the first to come to marry; the eldest son hears a rumble and noise at night, runs in fear; the middle son is the same; the younger Mehmed kills the dragon; he asks to hit him with a sword a second time, M. says that his mother gave birth to him once; saw an old man with white (day) and black (night) balloons; tied his hands so that he would not let go of the day, came to 40 robbers, offered them to help steal treasures, killed one at a time when they were going up the wall; cut a snake; saw three princesses sleeping, fell in love with the youngest; returned, cutting off the dragon's nose and ears; untied the old man; his elder brother had already become a padishah; at the insistence of the younger, the sisters were given to the lion, the tiger, the bird Anka (he is the padishah peri); the king of the castle, in which M. killed 40 robbers and a snake, agrees with the vizier to identify the hero by arranging a bathhouse for all men; M. identified: he does not have a sword; he asks the younger princess; king: but the demon whirlwind wants her, so she sits in a steel room; M. received the princess, and his brothers received her sisters; as soon as M. left for the forest, a whirlwind took his wife away; M. goes in search, visits three sisters, each husband shows the way; M. takes his wife, jumps away; the whirlwind woke up on the fourth day, slowly packed up, easily caught up, tore it to shreds; allowed his wife to collect the bones; she loaded them on her horse, told them to go where they should go; he came to Anka's wife; Anka gathered all the birds; the old owl was the last to appear, she was alone in the Garden of Eden; from there she brought them living water, Anka revived M.; he returned to his wife: let her know what the whirlwind's life is; he confesses: at the seventh sea level there is an island , there is a bull, a box in it, a dove in the box; there is a spring on the mountain, once a year, 40 sea horses come to him, we have to tame one, he will take him to the right place; M. took out the box, took his wife, killed a pigeon, the whirlwind died, M. became a padishah]: Kúnos 1901:112-133.

Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks []: Amonov 196:337-355; Uzbeks [the Shah ordered to throw the net, but not to pull out the fish; when everyone left, the vizier's son Kasym pulled out: the head was golden and the body was silver; let go of the fish, in the net laid a millstone; the Shah wants to execute him, the teacher begged him to expel K. into the desert; his mother teaches him to choose someone who will reach out for small pieces of cake and leave him large ones; K. rejected one a man, and the other took small pieces, his name is Kalandar, he is a released fish; a black diva kidnapped the Shah's daughter; brothers came to the witch, killed her, released the girl from the chest; she tells her to wait under yellow diva bridge; they drove him waist-deep into the ground, cut off his head, took his beak, unlocked the palace, and the yellow cat had the keys to 40 rooms; the girl killed her, they unlocked the rooms; in one chained women, in another child, the third is old, the fourth is a man; everyone was released; met a green diva, killed; waiting under the bridge for a black diva; he knows about them; they have been fighting for 40 days, his captive threw him under his feet millet, he fell, his brothers cut off his head, but the divas lived; found the key from a black cat, opened a golden chest, with 40 boxes one in the other, blue and black pigeons in the last one, strangled, divas died; the Shah married his daughter to Kasym; at night, the parrot sprayed the girl's face with poison: whoever tells will petrify; Kalandar began to wash the poison, Kasym decided that he wanted his wife, he said he was petrified; the girl smeared the stone with blood from her little finger, Kalandar came to life, became that fish and went into the water]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (2): 65-71; Yagnobs [the bear stole the princess, she sucked a thread, threw a ball out of the cave, Grandfather- The thorn collector found him, told the king that the princess was returned, she gave birth to a strongman; people complain about him because he maims other children in games; he goes on a journey, his name is Hirs al-Dean ("hirs" is a bear); meets, wins, companions Chanor-ed-Din (wears plane trees), Sang-ed-din (rotates the millstones on her finger); they stole the girl, made her a maid, told her to always feed the cat, otherwise she would extinguish the fire; the cat was late for eating, filled the fire with urine, the girl saw smoke, came to the barzanga, she gave fire and a handful of grains; along the trail of the barzanga grains, she came, sucked the girl's blood; C., S. remained guarded, frightened, hid; H. cut off the head of the barzanga, but the head disappeared in failure, promised to harm; H. descends on a rope, there is a captured peri; she learns that the soul of every diva is in a locked room, in a couple pigeons, in two worms; gave the divas drunk, H. took the keys, H. unlocked the rooms, killed worms, the divas died; peri warns that the companions will cut the rope; peri agrees to marry the one who picks up knife, gun and purse H., no one can; in the lower world, H. tells tigers not to touch the peasant's bulls, kills a fox that strangled an old woman's chickens; an old woman advises killing a dragon that devoured the bird's chicks Simurg; in flight, H. feeds Simurg with eggs given by the old woman, lambs given by the peasant; Simurg bites off the last piece from H.'s leg, belches, puts it back; gives the white and black feather to become old or young; only H. picks up a knife, etc.; brothers tied to horse tails; feast, the tsar awarded the Grandfather Collector of Thorns]: Andreev, Peshereva 1957, No. 27:131-138; Shugnans [poor shepherd Jumak fell asleep at the royal horse riding; the king's daughter was going to flee with the son of a vizier with the same name, rode off with J.; gave him royal clothes, and on the way he accidentally picked up rubies on the bank; serves the king, who wants his wife; leads to hang, J. promises to bring a bag of rubies; collects them, this is blood dripping into the stream from the throat of a slaughtered peri; J. revives her; she is kidnapped by divas and killed during his absence; J. persuades Peri to ask the diva where his soul is (in a plane tree, in a chest, in a bottle, in a shirt); J. kills the diva, brings his second wife; the vizier advises the king to ask for the Laughing Flower; this Green Pari from Mount Kof, when she laughs, flowers fall out of his mouth; they fly to Lake Pari to swim, J. takes Green Pari's dress, brings her to his wives, this is the sister of his second wife; brings flowers to the king; he tells bring his late father's sword; wives give a sword, hide J. with an imaginary letter in the ashes of the fire; the king and the vizier agree to be burned, J. becomes king]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 2:60-73; kafirs (kati; western in 1968 in Kabul from a native of villages. Kulem) [the man had three daughters and a son; daughters married diva brothers; the man fell ill, gave his son all the keys to the house and did not give the key to one room alone; when the father fell asleep, the young man pulled out from the key to that room was out of his pocket and opened it; there was a millstone; the young man looked through his hole and saw a beautiful woman; she said: "At one time, your father missed [me], now you're in in turn, you will miss me"; the young man came to his father, who sent him in search; the young man met his sister's maid at the spring; threw a ring into her jug; when the maid poured water on her hands to the hostess, the ring fell into the pelvis; the sister, recognizing his brother's ring, sent him for him; fed him and hid him under the house; the divas returned in the evening; the children began to repeat that the mother's brother was in the basement; the mother was angry, pulled her brother by the hair; the divas stabbed a goat for him; the next day the young man left; met his second sister's maid at the spring; the situation repeated; the same: with the third sister; the young man met a witch who was the sister of the divas; gave her a note from one of her brothers; she recognized the handwriting, let the young man go; the situation repeated with the second and third witches; the young man met the shepherd and asked him where Paradise is the shadow of the sun {the name of the beauty}; the shepherd gave him a staff: "When you reach the river, raise your staff and point to the water; [water] will part and you will go to the other side. You'll get out of there and you'll be in front of the gate. Dice are thrown in front of the donkey and hay is placed in front of the wolf. You throw the hay to the donkey and the dice to the wolf. There are two poles there. Put the one on the right to the left, the one on the left to the right. When you enter the house, pick up the beds spread out, and spread out the collected beds. This house is the house of Paradise - the shadow of the sun"; the young man did as the shepherd told him; R. saw the young man, he asked her where the diva's soul was; R. replied that he did not know; in the evening the diva came and fell asleep; R., on the advice of the young man, took it children in the thicket of thorns; the divas asked why the children were crying; R. said they were asking where their father's soul was; unable to withstand crying, the diva said: "My soul is in one parrot, and a parrot - in a cage. This cage is in a large cauldron, and the cauldron is buried in a hut on the summer." In the morning, the divas flew away, and R. and the young man went to the summer and started digging; they pulled out the cauldron, it had a cage, and the cage was a parrot; the young man tore off his legs, wings and head; the diva fell apart; the young man took R. to his home, his father had a feast]: Grunberg 1980, No. 4:141-145.

Baltoscandia. Estonians (Kolga-Jaani) [the butcher wanders; divides the carcass between a lion, a dog, a kite, an ant; they give him fur, a feather, a leg in gratitude, which will make him three times stronger than a lion, faster dogs and a kite, will give you the ability to crawl into the hole three times narrower than the ant crawls into; the butcher was hired to guard the princess, the hell took her away; the butcher was locked, wanted to be executed; he climbed into keyhole, crow flew in, agreed with the princess; the lion broke the line, the hare jumped out, he caught up with him as a dog, a pigeon flew out, he tore it with a kite, an egg fell out, it had all the keys in it, the butcher and the princess went out, reached home; the butcher received the princess and the throne]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 11:73-74; (cf. Estonians (Sangaste) [a person earns money by going to the forest and making brooms; a well-dressed gentleman offers him a trough of copper money if he gives his eldest daughter; he refuses, but his daughter disappears, and a trough with money appears; the same with the middle (silver), with the eldest (gold) daughter; the couple has a son; he grew up to look for sisters; two are fighting over bast shoes (they will deliver it to the right place), stealth hats and sticks (whoever you hit will disappear); the guy asks for him to try, touched those two with a stick, ordered him to be transferred to his older sister; her husband is a bear, gave fur to call him; (her the house seems to be copper); the same with the middle sister (the eagle gave feathers, the silver house), the youngest (pike, scales, gold); the guy came to hell (vanapagan), demanded the keys to the dungeon; he says that the keys are in a barn; in front of them there is an evil bull, a horse; the guy called a bear, the bear tore them; a dove flew out of the stallion (the eagle tore it), the keys fell into the sea (the pike took it out); the guy released the prisoners, burned the IOU, touched the line with a stick; the sisters' sons-in-law died; they all still live if they didn't die]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 78:241-245); Latvians [Fish, Eagle, Bear tell the old man to give each has a daughter, leaves scales, feathers, wool; they come to the rescue if they are rubbed; the father visits his daughters, each son-in-law gives gold; together father-in-law and sons-in-law extract, destroy life, the trait, stored in fish, duck, egg; spells dissipate, animal sons-in-law become kings]: Arys 1971:129-132; Lithuanians [soldier divided the cow's carcass between lion, dog, hawk and an ant; everyone gave a fur, a feather, etc., giving her the ability to turn into these animals; becoming an ant, he penetrated into the ground, where the girl was looking for a snake in her head; an ant soldier quietly asked her how return the estate to the ground; the girl asked the snake; he replied that there was a nine-headed serpent in the prince's lake, if the ninth head was cut down, a hare would run out, there was a dove in it, a burning stone in the blue, and it must be broken; the soldier returned to earth, became a shepherd to the prince; drove the herd to the lake; fights the snake in the form of a lion, the assistant gives him a drink of wine, increases his strength; on the third day, the soldier tore off his last head, becoming hound, caught a hare, becoming a hawk - a dove, crushed a stone; the estate rose to the ground, the girl is grateful, married the prince's son]: Kerbelite 2014, No. 132:322-328; Norwegians [the king loves so much his seven sons, who always keeps at least one with him; six go away, marry six sisters, and on the way home a giant turns them into stones; the seventh brother leaves on a nag; feeds the crow, saves salmon, gives the wolf his horse to eat; for this he carries it instead of a horse; in the giant's castle, a young man meets a kidnapped princess, hides; the princess asks where the giant's heart is; decorates the threshold, the closet with flowers; the third time the giant says that the soul is in the egg, in the duck, in the well, in the church on an island in the middle of the lake; the wolf brings them there; the keys to the church hang high, the raven pulls them out, the young man grabs the duck, the egg falls into the water, the salmon pulls it out; the young man tells the giant to revive the petrified, then breaks the egg, the giant bursts; wedding]: Dasent 1970:59-68; Danes [shoemaker's son goes on a journey; divides an elk carcass between a bear, a dog, a falcon, an ant; for this they give him the ability to transform into these animals; in the form of a falcon, he lets the princess catch himself; in her bedroom becomes a young man; flies away and returns as a prince, gets a princess; if the sun falls on her before she reaches the age of 30, she will be kidnapped by a demon; it happens, the young man becomes a dog, goes on the trail, finds his wife; she persuades the kidnapper to tell us what his life is in; she is in the lake, in the dragon, in the hare, in the duck, in the egg; the young man in the form of an ant hears all this, flies with a falcon to lake; there, the dragon requires 12 pigs a day; a young man in the form of a bear fights the dragon three times; kills when he was given wine and bread during the battle; when he returns, breaks an egg on the demon's forehead; cave turns into a palace, a young man and a princess remarry]: Grundtvig 1920:148-165; the Swedes [the enemy's life is inside some creature, which in turn is inside another and etc.; most often it is an egg, a griffin, a boar, a bull; when the egg is broken, the enemy dies, everyone is disgraced; in Swedish versions, the hero is usually assisted by a princess and grateful animals: a lion, a dog, a falcon, an ant; the giant's soul is in an egg, it falls into the sea where fish finds it]: Liungman 1961, No. 302:47-49; Western Sami [a giant kidnapped a woman and killed her husband; their son grew up, found a mother, told her find out what a giant's life is like; a giant: in an egg, it's in a chicken, a chicken in a ram, a ram in a barrel on an island in the middle of a burning sea; the young man boated a bear, a wolf, a hawk, a loon, swam; The hawk and the loon crossed the burning sea through the air or under water; the boat was iron, the ox with the bear on the oars; since then, the bear's skin has brown, and the wolf has tan marks on its skin; the bear broke the barrel, the wolf stabbed a ram, a hawk tore a chicken, an egg fell into the sea, but on the third attempt it was taken out by a loon; the egg was broken, the giant died]: Poestion 1886, No. 20:81-83; Karelians [a merchant meets a priest who is going baptize a child; he says that the child will become the merchant's son-in-law; the merchant buys the child from his parents, descends the river in a trough; the miller picks him up; after 17 years, the merchant is visiting a miller; understands what this is the same boy; buys it, sends it to his home with a letter to his wife to kill the applicant; halfway through, the old man asks the young man to show the letter, replaces it with others with orders to marry the giver with the merchant's daughter ; the merchant decides to lime his son-in-law; sends him to a distant city to ask if he has a lot of money; on the way, the young man is asked to know why the oak tree dries; where the keys to the barn have gone; when the carrier is free from his work; a woman hides the guy in a chest, asks her husband questions; he says that the merchant has only half of the money on earth; the oak dries because the girl gave birth and buried a child under him, it is necessary serve a prayer service, sketch out land; keys in his pocket at the very line (which gives answers); let the carrier say "In the name of the father and son and the holy spirit," push the boat away, that person will replace him the carrier; the soul is a feature in the egg, in the bird, in the box, in the chest, in the stone; the guy gets an egg, the hell dies; the carrier says that the guy is the first to return, learns from him how free himself from his duties; the guy gives the keys, tells how to revive an oak tree, returns rich; the merchant goes for his money, remains a carrier]: Evseev 1981:287-291.

Volga - Perm. Chuvashi: Salmin 1989 [someone takes the queen; the two eldest sons go looking, turn into stones because of their squeamish attitude towards the old man; the youngest finds the mother, she says that her soul is kidnapper in an egg, a duck on an egg, a duck in a chest, a chest under an oak tree, an oak tree behind a milk lake]: 89; Chuvash tales 1937:160-166 [=Eysin 1993:97-101; =Shurtakov 1984:87-92; Mamaldyk gives out the eldest daughter Soroka for the Wolf, the middle Swallow for Fish, the youngest by the Last for the Hawk; Arsuri (Leshy) tells M. to marry his daughter; M. goes looking for her, goes to his son-in-law along the way, everyone promises help; M. marries daughter A., he dies, does not tell you to unlock the twelfth basement; M. unlocks, there is a dragon; he takes his wife and palace; the wife finds out where the dragon's soul is (there is an oak in the sea, there is a bull in it, in duck in the bull, three eggs in the duck); wolf, fish, hawk help catch animals, M. kills the dragon], 255-264 [while hunting, the king wanted to shoot the fox, but saw that it was pregnant; he thought about his pregnant wife and decided to spare the fox; on the other side of the mountain, the same fox was met by the royal entourage and also did not shoot, thinking of his pregnant wife; when he met, the king and his entourage We agreed that if they have children of different sexes, they will marry them, and if they have one, let them be friends; both have sons; the young men have grown up; the prince saw a portrait of the princess in the book and fell in love; The tsar says that 40 years ago he tried unsuccessfully to get this princess; gives the prince an army; he murmurs, the prince sends him home; sees 40 people beating one, and he laughs and redeems him lying behind 40 camels loaded with gold; that man, Garambur, promises to get the princess; he will pour out fires all night so that he, G., takes out the princess and finds the prince; in the morning the prince sleeps, the last the fire went out; G. scolds him but continues to serve; the princess in the chest; G. tells the prince to tie himself to her hair and beat him with her foot until she goes down to the ground, promises to become a wife and does not he will give hair from his right armpit; the same from the left armpit; from the pubis ("from the chest"); they came to the house; the prince entered, 12 robbers were feasting there, threw the prince into the cellar; G. slowly took 12 swords out of the house, put the point up, rolled the millstones over them; 11 swords bent, and the 12th cut the millstones in half; G. took this sword, slaughtered the robbers; the prince and his wife and G. began to live in the house; forbidden the prince's wife to unlock the barn; she unlocked it, two wolves, white and gray, came out and carried her away; G. became a fly, flew to the wolves, who made the prince's wife a maid; G. tells her to find out where the souls of the wolves are; they first reply that under the window in a jamb; the princess decorated the joint; the broom is the same; the white wolf: there is a red bull in the sky, a ram in a bull, a hare in a ram, a duck in a hare, there are two eggs in the duck; to get eggs, you have to whistle through the royal ring; G. prince: the ring is on your finger; G. whistled into the ring, a bull has descended from the sky; the wolves ask them not to destroy them; G. tells them to create a palace next to the king's and move the prince and his wife there to the bed, to wake up in their bed; the wolves do everything; the feast]; the Kazan Tatars [the padishah has three daughters and a son; the son is lost; three horsemen consistently promise to take him home if he gives him back sister; for the third time he agrees; in the morning the sisters were taken away; brother goes in search; comes to the old mother of those horsemen; she shows the way; sons-in-law are divas, each gives a pouch; brother comes to his daughter padishah; whoever sees her faints; he unties the first pouch, tables with food appear; the princess asks for a pouch; when the young man gives the third, he tells his friend to tie him to the princess; padishah marries them; tells them not to unlock the twelfth room; the young man unlocks, there is a 12-headed diva, asks for water, promises to save them from three deaths, breaks his chains and takes his wife away; the young man finds a wife, tells them to find out where the diva's soul is; The diva meets twice, who takes away three gifts of life from him; the wife decorates the broom; the poker; the third time the diva confesses that his soul is in an egg, in a duck, in a chest, on the back of a bull in the sea; sons-in-law help grab a bull, get an egg; the young man broke the egg, the diva died, the young man took his wife; then killed his sons-in-law in the same way]: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 64:315-321; Bashkirs: Barag 1988, No. 23 [childless old woman sculpts the son made of dough is Kamyr batyr; he is strong, maims other children, his father drives him away; he meets, takes Name Batyr and Tau-batyr as companions; they sleep in a hut, three girls cook, leave; on the third day the batyrs catch them; in their absence, a karsyk comes to their wives, tells them to look for them in her hair, sucks their bone marrow; I., T. are guarded, they see everything, but are afraid to say; K. cuts off the old woman's head; she promises that there will be a thousand heads; every day there are more demon troops, warriors are defeated, their wives are kidnapped; K. on a rope descends to the lower world; women pinched the baby deva, they say that he cries, wanting to be at the father's soul; dev: she's in a dove, he's in a chest, a chest in a mare; K. kills a deva, companions pick up women, cut off the rope; Azhdaha closed the water, K. kills him; kills a snake crawling eat the chicks of the Samrigush bird; she agrees to take K. to the ground; on the way he feeds it with starlings, cuts off the last piece from the leg, the bird puts it back; K. suggests I. and T. shoot up, fallen arrows kill them, K. gets three wives], 56 [the whirlwind consistently takes away King Garif's three daughters; his son Ahmet dreams of a beautiful woman, goes to look for her, consistently stops at the devas - sisters' husbands; one of them is the owner of birds, the other is animals, the third is aquatic creatures; each gives a magic handkerchief; Lena the Beautiful (LP) sends A. to prison, where those who came to marry her are sitting; agrees with A. that he will marry him if four warriors cannot hold him and he kisses her; A. loses twice, each time he gives LP one of the headscarves; the third time he kisses, marries; finds a deva Kasim batyr behind a locked door, gives him a drink, he gives A. 150 years of life twice, flies away, takes LP away; A. picks up LP three times, K. catches up each time, first takes away his gifts, then kills A.; devas -sons-in-law learn about this when they see blood in the tube left by A.; they are looking for a doctor, only a lame frog pulls out living and dead water, revives A.; LP hides A., stabs the girl, tells Kasim that she cries, wanting find out where he got the six-winged stallion, where K.'s soul is hidden; K. answers, A. listens; first K. says that his soul is in a ram, in a broom, LP adorns them; A. spares the wolf, the hawk, the anthill, the pike, cat; cat distracts the dogs of an old woman who owns mares; K. took out her 6-winged horse; the old woman tells mares to herd, they run away, turning into foxes, pigeons, fish; wolf, hawk, pike they bring them back; the old woman scatters and tells them to collect poppy seeds, the ants collect, the cat pulls out what was swallowed with the mouse; A. chooses a thin foal as payment, this is a 12-winged horse; he carries A. to the island; ways A. takes a saw from the devils; cuts down a poplar on the island, pulls out a chest from under it, kills a duck that has flown out of it, takes three eggs out of it, in which K.'s soul; killing K., returns home with LP]: 154-158, 389-402; Barag 1989, No. 44 [the old man bequeaths his two sons to marry; these are the Bear, the Eagle, the Karagush bird; the eldest marries himself, the youngest leaves; does not kill the duck, she rewards, in the morning he is in the palace with his wife; they have a son, Salim; the hero unlocks the door, followed by the bird Eztyrnak with copper claws; the hero frees her for the gift of three extra lives; E. takes his wife; the hero comes to his sons-in-law, they all fly together on Karagush, he takes his wife, E. catches up, takes one life; so three times; the wife finds out that E. in an egg, in chests, in a copper palace; sons-in-law get it, break an egg, the hero takes his wife]: 202-209; Udmurts [a soldier's son offends other boys as a child; when he is 12 years old, tells the blacksmiths to forge a 300-pound club, carries the whole street with it, leaves; meets and takes Ivan Berezkin and Ivan Dubovkin as companions; they are the sons of a soldier she gave birth to when her husband was on service, and threw it into the water; that is, they are his brothers; one carried a thick birch tree, the other was an oak tree; people are digging a mountain, looking for copper; the heroes turned the mountain upside down, two blue pigeons, the mother of copper, flew out from under it; the same with silver mountain (white pigeons are mothers of silver); with gold (three red ones); came to the house where there is a bull in the oven; ate; three sisters wonder who they were; they went to the bathhouse; Berezkin, Dubovnik tried to prop up the door , her sisters knocked her out easily; when her younger brother supported her, they did not knock her out; three heroes married three heroes; the youngest's wife disappeared; he came to rescue, there were old women - their girls were carried away by a wind demon; his the soul is under 20 oak barks, there is a chest in the oak, a hare in the chest, a duck in the hare, there are 3 eggs in the duck, they contain the soul of a wind demon; the hero came to his wife, ordered him to hang brushes on the shoals and play as if she thought that shoals are the soul of a demon; he says that inside the kid; the wife adorns the kid; without saying where the soul really is; the hero on the way spares foxes, hawk chicks, crayfish; the fox caught up with the hare, the hawk grabbed the duck , the cancer took out eggs that fell into the water; the hero broke three eggs on the floor, three demon heads fell; the hero burned the demon's body, began to live in his house with his wife]: Aldan 1936:35-44 (=Kralina 1976:149-154).

Turkestan. Kazakhs [=1958 (1): 3-35; =Daurenbekov 1979:15-39; after starving a horse toast, the old woman gave birth to a son Yer-Tostik; he injures a chizhik, he confused the old woman's yarn, the old woman tells ET to look for him better missing 8 brothers who starved cattle south; ET holds a handful of hot wheat in her mother's hand, she admits that he has brothers; ET goes looking for them, finds them, brings them; their father Yernazar marries them on 9 sisters, ET on younger Kenzhekei; Peri Bector wants ET for himself; tells Baba Yaga to grab E., he promises her a son; leaves the sharpener in the old camp, ET goes after him on a six-legged horse, Seminogy takes on an excuse; K.'s wife gives him her father's horse as a dowry; ET, grabbing a whetstone, runs away from Baba Yaga, falls into the lower world of the snake khan Bana; he promises him a daughter if ET will get Temir Khan's daughter; ET meets, companions Thief, Windropog, Sensitive Ear, Gorokata, Lake Swallower, All-Seeing Eye, thanks to them, wins competitions (1) The Lake Swallower drinks everything, eats, Sensitive Ear hears about the intention to poison guests, the Thief replaces dishes; 2) the ET horse wins the races: 3) The windbreaker overtakes the old woman Mystan-Kempir, who tried to put him to sleep; 4) the horse pulls the cauldron from the bottom lakes; first white foam on the surface means grabbed; then red foam does not lift; in the end it pulls it out), gets a woman; grateful Bany Khan points the way up; on the way, the wife dies, ET goes with her slave Kunkey; kills a boa constrictor crawling to the chicks; a double-headed eagle (one human head, the other a bird's head) takes him and K. to the ground; peri throws him into the well, the double-headed eagle saves; ET saves Kunkey, married to Shoin-Kulak (the son of Baba Yaga), overhears where the soul of the ShK is; there are 9 boxes in the black goat, 9 chickens in the smallest; ET turned the head of eight, began to fight the SC, but his strength is strength increases; it turns out that the remaining ninth chicken bred another 7; Kunkei twisted their heads; and if he bred 8, ShK would have won; after killing HK, ET returns to Kenzhukei, both immediately younger]: Sidelnikov 1971 (1): 7-33; Uighurs [the girl is kidnapped by a bear, she gives birth to a hero's son, he kills a bear, returns with his mother to people; his name is Tugluk Batur; the khan is afraid of his strength, the vizier offers to give difficult tasks; 1) kill the dragon; T. rushes with a sword into the dragon's mouth, cuts it from the inside; 2) kill the diva; along the way, T. consistently wins and companions heroes named Er (earth), Chol (desert), Su (water), Tag (mountain), Ashlyanpu (cold noodles), Muz (ice), (Uighur name not given) (millstone), Tomir (iron) -batur; without recognizing T., A. brags that he will run easily, he is defeated himself; in the house of the diva remains to guard while others hunt; the diva ties him with a snake hair, sucks his blood; next time T. remains guarded, the diva injures the diva, follows the bloody trail to the well, descends on his belt; frees two daughters of the diva, whom he was ready to kill for pity for his victims; they explain where their father's soul is (kill two roosters with green beans; go down to the basement, swims in the chest a fish, an egg in it, a box in it); T. burns the box, the divas dies; T. sends treasures, diva daughters, four more women; A. cuts off his belt, T. falls, divas heal him; T. kills a snake that devours the chicks of the Simurg bird; she brings it to the surface, cuts off the last piece of meat for Simurg T. from her leg; the diva's daughters turned four women into cats, they scratched A.; T. married diva on daughters]: Kabirov 1963:125-153; Dungans: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 9 [Jeong Tianyou, the son of a commander, learns that his stepmother has a llama lover; his foal exposes their intrigues (stepmother gives a shirt that would burn a young man, poisoned pilaf; pretending to be sick, requires the heart of a foal; a young man flies away on a foal; lives with an old gardener, hiding his golden hair under his lamb's stomach; the youngest of the emperor's three daughters notices this; Thu explains to the emperor that the watermelon given by the eldest daughter turned out to be rotten because it is overripe, the middle one is half, and the youngest is fresh; the emperor orders daughters choose husbands, the youngest throws the ball at Thu, who came in the form of a lousy beggar; Thu catches animals while hunting, gives them to older sons-in-law, stigmatizes them; crushes enemies led by 9- head werewolf; his soul is in jade, he is in stone, in a box, in wood; Thu breaks jade, cuts his chicken stomach; kills the emperor, older sons-in-law, llama, stepmother, reigns; having extracted life-giving grass and water, restores sight to a blind father]: 79-96.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Chulym Turks [three swan maidens (aka ducks) fly in, clean the house for three brothers; the elder, middle brothers see nothing, the youngest hides the girls' clothes, the brothers get married; the hell comes out pipes under the hearth to drink women's blood; younger brother shoots, hell, taking the youngest's wife, falls underground; brothers lower the youngest on a rope; the woman gives the devil - the iron king vodka, that says that his soul is seven eggs in a box, a box in the stomachs of seven deer; the hero pulls out, breaks eggs, kills a devil born to a woman's son, brothers pick up a woman, the eldest cuts off the rope, picking up the younger one; he falls; sees how the mouse has recovered, gnawing the grass, heals himself; the kite cooks meat, lifts the hero to the upper world, the meat runs out, the hero cuts off the flesh from his leg; the kite regurgitates this piece, puts it to his leg; the hero marries; shoots into the air, an arrow pierces his older brother]: Porotova 1980:76-80 (=Lukina 2004, No. 5. 12:117-122); Altaians [at the old one hero Maadai-Kara has no children; the cannibal giant Kara-Kula is going to destroy the people; MK Altyn-Targa's wife gives birth to Kogyudey-Mergen (KM); a magical black stone is clamped in his hand; MK leaves him in the cradle far away on the mountain, hangs a gut of milk and a cane gutter over which birch sap flows; when the KK takes KM's parents, people and livestock, the mare flees, the KK guards cannot detain her; she turns into a cow, gives birth to a calf; an old woman comes down from the sky; they take care of the boy, he grows up quickly; the old woman tells him about the fate of his parents; he rides a heroic horse through interpreters rocks, jumps over the burning sea; taking the form of a miserable Tastarkai, overhears the conversation of the llamas; the soul of KK and his horse are in two quail chicks, those in a box in the belly of one of the three maralugas (Belt Orion); in order for the maralukhs to go down, you have to torture their calf, he will call them; the calf agrees to scream, the KM pierces the womb of one of the maralukhas with an arrow, pulls out the chicks, kills the KK; he forcibly took Erlik's daughter's wife; she knew everything in advance, wanted to become the wife of KM, but he rejects her; returns her parents and people]: Surazakov 1979:15-153 (songs 1 and 2); tubals (black Tatars) [Karatti Khan old, Kara Gula threatens war; Karatta Khan's wife gave birth, he hid the child under the roots of a birch tree; KG takes everyone to the full, the old man and the old woman remain, they find a child, he grew up, went to look for his father, his name is Tastarakai, he took the form of a bald shepherdess; the blue bull said that the soul of KG was in three quails, in a golden box, in the belly of a maral; the maral rose to heaven, the bull with T. too (the bull became a star, T. - mouse); T. cut his stomach, opened the box, brought quails; KG is sick, T. said that he was a doctor, he was let in, he looked heroic, killed KG; T. came to his father and mother, the people gave him the name Kan-Uletey]: Potanin 1883, No. 109:371-373; Tuvans: Orus-ool 1997:23 [in the Tuvan epic, the enemy's soul is usually outside the body - in a bow string, a layer of soles, or looks like seven wasps in a golden box, hidden in the stomach of three maralukhas], 287-289 [Hunan Kara shot through the belly of the middle of the three maralukhas, a casket fell out of it, 7 wasps flew out of the casket, he killed them, so he killed all the souls of Kara-Kogel Khan]; South Altai Tuvans [Bai Nasar's 8 sons drove 800 horses and did not return; when BN and his wife ate horse breast, his wife gave birth, their son was named Er Töstük ("brisket man"); he grew up; one old woman was weaving, he stepped on a thread and tore it; the old woman told him to look for his brothers better; the father said he had no brothers, he was deceived; another old woman's grandson pulled ET's bow, ET hit him , the boy died; and this old woman told him to find his brothers better; ET found brothers first and then horses, they returned home; BN went to look for nine sisters to marry; found; their father did not tell them on the way back spend the night at the Salt Well (Chushurlug Chuduk), but BN did not heed the warning of her younger sister destined for ET and spent the night there; she sent a man to her father asking for an ET a hemp shirt and the best mare and camel; he did not want to, but gave it away; in the morning there was no mare; BN went to the Saltwell for the night: the mare was there, and next to the jelbag, covered with one ear, the other for himself put it down; BN asks for the camel; Jelbege says she can't get up, let BN come by himself; he comes up, she grabbed it, threatens to eat it, refuses to let him go in exchange for his 8 sons, for 800 horses, agrees to let go if he gives ET; BN promises to leave Jelbig with his son's triangular file, with which he sharpens arrows; says he forgot and sends ET for him; the bride talks about everything ET; he asks my father which horse to ride; BN: sit on a six-legged and take an eight-legged with you; bride: no, sit on the horse my father gave me, wear that hemp shirt; 8- and 6-legged horses They won't last 6 and 8 years; when ET sits on a horse, he tells Jelbig to shout: What kind of children are behind you? she will look around, grab the file and jump away; they run away and find themselves in the underworld of the serpent Bobbuk Khan; the horse tells you not to be afraid of snakes that crawl inside ET and go out; because ET was not afraid, two snakes turned into khans; ET says he came to get Temir Khan's daughter for Bobbuk Khan; he is happy and lets him go; ET meets people, everyone answers (at first not understanding who is in front of him) that he would like to become ET's companion; the first knows how to catch birds on the fly; the second hears everything; the third eats a lot; the fourth drinks and pours the sea back; T. will give his daughter to the winner; ET the mare wins the run; the mountain carrier wins the fight; eats the most; drinks three sips, but the sea level has fallen by only three fingers; the ET horse dives: if black blood flows, he died, and if colorless, he took out a cauldron; first colorless blood rises, then black blood rises, but then the horse swam out, brought a cauldron; the listener heard that T. was going to burn the heroes in the house; a mountain raiser turned the house upside down, they went out unharmed; T. ordered to serve the poisoned meat, the heroes changed their portions and portions of the khan's subjects, they died; ET brought daughter T. Bobbuk Khan; he gave a girl to Chünkee and five men in return; on the way, the men died; ET and her girl spent the night under the larch; it rained, and Khan Gärdi birds in a tree A snake crawled; ET shot the snake with a bow; in the morning hail began and Khan Gerdi flew in; when she found out what had happened, she carried ET with girl S. and the horse to the ground; but Jeelbege's son Schojun Gulak (SG) was already waiting there; he took C. and the horse and pushed ET into the hole; the horse managed to throw a flint into the pit; ET cut out the fire, burned the pen given to him by Han-Gerdy, who appeared, lowered its wing into the hole, and ET got out of it; ET and C. agreed that ET will hide under the cradle in which C.'s son is from SG; she will stab the baby, he will cry, SG will begin to ask why; C.: the baby says he is ET's son, not SG, since SG does not want to leave him around with him his soul (the receptacle of life); SG whispers to the baby (and ET hears) where his soul is; 70 moose will come to the Saltwell, inside the brown box, in the shower box; ET is waiting (moose are afraid to approach, but SG reassures: he killed ET), ripped open the brown belly, 9 birds in the box; he killed 8, left one, came to the SG, began to fight him, ordered C. to kill the ninth; there were 9 birds in the box again, but C. killed everyone and SG died; his son jumped up, but ET threw him into a 70-planted hole; when ET returned home, making a camel, as predicted, gave birth to a camel; the bride waiting for ET became 15 years old again; holiday]: Taube 1978, No. 37:192-206; Baikal Buryats [old man Irensei kills 77-headed Mangadhai who took his herd away; returns home, his wife Untan-Durai gives birth to a boy Hanhan Sokto and the girl Agu-Nogon; I. hunts, his horse tells him that during this time his wife met Mangadhai; during the fight, UD throws black millet under M.'s feet, and I. fell and killed, his thrown in an iron barrel to the bottom of the Black Sea; the horse saves the children; the owner of the forest Orjol Bogdo Khan takes them home; HS kills M. and the betraying mother; After becoming a fish, Abarga Shara Zaghan pulls out the remains of his father from the bottom, revives with living water; goes to marry King Ghazar Khan Nalkhin's granddaughter; fights Mangadhai, his soul is in the nest of the Khan Hirdeg bird on an aspen on a mountain; the bird sends her HS in the form of a pebble with an arrow, HS breaks pebble; the soul of another M. in the yellow sea at his one-eyed, one-toothed mother-in-law, HS comes to his mother-in-law under the guise of M., the soul takes on various forms (animals, birds), HS chases in the guise of other animals , kills M.; marries Ghazar-Bayan Khan's daughter; performs difficult tasks; 1) defeat the hero; 2) bring a puppy (for this purpose he gets iron fetters from heavenly blacksmiths); 3) bring the feather of the Khan bird Hirdeg; in the palace, one girl cries, the second plays, the third sings; these are the daughters of a bird, the serpent Abarga Sharga must come out of the Black Sea, eat them; HS kills the snake with an arrow, XX gives a pen, marries]: Zabanov 1929: 14-19.

Western Siberia. Southern Selkups: Pelikh 1972 [(western 1963); Kybay Ide grows up quickly, goes looking for her missing brothers; comes to an old woman, she gives a horse, refers her to her sister; an old man on the mountain says that 9 pegs with heads, the tenth for KI; the horse raises the KI up the mountain; the woman in the house tells you to turn the horse into a bump, hides KI from the owner Chwochen Keda ("the master of the land"); orders to pour resin, hemp on the horse, rescue a pike, an otter; CI finds an oak, an otter gnaws, knocks it down; a drake flies out, drops an egg; KI breaks the egg on the head of the Cheka, it dies; CI revives the brothers with live water, passes them off former old women (they were younger); heroes turned into rocks on the river; two brothers had one ax, threw it over Ket]: 345-347; Gemuev 1984 [same; oak is knocking down a beaver; KI ripped the belly of the pike, took out an egg]: 145-147 in Tuchkova 2004:261.

Eastern Siberia. Dolgani [the devil's ambassador kidnapped Eridak-Buruidak's sister; E.-B. went to free her with a white angel, whose sister was also taken; E.-B. turned into a bee, flew through the chimney the iron house of devils and penetrated the main line through its top of his head; inside, E.-B. began to tear his heart vein; the devil fell ill, called the shaman, she began to cry; E.-B. killed the main feature and other devils; the camla shaman said that there is a barn with a chest inside; inside this chest is a second, inside the second is a third; it contains the soul of the main feature; if the soul gets to the water, he and all his people will come to life; E.-B. found the chest, the ball jumped out of the third and rolled to the bloody sea; E.-B. managed to split it, the main devil died]: Porotova 1980:113-119; Okhotsk Evens [the epic says that there is a hare inside an octagonal stone, a teal duck in the hare's stomach, and two rock crystals in the teal's stomach that contain the antagonist's soul]: Lebedev 1982:47.

Amur-Sakhalin. Nivhi: Pevnov 2010, No. 4 [the poor young man was lying motionless in the mud in the house; the woman called him; he got up, went breaking trees; went downstream, fell into the trap of an evil spirit, made by the size of a human figure; cilantro flew, began to argue whose trap was and whose prey; a cilantro woman took him to a house with cilantro; he was ironed, two dogs were guarded; next to him in shackles an elderly man is the son of a mountain owner, and a young man and sister are the children of the master of heaven; the man put cilantro to sleep with a song, ordered an iron mouse to gnaw through the shackles, ripped open the stomach of a huge old woman with a chest in it , in the chest of snakes and lizards, a man trampled on them, there are also seven eggs; he breaks these eggs against the bridge of cilantro, they die; far in the sea, a hanging barn, in which the daughter of the master of the sea, will marry someone who He will get to her; a man fires an arrow, she pierces the wall of the barn; then the others, they pierce each other's tails; he runs across them like a bridge, taking them off with him; the woman put a hundred needles at him, then something else, then disappeared; he beat everything off, slashed it with a knife, the woman appeared, he married her, returned to her people he had saved, took his second wife, the daughter of the master of heaven (he bit off her little finger and swallowed it, and now he regurgitated); he has one wife from heaven, the other from the sea, both sons are even more powerful than their father]: 105-114; Panfilov 1965 [the older shaman sister tells her brother that she is ill, sends him to the iron larch learn from the cuckoo how to recover; on the way, a tit, a kuksha warn the young man that his sister sent him into a trap to marry the son of the master of heaven; he does not believe, he sticks to the stone a larch butt; a devil with two heads and a devil with three heads bring him inside the rock; he is teased like a bear; an iron rat gnaws through his fetters, he comes out of the cliff, kills a pig, pulls him out of it the box, with eggs in it, presses them, killing the devils; frees the daughter of the water owner captured by them; flies to heaven, kills her sister and her husband; when she returns, she shoots a cuckoo, she turns into a woman, he does she is getting married]: 230-240.