L19B. A creature with an odd number of heads.

.11.-.17.19.21.-.37.39. (.52.) .55.58.65.

Creatures (any other than ornithomorphic ones) with more than 10 heads or an odd (but more than one) number of heads are described or depicted (if creatures are listed at increasing their number of goals, the row ends at an odd number).

Bantu-speaking Africa. Aka [the chameleon married; when returning with his wife, he shot guinea fowl; a two-headed man appeared and demanded half of his wife to be eaten; the three-headed decided in his favor; then there were people with with varying numbers of heads up to a hundred-headed one; the chameleon said he would bring leaves so that the slaughtered blood would not disappear - it could be licked; he himself brought a leopard wrapped in leaves, which volunteered help; he bit to death a hundred-headed and many others, the others ran away; the chameleon and his wife returned home]: Motte-Florac 2004, No. 25:112-115; bass [stepmother tells her husband to get rid of children from his deceased wife - the youngest girl and the older boy; he overheard him and her sister leave; at the source, the fish start dancing when the girl steps into the water, and when her brother combs her hair, silver falls off her hair; children come to a 9-headed old skeleton woman; they live with her, taking care of her ulcers; the girl became beautiful, the king married her and gave her brother half of his wealth]: Reuss-Nliba, Reuss-Nliba 2014:172-176; duala [the boy and girl's mother is dead, the father's new wife persuades him to get rid of the children; they run away; by the stream, the boy hears the bird explain: if the girl enters the water, the fish will jump on the shore, if she combs her hair, silver will fall; this is what happens; children come to live with a nine-headed skeleton woman, she is kind to them; the girl grows up, the king marries her, gives her brother half the kingdom; he is also getting married]: Binam Bikoï 1977:61-63; sakata [the wife is pregnant, wants meat; once the husband did not get anything; the leopard was trapped, the man let him go; the wife got angry, went to mother; her husband followed her, on the way the dog imposed himself as companions; the wife gave birth, agreed to return, they went home; a dog appeared, demanded that the child be eaten; when a two-headed dog appeared, they had to give it back; then three-headed, they demanded that his wife be chopped to pieces to eat; the man went to get leaves so that blood would not reach the ground; the leopard advised to disguise it with leaves, bring it , jumped out, tore the dogs]: Colldén 1979, No. 36:195-197; Hutu [Isacilisa is the son of a woman from her first marriage; stepfather does not love him; the old woman gives I. a magic wand; the nine-headed serpent in the lake does not give people of water; the leader agrees to marry his daughter to I. if he kills a snake; I. kills a snake, gets a wife; stepfather and half-brother I. apologize to him]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:432-434; maragoli [ a man found a little kitten, began to feed it; his name is Nunda, he is growing up; asks what to eat; the owner: all the cows in the world; ate; the answer and goats are the same; ate the owner (and other people), went to the forest; one a woman hid, gave birth to a boy; he asks where people are; she talks about N., he has 12 heads; they go to the forest; the young man cuts off all 12 heads, rips open his stomach, swallowed out alive]: Kavaji 2005, No. 13:230-232; duala [the boy and girl's mother is dead, the father's new wife persuades him to get rid of the children; they run away; by the stream, the boy hears a bird explain: if a girl enters water, fish will rush ashore, if they brush their hair, silver falls; this is what happens; children come to live with a nine-headed skeleton woman, she is kind to them; the girl grows up, the king marries her , gives her brother half the kingdom; he also marries]: Binam Bikoï 1977:61-63; sukuma [the three-headed and multi-armed giant Simungala swallowed a piece of land with the people living on it, the boy escaped with his grandmother; the boy grew up, S. defeated when he died, cut off his little finger on his left hand, and everyone swallowed came out from there; var.: the man hit the stone, the fragment that flew off hit S., he ordered him to be cut off little finger; S. had many hands, man cut off all; trees came out of the first, animals from the second, people swallowed from the last; S.'s body was buried]: Millroth 1965:193; digo [Hebu's father is rich, his friend Kama is poor; they slaughter a dead antelope, two monstrous birds arrive, one predicts trouble; the next day he arrives again: let a seven-headed serpent appear for K. to petrify; at night, a snake crawls to sleeping H. and his wife; K. cuts off heads, accidentally cuts off the tip of X.'s hat; K. is forced to tell everything (not everything is clear in the paraphrase), consistently stones; H. cries; wife H. tells his father that comes at night (spirit?) K., father tells him to put a noose on him; K. is no longer stone, but breaks off relations with H.]: Arewa 1961, No. 3027:141-142; kaguru [the husband went to the site and the wife went to the forest for firewood; there the serpent told her bring him food, otherwise she would crawl to her house and bite her; she cooked corn husks for her husband, and brought flour to the Snake; then she sliced roosters for the snake; one woman told her husband the truth; he lay in wait the woman with the Serpent; when she left, the Serpent called, he crawled out of the cave, his husband cut off his seven heads; the woman went to the Snake, found him dead, cried; her husband drove her away]: Beidelman 1971, No. 4:21-22; Comorians [when they leave in the morning, parents tell three daughters named M'goma, M'trumbeni and Mwana Anziza (MA) not to give chickens to anyone; every time a hairy horned devil comes, sings, tells him to give him the chicken; the sisters sing back and give; the father waited, cut down the line one by one, cooked the meat, told his daughters to touch it; MA ate a piece, she grew a horn, Mtrumbeni ran to tell her parents, father MA's bore in a mortar was thrown into the sea; fishermen hear someone singing that her sister told her mother, father, that her father was boring; MA became part of the perfume world, covered in fluff and with a horn on her head; this perfume is wasps ]: Hatubou 2004, No. 2:20-25; lamba [a man took dogs, went hunting guinea fowl; an ogre with one head, two, three; a three-headed person says that a person should feed guinea fowl to dogs, those they will get fat, he will eat dogs, and they will eat him; the lizard repeats these words, and then adds: and we, turning to termites, will eat cannibals; termites respond, cannibals flee]: Doke 1927, No. 74: 143-145; ronga [{the beginning is an obvious Portuguese borrowing, the second half of the text is probably the same}; the poor king goes fishing; the seven-headed serpent gives him treasures for promising to give something what he does not know at home; when he returns home, he tells his pregnant wife about the incident; the son was born, grew up; the father says that the snake came for him; the son sings, two people appear, tell him to put the snake seven with a pot of milk; he drinks seven with his mouths, says he is satisfied, gives the boy the ability to understand the language of animals; if he talks about it, he will die; the boy has grown up, married, hears the birds talking, smiles; wife says he laughs because she is ugly; husband hears a rooster explaining to the chicken: the wife should just be beaten; the husband does so]: Klipple 1992:225-226; rongo [cannibal Sakatabela lures people, eats; the boy's mother does not tell him to go west, where his father and brothers died; he goes; his dog identifies poisoned food and drink as a bench you can't get up from; he chooses a rusty sword, cuts off five cannibal heads with them, frees prisoners; releases the horse from the closet, uses a ring to restore its human appearance]: Knappert 1977, No. 9:135-139; pende [mother ordered The son first brought her water, and then go to another village to dance; during this time, the other people left; the son ran after her, met people with one, two, three, five heads; the hundred-headed swallowed him; said he was Mawese]: Frobenius 1983:110-111; bena-canyoca [the rain caught the hunter in the woods, he took refuge with his dogs in a hut; a spirit with two and a spirit with three heads want to eat him, dogs don't; they ask him to get fruit from a tree; they tie dogs; a tree hunter calls dogs, they come running, kill spirits]: De Clercq 1909, No. 7:85-86; Zulu [the chief tells old women to kill his newborns sons, fearing for their power; one wife begged old women to keep her son; he lives with his mother's brother; the chief tells him to leave his son in the forest to be eaten by a many-headed monster, but he raises a young man makes him invincible; he comes, warriors' spears do not hit the target; the young man hits the leader and all his warriors with a spear]: Snegirev 1937 in Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 238:603-606; =Koropchevsky 1874 [by Collaway; name - Uglakanyana]: 50-55; scythe [father learns that the chief wants to marry; the eldest daughter demands that she be sent; refuses to go properly with his retinue; despistically rejects the help of a mouse, a frog, boy, old woman, girl (this is the leader's sister); contrary to the advice of the old woman, laughs at laughing trees; drinks yogurt from a wineskin found; drinks water offered to a person carrying his head under his arm; in the leader's village, cooks food clumsily and poorly; the chief turns out to be a five-headed snake, swallows the visitor; the younger sister is accompanied by relatives, gratefully listens to advice people you meet; cooks delicious food; the snake eats, turns handsome; wedding]: Arnott 2000:189-197.

West Africa. Senegal {ethnicity is not a decree., but probably Soninke - r. Faleme; possibly also maninka} (Ibrahim Ba's recording) [Fanta rejects the grooms, waits for the perfect handsome man, marries Samba-Linger; mother tells me to take an old mare with her; husband's companions along the way turn into bushes, he himself into a lion; his ancestor is a seven-headed monster; the mare tells F. to leave the spits responsible for himself, take three eggs with him; abandoned, they turn into a sea, a forest, a monster; a lion overcomes obstacles, the monster wins; F. violates the ban on spurring the mare with her heels, she rose into the sky with her, disappeared; the lion turned into a mountain]: Mendelssohn 1977:247-258; bambara [orphan washes the dishes, breaks her stepmother's calebas; she demands her whole back, let her go to Tinimine; on the way, the girl sees food that is cooked on fire by herself, fighting pests, animals eating each other; not she is surprised, tells her story, they show the way; T. with three heads, two eyes, many hands makes the calebass whole, gives seven others with gold and treasures, servants to carry them; native the daughter deliberately breaks the calebass; she is surprised at the creatures, refuses to work at T.'s house; she gives seven calebas, tells her to open it only in a locked room; bees and snakes, stepmother and her daughter die in them]: Görög 1979:60-64; mandingo [chief's daughter Maria rejects grooms; the serpent takes the form of a blind handsome man with a monkey tail, plays guitar, M. falls in love with him; the chief gives his son-in-law a raw and fried chicken, he chooses raw; the father gives M. a horse; the husband leads to a tree in the forest, turns into a five-headed snake; at night M. leaves his shoes responsible for her, rides away on his horse; the snake catches up, the horse tells him to slap him once, M. spanks him three times, the horse takes her to the possession of a eunuch who kills all women; the horse looks like a man for three days, it takes all his strength, he dies; M. runs, she again a woman, helping the old man, who gives sheepskin, she brings M. home]: Mendelssohn 1971:164-170; Fulbe: Knappert 1997 (Mali?) [one man's wives went to get water; they quarreled, filled the jug with pregnant mud; she promised the child's water spirit if the spirit helped her clean the jug; the spirit filled the jug with water, helped put it on the woman's head; a girl was born, grew up, went to get water, the spirit dragged her towards her; she asked for one day off from her relatives; her mother, father refused to accept her; her lover protected, killed the seven-headed serpent, coming out of the water to take his wife back]: 142; Klipple 1992 [when Hambodeju is 10 years old, his father-king dies; his uncle (father's brother) takes the throne; H. is grown up, his uncle's son tells him to get out; H. goes on horseback Bonnujuwadu seeks allies to fight his uncle; comes to Elle, the king of the Tuareg city; his son grabs his hat, H. kills him; the three-headed Kurua lives in a pond, gives water in exchange for a girl who they give him every year; it is Fatuma Elle's turn, the daughter of the king and sister of the murdered prince; H. stayed with the old woman, who says that there will be no water until F. is sacrificed; the servant leads H. to the reservoir, H. consistently cuts off K.'s heads that appear out of the water; cuts off the tail, gives it to the servant for storage; the king gathers the people to find out who the hero is; H. shows the tail brought by the servant, says that he has come for military assistance; receives F. and warriors, regains his father's throne]: 121-122; Scheub 2000 [Kaidara, the spirit of gold, has 7 heads, 12 arms and 30 legs]: 95; tangale [there were people with one, two,... and etc. - with 10 heads; a mono-headed man married a girl, took her to him, consistently meets a double-headed man on the way, etc., each time the girl realizes that he will be her husband; she is locked up, tied bell, put the watchman; she ran away without touching the rope with the bell; the many-headed chase, she leaves her excrement (turns into a mountain), urine (the wide sea); the girl returns home, many-headed people stop pursuing]: Jungraithmayr 2002:284-299; Igbo: Ugochukwu 1992, No. 1 [Ejeadammuo wins everyone in martial arts because when his dove sings, his strength grows; E. comes to fight in the land of spirits; consistently defeats spirits with one, two, etc. heads, up to seven; then a spirit with heads, arms and legs all over his body, E., goes out to fight and kills him; spirits chase; on the border of people's land, spirits have time to scratch E. on the back; since then, a human back with a groove], 32 [young man, son of Odumodu, wins everyone in martial arts; goes to fight in the country spirits, the flute player accompanies him, sings a song about the young man's invincibility; the spirit with one head warns that the young man will die when he fights his double; the young man defeats the spirit; the same with the spirit about two, three, etc., up to seven, heads; then a young man's double comes out to meet him; they are equal in strength, the spirit lets him go, warning him that he should not touch the pepper for seven weeks; the young man trembled for seven weeks out of fear until she recovers]: 23-31, 232-243; songhai [the girl says she will not take a husband who has a scar; rejects the suitors; the genie hears this, comes handsome, the girl agrees to marry; on the way back, garments fall off him one by one, he drops his spear, brings his wife and her slave into his hole; hunts; there is no game for a long time; then he eats the slave first, then his wife; the cat comes to her parents, brother realizes that his sister has been eaten; goes to the blacksmith, who forges a spear and sword for him; by the swamp he cuts down the genie's heads one by one, pulls out his sister's remains from his womb, she comes to life]: Prost 1956: 217-219; ecoi [the turtle had two twins and on the third day they cleared the plot for their father's field; the spirits summoned them to compete; the brothers killed many spirits, but two with 20 Ne-Achi heads -Esam but the girl felt sorry for them and revived them; they ran home; to prevent the spirits from entering the village, they left carcasses of slaughtered goats and cows, palm wine at the entrance; the spirits were full and gone; since then on the outskirts villages sacrifice spirits]: Talbot 1912:7-9; hausa [a two-headed cannibal married a woman, led him; meets a three-headed man who asks why the woman is crying; two-headed: because of yours heads; three-headed: wait for her to see our king; they consistently meet cannibals with more and more heads; one day she is sent to bring water to wash her meat when she is slaughtered; she does not know about it, but decides to run; turned into a stump; the cannibals did not find her and returned to her place, the woman ran home]: Tremearne 1913, No. 98:449-452.

Sudan - East Africa. Zaghawa: Tubiana, Tubiana 2004 (1), No. 5 [a girl rejects her suitors, marries a handsome man, he turns out to be a snake, brings her to her cave; she sings about her fate, asking the birds to tell her about her seven brothers; the turtle, the weaver drink the water given to it, but refuse to fly because it drove them away from the grain; the raven flies, sings her song, leads her brothers, each cuts off the head of a seven-headed snake; on the way home, the girl finds an egg, after 6 days a girl appears from it; the rider asks her to give him water, enough, takes him away; the mother then shouts that her daughter should not light a fire; in his absence his other wives light a fire to see her face; she dies immediately, they bury her; a horse, a chicken and a lamb tell her husband about it, he makes a fire in the pit, throws his wives there; when their children scream , Father, he keeps them alive, but then they scream, Mother, he also throws them into the fire], 16 [the seven-headed Tirène snake swallowed the villagers; a woman lived nearby, seven with her sons and daughter; she quarreled with the old woman; the old woman advised, out of revenge, that the girl send her brothers to get a bell from T.'s neck; each brother cut off one of the heads, was swallowed by the other; the youngest remained, cut off his last head, released brothers, all swallowed animals and people from T.'s womb; he was allowed to marry the most beautiful girl; he chose a swallowed slave; brothers brought a bell to the sister; the younger wife has 6 brothers; 1) catching everything that falls from the sky; 2) discovering the ground; 3) throwing a spear to the center of the earth; seeing what is in the sky; 5) running like the wind; 6) cultivating the field; the husband beat their sister; the old woman advised him to tell him that her brothers were stronger than him; she led her husband to them; said that the river was her mother's urine, if he set foot, he would die; he stepped, lost consciousness, she pulled it out; the same with the second river (her mother's excrement); his wife's parents are giants; the servant mistook him for a stick, threw him at the bulls, he flew into the mother-in-law's eye; a week later she said that she had something it caught my eye, his wife pulled him out; he fell into the well, his servants pulled him out; one cow was missing; six brothers, using each of their abilities, began to look for her; she was tied in heaven, they knocked her down from there, they caught; the husband recognized the power of his wife's brothers, did not beat her again]: 47-52, 92-100; Oromo [the man found a bound boy in the cave; he asked him to untie him, kill the seven-headed serpent; Ask your father as a reward for the hat he wore when he was young and your mother for the lamp she lit when she was young; they gave it; the hat is invisible, and two people come out of the lamp to make wishes come out of the lamp]: Basset 1903, No. 31:81-84; the Masai [two brothers go to slaughter a bull where there are no humans, no animals, no insects; the elder gives the younger stomach to bring water; the water screams that it is being taken; the youngest frightened, the elder goes by himself, responds to the water that he takes it on purpose; the same with brushwood; with a meat skewer; a nine-headed evil spirit extinguishes the fire, the younger brother takes his burning eye for fire, swallowed; the elder catches up with the spirit, cuts off two heads, then finishes off; cuts off his big toe, swallowed animals and younger brother come out]: Hollis 1905:115-116; Sudanese Arabs [y Hadariya's wife's man with daughter Nayya and another with three daughters; H. died, half-sisters persuaded N. to ask his father to get a young man named Green Beans (ZB); he has 7 fathers and 7 mothers, his ants, hyenas, lions, slaves guard the palace; the old woman tells ants to take millet (Pennisetum glaucum) with her, something to smoke to slaves, meat to lions and hyenas; ZB began to show different things and to ask if N. is better than them; N.'s father said it was better every time; ZB wrote that it was foolish for N. to wish him as a husband that he would marry a slave; N. told the old woman to sell her, ZB bought her; she left home, leaving a note: it is foolish for the ZB to hope to make N. a slave; ZB found N. and married him; the sisters persuaded N. to learn how to kill ZB; that: you must burn the seven-headed snake, spray the ashes on the bed; the sisters did so; ZB fell ill, his relatives took him away; N. went, met an old man, asked how to kill men in their country; old man: stab a thorn in his head; she stabbed, put on leather and the old man's clothes, asked the birds what they ate; one said that ZB was sick, the other said that if their liver and wings were burned and mixed, he would recover from this drug; N. killed the birds, prepared a potion; cured ZB; asked for his sword and scourge as a reward; brought her home; ZB came, saw them, was surprised; went back; N. followed him; sisters followed her, robbed and blinded her; the nomads picked them up; she became to weave carpets, asked them to be sold to cannibals, the carpet was exchanged for the eyes; ZB came, N. admitted; they burned the sisters, everything is fine]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 13:91-94; Sudanese Arabs (Jaaaliyin) [from the Sultan two wives: a slave with two sons and a free woman with a son Muhammad; every year a palm tree produces dates and a snake eats them; the sons of the slave went to guard, they did not notice anything; M. cut off the snake head; two feathers fell from her head: gold and silver; M. brought silver to his father, the gold one disappeared; the father sends his sons to find him; at the crossroads, the woman gives them food, explains: one road - If you go, you won't come back, but another road of peace; M. went the road of peace; the same snake appeared at the edge of the forest, ate the dates that M. took with him, spat in the water; turned into a man with a sword; he said that the road will lead to the local sultan; he will give two chickens, black and white; they must be caught with his eyes closed; a man with a sword will kill whoever catches a white one but lets go if he catches a black one; M. caught white, but asked him to let him go: he himself is the son of the Sultan; M. returned to the snake; she sends him to the Sultan, who will offer, closing his eyes, to catch horses with gold and silver harness; who caught a horse with gold harness will be punished; (the same as with chickens); the snake sends again to the Sultan: he will give the girl, but her whole body must be carefully wrapped in cloth; if even her little finger is visible, she will burn the village, and the Sultan will punish M.; fingers are visible, the village burned down; the Sultan let go again; M. took the chickens, horses and the girl, finds the brothers who have gone the road of non-return; they ask to go down to the well for water; there is black and white sheep; if you say "white will knock down black", Allah will save; if, on the contrary, you fall down 7 worlds; M. said so, the white ram threw him down; there the old woman, M. asked for water, she gave it, a fly in the water, M. splashed out the water, the old woman scolds him: there is not enough water, a crocodile holds her, gives her one a day in exchange for the girls, the king will give her daughter to someone who saves her; M. fell asleep, the princess's tear fell in her ear M., he jumped up, cut off the crocodile's head; so all 7 heads; marked each with blood; exchanged rings with the princess; the king checked whether the rings were the right, told M. to raise his severed head; making sure that he is a hero, the tsar gave M. a daughter]: Hurreiz 1977, No. 9:85-87; malgashi: Korneev 1977 [his wife's brother came to visit; the husband is afraid that he will stay, asks the sorcerer how to destroy him; sends The one to get bananas to the south is struck by lightning, but his wife's brother has gone north; bounces off the tree that her husband is knocking on him; agrees to lie in a hollow to try it on; the husband covers him with a second boat, nails, his wife's brother dies; asks a red bird, a crow, a kite to tell his wife where his corpse is to be buried; they refuse because people chased them; an unsightly hungry bird agreed; parents killed a zebu for her, discovered a dolblenka, buried her son's bones, his blood filled the lakes; a worm originated in him, grows, grows, his wife feeds him meat, he turns into a seven-headed snake, tries to surround him The village is the village of the sister's husband; next time he grew up more, surrounds the village, swallows all the cattle, people and the brother-in-law himself]: 236-241; Molet 1979 (Merina) [in folklore there is a snake with 7 heads, but not enough known]: 189.

North Africa. Ancient Egypt [three-headed serpent on the painting of the tomb of Thutmose III (18th Ddynasty, 15th century BC)]; Western Sahara [two sisters are married to two brothers; when they leave, they say: if they are born children of different sexes, one family must go east, the other west; one sister has a Nehry Bugam boy, they decide to dress him as a girl; NB has grown up, the truth has been revealed; NB has grown up, goes to look for his own Dayesmus's cousin, with him an ostrich, a camel and a horse, a young camel with a camel, a dog and a raven; the snakes moving the mountains allowed him to pass, the mountains only cut off the tip of the young's tail camels; the NB gives the shepherd a ring to throw milk into a bowl that the chief's daughter (i.e. D.) will take; the shepherd says that the seven-headed serpent requires girls, the last one is the chief's daughter; the NB says to the snake that he came to see such a glorious creature, asks for permission to take one of his heads as a keepsake; then the other five; cuts off the other five in battle, hides it under a huge stone; no one else can raise, the NB gets D. as his wife; foreign warriors injure the NB, take his wife; animals care for him; he defeats enemies, brings his wife back, the mountains and snakes let them through again; everything is fine]: Aris, Cladellas 1999:65-73; Berbers of northern Morocco: Cosquin 1922 [A seven-headed demon ravages the Sultan's garden; Muhammad, the youngest of two sons, wounded a demon, walked along the bloody trail to the well, brother lowered him down; M. frees two princesses, the youngest gives him a ring (if turned, a white dog will appear and take him to the ground) and a rod (calls a black dog to carry him down)]: 493-494; El Fasi, Dermenghem 1926 (Fez) [After four days of meditation and fasting, all 40 concubines of merchant El Haj Ahmed became pregnant and gave birth to boys; the father hides them from people, teaches the Koran and other sacred books; Qartbone the most successful; the fortuneteller tells the Sultan that a person with that name will overthrow him; the sultan orders to exterminate babies, promises a reward to whoever finds K.; the merchant's servant gives K.; but everyone is amazed the good manners and learning of the boys, that the Sultan does not dare to execute them, but orders them to be chained and left in the desert; K. led the brothers to a date palm, under which a spring and two streams - with honey and oil; leaving his brothers there, K. came to the city; a seven-headed monster sleeps under the tree, a saber next to him; when K. cut off one head, the monster orders to cut further; K. cut off 6, but left the seventh; the monster died, and otherwise, all 7 heads would have grown again; the city is empty, only 40 girls remained - the daughter of the Sultan and the daughters of the viziers; the rest of the residents died of thirst because the monster closed the water; K. became a sultan, and made brothers officials and governors; at this time, the Sultan took everything from Father K., and sent him and one wife to the lepers quarter; K. came with the army, sued, made his father a sultan, and sent the Sultan to lepers]: 60-75; kabila: Taos-Amrush 1974 [younger brother Ahmed leaves home; kills a jackal, a lion, a panther, shepherds give him a sheep, a cow, etc., he asks to leave the animal in the herd before returning; the seven-headed dragon does not allow it to approach the water; A. cuts off the heads, asks the Sultan's daughter; he offers to identify her among a hundred girls, the greyhound rushes to her; wedding; sultan warns of danger in the forest; M. goes to the forest, Ceriel swallows him with a horse and a greyhound; the tree at home has turned yellow, Mehand's older brother is going to save A.; shepherds mistake him for A., they say that animals they gave abundant offspring; M. kills C., takes out the corpses of A., the horse and the dog; sees a lizard kill another, revives it with grass; M. revives those swallowed with the same grass; brothers and wife A. and herds returning home]: 117-128; Frobenius 1922a, No. 3 [the boy in his mother's uncle's house asks you to take him home, he doesn't want to stay with strangers; uncle: the house is near, and I'm your mother's brother; I'll tell you what it means a foreign land; there are 77 of them on the ship, the ship drowned, seven clung to the boards; the eagle carries them one by one, this man is the last, throws the chicks into the nest; a man kills eagles, descends a rope from the hair of the women eaten; behind him is a 7-headed Hydra, he jumps off, breaks bones, crawls into the lioness's lair, sucks her with the lions; she went out; he met six companions, the Cyclops saw them, took them to a cave with his sheep, blocked the exit with a rock; eats one at a time, planted on a hot rod; a man tells a fairy tale, the cyclops falls asleep, he dazzles him with a hot rod; goes out covered with the skin of a ram and holding the head of a ram on his head; when he goes out, he throws it into the Cyclops; steals the herd; the robbers take it; in the village, the Hydra has closed the water, gives it for the girls; the robbers sell it to an old man, whose daughter should be given to the Hydra; the man tells the old man to smear himself with honey, the Hydra will lick him; there is no smeared space on the back of his head, the hydra sucked the old man through him, the skin fell, the Hydra crawled away; the man with They leave as a girl, ride a donkey, fall asleep; the lioness ate half the girl; people think this man ate; they took the elder; he ran away from the house where he was kept; after listening to the story, the boy agreed to go home himself (var.: ill for a long time)]: 24-30; Berbers Zooahua (Kabylia) [seven brothers promise to stay if their mother gives birth to a daughter, but the mother gives birth to a son; they leave; on the way, the elders leave the youngest in the well {it is not clear if it is a grown baby or the youngest of seven}; he is sold to one person; a month later he turns white; the owner's wife invites him to run away with her, he refuses; she tells her husband sell the slave, his husband lets him go; he comes to a village where a many-headed dragon has locked the water, gives for the girls given to him to be eaten; the princess's turn; the young man breaks the dragon's heads with sticks as as they appear out of the water; gets a wife and a kingdom]: Basset 1887, No. 35:72-74; Algerian Arabs [ghoul steals apples from the sultan's garden; three sons are guarding; the youngest shot a ghoul; brothers came on a bloody trail to a crevice in the mountains; the youngest was lowered on a rope; below is the Ghoul's palace, with three kidnapped princesses; the ghoul offers to drink a pool of water and eat a couscous pool; the prince begs Allah, his pools are empty; the ghoul decides that he and the prince are equal; the prince hacked the ghoul; sends the princesses upstairs; the youngest gives his ring; if he is turned, white and black rams will appear, they will begin butt; you have to jump on the white man's back, but black will take him to the seventh lower world; the brothers did not pick up the young man, told the princesses to confirm that he had been killed by a ghoul; the young man accidentally jumped on a black ram, was downstairs; came to an old woman, she has 7 sons; has been living there for 7 years, became bored; seven asked the eagle to take the guest to the ground; the old woman cooked 7 pancakes and 7 servings of meat; with a rise to each underground the eagle tier must be fed; the young man dropped the last portion, cut off and gave the eagle a piece of his flesh; eagle: the last portion is fresh, I would throw you off if I hadn't promised to take you to the ground; on the ground, the young man saw the cave is the daughter of the Sultan, she is given to be eaten by a 7-headed snake; every year, having received another victim, the snake gives the townspeople a portion of water; the young man fell asleep, the girl's tear woke him up; after each cut off the snake's heads says that the young man cut off only the first (second, etc.), and the one that the serpent received only the first (second, etc.) blow of the sword; the girl picked up the boy's lost shoe; after killing the snake, the young man came to the city, stayed in the madrasah; the sultan promises a reward to anyone who proves that he killed the snake; many come, but the shoe does not fit them, they cut off their heads; when a young man in one shoe comes, he The second came up, the sultan gave him a daughter and half the kingdom; an unrecognized young man came to his hometown; there was just the wedding of his brothers with the rescued princesses; the sultan recognized his son; expelled his older brothers; the young man received all three princesses, began to live with four wives]: Belamri 1982:36-45; Arabs of Egypt?

Southern Europe. Basques: Barandiaran 1962b [the Pyrenees talk about a seven- or three-headed snake living in a cave]: 8; Webster 1879:21-22 [the giant seven-headed serpent woke up every three months and ate everyone ; people melted a lot of iron, woke up the snake, he swallowed the hot iron, died], 22-33 [the king captured Tartaro, put him under lock and key; the king's sons played ball, he fell to T.; to get the ball back, little Yorge released T., who promised to help; the king promised to eat the heart of the one who let T. go; the mother told his son to run; he was hired by another king as a gardener; the king's daughter fell in love with him; asking help from T. (horse, sword, etc.), Y. killed a snake to which the princess was eaten, cut off the girl's tongues and pieces of her dress; the coal burn says that he saved the princess; the king gives tasks (jump on horseback, pry on a ring brides with a sword; so three times; the king wounds an unknown hero with a sword for not wanting to marry his daughter; after that, the gardener's leg is bandaged; everything is explained; Y. invites his father, gives him the heart of a sheep without salt; opens to his father, he is happy]; the Portuguese [the shepherd gets mighty dogs and a magic sword; the princess is given to be eaten by a seven-headed snake; the hero falls asleep, his the princess's tear wakes up; dogs help kill the snake; the hero cuts off and hides her tongues, takes the princess's handkerchief, leaves; killed but revived by dogs; the deceiver demands the princess as his wife; on the wedding day, the hero appears, shows tongues, ring, etc.]: Cardigos 2006, No. 300:54-55; Aragon [the hero, with the help of his dogs, kills the seven-headed dragon and saves the princess; the deceiver attributes credit to myself; he is exposed when the hero presents his saved dragon languages]: González Sanz 1996, No. 300:74; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 10 [husband of a childless woman: if born son, let him take the hell away; when the young man was 18 and he found out that the line had been promised, he went to look for it himself; stayed with the shepherd, he gave the dog, then at the shepherdess, she gave the second; over the city has black flags, the princess's turn to be eaten by the seven-headed sea monster; if not given, it will destroy the whole city; the young man cuts off the heads, the dogs take them away; he cut them off and took his tongues with him; three Italian coal burners made the princess say that they saved her; the young man returns, shows his tongues cut off; a wedding is being prepared; coal burners locked the dogs, put it in the young man's bed is a poisoned stiletto; he is buried, but escaped dogs do not allow him to cover the body with earth; lick poison from the wound; wedding; coal burners were smeared with resin and burned]: 21-23; Ortoli 1883, No. 18 [ the eldest son went to kill the seven-headed dragon, killed by bandits on the way; the same middle son; the younger Bertuolo rode a donkey Bertyu; B. gave him what his mother baked for him, ate the donkey and died; B. says seven bandits, what he wants to rob himself; gives them the same thing as the donkey, they died; a hundred crows, after eating their bodies, also died; the king first of all demands that he give him a riddle; B.: I had 2 cakes who killed Bertya and seven who killed a hundred; the king did not figure it out, B. killed the dragon, got the princess]: 123-132; the Sardinians [a source of olive oil was opened by vow; the old woman came to get oil , the prince broke her jug out of mischief; she told him to go look for three oranges; the old man met her: let the young man forget he was a prince; old woman: ahead would be a garden with marble statues; among them were parents young men; then the dog explains that there is a seven-headed dragon outside the gate; the young man cuts heads, picks oranges, revives his {parents?}] : Aprile 2000:273-274; Italians (Piedmont; the text is combined from two one-story stories - starting from one, ending from another) [at confession, the priest tells the young man that stealing from thieves is not a sin; he came to the forest to the robbers; they say that they are also sinless because they rob tax collectors; the young man loaded the robbers' treasures on a mule and brought them home; hired the king as a shepherd; he warns not chasing sheep across the stream; there is a serpent that eats sheep; when the young man was on his way to pasture, the princess threw him a cake from the window; across the stream, the young man sat on a rock to eat a cake, and the sheep began to graze on the good grass ; a three-headed serpent crawled out from under the stone; the young man killed him with his staff; one of the heads had a crystal key; the young man opened the crystal door to the dungeon with them, where crystal servants are ready to serve in the crystal world; the young man collected crystal flowers, gave the princess; in the other two heads a snake has the keys to the silver and gold worlds; the king announces the tournament; the young man wins three times on crystal, silver and golden horses; marries a princess]: Calvino 1980, No. 13:40-42; {multi-headed characters are undoubtedly all over Italy, but it is difficult to determine from the signs exactly which texts}; ladins: Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 7 [after his father's death, the youngest son received only three dogs; he was shown a castle where no one dares to spend the night: the seven-headed dragon kills everyone; the young man stayed in the castle; dogs defeated the dragon; the young man forced him to give the key to the basement and show where the treasure was; the dragon died, the young man got it all]: 69-77; Uffer 1973, No. 1 [three young men went in search of the kidnapped dragons princesses; reached a deep crevice; the youngest asked him to be brought down on a rope; there was a princess; dragons appeared successively with one, two, seven heads, the young man cut off their heads; the princess gave her ring; the companions picked it up; decided to throw the young man down, but he guessed their intentions, tied a stone; when the companions cut off the rope, the stone fell and shattered to pieces; a gray fox appeared, told her to hold on to its tail, brought him to the ground; the young man came to the palace, where the princess's wedding with the imaginary savior was being prepared; persuaded him to leave him in the kitchen; threw a ring into his food princess; she ordered to call a young man, the wedding opened; each of the companions was torn apart by four horses]: 5-7; Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 56 [the son chose the profession of a hunter, his parents gave him a gift hunting equipment and a Curasch dog; once killed a fish, a duck and a hare with one shot; the old woman told me not to give them to their mother to cook, but to take them with him tomorrow; he went into the hut; the girl said that robbers would come; there are two beds on the second floor - don't lie in them; told the robbers that she sheltered the beggar, they pulled the rope, knives fell on the bed; he agreed with the girl, they filled the robbers with boiling water, he finished them off with a knife; the old woman said that the leader was saved and now with the girl; the girl would pretend to be sick, ask for milk from the owner's cows, who has 70 cows; there is a bear as watchmen ( throw a duck to him) and a lion (throw a hare); they will serve him; fish should be given to the dog; return to the girl, say that he did not bring anything, hide the animals; the girl will say that her chest hurts, will send him for flour to the damn mill; the ladies will be given a stone to grind, we have to lower a bear, a lion, a dog on them, they will tear them all apart; the girl will say that her chest is gone, ask permission to tie her thumbs; she will break in robber, the young man's animals will tear him apart; he will kill the girl himself; the young man forgot to give fish to the dog, which almost died, but he fed the fish pieces, the dog recovered; the young man did not take the robbers' money, but went tell the king about them; there is mourning in the city: the seven-headed dragon demands a girl every year, now it is the turn of the king's daughter; the young man let his animals on the dragon, cut off his tongues, promised the princess to return in a year and 3 of the day; when he returned, he was told that tomorrow the princess would marry the coachman: he allegedly killed the dragon; the young man sent the dog with a note to the maid; the princess told her father that she was released by a hunter, not a coachman; the young man showed his tongues, the coachman was torn by four horses]: 194-203; Maltese: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 300 [the shepherd exchanges assistant dogs; the princess is sent to be eaten by a seven-headed dragon ; her savior will receive her hand; the shepherd falls asleep, the princess's tear wakes him up, he kills the dragon with his dogs, hides his tongues, leaves; the deceiver cuts off his heads, demands the princess as his wife; a day weddings, the shepherd shows his tongues, gets a princess; var.: the dragon (sea serpent, etc.) demands a sacrifice once a year, otherwise he will close the river]: 27-32; Stumme 1904, No. 24 [only a blacksmith's apprentice was able to raise an iron a stick, got it as payment for his work; with two companions, the guy came to the forest, they started cooking; a lion attacked; they chased him, failed, the guy went down; in the lead room, the princess and 7 -the head of the serpent, the guy killed him; in the silver room the same, the princess who was there indicates which sword to take, for the other is clay; the last girl in the golden room is the same; the princesses suggest for the guy to be the first to get up, but he sends them upstairs; after that, the companions start throwing stones at him, taking the princesses, pretending to be liberators, showing the king snake heads, the king promised marry them to princesses; the guy brought princess capes and showed snake tongues; asked him to cook his companions in oil]: 68-69.

Western Europe. Bretons: Luzel 1887 (2), No. 2 [Prince Caloman went on a journey, spent everything, came to the castle in the woods; the old man advises not to go in - no one returned; the sorcerer's mother Marcou-Braz turned his parents and relatives in the trees; keeps a Spanish princess; she has read magic books, she will help; just eat nothing in the castle, although everything is seductive there; the princess says to the sorcerer that K. is her relative; he tells one to defeat 500 warriors (the princess creates her own, they kill the attackers), defeat the 7-headed dragon (this is the sorcerer's mother, the princess teaches how to cut heads and tails); defeat the sorcerer himself; K. dodges his spear, pierces him with his own; the enchanted trees became human again; leaving the castle, the princess remembered the forgotten lamp; on the way back, K. dropped it in the pond, got lost, returned to his father; the army attacked, the leader was the princess, who thought that K. had abandoned her; everything was explained, K. was marrying her]: 20-32; Orain 1904 [the fisherman caught an eel, he asks him let go, gives the golden key to the treasury in the forest castle, tells no one to tell; the wife said the castle is gone; the fisherman caught the pike; she ordered it to be eaten, the wife will give birth to three sons with a star in forehead, fat way will drink a mare, give birth to three foals; bury bones in the garden, a stream will flow; if it gets cloudy, the sons are in trouble; the eldest comes to the city where the seven-headed dragon demands sacrifice every evening; queue princesses; the young man fought the dragon for seven days, cutting off the head every day; rested; the coal miner showed his head, the king agreed to give him his daughter; the young man showed the dragon's tongues, received the princess and the throne, the coal miner were put in prison; going to look for the sorceress, the mistress of the dragon, the young man met an old woman; she threw a grass rope over his horse and dog, dazzled the young man with powder, threw a rope and they could no longer move towards him, they remained tied to a tree; when they saw the muddy stream, the middle brother went to look for his elder; his wife mistook him for her husband, but he explained who he was; pierced the sorceress with a spear, but she turned into a giant and easily defeated him; the younger brother crept up to the sleeping giant, tied him up with the same grass, received an ointment from him to revive the dead in exchange for permission to escape to in the depths of the earth; three brothers returned to their father]: 111-137; French [the main text is Alsatian, but it is clear from brief summaries that the seven-headed serpent motif is known in several areas France]: Delarue 1957, No. 300:102-107; the French [the wife of a poor miller sends her husband to fish behind the dam; he caught a little one, this is the king of fish, asks him to let go, for which she will give a lot of fish; and it happens that the miller sold a lot of fish; his wife reproaches him for letting the fish king go; the miller caught him again; he tells his wife to eat it, his fins to the mare and dog; the wife will give birth to three boys with the sun on his forehead, a mare - three foals with the moon, a dog - three puppies with a star on their forehead; the brothers have grown up, the eldest comes to a city where mourning: girls are given to a seven-headed monster, it's the princess's turn ; a young man kills a monster, receives a ring from the princess, cuts off and takes his tongues with him, promises to return in a year and a day; three coal miners force her to say that they killed the monster; a year and a day later there must be a wedding with one of them; a young man comes to the wedding, shows his tongues and a ring; the coal miners are burned alive; one day a young husband notices a castle in the distance, goes there; a witch gives hair to tie the dog, he turns into an iron chain; she leads the person who comes to the bridge, pushes him down; when he sees a withered rose, the second brother sets off in search of the first one; the princess takes him for her husband, he puts him between her and him a spear either sleeps with one leg out of bed; he is the same as with his older brother; the third good sorceress teaches not to let the dog be tied with her hair, let the witch go forward, make him give a reviving elixir; the young man revived everyone, forced the witch to leave the castle; the husband returned to the princess, she sees how all three brothers look alike]: Delarue 1957, No. 303:147-150; French (Upper Brittany) [guy traded a cow for the master's 7 dogs; he met a seven-headed monster while hunting; every day he cuts off the head, then the tail, then the last head]: Sébillot in Delarue 1957:106; the British [in Cornwell's peasant son Jack promised to get rid of the giant who lived on the island; Jack dug a trap hole, the giant failed, killed him and brought treasures; the giant Blundebore promised revenge; brought Jack went to his castle, followed another giant, Jack threw ropes around their necks and killed them; freed the girls; spent the night with a double-headed giant; put a log on his bed at night; the giant beat with a club; in the morning Jack said that at night a rat hit him with its tail; the giant offered to eat a puddy bowl of pudding, Jack put the pudding in a bag under his clothes; in the morning he ripped it open; the giant tried to do that But his guts fell out, he died; the prince bought the dead from the lenders, and Jack hired the prince to serve; told the three-headed giant that a king with a thousand warriors was coming to him, locked him up, and when he released him, received as a reward an invisible jacket, a hat that tells everything, speeding shoes, a sword that cuts everything; the prince marries the princess; she tells me to find her handkerchief, otherwise he executes her; a spirit friend carries her to Lucifer; the invisible Jack follows, takes a handkerchief, the prince showed it in the morning; the princess demands to show the lips she kissed the next morning; Jack cut off Lucifer's head, the evil spirit left the lady and she married the prince; Jack kills other giants, frees prisoners; saws the bridge supports, the stalker giant falls into the ditch, D. finishes him off; the giant Galligantua turns the Duke's daughter into a doe ; D. blows a horn, shatters turned into birds and animals; marries the Duke's daughter]: Shereshevskaya 1957b: 124-134 (=Kharitonov 2008:191-197); Scots [the siren asks the fisherman for a son in exchange for a rich catch; he says he is childless; she gives three seeds each 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 He will die, 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 sentence twice, but at the age of 14, the young man tells him to make a sword for him, he goes by himself; helps the dog, falcon and otter divide the sheep's corpse fairly, they promise to come to the rescue; he hires to herd the king's cows, but the pasture is scarce, the cows are not milked, so the shepherd is not fed; the next once he came to the green pasture; the giant said it was his, wanted to eat it, but the dog ran, jumped on his back, the young man cut off the giant's head; the next time he did the same with the second giant; the princess must give it 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 to himself; before the battle, the young man falls asleep every time, the princess wakes him up, putting one of his 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, giving him back her jewelry; the monster kidnaps the princess herself; the blacksmith replies that the monster's life is in the egg, in the trout, in the crow, in the white-footed fallow deer on the island; the dog, the falcon, the otter help catch them all, the monster returns the princess, dies; there is a castle nearby, 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 the middle brother (the princess takes him for her husband, they are so similar); the youngest cuts down the old woman her head, but she picks it up, puts it back; a dog rushes at her, her younger brother kills her with her own sword (or rod? Slachdan druidhach), he also revives the brothers; the elder brother receives the throne of his father-in-law]: Campbell 1890 (1), No. 4:72-85; Walloons: Laport 1932, No. 300 [the eldest, middle sons come to the witch, she gives them potion, they turn into toads; the youngest does not hit, makes the elders spell, they come back, meet the sorcerer, the youngest saves them again; the princess is given to be eaten by a seven-headed snake; young dogs they kill him, he hides his tongues; the deceiver tries to attribute victory to himself; the young man shows his tongues, the deceiver is placed in a barrel of thorns; the young man gets the princess, but constantly hunts, the wife tries him lime; dogs save him, then revive him; he returns to his father], 301D [golden apples from the royal apple tree disappear; the eldest, middle sons go to guard, fall asleep; the youngest sees apples plucking a huge hand leaning out of the ground cuts off his hand; digs a well, enters an underground palace; there is a kidnapped princess; the prince cuts off seven heads of a sleeping dragon; brings the princess to the ground, marries her, after the death of her father, reigns]: 37-39, 39-41; the Friezes [three sons of a peasant, the youngest, Gjalt, goes to seek happiness; I see a coffin dug from the grave in the cemetery; wants to bury it, a giant comes up, says that the deceased owes him a thaler, he will not let him be buried; I give the thaler; a two-headed giant comes up, requires 2 thalers; the three-headed 3; I bury the deceased, is left without money , breaks up with his brothers; an old man comes up to him, says that he is the brother of the deceased, will serve out of gratitude; I.: I will be the Big Me, and you will be the Little Me; they come to the castle of a one-headed giant; I teaches them to say that they were sent by the giant's brother: the peasant army is going to kill the owner of the castle; the giant agrees to hide in the well, gives his sword, inexhaustible purse and sales receipt BYA castle; satellites pull a staircase out of the well, cover the hole with a stone; the same with a two-headed giant; with a three-headed giant; he took a mirror showing the truth and wings to fly; the princess gives grooms impossible errands, all those who fail are executed; the king's tasks for the BIU: 1) play cards with the wizard, who runs out of money first; 2) race, bring an eagle egg from the nest to sky-high grief; 3) defeat the wizard and bring his head; BYA wins thanks to an inexhaustible wallet and ME, which shows him his partner's cards in the mirror and helps him stay awake; BYU overtakes wizard on wings; defeats with a giant's sword, and MYA hides BU under a dark veil and the wizard sees no opponent; BYU marries a princess, gives his parents a house, lives in a castle himself, and his treasurer ]: Mürk 2014:38-50; Germans (Pomerania) [a son born to a peasant walks and talks immediately; tells the pastor to call him Sonderbar ("extraordinary", Z.); his parents gave him supplies and sent to wander; carries loaded carts through the water; ordered the blacksmith a huge iron club; bent it, hitting a rock; ordered a new one - even harder; meets, takes as companions 1) the bettor mountains one on top of another; 2) uprooting trees; juggling millstones; lets everyone hold their club: it is beyond their power; noticing a light from the tree, the strongmen came to the house; in it a kitchen and the room; they hunt and take turns cooking; a dwarf comes, asks for food, beats the cook and eats everything; Z. pinched the dwarf's beard, split the tree and knocked out the wedge; he tore off his beard and left; a bloody trail stretches to a hole in the ground; there is a rope with a basket; satellites can't, Z. descends; he went down so long that winter and summer changed; to test the satellites, Z. sent up in the basket a stone; they cut off the rope, the stone fell and shattered to pieces; the princess in the castle, there were three bridges to it, along which three-, six, nine-headed dragons; Z. easily killed the three-headed and with difficulty the six-headed one; the princess gave a drink of strong water, Z. managed to raise the sword that hung above the well; Z. waited for the 9-headed to fall asleep with his heads on the princess's knees, threw it away and cut off his heads; dwarf: return to earth, we must feed the chicks of a huge bird; its flight to the upper world lasts so long that the chicks die of hunger every time; Z. fed the chicks, they hid it, and it opened after the father bird promised that he would not eat it; he took Z. and the princess in his claws and flew; Z. threw food for him, a piece was not enough, cut off his legs from his calf; this piece is especially tasty; when the bird found out what was going on, the bird belched him and put it back; Z. killed traitors and companions with a club, brought the princess to her father and married her; they are alive unless they die]: Jahn 1891, No. 19:120-128; Germans [the rich, unkind brother was golden Craftsman, the poor broom knitted; he has two twin boys; the poor man saw a golden bird, threw a stone, the golden pen fell, the jeweler brother gave a lot of money for it; then the poor man found a bird's nest, brought an egg; then knocked down a bird, sold it to his brother; he told his wife to fry it; whoever eats her heart and liver would have gold under his pillow in the morning; while the wife was away, the nephews ran in and ate the pieces that fell out; the frightened wife fried her husband's heart and liver, and the boys found gold under the pillow in the morning; after learning about this, the rich brother advised the poor to take the boys to the forest - they contacted hell; the hunter found them, sheltered them, saved the morning gold; the brothers grew up and went on a journey; the hunter gave everyone gold, a gun and a dog; let them stick a knife at the crossroads; if it rusts, trouble with another brother; brothers hunt, feel sorry for animals, each gets a hare, fox, wolf cub, bear cub and lion cub; brothers broke up, the youngest came to the city, where all the girls were eaten the dragon, it's royal turn; on Dragon Mountain, a young man sees three bowls: whoever drinks can get a sword from under the door threshold; the young man drank, became a strongman, took out a sword; cut off seven snake heads, the animals tore the body to shreds; the young man carved and hid dragon tongues; the queen gave him her handkerchief, divided the coral necklace between the animals, the lion got a gold lock; everyone fell asleep; marshal cut off the hunter's head and took the princess away; she made it a condition for the wedding in a year and one day; the animals wanted to kill a hare that did not wake them up, but he promised to get a reviving root; first a lion put the young man's head backwards, then tore it off and put it right; he argued with the owner of the tavern that he would eat bread from the royal table; the queen recognized the hare, who brought the baker to tavern; the same with the fox (bring meat); the wolf brought vegetables, the bear sweet, the lion wine; after eating, the young man came with the animals to the castle and showed his tongues; the marshal was torn by four bulls, the young man became young king; chased a white deer in the forest; spent the night by the fire; the old woman asked to let her warm up and hit the animals with her twig; they petrified, the old woman touched the king with a twig; there are many such stones; the elder brother saw that the knife was rusted; the queen mistook him for her husband, but he put his sword on the bed; in the forest he knocked the old woman off the tree with a silver bullet; forced the petrified old woman to revive the brothers burned him in the fire; the forest became transparent and bright; when he learned that his brother was sleeping next to his wife, the king hacked him down, repented, the hare revived the uprooted man; the Queen identified her husband by a golden lock, who gave it to a lion; the king found out about the sword put to bed]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 60:212-227 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:171-187); Germans (Swabia) [the king sends three sons into the world; they break up with an oak tree with swords stabbed into it; whoever rusts is dead; the youngest goes straight through the forest, meets, does not kill, takes a bear, a wolf, a lion as an assistant; a seven-headed dragon living on a mountain in a castle demands a man and a ram every day, the royal daughter's turn; the prince and the beasts kill the dragon; the prince cuts off his tongues, promises the princess to return in a year and a day; the coachman takes the dragon's heads, attributes victory to himself; a year later, the prince returns, the city is preparing for the wedding; the prince shows his tongues, the princess shows the gold chains she tied around the necks of animals; the coachman is executed, the prince marries on the princess]: Meier 1852, No. 58:204-210 (=Hubrich-Messow 1988, No. 2:7-11); Germans (Upper Palatinate) [a young shepherd is so strong that he cannot work for a blacksmith - a shattered anvil; he gives him a magic sword; with it he first cuts off the giant's hands, and then makes him whole, hitting it with a blunt end; the same with the second giant; with the third (cuts off his legs); the 90-main dragon demands a daughter from the king to eat; the shepherd asks for the horse and equipment from the first giant, cuts off 3 heads of the dragon, cuts off the tongues; the same in the second; with the third giant; the dragon is killed; the son of the court took victory for himself; the shepherd with the giant came to the wedding; the shepherd showed his tongues, received the princess and the throne; the impostor was ripped apart by four horses]: Schönwerth 1858, No. 13:275-280; Germans (Austria) [king bequeaths to three sons pass their three sisters off as the first to ask; they are given to strangers; brothers go in search; at night, the cloud almost extinguishes the fire twice, and when it is the younger brother's turn, it extinguishes it altogether; he goes looking fire comes to the giants; they tell him to help them get three royal daughters; a young man kills giants one at a time, brothers marry queens; the king does not tell him to take his wife with him: she will be kidnapped immediately white knight; the young man leaves with his wife, the white knight takes her away; the young man consistently comes to his sisters, they are married to three-, six-, nine-headed dragons; the latter summons animals, only lame The fox knows the way; the kidnapped wife explains that the white knight has a fast horse; you must hire his mother, ask for a bridle and a foal as a reward; on the way, the young man saved the fish, ants, bandaged the fox's leg; the old woman tells three mares to herd three nights; fish, ants, fox help (you need to throw a bridle on three fish, three ants, a basket of three eggs are mares); the young man gets a bridle and a foal; he is weak , tells him to let him get drunk, is strong in the morning; the young man takes his wife away (the foal asks if he runs like the wind or as a thought); the white knight's horse cannot catch up, throws off the rider; husbands have found sisters human form]: Cerf 1992:183-192.

Western Asia. Ugarit [Balu defeated the seven-headed serpent Latana; see motif H7]: Tsirkin 2000:97, 351; Akkad [Akkadian (2360-2180 BC) seal depicting gods fighting the seven-headed, six-tailed, four-legged monster]: Gray 1969:78; Sumer [IM.DUGUD and IM.MI (GI ₆) means "storm" and "black storm", i.e. clouds and thunder; in describing Ninurta's exploits the "warriors he has already killed" are listed: Kuli-ana Dragon, Gypsum, Hard Copper, Six-Headed Wild Ram, Magilum Ship (i.e. Lower World Ship), Mr. Saman-ana, Bison {Tour?} . The King of Palm, the bird of Anzoud, the seven-headed serpent; when he got home, he hung Anzud and other monsters on his wagon; talking about the thunderbird]: Selz 2018:41-42; Old Testament [talking about "heads Leviathan]: Psalm 74.14 (quoted in Gray 1969:78); the Arameans [Pasha's three sons want to marry only three sisters; they found them, the caravan carries brides to the grooms; at night, the bivouac is surrounded by snakes, makes him give him the youngest of the brides; the serpent brought the girl to the tower, turned into a woman himself; the father ordered to make a coffin, the groom did not believe it, made her say what had happened, went in search; the woman in tells the tower to bring the sword and shield of the seven-headed Hut; the young man took the baby from the wolf; the baby tells him to ask for rewards from his mother; she gave an invisible hat and a flying carpet; the seven-headed ghoul (hut) orders to bring the handkerchief of the daughter of the forest king; he met her, defeated the genie, killed the seven-headed Hut; the woman returned his bride to him: she only wanted to test him; on the way home he killed a genie and a giant; the daughter of the forest king gave his father has three grapes, his father is younger]: Belov, Wilsker 1960:381-384; Syrian Arabs [Pasha's three sons want to marry three sisters; the servant finds brides; on the way to the night, a retinue of brides surrounds a retinue of brides a huge snake; they have to give the youngest of the brides; in their castle, the snake turns into a woman; when they reach their brothers, they are told that the younger sister died on the way; the young man does not believe, finds it empty coffin; comes to the kidnapper; she surrenders to the girl for the sword and shield of a seven-headed Hut; a young man takes a baby from the wolf, the mother of the child gives him an invisible hat and a flying carpet; a young man arrives at the Hutu, that Demands the headscarf of the daughter of the forest king; the young man takes the beautiful woman away, kills the Hut; the woman who demanded his shield and sword only wanted to test the young man and becomes his wife; the young man and his wives return home; the daughter of the forest king gives his elderly father three grapes, he is getting younger]: Belov, Wilsker 1960:381-384.

Melanesia. Kiwai [a three-headed snake fell into a wild pig trap; when a man and his wife opened the trap, she bit off both heads; crawled into the village, killed many; the arrows did not harm her; one young man hit a vulnerable spot behind the ear of one of the heads with an arrow, the snake died]: Landtman 1927:316.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Amdo) [the king has two wives, one is childless, hates a son and a daughter, the other; pretends to be ill, asks her to eat the hearts of the children; the servant tells his brother and setra to run, brings dogs hearts; brother almost died of thirst, sister left him with the old woman, she sold him to the traveler; he turned out to be kind and rich, his sister came to him; brother and sister grew up, brother came to his father, he was barely alive; 9- the head monster (it was his wife) sucks his blood; the young man cuts off 8 heads, sets fire to the forest, the monster runs, burns]: Tshe dbang rdo rje et al. 2007:254-255; Tibetans [the queen of snakes arose from emptiness; the sky came from the top of her head, the sun and moon from her eyes, thunder from her voice, mountains from her bones, etc.; according to another version, parts of the universe arose from a nine-headed female snake born from an egg]: Tucci 1949:712 in Allen 2011:61; lavrung [the woman's knee is swollen, the Frog came out of there, promised his mother to marry the princess; comes to the palace, the dogs are barking, the princesses do not see anyone; the Frog comes in, notices that the youngest is more beautiful and looks friendlier; makes the king give her to him, becoming huge, laughing, screaming, causing a storm, a flood; sends his wife and mother to the races, takes off his frog skin himself, is a wonderful rider; next time his wife secretly returns, burns her skin; the husband says that he is now in the grip of a nine-headed demon, blown away by the wind; the wife finds him, the husband says that the demon sleeps when he lies with his eyes open; gives his wife a spear, she pierces the demon's heart; they free the prisoners, return home]: G.yu lha 2011:383-389; lepcha: Siiger 1967, No. 3 [king- an orphan (CS) and a three-headed king of mungs (evil spirits; CM) meet on the border of their possessions; CA replies that water will defeat rain, wind will defeat the cloud, god the munga; CM offers to fight; CA does on the road a trap pit, the CM army dies twice in it, but the Mung Lama revives the warriors; the third time the llama himself dies in the trap, all the mungs are killed, the CA fights the CM, cuts off his heads, feeds meat to birds, bones grinds on a grain grater, throws dust to the wind; marries the adopted daughter of CM, she was not a mung, but a divine girl], 8 [the seven sons of the king of the country between heaven and earth have a wife 'ayu rum mit pun dí (AR, "turquoise goddess queen"); su mu mung (SM, evil spirit) drinks her blood, cuts her into pieces; her older brother (SB) cremates his wife's body, goes in search of SM, chases a deer, he turns into a cloud SB in a storm, cloud into fish, jumps into the ocean, storm into a sea monster, fish into a rock, monster into thunder, breaks a rock, rock into a two-headed mung, who promises to be a slave to the SB; SB wins and kills first SM, then his sister, a mung slave devours their bodies; at the site of AR's burning, a flower has grown, in which AR has been revived, kidnapped by the 12-headed eldest of the 12 mung brothers; the SB kills them, finds a flower, turns them into AR, revives other abducted from their incarnations; at this time, the Mungues ravaged the SB palace; the SB killed them; he, his next oldest brother and AR are killing all the mungs on a narrow road; killing in in battle, the main mung's sister, then himself, is seized by treasures]: 218-220, 230-234; garo [episodes of a long text about the exploits of Goera, who became the god of Thunder; after the death of her husband, the young the widow had to incest her maternal uncle; G. said who he was while still in his mother's womb; mother G.'s other two brothers were swallowed by a giant boar; he has 7 heads on one neck, 7 in each mouth fangs, one eye in the middle of each forehead, trees, thickets and streams on his back; G. received a lightning sword and a bow with lightning arrows, killed a boar; began to eat its flesh to argue with the tiger; pretended to be a piece got stuck in his throat, sent the tiger to get water; at that time he threw the meat away, it turned into deposits of quartz; the tiger believed that G. ate everything; then G. defeated many other monsters, including a giant who she covered her ear when she went to bed; after completing her exploits, G. took to heaven]: Rongmuthu 1960:152-184.

Burma - Indochina. Shany [younger brother cries; the elder promises to bring an elephant with 7 heads and 7 tails if the younger brother stops crying; the king finds out about this, sends the elder for the elephant; the hermit gives the young man pills to help overcome obstacles; he brings the elephant, then lets go; the brothers take the throne after the king's death]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 190:513-518; Vietnam's white tai [poor orphan cuts wood for sale; sees seven heavenly maidens descend to the lake, take off their clothes and wings, bathe; hides the youngest's wings; takes her as his wife; a year later she gives birth to a son; in the absence of his wife, the father calms a crying child by giving him his mother's wings to play; once the mother was left alone with the child, who cried and pointed to where the woodcutter hid his wings; the mother finds them after a while flies away, giving his son his ring and telling his father to come to her if they want; the husband put his son on his back, went to look for his wife; the way through the mouth in the rock, which closes and opens; the fox advises throw acidic fruits there, teeth hurt, mouth movement will stop for a while; father and son pass; on the way there is a river with nine channels, in which even iron dissolves; a dog with nine tails and nine promises to carry his heads if the riders do not laugh in the middle of the river; in the middle of each channel, the dog makes an indecent sound, father and son laugh, one head and one tail fall off; before the last by crossing, a person ties his mouth and his son with a handkerchief, they reach the shore; since then, all dogs have one head and one tail, before it was nine; the phoenix offers to spend the night under his wing, and in the morning he and his mother will take them to the place where they celebrate the princess's return from land; the phoenix's mother carried them to the river bordering the sky; the maids collect water to bathe the princess, the husband throws a ring into the kushvin; his wife recognizes him, tells him to call those who come; her father suggests 1) tying each of the 300 buffaloes to the pole to which they are always tied; the firefly shows who to tie; 2) sow the grain and harvest it again; the birds collected it, but the king noticed that several grains were missing; one bird swallowed them, the king twisted its neck, since then birds of this species have goiter on the back of their heads; 3) find them overnight a princess in a palace of 100,000 rooms; a rat promises to bring a dry leaf under the right door, but halfway she was eaten by a cat; then a firefly leads to the right room; the king arranges a wedding, then sends young people to land where his son-in-law also becomes king]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 11:311-316; ahem [an orphan young man lived with an old man, hunted birds, saw girls going down to swim- birds, fell in love with the youngest, who was the last to arrive; the old man advised him to hide her wings; he hid them in the quiver; at first he could not defeat the girl, found strength by chewing the old man's bethel, tied this one an old man with a rope; took the heavenly maiden as his second wife, she gave birth to a child; looking up, she saw her wings hidden under the roof, put them on, flew away, returned to the child, invited her aunt to fly, but she just jumped and fell; flew away altogether; the domestic monkey put a wand in the dog's paw to show the owner which way the wife had flown; the dog had seven tails, it led the owner and the monkey to rivers; the young man put his sword in the jets, the river parted, forming two channels; there are seven in total; the dog told me to hold on to its tail, not to laugh, otherwise the tail will come off; the young man and the monkey laugh every time the dog makes an indecent sound, another tail comes off; when there is only one tail left, the dog went home, but the young man and the monkey stayed; the last stream crossed the body of the river dragon lying across the body; came to the Foot of Heaven rock, where the door opens and closes; the monkey began to throw fruits from the tree, the young man threw them into the hole in the rock, the rock stopped; they climbed the rock to the banyan ( ficus), there the monkey said that he did not know beyond the road, returned; the young man saw two big birds, one said to the other that she would fly to peck for buffalo meat at the festival in honor of the return of the virgin bird; young man carved the feather of one bird, hid in the hole with his child, the birds flew to the field, where buffalo bones were thrown away, the young man went out; there was a river, the women replied that they had come to bathe the maiden for water a bird; the young man threw bracelets and necklaces into the jug, asked to pour the jug over the girl's head; she recognized her things; at the festival, the young man pinched the child, the wife recognized his son's cry; all three returned to the ground, the house it was overgrown with vines during this time]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 8:294-298; the Khmers [there is a 9-headed dragon in the palace tower; the king must look at it every night, otherwise he will die]: Nevermann 1956: 87; viets [picture: a snake with three human heads; (source not specified)]: Knorozova 2020:334.

South Asia. Ancient India: Erman 1980 [Vishnu, Brahma and Lakshmi on the seven-headed serpent Shesha (medieval drawing)]: 542; Erman, Temkin 1975, No. 8 [world serpent Shesha - thousand-headed]: 25; marathi [raje they brought fish, one fish is alive, the childless wound began to take care of it, keeps it in increasingly large vessels, then in the pond; the fish is a turned prince; he asks Rani to marry him; no one agrees; new the fakir's wife wants to get rid of her stepdaughter, is ready to give her away, sends her to wash the sari; the seven-headed cobra lets her throw three pebbles into the fish when she comes out of the river on her wedding night; the fish turns into prince; stepmother wants to replace her with her daughter; when the prince's wife comes to visit her father, the stepmother's own daughter asks for her to try on jewelry, pushes her into the water; the seven-headed cobra saves her; on the third day, the prince notices the substitution, drives away the false wife, her mother hides; in the cobra house, the real wife gave birth to a son; he grew up, breaks the bells he is given all the time, the bell seller sells them, enriched; tells the prince; he takes his wife and son, everyone is happy]: Frere 1868, No. 19:238-248; Ahir (Mandla County) [after the wedding, Mahadeo told Parvati that she can come in at six rooms, but not in the seventh; went to make a plow; M. wrote in it, spinach grew there; P. cooked it, ate it, became pregnant; a few months later she turned her hair into a snake, sent it to M.; he turned a sliver into a mongoose, drove the snake away; P. made a tiger out of dirt collected from his chest; M. turned the chips into dogs, drove away the tiger; realized his name; he came and ordered him to give birth with his head in the back so as not to see the children ; P. gave birth to many children, M. killed everyone, put them in a vessel, buried them in a certain place in fields, hills, ponds, they were all gods; the first, Bara Deo, had 7 heads and 13 eyes; buried in the hills of Lingo became Lingo Deo; by the river - Samduria Deo; where cows rest - Marra Deo]: Elwin 1949, No. 1:431; chenchu [two wives, both childless; the husband brings food, but it is somehow scarce; maybe he eats the pot? I watched the cooking: everything seems to be right, but there is not enough food; decided to go to Bhagavantaru to ask; on the way I met my husband and wife; the wife is angry and greedy, and the husband shared bread; all three climbed for the night on a tree; husband fell asleep and fell, 7 tigers ate him; wife to man: it's your fault; man: how? Raja's daughter does not come to marry, her tears fill the pond, the Raja has to repair the dam every day; he asks the man to ask B. why the dam is constantly collapsing; in another village they ask why does the buffalo born not eat or drink; the old 12-headed snake: the head hurts immensely; let B. either heal me or take me home; she has a treasure and a ring that will take him to the right place; B. prepared to meet the man; he passed by, B. called out to him, named himself; in different rooms of B.'s house, the person saw 1) dead relatives; 2) still unborn; 3) evil spirits; B.: the one who falls from a tree will be born in your village; change into a midwife, sprinkle the baby with water, you will help each other, there will be plenty of food; let the snake give away the treasures and the ring, then die immediately; two wives of the buffalo owner are constantly quarreling, let them stop, the calf will start eating and drinking; let the Raja's daughter marry, the dam will stop collapsing; the man received the snake's treasures and the ring, got married on Raja's daughter, he gave him a lot of cattle; two wives stopped quarreling, the calf began to eat and drink; the man gave birth, the baby talked to him; the reborn wife of the man who fell from the tree repented, I took her, happy with three wives]: Fürer-Haimendorf 1943:212-216; kannada [poor Mudanna learned from a beggar that his wife, son and both beloved oxen Ram and Lakshman are about to die; that's what happened; he went into the forest and rushed off the cliff, but was not injured; in the well there is a seven-headed snake, a lion-headed Ugranarasimha, a seven-foot tiger and a monkey god, they ask them to pull them out; each M. asks the reward is only death, they promise the best; the tiger split his head, took out a diamond from it and gave it to M.; W. sent his son to sell the diamond; the local princess promised to marry only the one who would give her a diamond from the tiger's head; the boy was captured, he replied that the owner of the diamond was W.; when he saw that it was a poor man, he was accused of stealing and imprisoned; a snake crawled in, promised to bite the princess, and M. to revive her; it happened; the king is ready to give M. a daughter, but the princess wants a drink of youth to revive her mother and make her and her king father young again; the monkey god puts M. on his tail and holds it out tail to Brahma's world; Brahma unlocks three doors: W.'s wife, son and oxen are behind them; asks if he wants a drink or if he wants his family and animals back; he chooses a family, he doesn't need a princess; everything is fine] : Ramanujan 1997, No. 41:114-117; Tamils: Shulman 1978 [Śiva first appeared in Velūr as Sāmbaśivamūrti in the form of a five-headed serpent living in an anthill]: 108; 1980 [ Tsarevich Kantarupan married Princess Kantarupi; 7 heavenly maidens fell in love with him and kidnapped him, he spent every day with one of them; they felt sorry for his wife, they sent him to her every eighth day, but Kantarrupi herself was intoxicated and did not know it; when she became pregnant, her father ordered her to be taken to the forest; there an old prostitute Cauntaravalli burned the body of her deceased daughter; Kantarupi wanted throw herself into the fire, but the prostitute offered to replace her daughter; if she gave birth to a boy, he should be killed, if her daughter should be raised; Kantarupi gave birth to a beautiful boy, but at the instigation of a prostitute the midwife replaced him with a wooden doll; she was supposed to kill the baby, but left him at the anthill where the five-headed serpent lived; Kantarupi's father found him, raised him; the young man went to the prostitutes quarter and I saw a woman I fell in love with; I went to her at night, stepped on a calf, which screamed, and the cow said: what to expect from a man who is going to hug his own mother; when he saw his mother, her milk splashed in his face; the prince found it all out; Cantarupi turned to Kali and seven heavenly maidens gave her husband back to her]: 259-261; Natesa Sastri 1886 [a difficult text that ends with the story of a woman whose husband left her for a dancer, and the five-headed serpent comes disguised as her husband]: 185-207.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Simalur [an elderly childless Raja and his wife promise that if they have a daughter, they will marry her as the Lord of the Upper Reaches; the girl is followed by a seven-headed serpent; two brothers take her free; the youngest is killed by a snake, the elder hides; on the way home, the youngest falls asleep, the elder cuts off his leg, pretends to be the winner of the snake; the younger brother falls to the top of the fisherman, lives with him; comes together with everyone at the wedding ceremony; his wife recognizes him, puts her hidden leg, the cripple recovers, is recognized as a son-in-law]: Koehler 1964:44-50; Minangkabau [swallows the luminary during eclipses the seven-headed dragon garuda]: Lasch 1900:131; Solor [during the flood, Radja Masan Doni and her sister escaped on a coconut palm tree; the crocodile held its base, the seven-headed snake wrapped around the trunk, preventing him from falling; after 7 days, R. threw a coconut into the water; after another 7 days he fell to the ground; brother and sister came down and gave birth to sons Léwa Sira Padzi and Léwa Sira Demon; both wanted to suck their right breasts mothers, got into a fight, D. won; brothers separated to live in different parts of the island]: Arndt 1938:5-6; roti [an orphan dreams of a seven-headed horse with gold falling from under its hooves; spirit (this is a grandfather boy) gives it to him; Raja's horse does not create gold (and apparently runs away), the Raja demands to bring him back; the orphan pulls the harpoon out of the wounded crocodile; the shark tells you to trust the crocodile, but go with cure his grandfather with him; an orphan pulls a fishing hook from his shark grandfather's throat; a shark leads him to Raja's daughter, who hides the young man from his evil father; the young run on horseback over seven heads; the earthly raja asks where to get a horse and a girl; a young man pushes him into a well, reigns]: Braginsky 1972:54-57.

Taiwan - Philippines. Visayas (Fr. Negros) [rain began to flood the ground, Chief Laon ordered a hill to be poured, then the people dug a ditch to the sea, the waters descended; a seven-headed serpent settled on the mountain with the people; the young Kan told ants, wasps and crows bite and tear a snake, cut off seven heads, brought L. to Gift, received the leader's daughter; since then the mountain has been called Canlaon]: Rybkin 1975, No. 93:224-225.

China - Korea. Ancient China: Yuan Ke 1987:193 [a nine-headed giant guarded the entrance to the heavenly chambers], 200 [further east was the country of three-headed]; Yangshin 1977:45 [Western Mountain Catalog; Mount Ivan; an animal that looks like a fox, but has one eye and three tails; called huan; a bird that looks like a crow, but with three heads and six tails; called a citu], 101 [Overseas Catalog east; The Lord (Uncle) of the River lives north of the Rainbows; has the appearance of a yellow-green animal with eight heads (each with a human face), eight legs and eight tails; the kingdom of the Greens The hills are north of it; the Fox has four legs and nine tails], 105 [A catalog of western lands within the seas; the animal Opening Light is like a huge tiger with nine heads, each with nine heads human face; stands at the top of Kunlun, turning east; south of the Opener, there is a bird with six heads], 111 [Catalog of the Great Deserts of the East; The Land of Summer and the Kingdom of Gayyu; god s eight human heads and human faces, the body of a tiger and ten tails, called Heavenly Wu]; Ancient China [Huainan Tzu, chapter of Ben Jing (2nd century BC): shooter Yi went north to the Xiongshui River to kill the juying monster; juying was a beast with nine heads, he could spew fire and water from each mouth; And he was killed and thrown into the waters of Xiongshui; comment by Gao Yu (I- 2nd century AD): "Juying is a monster that [spews] fire and water. It harmed people"]: Yuan Ke 1987:144-145, 312; Koreans [the 9-headed giant took his wife and maid away; the husband went down to the underworld, the wife gave the giant drunk, gave her husband a drink of strength; husband killed a giant (=Ząng 1952, No. 72:166-169); Var.: The wife voluntarily left with the giant, her husband killed her too, married a maid]: Choi 1979, No. 285:112.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece: Hes. Theog. [after sharing a bed with Uranus, Gaia gives birth to hundred-armed and fifty-headed Cott, Briaray, and Gies; they later help the gods win the titanomachia] 147-152, 671-673; Hes. Theog. 310-312 [Echidna gives birth to Typhon fifty-headed Kerber]; [Gaia gives birth to Tartarus a hundred-headed Typhon]: Hes. Theog. 821-825; [Laconic cilik from the Erkskin collection depicting the three-headed Kerber (560-550 BC)]: Andreev 2008:152 (ill. 68); [hundred-headed Typhon]: Pind. Pyth. I. 16; VIII. 16; Fr. 93; ["Gerion is said to be about three heads. However, it is impossible for one body to have three heads" (trans. V.N. Yarkho)]: Palaept. XXIV; [Kerber is a three-headed dog]: Palaept. XXXIX; [Orpheus, who came to Hades for Argiopa (Eurydice), met a three-headed dog]: Herm. Col. Fr. 1 (Powell). 10-12; [in Aida, a three-headed Kerber sits at the gates of Acheron]: Apollod. Bibl. II. 5:12; [Charon transports Aeneas and the priestess of Apollo through the Stygian swamps; they meet three-headed Kerber guarding the way to the realm of the dead; the priestess throws Kerber a cake filled with sleeping pills, who She eats her and falls asleep; the priestess and Aeneas continue their journey]: Verg. Aen. VI. 415-424; Gray 1969 [scene of Hercules's flight with the ten-headed Hydra on the wall of the catacomb on Via Latina in Rome]: 113; Greeks (Zakynthos) [the king sailed, found himself on lion island; lions won, but many fell in battle; the king and his companions came to the garden, where one spring with málama (some metal other than gold and silver), another with gold, and the third with pearls; they scored treasures, came to the lake; it spoke; the seven-headed serpent king will wake up soon; so that he does not swallow them right away, let them lay the way with clothes - the serpent likes to crawl on the soft; the serpent let the arrivals go, but ordered send him 12 girls and 12 young men to eat every year; the queen is childless; the nun gave birth to an apple, the queen gave birth to a son, the mare gave birth to a foal from the seeds; he became the prince's horse; when his parents The 19-year-old also died, the horse told him to go to the cave in which the monastery was; the abbess (she was that nun) explained where to find a sword that could kill a snake; the young man cut off seven heads; everything is fine]: Schmidt 1877, No. 23:118-122; Serbs [=Arkhipova 1962:203-208, Eschker 1992, No. 24:127-135; Tsar Petar has a beautiful daughter; Tsar Tatar demanded her as his wife, otherwise he will ruin the kingdom; P. ordered to build the tower and walled it up in it with his daughter for three years; tell him that his daughter died, and he himself went to ask the Sun why the days were shorter in winter and hot in summer; Tsar Tatar came and looked at the empty the palace did not come again; three years later P. left, but his daughter disappeared; the sentenced to death promised to find her if he was pardoned; came to the old woman, greeted her respectfully; old woman: it's good that so I did, or I have 5 dragon sons; she promised them not to harm their named brother; one senses any trace, the other can steal a lamb from under the sheep, the third will instantly build a tower, the fourth is a sharpshooter, the fifth will pick up everything that falls from above; one found the princess's trail, the second stole her from the arms of the 7-headed dragon, a third built a tower and they all took refuge in it; the seventh dragon He scorched the tower from above with his head and carried the princess away again; but the fourth of the dragon brothers pierced his heart with an arrow, and the fifth picked up the dropped princess; they argued who should get it; asked the mother Winds, she sent to the Mother of the Month, the Mother of the Month to the Mother of the Sun, the Mother of the Sun advised her own mother to ask; she told all six to make the princess a sister; they turned into the Pleiades - six Dragon brothers, their named brother and princess; every year they bypass the mothers of Wind, Month, Sun, thank them for their advice; from Yuriev's spring day to Vidovdan (June 28), they are on the road, they are not visible]: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:212-218; Bosnians [when they die, a father tells three sons to give their three sisters off as the first to come for them; the elders do not go to give sisters to strangers, the younger Mula-Mustafa gives; brothers they go looking for them; they spend the night by the lake, the first night their elder brother guards, a dragon crawls out of the lake, the young man cuts off his head, cuts off his ears, head and body into the lake; on the second night, the same, middle brother is a two-headed dragon; in the third MM, three-headed; when he threw his body into the lake, a wave flooded with fire; MM sees fire in the distance, giants come to the fire; they will give fire if MM kills in Istanbul Sultan; the giant takes MM to the Sultan's chambers, but MM kills the giant himself, takes the Sultan's ring, leaves; the awakened sultan tells us to find his savior, to arrange inns, where to ask visitors about their adventures; three brothers meet in such a yard, tell them what happened to them, get to know each other; the sultan gives his daughter to MM; after leaving, he tells them not to unlock the room where Atesch Perischa; MM unlocks, AP takes his wife (i.e. the sultan's daughter); MM goes in search; arrives at the tower, where the older sister is married to the king of ravens; the raven sends to the middle sister, she is for king of dragons, he to the youngest is behind the king of eagles; the king of eagles summons eagles, only one old patient can deliver MM to the AP, but first he must swim in living water, it is between rocks that open once in a while year; MM feeds the eagle with sheep, the eagle has time to rejuvenate before the rocks slam shut; AP arrives on a three-legged horse; in his absence, MM negotiates with his wife to find out what AP's life is like; that says that in a broom, in a tube, in a mug; MM tells his wife to decorate them every time; AP admits that he is wearing a three-legged horse; whoever kills a mare coming out of the lake once a year and takes her foal will defeat him; he did not kill the mare himself, but wounded the foal, so he is three-legged; MM killed, took a foal, his wife gave him cow milk, which became a powerful horse; MM killed AP, put his wife on a three-horse, returned with her to Sultan]: Schütz 1960, No. 4:31-48; Bulgarians [lamias, chalas - dragons with many heads, sometimes six-winged, twelve-tailed]: Putilov 1971:34; Gagauz [brothers went in a strange way on the trail, came to the dried well, white and black sheep were fighting at the bottom; Wanchu's younger brother offered to go down, the elders refused, lowered him on a rope; wanted to sit on a white ram, but his black pushed, V. found himself on black, fell into the dark kingdom; saw a snake crawl to the nest of a huge eagle, killed it; the eagle father is grateful; says that the five-headed fire-breathing Goguzhu-Moguzha closed the waters, passes off as people given to him to eat, now it is the turn of the padishah's daughter; you have to wet your clothes so as not to burn; V. cuts off two heads, four grow up; V. suggests that GM show how he sleeps; he puts his central head on two, covers himself with the other two; V. cuts off all 5 heads at once; the princess orders to cut off his tongues; the impostor brings the padishah the heads of the monster, V. shows his tongues; the impostor expelled, V. gets the princess; the padishah lets them visit V.'s parents; the bird carries V. with his wife, in flight he feeds her meat, bread, water; the meat ends, V. cuts the meat from his soles; the eagle did not swallow them, reaching the ground, put them back, but since then, people have a depression on their soles; brings V. and his wife to V.'s parents; after staying, V. and his wife return to the lower world]: Syrf 2013:138-145; Hungarians: Ortutai 1974, No. 5 [the old woman advised a childless woman to swallow legumes that she would sweep out of the house; the woman found, swallowed three grains, gave birth to sons named Evening, Night Owl, It was dawn; they grew up, went to seek service; the king asks to clean the well, promises three daughters; the brothers did their job, but the king admitted that his daughters were guarded by dragons; the brothers saw a hole in the forest, stopped, began to cook one by one; every time the little man knocks down the cook, eats everything; when Dawn was left, he pinched the little man's beard with a tree; his brothers let him go for promising to show how go down into the hole; Dawn descended, the Queen gave a multiplying ring, Dawn demolished the dragon 9 heads; hitting the table with this royal stick, turned the palace into a silver apple; the same with two other royals (12-headed dragon, golden apple; 18-headed, diamond apple); sent the queens upstairs; tied a stone instead, the brothers cut off the rope; Dawn sees blind spouses, passing food to each other; their eyes were pulled out by a 24-headed dragon; dawn quietly took the meat; then opened; the couple ordered not to herd sheep in the dragon's domain; dawn killed the dragon, brought their eyes blinded; one woman's eye was swallowed by a cat, Dawn put a cat's eye in the woman, she began to catch mice at night; Dawn hid the vulture birds from the hail; the mother bird tells me to cook meat and wine, carries Dawn on the ground, there was not enough meat, he cut off the meat from the calf; the bird: it was delicious, I would know it ate you; under the guise of a beggar, Dawn came to the king, the brothers did not recognize him; they answer that whoever knows your brother must be tied to the tail of a horse, and the queen who saved must marry her; the royals recognized their rings; Dawn forgave the brothers, married the younger princess]: 141-150; Shustova 1994 [tree in the princess's garden has grown to heaven; a tornado carried her to heaven; a pig tells swineherd Janosh to ask the king to sew 7 pairs of clothes and 7 pairs of buffalo shoes and climb the tree; when clothes and shoes are worn out , he will get to the sky; I came to the kidnapped princess, she convinced the 9-headed dragon not to kill him; the dragon tells me to take care of the horse with five legs, but not to give hot coals; the horse asks for it, I. the horse turns from a thin nag into a powerful horse; but the dragon immediately caught up with them; wanted to kill them, but got drunk and fell asleep; the horse explains that the dragon's power is 9 wasps in the pot, in the hare in the boar's head; carries me into the forest, kills a boar with his fifth leg, I. kills a hare and wasps; finishes off a dragon with a sword; the 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; living on The 9-headed dragon took it away at the top; the pig tells the swineherd about this, gives a magic handkerchief, teaches her 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 was a groom, but told him not to give the horse what he wanted; it was hot coals; after receiving them, the horse became flying, his coat was golden; the young man brought a bridle, a saddle and a spear, but at that time a dragon appeared; a young man persuaded him to drink wine first; the dragon became drunk; 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 his strength, the young man cut him down heads; the horse brought him and the princess down; wedding]: 131-138; Helim 1992b: 640; Romanians [the childless Empress finally had a daughter Luminoară (Little Light, L.); her something worried, she did not leave the palace for a long time; when she left one evening, she was fascinated by the light of the sun; went to search for the Light of the Sun; taking off the clothes of the murdered warrior, dressed up as a man; began to serve Mr., he was defeated, she came to the spring, next to an old woman, L. exclaimed that she was black as dark; the old woman is happy that L. called her by name, because her name was Darkness; tells her to go east and climb a glass mountain; after 12 days L. reached the mountain; the blacksmith shod her horse and he climbed the mountain; then the plain; she came to the palace, there were three girls; they first called her brother, but she explained that she was also a girl; when she saw that L. was sad, the sisters gave her a sword: if removed from the scabbard, the enemy army would die, only the leader would remain; L. went further east, destroyed her opponents king, who married her against her will; she ran away, went east again, met a decrepit old man; cut his hair, washed him, he showed the way further east, let him throw a piece of bread three-headed dog; L. threw it, the dog let her through; the light in the palace blinds her eyes, she drank from the spring, then she was able to look; achieved her goal by going beyond Sunlight; but his jealous mother turned it into a lark; he has been trying to fly closer to the sun ever since]: Rev. de trad. pop. 8, 598 in Dähnhardt 1910:387-389.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Novgorod, Pskov, Ryazan, Tambov, Voronezh, Kursk), Ukrainians, Belarusians [Battle on the Kalinov Bridge: Having defeated three polyheaded snakes one by one, the hero overhears the conversation between their wives (daughters) and mother, frustrates witchcraft, thereby saving brothers, takes refuge from persecution in the forge, and with the help of blacksmiths, he kills a snake]: SUS 1979, No. 300A = AA300* B = K303:104-105; 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 leaves; 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 casing, 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 the daughter of a tsar from the seventh land]: Gnatyuk 1898, No. 8:39-54; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [the soldier entered the house, there was a table for 12 people; at midnight 12 swans flew in and became girls; they ask go out, you'll be a brother; they teach you to do a hundred; three nights a double-headed snake arrives; the first night you have to say the letter "a", the second night "o", the third night "y" and plunge a fork into the snake; the snake is dead, the girls are released; they gave a soldier shakes a self-shaking wallet, an invisible hat, a magic sword; in the city of mourning, the princess is given a snake that comes out of the sea; a soldier kills a double-headed; then a three-headed one; the impostor attributed the feat to himself; a soldier came, the princess admitted him, the impostor could not move the plates under which the bodies of the snakes, and the soldier could; the impostor was beheaded; the wedding; I was there, I drank honey beer, etc.]: Balashov 1970, No. 5:46-48; Russians (Vologodskaya): Gura 1965, No. 20 [the tsar and queen are childless, both 80; the tsar tells the fishermen to throw a net for his luck; the pike looks like gold; the tsar tells the nanny to bake a cake; He ate the middle part with the queen, the one where the head was eaten by the nanny, the tail was eaten by a dog; everyone gave birth to a boy, only the dog's son had dog ears; the priest gave names: Ivan Tsarevich, Ivan Nyankin, Birth; the brothers grew up; C. suggests that the oldest is the one who will continue to throw the 4-pound club; he himself threw the furthest; went hunting, got lost, stayed in an empty house, next to the bridge across the river; brothers they take turns guarding; IC sees a three-headed monster riding, disappeared, did not tell his brothers; the same IN (6-headed); on the third night S. leaves a glass: if full of blood, hurry to help, and if blood over the edge, to escape by themselves; the 12-headed monster overcomes, S. threw his boot, the gate disappeared, the horse ran, helped kill the monster; S. put 12 heads under a heavy stove; the brothers ask for forgiveness, that they hid and did not help; when we went, S. asks to return - forgot his gloves; fell off the stove, under it 12 heads; the brothers kept silent; three sisters of the sorceress gathered; one promises to become an apple tree, the other a feather bed, the third with a well; although the brothers eat apples, lie on a feather bed, drink water, S. does not give; the brothers find a hut, hunt, cook in turn; a dwarf with a long beard came, ate everything, beat the IC; the same with IN; S. beat a dwarf, pinched his beard in a stump; he uprooted the stump, left, a trail of blood leads to a hole; S. orders to kill the bear, make belts out of the skin, lower him on his belts; the copper girl sends silver to the girl of the kingdom, she to the golden one; each asks her to marry; the maiden of the golden kingdom orders to change the wells with strong and weak water; the dwarf drank weak water, S. killed him; S. sends the girls upstairs, each turned her kingdom into a ball; when the brothers raised S., they were flattered by the girls, cut off their belt; S. fell, found the Firebird, she carried him upstairs, because he defeated her villain; IC took the maiden of the silver kingdom, YN took the copper kingdom, and the maiden of the golden kingdom as his servants; having learned how it was, the king executed the IC, drove the IN away, made S. the heir, who married the princess Golden Kingdom]: 230-233; Russians (Vologda) [dying, father tells him to come to his grave for three nights; two clever married older brothers do not go, younger Ivanushka the fool goes, father three times with him talks, teaches how to summon an eternal kaurka sivka-burka; Nastasya the Beautiful will marry someone who jumps up to her window on the second floor of the house, she will make a note on his forehead; I. fits into Sivka's ear, there eats and drinks, becomes handsome, N. puts a mark on his forehead with a ring; finds him, takes him as a husband; a three-headed serpent declares war on the king; the king calls three sons-in-law, I. on a thin horse, then summoned a sivka, cut off the snake's heads, gave it to his older sons-in-law for allowing them to be cut off their toes; the same was a six-headed serpent (from hand to finger); nine-headed (cut out belts from back); I. sends N. to the king, to wait for the kingdom to be handed over to his elder sons-in-law; orders to show his arms, legs, backs; the tsar signed off the kingdom to V., his elder sons-in-law were shot at the gate]: Smirnov 1917, No. 38:202-208; Russians ( Vladimirskaya, Pereslavl-Zalessky u.) [the fisherman has been fishing for 33 years; he caught the crucian carp; he tells him to put the husk in a box in the attic, bury the intestines underground, let his wife eat the liver and heart, the head to the female, the tail to the mare, eat the rest yourself; the old woman gave birth to two boys Ivan and Vasily, a mare - foals, a female - males; by the age of 7, the brothers grew up, ordered 400 pounds of iron batog; gold was in the box, two bridles in the underground; brothers we reached the pole: whoever is to the right will not be alive, whoever to the left will petrify; M. to the right, V. to the left; a wall parted in front of him, he disappeared behind it; I. - to the city to the king; there a sea serpent demands 6 heads girls, the princess's turn; I. knocked down 6 heads with a club, put it under a stone, told the princess to remain silent that he had saved her; then the serpent demands all three princesses about 12 heads; the same; I. married the youngest; went to look for B ., taking half of his wife's handkerchief; after visiting V. in the Arab kingdom, I. returned; there the blacksmith marries the princess; I. sent a male dog, who dragged the blacksmith by the nose; showed half of the handkerchief, the head under the stone; the blacksmith put them in a pole; both brothers and wives returned to their father]: Smirnov 2008, No. 4:66-68.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Urums ("Greeks g. Mariupol"; judging by fragments of the original texts and other lexical materials available in the notes, these are urums, not rumei) [the widow's son beat the padishah's son and the vizier's son in the bones; the vizier's son hit the widow's son; he gave back, but missed and killed the padishah's son; the padishah wanted to execute the widow's son, but the dignitaries dissuaded him (minors cannot be executed) and advised him to send the murderer to the forest, to who lives the monster; the padishah did so; the widow's son came to the forest, straightened the bulls from the arba, went to buy firewood; when he returned, he saw that one of the bulls was only his head; went into the thicket, brought the monster from there, harnessed it into the arba and went to the padishah; the padishah hid under the sofa and told the widow's son to leave his kingdom; the widow's son and his mother found a palace in the forest owned by the 40s- the head of the serpent; the widow's son waved a piece of dagger and cut off 39 heads; the serpent asked to cut off the last one, but the widow's son dragged him into the back room and piled a millstone on him; a few years later, The widow found this room; the serpent said, "Who's there? If you are older than me, then be my mother, if you are middle-aged, be my wife, and if you are smaller than me, be my sister"; the widow opened the door, brought the snake a fragment of a dagger; the serpent licked its heads grew up again; he and the widow began to live together in secret from her son; they had a child; the widow put him on the road; the eldest son saw the child, brought it home and let his mother feed; the child grew up and became make a snake hiss; the widow gave her eldest son poisoned dumplings, but the youngest warned him of the danger; the eldest son killed both the mother and the snake; before going in search of his wife, he stuck him in the ceiling a dagger and said to his brother: "If honey flows through the dagger, it means that my journey is safe; if blood flows, it will be a sign that I am in danger"; the eldest son arrived to the city, stayed with an old woman; she said: there is a well near the city, the owner of which is a 6-headed serpent; every year he is given lot by lot; this year the lot fell on the royal daughter, tomorrow hers they will be taken to the well; the eldest son killed a snake, saved the king's daughter and married her; one morning he saw two suns in the sky; the wife explained: a padishah lives in the west, he has a beautiful daughter, this is her hair so they are burning; the eldest son went to that beautiful woman; she was sitting on the balcony, he went into the garden and began to eat fruit there; because of this, he was exhausted; the padishah threw him into the cellar; the younger brother noticed that the dagger was coming from the dagger blood, and rushed to search; did not eat fruit in the garden and grabbed the padishah by the beard; he let his older brother go; he returned to his former wife, and the youngest married a beautiful woman]: Markov 1892, No. 5:24-30; Kalmyks [an old man and an old woman want to slaughter their mare three times a day; each time the dog burns a string, the mare escapes; runs away altogether; finds and feeds three newborn boys; flies away in the cloud, telling the youngest that his name is Kokode Wise; the brothers go to look for wives; K. meets an old woman and a girl who gives him three cakes; K. gives them to the dog a 15-headed mousse, she caresses him, he kills Musa; the same episode has 25- and 35-headed muses; the 35-headed one voice sounds in the sky, the other on the ground, one fang plows the sky, the other earth; K. kills three old women - the mothers of Musa, takes everyone's wife, gives the elders to the brothers; they see the light coming from the youngest, they are jealous; they leave their braids at the doorstep, K. cuts off their legs; they come to him blind and armless; they kidnap his daughter celestial, she is at home with them; enters a house where an old woman with only an eye on the back of her head asks to look in her head, gives ash and coals, punctures the hem; on an ash trail comes to the house, sucks blood; friends watch, tell the old woman to cure everyone; she swallows everyone, regurgitates healthy; K. does not belch, the sparrow tells her to cut her finger, he is there; K. came to the brothers disguised as a gypsy; they made it wife as a shepherdess; K. tells brothers to shoot up, arrows fall on them, kill them; daughter-in-law ties hundreds of horses to their tails]: Jimbinov 1962:31-45; Abkhazians: Shakryl 1975, No. 18 [sitting in a jug, Kamsa hears his witch sister promising to bring his eyes to the owl; killed his sister and her assistants - an owl, a wolf, a snake; the prince's daughter is waiting for an agulshap to arrive and eat her; woke up when her tear fell on him cheek; kills 7-, 12-, 25-headed Agulshaps, marries a girl], 30 [in winter, the princess saw two apples on the apple tree, one ate with her husband, the other fell into the river, he was eaten by a miller and his wife, a princess and a mill they gave birth to a boy, they cried so much that they took them both to the forest; when they saw each other, the boys stopped crying, the prince raised them, they asked them to make balls of 60 pounds, threw them up, put their knees, balls crashed; then a hundred pounds each - the balls bent; the brothers went to wander; at the intersection, the youngest Pycha drove along the right dangerous road, and the elder Pycha on the left; the old woman tells him that the Adaui ate everyone, she was left alone; he cut off the head of the Adaua, grew two; then three; the old woman sprinkled hot ash on her necks, he died; P. promised Adaua's sister to marry her; came to marry the sister of the seven Adaua; P. defeated them, promised to marry their sister; after hunting, he began to fry meat in the forest; an old woman came up, asked for a horse and dog to be tied, swallowed them and P.; at the end of K.'s checker, blood appeared, he followed P.'s footsteps; both the brides mistake him for P.; his horse and dog pull the old woman in different directions; she has to revive P., his horse and dog, then K. kills her; P. goes to the voice, this is a girl chained to iron next to him arap gate; P. has been fighting saber with a girl for many years, wins, she promises to become his wife; does not tell you to answer the arap's abuse; P. answered, the arap escaped, they began to fight, the arap prevails; bird: tear out the iron gate, there is a bird in it, paper with the soul of an arapa in the bird; P. did so, the arap died; the brothers returned, taking all the women of Pychi, gave one to Kucha, he chose the sister of seven brothers; Pycha's wife offered to call her 6-year-old brother; he defeated P., went to a hot country, won, brought a wife]: 76-78, 153-161; Abaza [seven-headed Ablativa sent birds, animals, insects to find out whose the meat tastes better and the blood is sweeter; the Swallow met the Snake, who said it was human; The swallow pretended not to believe, asked to show the sting, cut it; the Snake managed to snatch the middle of Swallow's tail ; since then he has only hissed]: Pershitz 1989:223; Kabardian people [when dying, the father tells three sons to guard the mare once a year, whose foals are kidnapped; the older brother falls asleep, the middle brother does not dare to grab with a seven-headed frost; younger Zaur repulsed a foal, cut off one head; on a hunted horse he follows the trail of a frost; the old woman says that the other kidnapped her daughter, gives scissors, a mirror, a comb; Z. takes away a girl, throws a comb (barbed fence), scissors (seven fortresses), a mirror (the ground is covered with ice); the frost fell, Z. cut off his heads; took the girl as his wife]: Aliyeva, Kardangushev 1977:98-99; Nogais [the father sends his sons to guard a thief who steals golden apples; the older, middle brother falls asleep, the younger one snatches the feather of a golden bird; the older, middle brother goes to look for it, disappear; the youngest comes to the fork, "you will die on the right road, the horse on the left road"; walks on the left; the wolf eats the horse; takes the young man; tells you to take the bird without a cage; he takes the cage, raises the alarm; the king promises to give the bird for a horse with a golden mane; a wolf tells not to take a bridle; a young man takes, the king promises to give a horse for a gold-haired girl; a young man kills Azdaa with one, two, etc. (up to seven) heads; Wolf pretends to be a girl, a horse, a young man returns with a girl, a horse, a bird; he meets brothers; they throw him into a hole; a seven-headed serpent gives water in exchange for a girl; a young man kills a snake; the king puts the young man on an eagle, a supply of food and water for seven days; it is not enough; the young man cuts off meat from his hips, gives his eyes instead of water; on earth, the eagle returns everything; in the guise of a beggar, a young man comes to the wedding gold-haired and older brother; shows the firebird's feather; brothers were torn by horses]: Nogai 1979, No. 10:34-45; Karachays, Balkarians: Lipkin 1973:47-52 [tired three-headed emegen (each head has one eye) says, Oh oh oh; Yorusmek comes out from behind the cliff, says his name is Oh oh oh, that his gun brings back youth; one by one, kills 15 emegens, including a three-headed one, with a gun, takes their wealth], 68-77 [see motif K38; Sosruk enters the lower world; nine-headed emegen closed the water there; S. asks a woman to make him 8 stuffed heads; emegen hits them with arrows, S. hits all 9 heads emegena]; Balkarians (zap. 1965) [poor Khuduychik asked the king for work; the king: to deliver a tree for the arba from the land of five-headed emegen; H. cut, took away the tree; crossing the border of the land of emegen, replies to the fact that X. deliver the tree to make a yoke (the same); deliver the emegen itself; H. comes to cut down trees; says he wants to make a chest catch H. in it; emegen helps; agrees to try it on, gets inside, H. he nailed the lid, brought the chest to the king; the king opened the chest, emegen killed him, ran away; at this time H. climbed the ladder to the throne; emegen: lift me up; H. raises emegen several times and pretends that he cannot hold; when he falls, emegen loses one of his heads every time; after killing emegen, H. took the throne himself]: 364-366; Ossetians: Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [when dying, parents tell three daughters not to refuse matchmakers; they marry Wolf, Bear, Raven; brother comes to his sons-in-law, they are beautiful men; decide that the sisters' brother deserves a beauty from the lower world; the young man lowers the chain, pulls out the five-headed guard- a giant, kills; descends; three girls complain that a crocodile gives water for a person to be eaten; a young man kills a crocodile; their mother is Voronikha; a young man marries Malik's daughter, Voronikha takes them to the ground; on the way, the young man feeds her, the meat runs out, he cuts off the eggs; Voronikha puts it back on the ground; a feast with his sons-in-law]: 76-83; Sokayeva 2012 [one khan had a daughter, the other had a son, they decided to marry them, exchanged rings, put them on the children's fingers; the boy's father died; the boy grew up, his mother told him to find his father's horse in the stable, with only ears sticking out from under the manure; he cleaned, washed the horse, went to inspect his herds; the herds slaughtered the pregnant mare, a colorful three-legged one-eyed foal fell out; the khan's son did not like to see this, he hit the stabbed with a whip, one young man said that it would be better if the Khan's son found his bride; her father raced, would pass his daughter off as a winner; the Khan's son shook his bridle, and a three-legged one-eyed man ran out to him three times foal; the khan's son first rode his old horse, leading the foal; the horse tells him to let him go, move to a foal, but first hide in the house where the three sisters are flying in and eavesdrop on them conversation; taking off her wings, the older sister says that she could not catch up with the rider by a three-legged foal; the khan's son opened up, the maidens called him brother; the khan's son, ahead of everyone else, galloped to the tower and carried the girl; the seven-headed giant set off in pursuit; began to hit 7 felt targets, and the khan's son consistently knocked down his 7 heads; took his name as his wife, everything is fine]: 169-174; Ingush: Kibiev, Malsagov 1981 [y elderly parents have a son; they often say that he will marry Chingaz; the young man has grown up, the parents replied that they do not know where to look for C.; Zhary-Baba's old widow orders him to give the young man a horse and a weapon, let looking for C.; he sees by the lake how three doves flew in, shed their wings, became girls; he hides their wings, promises to give them back if they tell us about themselves; one of them is C., asks the young man to give time to know each other a friend, tells him to return home, and after 7 days 3 am to come to an oak tree; the witch wants to marry her daughter as a young man; sends a servant, tells him to stick a needle into the Circassian young man every night; he falls asleep when C. arrives; C. tells the servant to tell: only a worthy person will find C.; a young man cuts off the servant's head; saves an eagle whose claws are stuck in a snag, lets fish into the water, pulls the wolf out of the hole; meets the maid 9- the head of Black Khoja, who kidnapped C., brings him to her; the young man tells C. to find out where his fast horse comes from; three mares give birth to such foals, which are watched by Jery-Baba; she tells them to herd, the heads of those who failed (there are already 82 of them) are put on stakes; an eagle, a fish, a wolf drive the runaway; the young man receives and tames the foal; he asks to let him drink mother's milk for the last time, after this is immensely strong; the young man takes C., jumps away, the horse CH catches up, but the young man's horse tells him (this is his older brother) to throw off CH, the young man cuts off his heads; wedding]: 48-71; Malsagov 1983, No. 13 [( also see note 7 on page 327: Sarmak is a serpent, a dragon, sometimes polyheaded); a sarta father is killed by a seven-headed sea vampal; when he dies, the father does not tell his son about this until his 15th birthday; at the age of 12, the son asks his mother to give him roasted wheat, clamps her hand, she confesses, explains how to get a heroic horse out of the dungeon (sitting on others, the young man breaks their back); the young man is accompanied by a prince; when the young man descends into the sea to fight the Vampals, the prince leaves, taking the horse; the young man kills the one to the seven-headed vampals; it is not the blood that flows out, but snakes, cockroaches and other insects come out (origin evil spirits); at home, a young man rescues his mother from the chicken coop, kills the prince, marries his daughter], 20 [=Kibiev, Malsagov 1981:86-99; the horse tells the aged warrior to give it to a young horseman; the young man comes to tower; the hostess promises to become his wife if he finds out the secret of the noseless Sealaime; he will reveal it to the feat; the horseman wins, companions a young man; kills the terrible wolf Berza Kazá; the companion brings the horseman to his castle, where his brother's sick wife; the horseman goes to buy medicine, the horse carries it between the crushing rocks; the horseman takes out the splinter to the lion, who gives medicine to a jug of milk; the beauty has recovered, advised her husband to ask her husband for a sword with a broken end and a gray oath as a reward; her husband is S.; he says that he and his seven comrades were chased by a seven-headed serpent, threw a stone, killed his comrades, the tip of his nose was cut off; the horseman tells the horse to return to its former owner, sits on a nag, she becomes a heroic horse; the dzhigit comes to the bride; wedding]: 87-91, 115-119; Chechens (western 1960) [the hunter cut out the liver, lung and heart of the dead deer, which came to life and ran away; the hunter's daughter said that what happened to Timar, whose side was burnt, was more surprising; T. says how with six brothers They met the Nart Ersthoi, who sent them to his house, threw their hat, the brothers could not move it; in his cave, the sledge strung the brothers on a spit, fried them; T. was extreme, only his side was burned, he ran away; after listening to the story, the hunter came to the sledge, kicked his hat away, defeated the sledge, cut off his six heads; he asks him to keep the last one, shows how to revive the brothers by touching the whetstone to their bones; a hunter killed a sledge, revived her brothers, married their sister; she said she turned into that reindeer alive to find a way to revive her brothers; her liver, lung, and heart are still they hurt]: Dalgat 1972:271-273 (=Malsagov 1983, No. 19:111-115); Kumyks [(western 1902) A.E.Gren, from L.G. Lopatinsky's materials); apples disappear from the miller's garden; the eldest, middle sons are sleeping, the youngest sees a bird, picks up a fiery feather; the father sends his sons to pick up a bird; at the fork the youngest is on the road from where you will not return; the wolf calls to help him; tells him to kidnap the bird from the palace, carry it upside down; he puts the bird in his arm, it flies away; the second time he is grabbed; the king promises to give the bird in exchange for a wonderful horse; the wolf tells not to sit on the horse, the young man sits down, the horse returns to the palace; the horse will be given for the girl; the wolf becomes a horse, the young man swims across the sea ; the princess sits on an imaginary horse, he takes her away; the wolf turns into a princess, then into a horse, a young man exchanges a horse, a bird, returns with the princess, horse and bird; finds impoverished brothers; they gouge out his eyes, take the prey; a bird flies up, waves its wing, the young man sees the light; comes under the guise of a herdsman to the wedding of a princess who promised to marry the one who pulls the bow; she recognizes the young man; he asks who to get, a rooster or a chicken; the princess replies that he is a rooster; he kills both brothers, marries]: Bagriy 1930 (1): 25-29 (=Khalilov 1965, No. 45:105-109); Dargins [father killed daughters; son saved newborn, left with her, he grew up immediately; they began to live in the house of seven days, they came, the young man killed them; her sister saved one wounded man, began to live with him; gave birth to a baby, threw it to her brother, who saved him brought it; the boy grew up, warned his uncle not to eat the porridge poisoned by his sister, not to drink water, not to wear shirts; the brother almost died when he touched the poisoned gate, but the boy brought him medicine; the brother killed sister and azhdakha; calls his sister's son younger brother; when leaving, he tells him to come to the rescue if a green flower opens, not a red flower; kills the seven-headed Azhdah, who has closed the water, gets a girl for it; wins the hero, his wife's cousin, marries her younger brother]: Ganiyeva 2011, No. 27:275-278; Lucky [women disappear in the state, pathah hides his wife, the youngest son steals the key, opens the room where the mother is sitting, the cloud takes her away; the two eldest sons go in search, followed by the youngest; meets seven devas, they admire his strength, point to a mountain on which three-, four-, five-seven-headed azhdakha; a young man orders a retractable staircase from the blacksmith, climbs the mountain, kills all Azhdah, frees three kidnapped princesses and his mother, lowers them and treasures, the princesses give each young man has a golden apple; the brothers remove the stairs, bring the princesses and mother to his father, say that they got them themselves; the young man finds a box with a dwarf in it, following orders; he takes the young man to hometown; he is hired by a blacksmith, a dwarf does any job; princesses order golden apples, an imaginary assistant to the blacksmith gives them the ones they gave him; gathers people, tells his story, kills archery brothers, marries the best princess, gains the throne]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 10:142-149; the Gunzibs [the dragon killed the peasant; his son grew up, defeated the dragon, imprisoned him in the dungeon his castle, his mother moved there, went hunting for a long time; his mother saw a dragon, he promised to marry her, she released him; pregnant; tells the dragon to kill her son, otherwise she will tell him everything herself; they agree that the mother will pretend to be sick, the medicine is black grapes in the garden of the seven-headed dragon; the young man wounded the tiger on the way, the tiger cub asked not to kill his father, went with the boy; the young man won seven-headed, brought grapes; the dragon gave his mother intoxicating wine, his son drank it, fell asleep, the dragon pulled out his eyes, put him in his pockets, threw him into the abyss; the tiger cub took care of him, brought him game; the hunter found it, found it in his pockets, restored the young man's sight; he threw his mother, her newborn son and the dragon himself into the oven; he gave the hunter the seven-headed castle]: Berg 1995, No. 20:207-218; aguly [three brothers live in the mill, take turns cooking; a bearded dwarf comes, eats meat, asks for more; the older two refuse, he ties them with his hair; the younger Ahmed is polite, offers food himself, receives a wonderful sword, they must kill the seven-headed ajdaha, who has closed the water, to whom the princess must be given; A. kills Azhdakha, the princess puts a mark on the savior's back; the brothers bind A., let him go along the river to boat, they say that they killed Azhdakha; the princess objects, then they threaten everything with a wonderful sword; the dwarf saves A., turns brothers into wolves, A. gets the princess]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 33:320-323 (=Maysak 2014, № P1:477-478); Lezgins [Zulum Magoma eats and works like a giant; fellow villagers are afraid of him; mother pretends to be sick, asks for lion meat; he easily does the task, goes to fight with dragons; on the way he meets a tree puller and leveling mountains; companions cook; a long-bearded dwarf ties a cook with his hair every time, eats everything; Z. throws him up to the sky, a dwarf falls, hides underground; companions can't go down, it's hot there; Z. descends, kills three dragons (3-, 5-, 7-headed) sleeping on the knees of three girls; companions lift the girls to the ground they leave M. below; the youngest manages to say that he must grab the leg of the white gazelle, which will take him to the upper world; M. mistakenly grabs black, he takes him to the black world; the seven-headed dragon closed water, gives for the girls; Z. kills him; the king advises to go to the plane tree, where the parrot's nest; Z. kills a snake that is about to eat chicks; the parrot carries it to the upper world; Z. cuts off the last piece of meat from his leg, on the ground, the bird puts him back; Z. comes to the wedding, kills traitors, marries, gives the other two girls for laborers]: Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 79-91 (=Khalilov 1965, No. 34:54-68); Udins [see motif K72; a young man pulls a thorn out of the leg of a seven-headed maiden, who helps to get the magic tree]: Dirr 1904:96-99; tatas: Dirr 1920, No. 27 [the king has five in one city sons, but none in the other; the second is visiting the first, the messenger brings the news that his wife is pregnant; has given birth to a daughter; then the first has another son Kittschüv; they decided to marry them when they grow up; Azhdaha decided to steal the girl; her name is Altuntschatschä {Turkic. Altynchach}; the mother of the three-headed Azhdakhi turned him into a bird, he flew to A., then became Azhdaha and took it away; the brothers went in search; the elder brother divided the sea, everyone saw Azhdaha sleeping, one of the heads on on A.'s knees; A. tells K. to kill the fish first, containing a box with the soul of Azhdakhi; K. destroyed the soul of Azhdakhi and took A.; Azhdakhi's mother Enäj {Turkic. Ene} revived her son; the second brother asked God and created a tower, the brothers and A. took refuge in it; K. cut off Azhdaha's heads; returning A., K. ordered him to wait 3 years, months, days, hours and minutes, and went on a journey; at the fork in three roads, it says: you will not return; either you will return or not; you will return; K. chose the first; the horse tells you to swim in the pool; lets you burn the hairs to cause it; gives the ability to turn into sand and grains; turned K. into a golden bird; two tsar brothers saw a bird; the eldest wanted to shoot, the youngest took it with him, gave it to his sister; the bird sat on her chest; girl: singing her chest not for you, but for K .; immediately the bird became K.; calling a horse and turning into sand {incomprehensible}, K. won 70 azhdakh, took the girl away; got the sister of three ajdakhs for a friend; everything is fine]: 131-136; Kukulla 1974, No. 17 [merchants give an old woman, and that childless rich man, must eat three apples, give the peel to the mare; three sons and three horses are born; when he dies, the rich man hides horses and wealth under the ground; the younger brother hears people his mother reproaches him for disgracing the name of her deceased husband, living in poverty and doing menial work; asking him to bake lavash, pressing his mother's hands to her hot tone, his mother gives the keys to the dungeons; brothers they dress up nicely, the eldest, then the middle one, leave and disappear; the youngest comes to the padishah, whose daughter will die if she is not given chamois milk; the chamois shepherd lives over the mountains, who guard one-, two- and three-headed ajdaha; a young man kills the first ajdah, kills a three-headed snake, frees the brothers from its belly; kills the second ajdah, three brothers kill the third together; the shepherd gives milk to chamois and two daughters to marry older brothers; on the way back they become padishahs of two cities who suffered from Azhdah; they defeat Padishah Chimechin, to whom their wives were first promised; younger brother brings chamois milk, marries]: 150-173; Lopatinsky 1894b [the royal apple tree brings one apple a year, but someone steals it; the eldest, middle son is guarded, the thief was not caught; the youngest hit him with a dagger; on a bloody trail, the brothers reached the well; the elder, middle brother tells them to let them down, and immediately shout, "I'm burning!" , they are pulled out; the youngest goes down to the bottom, kills the seven-headed diva, takes his gold and horse, returns to his brothers; their father married, the youngest later became king]: 26-27; swans: Lominadze 1903, No. 1 [see motive C33; for violating the word, the devils chained Amirani to an iron pole in the abyss near Elbrus; a nine-headed diva is tied to the same pole]: 141-144; Dumezil 1996:84-85 [ published in Russian in 1890; Amirani is Dali's son, Iamani took him up, he has his sons Visib and Badri; playmates ask why the brothers did not regain their father's eye if they are such heroes; the father admitted that he gave his eye to the monster so as not to give any of his sons; helping the brothers, A. kills the black and red devas, the gray swallows him, runs to his house; V. and B. tell A. to cut his side deva with a dagger, they chop off the outside themselves, A. comes out, but is blind in both eyes; at the direction of the deva, they cut off pieces of his heart and liver, put them on A., his eyes see better than before; brothers they come to another maiden at the top of the mountain; he lures them into his house, eats a ram, promises to eat his brothers tomorrow; with the help of sister deva, the brothers find his sword, the only way to kill him; A. cuts off the maiden of his 12 heads; there is a pole in the house, many eyes are on it, at the top of the box, I.'s eye is in it, the brothers return it to his father]; Gren 1890, No. 2 [hunters Devtag and Tskhetag killed the maiden, took it property; their sister fell in love with another maiden, pretended to be sick, asked for a peacock chick first, then a wild boar cub as a medicine; the brothers saw how the dragon grabbed a wild boar, killed the dragon, the boar gave the cub himself; at home, the brothers found a sister with a three-headed maiden; they killed him, heated the stone, put his sister on it; she sat on it until she died]: 78-79; Georgians [ a retired soldier is hired as a farmhand to an old woman; she does not tell you to unlock the second room; he unlocks, there is a bottle of water, he pours out water, a woman appears, tells her to run to the sea; she will fly, let him fly waiting for her on the shore; an old woman gives the workers an acorn, they put a soldier to sleep three times when a woman comes for him; she leaves him a ring; a man sends him overseas; a dead man in a tree; says that there will be black, red, white horses; first jump on black; he brings to the house; a soldier kills a 9-headed maiden; black - 10-headed, white - 11-headed; the owner's daughter - that liberated a woman as a soldier; her father gives him his daughter and house]: Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 30:74-78; Megrels [Tsar Muzarbiy is immensely rich, at night he frightens Ndemi monsters from the roof of the palace with the cry of monsters; died, leaving his daughter and a pregnant wife; the wife is in love with a 12-headed ndemi flint; gave birth to a son half gold, half silver, put it under a stone; at first she was silent, then answered her daughter that she had given birth to a freak; she found a boy, he grew up in 10 days, began to hunt, his name is also Muzarbiy; he saw a city and a palace from the mountain; he does not know that this is his father's city; there is only an old woman, Ndemi ate almost everyone; M. killed the first with an arrow Ndemi came up, then the second; each ndemi came up, who has 12 heads; M. cuts them down, new ones grow; wren: "hot ash"; the old woman sprinkled the stumps with hot ash, the heads no longer grew; people gathered, everyone was happy; but M.'s mother revived the ndemi with her urine; turning them into a fly, hid them in a chest; invited her son to wear his father's shoes; they were small for him; trying to pull them, M. broke his leg; mother released the ndemi, M. grabbed it and picked it up, but the mother poured flaxseed under her son's feet, Ndemi tore it apart; the sister collected the pieces, watered her tears, prayed to God; 3 days later M. was resurrected; the ndemi compartment again heads, and the old woman sprinkled them with hot ash; burned the killed Ndemi; the sister brought his father's horse to his brother; M. tied his mother to his tail and galloped; three apples, three pomegranates; may God not take away from the collected with your hands]: Petrov 1890, No. 1:265-277; Armenians [the beggar asked the royal gardener for apples, he did not give it, the apple trees dried up; the beggar said that the garden would bloom when the bird of paradise Azaran sings in it- Blbul; the elder and middle princes go in search; the younger fool Alo-Dino chooses a thin nag, tells me to feed, it turns into a heroic horse, he catches up with brothers; from the fork, one road leads to Tiflis, the other is in Yerevan, the third is Deadly, AB is driving along it; the brothers, for others, went bankrupt, began to work for the bathhouse attendant; AD comes to the Red Maiden, the deva's wife offers to hide him, AD refuses; eats on a par with Dev, cuts off his three heads during a fight; promises to marry his widow as his older brother; the White Maiden (seven-headed, wife for middle brother); Black is forty-headed, takes Hell his widow as his wife; she says that King Chachonts has AB; Hell tames the sea horse, which carries him across the sea; the mare - she jumps to the window, blood pressure grabs the cell with AB; with the treasures of the devas and the bird returns to his wife; goes to look for brothers; they leave him in the well, leave with women, treasures and birds; the wife manages to give Hell her glove and shoe; the king father doubts that the bird has been caught the eldest and middle son; they cannot make her sing; the merchant pulls hell out of the well, he stays with the old man; finds out that the king is marrying a son, will reward the one who sews a second glove for his daughter-in-law; the king and the bride is happy; the same is the shoe; King C. comes with his army for the bird; the elder, middle princes do not give the correct answer to the question of how the bird was kidnapped; when Hell comes and shows the cut off from giants noses and lips, C. gives him a bird for his courage; the bird sang; Hell does not execute, but expels brothers and their wives; soon inherits his father's throne]: Harutyunyan 1986:3-19; Azerbaijanis (Shushi County) Elisavetpol Gubernia) [King Melik-Nadir orders to kill his daughters; when he leaves, he tells his son Ghazanfar to kill his sister if he is born; he felt sorry for the girl; MN returned, orders them to be executed, the nobleman persuaded them to be sent to the desert; G. kills seven divas, throws them into the well; the sister throws the leftovers there, one diva survived, became strong; agrees with sister G. to lime him - pretend to be sick, ask him to bring 1) melon from the diva garden; G. defeated the hero, she fell in love with him, gave him a flying horse, G. brought a melon; 2) apples from the diva garden; his heroic wife tells him to feed the terrible dog, greet the bridge; the seven-headed diva tells the bridge and the dog to stop the kidnapper, they refuse; the wife changed the apples; 3) the sheep's fat tail with branched horns, which lives in the north; G. brought it, but his wife replaced the usual, magic fat tail kept it; the sister suggests that G. tie his hands to test his strength; when G. cannot tear the rope, the divas chopped it to pieces, put it in a bag, tied it to a donkey, drove him into the forest; G.'s dogs guarded the donkey, his wife found and revived with medicine from fat tail and magic apples; G. cut off the diva's arms and legs, burned his sister; returned to his father; found a portrait of the beautiful Shahbaz-Pari in the chest; G. follows her; takes a giant as his companions Kara-Kulamali, who killed all the babies in the village; he smashes the army, gives beautiful G., warns not to step on the carpet that his father will spread (he himself wants to take possession of the beauty), not to untie the old man's hands are a seven-headed diva; G. untied the old man, he took the beauty; G. called K., who brought him to the beautiful woman, she found out that the diva's life in the bottle, G. broke it; the father sends a vizier from G. destroy G.; in the desert, the vizier pulls out G.'s eyes in exchange for water; K. saved him (two pigeons: you can restore your eyesight with my pen), burned his father and vizier, married a beautiful woman]: Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 13:109-120; Turks [40 padishah's sons want to marry only 40 sisters; father finds only families with 39 daughters; brothers go looking; father tells them not to stop at the spring or caravanserai for him, not in the desert, which is further away; but they spent the night at the spring and only the youngest is awake; a seven-headed dragon appeared; the young man cut off his six heads with one blow, the latter disappeared into the well; the young man went down rope, there is a palace with 40 rooms, each one is beautiful, they are sisters, the dragon killed their parents; the young man returns to his brothers, says nothing; the next night at the caravanserai; a new seven-headed dragon; the same, but the young man does not go down to the well; in the desert, the third dragon is Champalak; the young man gave the brothers the keys to the first two wells, where girls and treasures, began to fight C.; he prevails, tells them to get for he is the princess of Chin-i-Machin; bridles to tame the horse that will take him to the goal; old woman: C. has been trying to get the princess for a long time; the young man was hired as a gardener, the princess fell in love with him; they agreed that she finds out what C.'s life is; the princess found out that the horse brought the young man, he killed a lion, inside the casket, there are 3 doves; one flew away, but the horse caught and killed her; the young man killed the second, the third was going to give C., but the princess killed her; all the brothers were married, and the youngest two (one of the sisters and Princess Chin-i-Machin)]: Kúnos 1901:143-153; Talyshi: Bayramalibekov 1899, No. 2 [west of Lankaran Kyz-Kalasi and Dev-Kalasi fortresses {"maiden fortress" and "devya fortress"}; the princess is sleeping in Kyz-Kalasi, she will have to be woken up by a prince; a seven-headed devil sleeps in Dev-Kalasi; he exterminated the beauty's family, took her to concubines, but fell asleep; his treasure of gold is guarded by horned snakes; their queen with a crown on her head comes to bow to her on the day of Nowruz; under the queen's tongue there is a white pebble in which the soul of a deva is; while the pebble intact, the devil will not die; the prince will run the dragon, the princess will tell you how to get a white pebble (learn a prayer from Saint Sheikh Zaghid); crush the pebble, the devil will die]: 4-7; 2012 [under Mount Alar (west of Lankaran) ) Shah Keikavus's daughter sleeps in the fortress of Giz Galasy ("maiden fortress"); all her relatives were killed by a seven-headed diva; he wanted to take the beautiful woman as concubine, but fell asleep and sleeps in the tower of Div Galasa ("divya fortress"); there is also the queen of poisonous horned snakes; all snakes bring her a golden chervonets to Novruz; the soul of the diva is in a white pebble under the tongue of the queen of snakes; a prince from the Safaviya family will defeat the dragon guard, will make him a servant; she will wake him up; she will teach him to go to the queen of snakes, she will give the stone, the prince will crush it to powder, the divas will die, the Safavtyya dynasty will be established]: 107-111; Kurds [Mullah Mazbura went to the cemetery at night to see Ankir and Munkir (angels asking a deceased Muslim questions to determine his fate in the next world); lay down in the grave, waited; a caravan came up, M. heard the sound of bells, thought they were angels; imagined hellfire, a seven-headed serpent, an angel of torment; when the first mule passed by the grave, M. jumped up and screamed that he was alive; mules in fear they dropped the bales, the dishes in them broke; M. beat him; in the morning the neighbors found him and asked him what the angels said; M: If you don't scare the mules, they won't touch you; saying: My bast shoes are torn to me too nothing got]: Eyubi, Smirnova 1968:259-261.

Iran - Central Asia. Pahlavi tradition [Aži Dahāka has three mouths (rizafanəm), three heads (rikamarəəm) and six eyes (xšuuaš.ašīm)]; lurs [ the father advises three sons not to spend the night in a ravine, near a grave pile of stones and in the forest; they break the ban three times; each time the youngest stays to cook; for the first time he cuts off with arrows the heads of a seven-headed snake; the second time she kills the dragon; the third time an old woman came, took the souls of her sleeping brothers; the youngest came to the forest, grabbed one of the 7 girls dancing and singing, married her; she said that the brothers would cure the fat from the old woman's buttocks; it should be burned, their eyes should be smeared with soot; the young man did so; a demon appeared riding a whirlwind, tied up the brothers, left a four-eyed dog as a watchman; he ate his elder brothers, the youngest killed him; came to a one-eyed shepherd; he locked him and his herd in a cave; roasts a man; the young man burned his eye with a hot rod, killed the goat, who was in charge of the herd, put on his skin; when he came out of the cave, the young man threw goatskin on the shepherd's chest; came to the castle and married the owner; she warned that he would die in a year; so it happened; he came to another place , grabbed Peri and married her; they have a son and daughter; one day the wife dived into the river and the children followed her; promised to come to help his father if necessary; the young man came to a man who herded cows; he offered him his sister, but warned that if one of the spouses dies, the other is buried with him; the wife died, he was left with her in the grave; but the leader also died, his wife was also placed in the grave; the young man and The chief's widow got out when he saw the mouse climb into the hole; they found themselves in the river; the young man's son saved him, and his ex-wife and daughter saved the woman; they achieved their wishes, even if all friends achieved them]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 11:54-59; Turkmens [a sick padishah asks sons to get a nightingale whose singing he heard in his sleep; elder Gulyam and middle Veli Dev throws into the well; younger Mammadjan kills deva with a stone, frees the peri; to finish off the deva, you have to kill his soul, she is in a bottle in the dragon's right ear; M. makes the dragon sneeze, finishes off the deva; Peri tells the black maiden to bring M. to his sister - a prisoner of a two-headed maiden; a total of seven sisters, each next is a prisoner of a deva with a large number of heads, up to seven; M. kills everyone up to the sixth, each has a bottle of soul kept by a goat, an old woman etc. (just like in the first episode); the sixth girl explains: a dragon crawls to the plane tree every year, devours chicks; the grateful bird Zamyr will bring the dragon that has killed the dragon to where the nightingale is; we must give millet to the chickens bones for dogs, salt for camels, tie the tongues of bells with rags on the 40 steps of the stairs; M. did everything, the chicks ate the chopped dragon, the youngest left a piece under his tongue to prove to his mother that the dragon was killed; Zamyr brought M. to the room with the sleeping devas and the nightingale; M. first met with the sleeping beauty, so the nightingale raised the alarm; but M. took him and managed to sit on the bird; with the beautiful M. changed rings; Zamyr throws cooked meat and water; the meat is over, he cuts off a piece of caviar; Zamyr keeps it under his beak, puts it back; M. takes seven girls and treasures, finds it in the brothers' well; the brothers dazzle him, throw him into the well; they catch the dog's eyes, but it keeps them, takes care of M.; the padishah's nightingale does not sing; the nightingale's mistress finds M. on the ring, lowers him into the well puts his braids back in order for M. to get out; the nightingale begins to sing, his father recovers, his brothers are thrown into the desert]: Stebleva 1969, No. 22:71-92; Yagnobtsy [a young man kills a seven-headed diva]: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 3:37-46; Vakhans [the cat tells the sheep that today it will be slaughtered and it will eat its fat tail; the sheep asks the cat to bring a knife, cuts off its fat tail, the sheep opened the door, the sheep went to Mount Kof, gave birth to a herd of sheep and a boy May-Zman ("son of a sheep"); tells him to go to people; the Ministry of Health meets, wins, takes Chinorboz ("playing plane trees"), Kuboza ("playing with mountains"), Khdorgboza ("playing with millstones"); companions come to an empty house, food is ready there; they take turns guarding; a girl comes out of the crack in the pole, washes, paints the rest, puts the food dish turns into a needle, goes back; the rest stains his face with mud so that no one notices; when the Ministry of Health remains, he sprinkles salt on the cut, grabs the girl, the companions agree to have her he looked at his wife; the Ministry of Health told his wife to watch the fire; she dropped a red bead, thought that the coals were turning red and they were out; she saw smoke over a pile of stones, Barzangi came; told him to sprinkle the road with fried lice, then the dung in the hearth will catch fire; on the trail he comes riding a goat, sticks needles into the bread, tells the girl to dance on them, she hurts her legs, he drinks blood; the companions take turns guarding, everyone is afraid; the Ministry of Health hits with a dagger, kills 5 heads of Barzanga, the sixth under the stone, the seventh ran away, returned with an army; the Ministry of Health burns the hairs of his mother sheep, which heals his wounds and the wounds of his companions; the Ministry of Health orders him to be lowered into the hole under the stone , where the sixth head disappeared (the companions tried, but could not); Barzanga's shepherd below; the Ministry of Health asks him how to count the cattle (hit the tree, how many leaves did not crumble, so many sheep are missing), how to cross the river (say "chuck", the waters will part), where our grandfather's soul, i.e. Barzanga (in a staff, if you break it on the knee, he will die), grandmothers (in the stones that grind salt; hit each other, the wick will flash, blow it out), the shepherd himself (in the lice on the back of the head); the Ministry of Health suggests cleaning the shepherd's head, presses the louse, "pulls on the demand that was on the shepherd's head"; under the guise of a shepherd crosses the river; the grandmother asks to bring a sheep, a goat, he brings a ram, a goat; says that he has confused everything in the sun; breaks the staff, blows out the wick; sends the cattle upstairs to his companions; tells him to drag himself, but does not tie themselves; they cut off the rope; a forest has grown out of a thorn that has fallen into the leg of a Simurg bird; the Ministry of Health frees Simurg; her children think that a man wants to kill her, she explains everything; tries to raise the Ministry of Health to the ground, there were not enough supplies, he throws the meat out of her hand, but she comes back; the next day, from her leg, they reach the ground, Simurg regurges, puts pieces of meat back to the Ministry of Health; gives two feathers - turn old man and young man; disguised as an old man, he comes to his companions, becomes young, kills them with a dagger; lives with his wife]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 12:153-163; Ishkashim [someone pulls out trees in the royal garden; two older brothers are guarding, they do not see anyone; the younger Bald cuts off the hand of a woman who comes, the woman hides in a cave under a stone; the brothers lower Pleshivets on a rope, he kills that woman, sends the girl upstairs, the brothers leave Pleshivets in a cave; he sleeps with an old woman; on the one hand you can hear crying (the dragon takes the girls there), on the other hand, fun (he finished taking it there); Plesivec cuts off seven dragon heads; the grateful king says there is a bird that will take him to the upper world; on the way, Plesivec feeds it with meat; returns to his father]: Pakhalina 1959, No. 1:113-117; Yazgulyam [at night, the daughter gets up, eats all the food, puts a dung in the cauldron; the mother tells her husband to take the girl and her brother to the forest; the father hangs a snuffbox on the willow so that the children think he is still sitting on a tree, goes home unnoticed; the children come to the diva, the boy kills him, buries him under the floor; they live in the diva's house, the brother tells her sister to pour dirty water out the door; she pours it on the floor, hears the voice of the diva; she pulls him out after the divas promises to be not her sister, mother, brother, but husband; sister gives birth to a boy, divas offers to put him on the road so that his brother can pick him up; the boy grows up, hears, as divas and mistress agree to kill her brother, the div will become a snake; the boy asks his uncle to take him to the back, prevents the diva from biting him; the next day the div snake hides under the threshold, the boy himself undertakes to carry his uncle; the snake climbs into the boot, the boy changes boots with his uncle, hits him with his toe; rata, the diva will become a snake; the atom, and the husband; c; the father hangs on the Ivory Coast, the snake crawls out, turns into an eagle, attacks, the boy hurts her; the divas and his mistress agree to poison both, the boy changes food, they die themselves; the nephew decides to go right, the uncle to the left; the uncle stops by the old woman, sees at night that half the world is having fun, half the world is crying; the old woman explains that today it is the king's turn to give his daughter to the dragon {apparently those whose turn did not come are having fun}; the uncle cuts off all seven heads of the dragon, gets a daughter the king; the dragon's brother kills him; the nephew sees blood on the bullet left by his uncle, comes, puts the sword between himself and his uncle's wife (both outwardly indistinguishable, the woman mistakes him for her husband); makes the dragon to revive the victim, both kill the dragon together; the uncle kills his nephew when he finds out that he slept in his house; the wife puts a spinning wheel between herself and her husband; the husband understands everything, revives his nephew; makes him king]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 25:258-266; Bartangans [the tsar gave his son the keys to 40 treasuries, but did not give one; the prince stole the keys, found a portrait in the chest, fainted; the tsar had to let go to look for a beautiful son; Vezirbach ("the son of the vizier") caught up with him and went with him; they came to that girl's house; she has 12 brothers, they cannot lift the cauldron, V. picked up one; the diva brothers came, V. broke them hands; the prince and the divas ate a serving, and B. 12 meat carcasses; the divas gave their sister to the prince; gave the keys to 40 rooms, but did not give one; the prince broke the castle, there were divas on chains; asks for water; after drinking water, tied the prince with his hair and took his wife to the next world; V. went in search, telling him to wait 110 days; as soon as V. left, the divas tied the prince and left; but the lame divas untied and tied him again to their return; V. ate bread from that diva's sister, went down to the lake for the diva; there the prince's price was looking for a diva in his beard; V. killed the diva; sent the girl upstairs; when he was pulled out, he saw that it was not divas, thrown back; V. came to the old woman's house; at night he went out: laughter on one side, crying on the other; the dragon demands a man every morning, a jug of butter and two bags of bread; the turn of the royal daughter; V. fell asleep, with his head on her knees; woke up from a fallen tear; cut down all 7 dragon heads; the dragon became a bridge over the river; the servant said that he killed the dragon, but only V. was able to raise his heads; the king gave V. a bird Simurg; V. sat on one wing himself, loaded a supply of meat on the other; Simurg carried it to the ground, gave a white feather and a black feather; to be an old man, you have to stick white in your head and black in the young; for that girl a fight, V. took it away; the prince did not complain about the diva brothers for tying him up; he returned home with V. and his wife; his father went blind; the prince rubbed his eyes with a handkerchief and he saw the light; everything is fine]: Sokolova 1960, No. 6:32-40; Bartangans [the tsar has three sons, nothing to eat, the eldest went hunting; the goat is chasing, the owner comes out; the prince: I did not know it was yours; the owner indicates where there are many goats; The prince is coming, there is a beautiful house, there is a girl in it; she will marry someone who says what Gul did to Sinavbar and what S. did to G.; the one who did not find an answer will be executed; in three years, the elder prince did not find answer; the girl cut off his head and threw his body into the well; the same with the middle prince; the youngest came to the tree by the pond; there was a three-headed dragon in the pond, the Simurg bird's nest on the tree; the dragon every year eats each cub, the last one is left; the prince cut off the dragon's head; Simurg tells us to prepare food: she will take the prince to Mount Kof, where you can find the answer; there was not enough food, they returned; the next once they almost flew, the prince cut off the meat from his hand; when they arrived, Simurg regurgitated it and grafted it back; let a hair call her; the prince met the old woman, asked a question; old woman: S. - tsar, G. - him wife; prince came in to them; S. sits on the ottoman, wife in a cage; S. feeds the dog and throws leftovers to his wife; S. agrees to tell his story, but after telling it, he will kill the listener; G. leaves every night at 41 divas; S. and the dog quietly follows her, spies; each diva slapped G. in the face, and she laughs; asks her to go tie up her horse so as not to be free; S. kills 40 divas one by one; martial arts with the main one, but G. sprinkles sand under the diva's feet; after that, the diva knocked down S., but the dog saved him by squeezing the diva's throat; S. tells the executions to execute the prince, but he lit Simurg's hair, she she took him away; brought him to that girl; the girl is sister G.; the prince orders to revive the brothers, otherwise she will tell everyone about G.; the girl pulled them out of the well and revived No. Tsarevich returned home with her and her brothers]: Sokolova 1960, No. 9:47-55; Tajiks [devas are seven-headed (devi hafsar), seventy, seventy headed and seventy breasted (devi haftoddahan, haftodchimsh, haftodsina), as well as striped (khasht rah)]: Sukhareva 1975:39; Uzbeks of Khorezm [in some versions of the Khorezmi legend about the hero Khorazm, the dragon he killed is a three-headed dragon]: Snesarev 1973:55; Uzbeks [rich Atameta was famous for his generosity; one old man consistently approaches the 40 doors of A.'s house, each time receiving gold; but when he comes back to the first one, A. recognizes him; in The answer is that the daughter of another rich man has 160 doors in the palace and gives it to everyone; A. comes to that girl; she asks her to go find out why the inhabitants of a distant city are crying; residents refuse talk to A., beat him; one person tells him to ask a cripple - he screams the most; the cripple first demands to know why one young man was imprisoned in Zindan; a person sitting in Zindan demands to know about King Sanawar's relationship with his wife Gul; on the way he kills a wolf who is going to devour the chicks of the Samrak bird; A. asks her to take him to King S.; he gives the rest of the pilaf to the dog and chickens; I agree tell me why, but then he will hang A.; his story: the groom admits that S. Gul ("rose") leaves on horseback at night (so horses lose weight); S. rides after the palace of divas; seven-headed is her lover; S. consistently kills 40 divas who come out, fights with the 7-headed; wife refuses to help, and the dog bites the diva's leg; S. returned his wife and turned her into a chicken; S. did not have time to hang A.: the Simurg bird took him back; he told the story to a man sitting in Zindan; he explained what is even lower is his wife's palace, where she lets him in once a week; (hereinafter other stories: misfortunes through women); but A. still marries a girl]: Ostroumov 1890, No. 12:65-79; kafirs (prasun) [ the giant Espereg-era took the sun and moon down to his golden house, placed him on the sides of the waterfall; God Mandi turned into a boy, came to mother E., who protects him from his son, E. adopts him; he is allowed eat honey, butter, bread, but do not open one door; he opens it slightly, sticks his finger, it turns gold, E.'s mother bandages her finger, tells her son that the boy cut himself; next time he has his hand (says that his hand is festering); the boy tells E. that he cut himself when he was making a chair for him, he is happy; M. breaks the door, behind it there are lights and a horse; he puts the sun on his right shoulder, the moon on his left shoulder, leaves; The horse's right ear finds a dagger; E. chases after him, M. cuts off all seven heads with a dagger; at the request of E. himself, drags the mountain, buries E. under it; goes to kill the old woman, says he will do her in one place revered (?) , will bury them there; she agrees; God Mara asks to give the sun and moon to him to warm, illuminate the whole world, takes them to heaven, orders them to spin; then Mara creates people, teaches cattle breeding, to build mills, gives a dog]: Yettmar 1986:84-85; see also Buddruss 1974:32-33 in C19 motif; Pasha'i [young man kills the seven-headed dragon to whom the princess is eaten]: Morgenstierne 1944, No. 10: 70-76.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians: Dasent 1970:181-188 [someone looking out of the water promises a fisherman a good catch if he gives him what his wife wears under his belt; the wife ends up pregnant; they give their son to upbringing the king; he grows up; when she gets into the boat, she takes him to Belozem; there the old man teaches him what to do; three princesses in the ground up to the neck, you have to talk to a third; she teaches that the troll will hit him all night, you have to grease the body from the flask, hack the troll with a sword; so three nights; a young man kills a 3-, 6-, 9-headed troll, princesses come out of the ground, he marries the youngest; homesick; wife tells me to listen father, not mother; when the young man returns, the mother advises him to go to the king who raised him; gives him a ring with two wishes; the first is to return home; he argues with the king, whose wife is more beautiful; wants to have her near; she appears and disappears (the second wish is wasted); he sails to look for Belozemye; the first animal owner gives skis, they bring them to the second, return themselves; the second to the third; only he has one pike who knows where Belozemye is; three brothers are fighting over a hat, cape, pair of shoes; they make wishes come true; a young man asks for a try, arrives in Belozemye; North Wind teaches to throw it away the young man's wife's new fiancé; he shows his wife the ring, stays with her in the castle], 131-149 [], 383-395 [The king's 12 daughters disappear; the other's 12 sons sail on the ship to look for them; Captain Ritter Red (RR); the ship gets into a storm, then into calm near the island; everyone falls asleep; the younger brother sees a puppy on the shore, disembarks, the puppy turns into a princess; her troll father gives a drink of strong water, then the young man can raise his sword; in 7 years, the ship will sail to where the 12-headed troll lives, 12 princesses brush his hair while he sleeps; the young man will cut off 12 heads; so it happened; princes take princesses away, those forgot their golden crowns; a young man goes for them; RR wants a younger princess for himself, tells her to sail away, threatens to kill those who say he didn't defeat the troll; a giant bird descends, tells her feed, carries the young man to the troll island; he is ready to give the young man his daughter and make the king of trolls, but he refuses; goes down to the ship to pick up his sword; sees that the princess is lying next to a sharp sword so that RR does not touch it; the troll gives an iron ship, it instantly takes the young man home; gives an iron club that can cause a storm; at home sends the ship back to the troll; pretends to be a poor sailor; 12 princesses are scheduled to marry with 11 princes and RR; an imaginary sailor shows gold crowns, princesses recognize them, the young man opens; RR executed], 396-409 [(transfer to Lyubarskaya 1987:81-98); Halvor does not want to do anything, but is hired on a ship; gets off it, comes to the castle, where the princess is kidnapped; she gives a drink of strong water so he can raise his sword; he cuts off heads to a 3-headed troll; the same with two other princesses in two other castles and 6- and 9-headed trolls; H. chooses the youngest to marry; they live in Soria-Moriah Castle; H. wants to visit parents; wife gives a wish-fulfilling ring forbids talking about them; one day he says he wants his wife by his side, then it will become clear how beautiful she is; princesses appear, put X. to sleep, the wife takes off the magic and puts another ring on X.'s finger, they disappear; H. goes looking for them; the old man and the old woman say that the Moon knows about Soria-Moriah, they give them shoes by leaps and bounds; she replies that when she passed there, the castle closed the cloud; knows West Wind; with him H. comes to his wife's wedding; throws a ring into a glass of wine for his wife; she recognizes him, rejects his new fiancé, marries H.]; Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960 [ the old woman promises the king that he will have three daughters, tells them not to let them out of the house until they are 15 years old; the queen gives birth to three daughters one by one; one spring they ask the guard to let them into the garden, they are carried away by a whirlwind of snow; the captain, lieutenant and soldier go in search; they see an abandoned estate; a soldier throws meat to a bear and a lion, they let them pass; the companions prepare one by one; to the captain, a dwarf comes to the lieutenant, asks for a coin, hits; when the soldier remains, he splits the log, invites the dwarf to look into the crack, pinches his beard; he has to tell where the princesses are; soldier lets him go; his companions raise the stove, under it the way to the lower world; only a soldier descends in a basket through water and fire; in the castle, the princess spins a copper thread; gives a drink of strong water, hides it; a three-headed troll comes, falls asleep, a soldier cuts off his heads; the same with a princess spinning a silver thread, a six-headed troll; a golden, nine-headed; companions pick up princesses and treasures, cut off rope; the youngest has managed to give the soldier her golden ring; the soldier opens the closet, the chicks fly out, cannot pick it up; summons her eagle mother; she carries the soldier upstairs, he feeds her prepared meat ; she brings him to the king's palace, throws a whistle to summon her if necessary; a soldier is hired by a jeweler; the younger princess demands the gold playing board she had in the lower world; the soldier summons the bird, she brings the board, the jeweler gives the princess, admits that he did not do it; the soldier marries, gets half the kingdom, the captain and lieutenant are executed]: 31-48; Suritz 1991 [his head leaned out of the water, promised A fisherman's catch is rich if he gives what his wife wears under his apron; he did not know that his wife was pregnant; his son grew up, the boat took him to White Island; old man: three royal daughters are buried up to their necks in the sand, they will call, you need to approach the youngest; the youngest teaches you to spend three nights in the castle, where trolls with 3, 6, 9 heads will come to quilt it; then wash the wounds with water from a healing jar, hack each troll; through For a while, the young man went to visit his parents; his wife warned him to obey his father, but not his mother; but he listened to his mother's advice to go to the king; he asked the young man to show his wife; she immediately appeared, gave him a ring and disappeared; he went to look for her; the owner of the animals sends the birds to the owner of the fish, only the old Pike knows where the White Island is; three brothers argue over a hat, a cloak and shoes that are made invisible and carried wherever you want; the young man asks him to try them on, is transferred to White Island; the North Wind kicks out the new groom, and the young man is reunited with his wife who recognized him by the ring]: 159-164; Icelanders [old people love their elder daughters Signy and Asa, and the youngest Helga is tyranted by work; S. was approached by a handsome man; when he led him, he became a giant with three heads; brought it to the cave and locked her in the cellar, his hands tied and tied to her hair; the same with Asa; and with H., but he made her a maid; the giant took the key with him, but H. saw the sisters through the keyhole; tried flatter the giant; he entrusted her with the keys, but forbade her to unlock one door; she unlocked and agreed to send them home as a gift; put them in a bag, poured various foods on top; forbid them to look in the bag: she will see from afar; stopped to look, one of the sisters sitting in the bag began to sing: I saw through the forest, the hills and my cave; H. herself smeared her face with charcoal, and left a scarecrow at the table in wedding dress; the giant did not recognize her, began to ask questions; she said that the bride was waiting for him; H. reached the house, and the giant invited guests to his wedding; when they saw the deception, the giant and his guests began to fight and killed each other; people burned their bodies; H. married well, has many children, and her sisters foolishly remained old maidens]: Poestion 1994, No. 2:10-21; Danes [husband told his wife 10 years feed his son Hans with breast milk; he could not tear out the tree; for another 10 years he could; H. is too strong to work normally; the pastor sent him to the forest for firewood, where demons, H. threw them away, brought a cart with with a mountain of firewood and horses; the pastor sent H. to bring the paper from hell; the devil suggests: whoever throws the rim higher; H. pretends to throw it to God the Father, asks not to do it, gives the paper; the pastor is forced to pay a load of money; H. tells the blacksmith to tie an iron club for him; meets and companions a stonecutter, a woodcutter; they come to the castle, cook in turn; every time he comes a witch, hits and throws the cook into the basement, eats everything; H. takes away her magic ointment, saves her friends, the witch is gone; H. finds a hole in the ground, tells him to go there; beat the witch, sends him upstairs two princesses; then put down his staff; companions think it was H., cut off the rope to get both princesses; H. killed the seven-headed troll, freed the third princess; forced the witch to take them to earth; the princess gave him one thing as half the sun, the other as half the moon; the king demands just such things; H. hired a jeweler, pretended to forge the things himself, came to the palace, married a younger princess, who recognized him as her deliverer]: Suritz 1991:14-19; Danes [mother wants to get rid of his naughty absurd son; he takes his three dogs to as a share in the farm, leaves; hired a shepherd; he warns him not to herd cattle in the troll's meadows; he herds, a three-headed troll comes out, each dog tears off the head; on the troll's land, a guy found a golden robe and money; the guy brought part of the money to his father; came to the castle, where the king must give 10 pigs to the 9-headed sea dragon every year; the pigs are over, must give his daughter; every day each dog tears off three heads, the guy cuts off and hides his tongues; the second time he wears black, the third time he wears a red robe {for the first time, obviously white}; the princess tied a chain around the neck of each dog ; the guy goes away for 10 years, the coal burner tells the princess to say that he defeated the dragon; 10 years later, the guy showed up when the wedding is being prepared; the princess recognizes her chains on dogs; the king sends the guy a beautiful outfit, but he rejects it, is in gold taken from a troll; shows tongues; coal burn executed]: Holbek 1987:500-502; Lithuanians [nine brothers went to war, sister stayed with a witch stepmother; she sends her to the forest where a 9-headed serpent lives; a girl climbs an apple tree, a snake gnaws on the trunk; the Bear, then the Fox is offered to chew at him, makes the trunk thicker; at this time the Cuckoo screams at The brothers were approaching; they cut off the snake's head, burned the witch]: Lebite 1965:105-107; the Swedes [the mother has a cow, her son herds her; in the forest the old man offers to change it to a gun and orders her to shoot it the first living creature he meets; the guy shoots a bird that falls from one branch to another; the same after the second shot; after the third he falls to the ground; the bird puts it on its back flew over the sea, drops and picks up three times, it sinks into the water to the hips, to the chest, to the chin; the bird: I felt the same fear when you shot; the moon rises in the distance; the bird brings there, the guy there gets a whistle, a sword, a robe and a horse; a star in the distance; then the sun; each time the guy gets the same set; arrived at the castle, where the king promised the dragon three daughters; whoever saves them, those will be married; the guy arrives in an outfit received where the moon rose; puts his head on the princess's knees to clean his head; when the dragon comes out, the guy whistles on the whistle, blows all three heads; next time a set from a star, five heads; from the sun, seven heads; the soldier claims that he defeated the dragons; the king demands that he defeat 5000 warriors; the guy blew the deceiver's head, married on the younger princess and received the throne]: Schier 1974, No. 32:127-133; Lithuanians (Samoites) [God created heaven, earth and sea, they bowed to him, gave birth to animals, plants and fish; they were freaks: horses had snake heads, fish have 200 legs, 10 or more heads; the land and sea asked the sky to save them from this scourge; the sky asked God, who took part from heaven, earth and sea, created a giant the creature to destroy the freaks; the moon took its image to show it to the sea and the sky; the creature opened its mouth, from there man and the dwarf sprang out; from him the giants; the creature imagined that it is God, those who arose from him began to worship him; God struck him with lightning, his blood spread across the earth, all people, giants, dwarfs and animals died; God created such a creature again, it gave birth to giants and dwarfs, and people came from the marriage of a giantess to a dwarf; then the earth was destroyed again and created {the pdf page is corrupted}; God put the giants in the water, they stand there on their shoulders and they hold the earth, since then it has stood firmly; when the giants move, the earth trembles; God has placed dwarfs inside the earth, they forge weapons there; one day they will forge so much that they come to earth, the world will end ; the rest come from the first couple of people]: Veckenstedt 1883, No. 47:205-209; Latvians [the elderly couple had a hairy son in old age, Jan Bear; he asks his father three times to forge an iron staff; every time it throws it into the sky; takes one that is hardly bent, picked up when falling with his finger; meets, takes as companions a digging mountain (Kalnuratseis) and fishing with a rod - mast tree; stopped in an empty castle; they cook one by one, every time the old woman beats the cook, takes food; when it's my turn, an old man comes up, I drove his beard into a block, hit the old woman with a staff; three nights guards by the bloody river; kills a three- and six-headed man on a silver, golden horse; when fighting a 12-headed man on a diamond horse, help is needed; the companions are sleeping, I woke them up by throwing his staff into the castle; At this time, the water left in the vessel turned red (a sign of danger); killed a 12-headed man; rolled back the stone, tells him to lower it into the abyss; there that old man, I killed him; in silver, gold, diamond cities three girls, sewing clothes from silver, gold, diamonds; each collects her city in an egg; the companions picked up everyone; I returned behind the hat; the companions began to raise, decided that the hell let go of the rope; I fell, breaking through three worlds; in the fourth thunderstorm, he covered the eagles; the eagle promises to raise them to the ground - let MYA kill the monster and feed it with its meat in flight; at first there was not enough meat, they returned; the second time almost flew in, Mya carved the last piece of her leg out of his calf; I married a girl from Diamond City, her companions married the other two, each living in his own city out of an egg]: Niedra 1952:92-103; Lutsie ( (western 1927) [Sergey Saraponshchik plowed, killed 700 mosquitoes and 7 horseflies in one fell swoop; he wrote about such a feat and rode on the same horse he plowed, taking a braid; two strongmen see the inscription, drove with the SS, taking him for the elder; began to herd horses in the meadow of a foreign king; he sent the strongmen to drive them away; towards the younger brothers, killed the royal; next time, the second brother, the same; the third time the SS itself must to go; blindfolded so as not to see his death; the royal strongman also blindfolded, thinking it was a military move; the SS raised his blindfold: he, blindfolded, demolished his head with a scythe; the king betrayed three daughters for three heroes; the three-headed devil requires an older princess; her husband went, cut off heads; the same with the middle one (six-headed); the 9-headed requires the youngest; the SS climbed {out of fear} on the oak, hell to the oak, SS fell on him, the devil died of fear; the SS continues to live with his wife]: Annom et al. 2018:90-91; Estonians (Torma) [Torkin Jan was born in the evening, Johan at midnight, Ivan in the morning; they are strong but lie on the stove; The king's many-headed devils (vanapaganad) stole three daughters, he promises them to be wives to saviors; they sent them for the brothers, told them to appear, and I. threw the messenger out; then they sent them to invite them for coffee; they came received horses (I. the one who held his hand); at the fork, two roads lead "to predatory animals", the third "to robbers"; I. goes to the third, sends the brothers to the first, where the animals {they still go further together}; brothers find chained princesses in the castle, take them with them; spend the night at the bridge; the brothers take turns guarding, the elders sleep, I. goes out to fight every time, kills three-, six-, nine-headed lines, cuts off his tongues; for the third time he throws his boot to wake up the brothers, but he did it himself; let's go, I. came back for his forgotten gloves; when he woke up, the wall was around; caught a crane, he replied that there was a stove in the wall, it must be melted, she will give advice; the stove ordered to take a black belt from the house, it will become a horse; the horse raised I. only to half the wall; then the horse carried the red belt over the wall, I. caught up with the brothers; those said that the Russians found the devils' heads, took the princesses, told the tsar that they had saved them; I. showed their tongues, the Russians were tied to the horse's tail, driven to death; the brothers received princesses]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 5:51-53; Western Sami (Sweden) [the king has lost three daughters, the man volunteered to find them; he meets two more in sequence on the way; each cooks in turn; the Legless Armless comes (BB), presses the cook's hair with a log, eats everything; when the hero remains, he offers BB food himself, he promises to help; all three want to move the stone, when the hero calls, BB shifts, under the stone, the hero descends; the kidnapped queen orders to change barrels of strong and weak water; hell comes, the hero defeats him; the same with the second royal (two-headed feature), with the third (three-headed); the hero sends the queens upstairs; gets up, sees that the companions are swearing who will take which one; when they see the hero, they cut off the rope, he is again underground; is hired as an employee, the owner does not tell you to enter one room; the hero comes in, there is Thunder, he tells you to take an iron chair, a flint flint, a comb; they run away, the hell is chasing, the abandoned crest turns into a forest, the devil comes back for an ax; flint is a mountain, behind a drill; the chair is a river of fire; Thunder brought the hero to where the companions quarreled, took the most beautiful queen, others are still arguing who to take whom]: Klaus 1995:39-46; Western ( ?) The Sami (Norway) [the king's son and the son of a peasant shot their bows, one of the fallen arrows had a golden pen; the peasant said that his arrow, the king, ordered him to bring the bird; the fox led him to Sun's daughter Zarya, telling her to take only a bird; but he kissed the girl, who ordered her sister Dawn ("fighting the twilight") to be saved, who was kidnapped by the giants; the fox led to the giants, went by herself, became to dance with the girl, turned off the lights, quietly handed the girl to the peasant, ran in the other direction, the giants did not catch up with her; grateful Zarya promised to marry a peasant, but to arrive later; peasant brought a bird to the king and said he was going to marry a shining girl; king: if she does not arrive by a certain date, you will be thrown into a barrel of burning resin; at the last moment, a ship arrives with Dawn; the king will allow the wedding if the peasant 1) cuts down all the trees in the country in a day (Zarya gives an ax - if you cut down one, all will fall); 2) restores these trees (gives ointment); 3) kills a three-headed dragon in king's pond (gives a spear); king allows marriage]: Simonsen 2014:101-110; East Sami (Skolts) [the king has three daughters missing, two generals and a boy went in search; they live in in the house, they take turns cooking; every time an old man comes, beats the cook, eats everything; when it's the guy's turn, he promises to feed the old man if he helps him split the log, pinches his beard makes you tell us where the princesses are; they are underground with one-, two- and three-headed dragons; you will have to weave the rope for three months to go down; a sword on the wall in front of the entrance; to have enough strength to understand it you have to turn the tap, drink strong water ("like butter"); there are playing cards, you have to turn them over, a ladder will appear; the guy cuts off the dwarf's head; the generals are afraid to go down, the guy climbed in, drank water, took a sword, opened three doors, behind which three princesses, killed three dragons; the generals took the princesses upstairs, but did not pick the boy up and said he was dead; the younger princess ordered her to be brought back; the guy I remembered the cards, a ladder appeared, they climbed to the surface; the king married the boy to his youngest daughter, but did not give the generals his daughters, they took other brides]: Lagercrantz 1961, No. 305:173-181; the Eastern Sami [must sacrifice a person to the water master; in a dream, a voice: put two boilers of water to boil, lay a round stone; when I take you to the sea to throw you into the water, take two black dogs and a black cat; three-, two- and single-headed waters consistently stick out their grinned mouths; a man throws two at the dog first, a cat at the third; rowers hurry to the shore, water chases; vezhi consistently appear at the doorway, asking who laughed at them; man orders to open his mouth, close his eyes, pours boiling water into each; bad weather raged for three days, and then water stopped paying tribute]: Yermolov 1959:101-102; Veps [the rich brother did gold things, and the poor brother did brooms; the poor saw a bird in the forest, threw an ax, killed it, sold it to the rich; he saw what the birds on the right wing say "Who eats will become strong", and under the left wing - "Whoever eats, he has a gold coin under his pillow in the morning"; told his wife to fry the bird; the poor brother's children came in and ate everything; the hostess frightened and fried an ordinary rooster; the rich did not have more strength, coins did not appear; and the poor became rich; the rich demands that he kill his children - they are devils; parents left their children in the forest; alone went to get game; the bear asks her not to kill, gave her two cubs; the same was a hare; at the fork, the brothers parted, leaving a glass of water; if the water deteriorates, one of the brothers feels bad; younger brother came to the city; there the serpent ate all the girls, it was the turn of the royal daughter; the young man sees the stove: "Whoever picks it up will find wine and a sword under it, whoever drinks wine will take possession of the sword"; the guy cut off the snake 10 heads, a sword broke down, the remaining two were torn off by a dog, a bear and a hare; the guy burned a snake and hid his tongues; the princess gave a gold ring and a handkerchief, the animals also tied handkerchiefs; the boy and his animals fell asleep; the royal the servant cut off the sleeping man's head, told the princess to say that he had defeated the dragon; the beasts woke up, the hare brought alive and dead water, revived the owner; at first they put his head wrong; redone it; they all came for the wedding of the royal daughter; the bride recognized the animals by the ribbon; the king asks where the ring came from, the guy showed his tongues; the servant was beheaded, the guy married the princess; went hunting; the magician turned him and the animals in the stones; his brother saw that the water was cloudy; he came to the forest, put a cross on the bullet, shot the wizard, forcing his brother, horse and animals to revive; it flowed down his lips, did not fall into his mouth]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 18:94-100; Karelians (Kalevalsky District) [wife, dog and cat gave birth to boys in the same night; all three went to see the world; stayed in a house by the bridge; Son is the first to guard Women, but falling asleep, Cat Son walks; Three-Headed Serpent rides across the bridge, his horse stumbles; Cat Son cut off his head, hid it under the bridge; the same the next night (Dog Son's turn, Six-Headed Serpent); the Nine-Headed Serpent rides on the third night; Cat Son left a sign in the house, but the other two did not wake up, he hardly cut down his ninth head; all three drove on, but Cat Son returned ("hat I forgot"), overhears at three windows; for each wife of one of the snakes her son and promises to turn into a well and a ladle, a feather bed and a blanket, a table; the horse lies down, warning him not to drink, not to lie down, not to eat; the horse is stopped by the Bone Man, tells Elena the Beautiful to get; the Cat Son meets and companions invisible people; one knows how to steam in the bathhouse, the other eat a lot, the third shoot; the king will give Elena, if the groom withstands a hot bath, eats a lot, falls into Elena's ring, exposed three miles away; The vaper cools the bath, the Eater eats everything, the Shooter gets into; Cat Son marries Elena; Elena's mother's sister gives a fire arrow: when the Bone Man laughs with joy, put it in his mouth; the Bone Man burned down]: Onegin 2010, No. 8:108-110; the Finns [the man fled from court; met with a forest maiden; when she gave birth to a son, he took the boy and returned to the village; the boy is monstrously strong, it is better to get rid of it; the father sent him to the king to pick up the allegedly borrowed gold and silver; the king sent soldiers against M., who easily killed them with an iron staff; they had to give gold and silver; Father M.'s griffin poisons an oatmeal field; M. met and took an angler as his companions (the fishing rod is pine, the bait is a cow) and a climber (turns the rocks); they stayed to guard the field, cook in turn; an old woman with an iron tooth gets out of the crevice, hits the cook, eats everything; when M. stayed, he killed the old woman, threw the bones into the crevice; tells him to lower it down on a cowhide belt; below the girl advises you to rinse with water from the trough, and pour another in return; the same old woman appeared, began to fight; M. drank strong water, and the old woman is weak (apparently dead); the companions raised the girl and the good to the ground, cut off her belt; in the lower kingdom, every day they give the dragon a girl and a sheep, turn the princess; M. sleeps at her knees; a three-headed dragon comes out of their seas; M.: look, your house is burning; the dragon turned around, M. blew his heads off; the next day the same (six-headed dragon); the third half of the kingdom laughs, the other is crying; waiting for the nine-headed dragon; M.: the monster is even more terrible behind you; the dragon turned around, M. blew his heads off, the girl put M. a sign on her forehead; M. abandoning the princess, wants to go back to ground; king: this is only on a griffin bird; flying with M., the griffin throws it off and catches it three times; each time he says that he was also afraid in the oatmeal field when M. shot at him; on the ground, the griffin forbids M . drink from the spring; M. did not listen, an iron cat jumped out of the spring, tore out his beard; M. ran to the forge; the blacksmith heated the blank, asked the cat to open its mouth: he would throw M. there; but threw iron, cat died; the girl rescued from the lower world promises to marry the one who pulls the bow; the Angler and the Rock cannot, M. fired two arrows from the bow and told them to pick them up; they went and did not return; M. married girl]: 26-35.

Volga - Perm. Udmurts: Kralina 1960, No. 63 [Vanka fell in love with the princess, the tsar ordered him to be taken to the forest; there the old man took him as a worker; the old man meets the 12-headed serpent every day, must take him away a candle burning on one of the heads; V. crept up to the sleeping snake, took the candle, the serpent turned into 12 soldiers, V. ordered the old man to be dragged into the ditch and brought the princess to him; then returned her; the king tied her to bags of flour for his daughter, sent an army on the trail, 12 soldiers defeated him; the king pretends to marry his daughter as V.; pulled out a candle from him, ordered the soldiers to take V. to the log; V. found an apple tree, from red fruits horns grow, disappear from whites; V. comes to the princess's wedding, gives red apples; comes again unrecognized, gives white ones; steals a candle at a feast, orders the tsar and groom to be taken to the log, took the princess for himself and kingdom], 69 [=Clabukov 1948, No. 38:108-114; the man died, the son Muzeim remains, the widow is pregnant, has given birth to a son Marsalim; the mother tells the Museum not to ride a red horse, not to climb the mountain; he violates ban, kills a three-headed snake on the mountain, frees 40 girls and 40 boys, another snake is locked underground, covered with a stone; the liberated are building a village, the Museum lives in it, taking her mother; she drops in the crest is an underground comb; the serpent advises to poison Muzeim, then he will become the husband of his mother; Marsalim hears, changed the plates; next time he washed off the poison poured by his mother on Muzeim's head; cuts off the snake's head, hidden in a chest; the Museum comes to life; the daughter of the Fire King goes to marry, leaves Marsalima a ring; stops at her fiancée on the way; the old woman gives 3 apples; the bull will come to the river to drink, drink all the water , you have to roll the apple, go dry; that's what happened; the Museum throws the second apple, the road becomes smooth; the third throws it into the washbasin, climbs the tree himself; the daughter of the Fire King saw an apple told me to get down; the princess must be defeated; she throws all the grooms up, Muzeima picked it up, but locked it; Marsalim's ring turned black, he comes to Muzeim's fiancée, who takes him for her fiancé, he accidentally left a mark on her eyebrows; he comes to see an old woman, kills her sons, makes her show the way; the Fire King is the same as with the Museum, but Marsalim throws up and picks up the princess himself; marries after Muzeima is released and fattened; on the way back they pick up Muzeim's fiancée; compete in archery; Museum shot Marsalima's little finger; he says sin is atoned for: these He injured his fiancée's eyebrow with his little finger]: 173-176, 192-198; Komi: Konakov 1999 [Gundyr is "a traditional image of a fabulous monstrous giant with 3, 6, 9, 12, 24 heads. In folklore, k.-z. and k.-p. G. most often has a human appearance, rides a horse, lives in a house, in a palace, does household work, etc. Probably under the influence of Russian folklore since the 1940s. The 20th century sometimes begins to appear as a giant snake, a dragon. Before the battle, he blows a threshing floor as long as he has heads"]: 136; Plesovsky 1975 [6-headed {or 9-headed; the narrator is always confused} Gundyr takes Ivan Tsarevich's bride; he, along with brothers Fedor and Vasily goes in search; there is a frequent spruce tree in front; the blacksmith shackled an ax, the older brothers cut, cannot cut through a clearing, I. cut through; shoots into a shovel, she turns out to be a house where food and drink; I. tells the brothers not to eat much; they drink and eat; F. must guard, fall asleep; I. fights against the 3-headed gundyr who has arrived, cuts down, hides their heads; the next night the same (V., 6-headed gundir, fell asleep); on the third night, I. hardly defeats the 9th head; now he has 18 severed heads and 18 horses; the brothers took his horses, cut off I.'s legs, left; I. swam along the river on a log, sailed to the widow of the 9-headed gundyr , his kidnapped bride is also there; the bride gives living water, I.'s legs grow, he hardly kills Yoma; the king tells F. to clean the barn, V. take revenge on the court, gives Ivan the throne]: 23-33; Marie [the king has three sons and daughter; Buran Buranich kidnapped the princess; the elder brother goes in search; the sheep shepherd sends to the cow, the shepherd to the horse house, the horse to the BB silver house; in the bathhouse, the BB offers a choice of giving heat or whip with a broom; the young man gives a fever, is exhausted, BB ate it; the same with his middle brother; the younger one is strong, chooses a broom, beat BB almost to death, tells them to revive the brothers; BB orders them to sprinkle their bones, which thrown on the shelves, with crows's blood; the brothers came to life, the youngest killed BB; they and his sister return home; on the way, the youngest consistently descends into three pits; in each girl and the snake who kidnapped her - from 3, with 6, with 9 heads; every time the young man tells the girl to pour water into the bowl and watch: if the foam rises, he wins, and if the blood is in trouble; the third fight was the hardest, half of the cup was filled with blood, but the young man still killed the snake; the brothers and sister returned home]: Beke 1938, No. 35:298-310; Mordovians (Erzya) [dying, the father blessed his son with two dogs, the mother blessed the daughter with a comb and a spindle; the sister is angry, her lover is seven-headed Meker; she pretended to be sick, sent her to the dugout in the ravine for snake fat; there the door was constipated, the dogs gnawed, ran in, the door slammed shut; but they broke the constipation, came back; the same again, 7 constipation arose; the brother thinks that the dogs cannot be returned; his sister sends him to the bathhouse where Meker hid; forty tells him not to hurry, do everything slowly ; dogs broke constipation, ran, tore Meker; brother left, met a girl given to Meker to eat; said Meker was killed; they exchanged rings; wedding]: Anikin 1909: (p.?) ; Mordovians [the horse tells you to take off its skin, put it on; when necessary, the horse will come to the rescue; the guy began to be called Horseskin (LS), he was hired by the king as a gardener; the eldest daughter is three-headed the dragon demands to be eaten; LS summons the horse, the snake kills, the princess gives him her ring; the coachman tells him to say that he is the savior; the same with the 9-headed serpent (middle daughter); with the 12-headed (youngest); LS every time falls asleep, wakes up from a dripping tear; at the feast only LS presented handkerchiefs and rings of princesses; married his youngest, and the coachman was tied to the horse's tail]: Samorodov 1972:202-213; Chuvash: Chuvash tales 1937:27-40 [The serpent hides the sun and the month; Ser-Pattar (Hero Earth) kills polyheaded snakes, their mothers and wives, returns the stars], 67-83 [see motif K38; going down to the lower world, Ivan kills a 12-headed snake, frees fresh water and people]; Kazan Tatars: Bashirov, Yarmukhametov 1956 [the tsar sent three sons to study; went with the queen to a distant possession, got lost , the queen was kidnapped by the king of divas; the sons have returned, everyone goes in search of their mother; a white wolf comes to the elder's tent, asks who allowed him to walk in his forest; the prince answers boldly, along with his turned into stone by people; the same is average; the younger one is polite, asks permission to shoot a bird, the wolf turns into a young man, agrees to revive the petrified, but tells them to be sent home; the young man is told to go to a huge willow, hide on it, a stallion will come to rub against the willow, we must jump on it, do not let go; the stallion carried it through fire, water and forest, then promised to help, drove him to a sandy mountain near Mount Kaf; the wolf turned to the Samrug bird, carried it on; the young man came to one, two, third kidnapped women, the third to his mother; she gave a wonder of water that makes them weaker, and his son, from which strength, he cut off 7 diva heads; everything is fine, the mother is back, the brothers got married]: 12-31; Yarmukhametov 1957 [the poor brother saw a golden bird in the forest; brought the rich, who was a jeweler, first a feather, then eggs, then the bird itself; the rich man guessed that the one who ate the heart and liver would find gold under his pillow in the morning, told his wife to cook it; at that time, the poor brother's two sons came in, ate the heart and liver; the aunt told them to be silent, changed the heart and liver of a rooster; the rich understood what was going on when the poor brought him gold, ordered his sons to be taken to the forest; they were sheltered by a hunter, took gold, but raised them; ordered them to be left for knife at the intersection - whoever side rusts, so the trouble; a hare, a fox, a wolf, a bear, a lion tell them not to kill them, each gives two cubs; the brothers separate, each took one of the cubs; the youngest comes to a city where the 7-headed Azhdaha receives a girl every year, it is the turn of the padishah's daughter; the young man enters the house, where he drinks strong water and takes a heavy sword; the animals helped kill Azhdakha; the princess gives her handkerchief; the young man and the animals fell asleep, the vizier cut off the young man's head, told the padishah that he had killed Azhdaha; the hare brought a healing root, revived the young man; he sends a hare, fox, wolf, bear, lion to bring bread and meat, berries, whites, sorbet from the padishah's table; seeing them, the princess realizes that the groom is alive; the padishah orders to bring the owner of the animals, he shows the snake tongues cut off by him; the vizier was torn by horses, young man got a princess; once he chased a white beast; an old woman asks to hit the animals with a twig, they turned into stone, she hit the young man herself; the elder brother sees rust, comes to the younger wife, she first takes him for her husband; he finds a ubyr, shoots her with a silver bullet, orders her brother and his animals to be revived, then throws him into the fire; the younger brother is angry at the elder for coming to his wife ; offers to enter the city from both sides, whoever the princess recognizes will be her husband; she will recognize her husband by her ring, which is around the neck of her lion's husband; after the death of the padishah, the brothers ruled together]: 106-122; Astrakhan Tatars [in the tales of the Yurt Tatars, the Azhdakh dragon (Azhdaga, Aydahar, Azhdahar) has several heads and wings, flies in and devours people, the batyr kills him]: Syzranov 2016; Bashkirs [the hierarchy of snakes was determined by the number of heads]: Sagitov 1987:501; Bashkirs [after the death of their parents, 10 brothers go to look for work, refuse to eat the old woman's unsalted soup; younger the eleventh Karasa-batyr eats, she orders first to destroy the Yalmauz talismans, then fight; the girl says where the talisman of the 7-, 12-headed Yalmauz, K. kills him; the same in the palaces of the 9-headed; K. frees prisoners; meets brothers, gives each 10 girls, takes three for himself; at night, Azhdakha filled his brothers, lets go of K. for promising to bring Kurenmyas Khan's daughter; K. meets, takes companions 1) a one-legged runner, 2) a tall man catching birds with his hands, 3) listening, 4) drinking a lake; the khan demands 1) to overcome the bull; 2) climb the pole without splashing milk, ringing the bell; 3) overtake the speedboat (60-year-old woman); 4) spend the night in a hot bath; the companions do everything together; the khan turns his daughter into a knife, pillow, writing pen, tells you to choose 12 feathers among 12 samovars , 12 scribes; K. makes the right choice every time; the girl turns into fish, Drank drains the lake, the companions cook fish, the imaginary fish jumps out of the cauldron; turns into wheat grains, they are fed duck, the girl takes her former form; flies away with a duck, a bird catcher grabs her; The fox offers to give her to Azhdaha instead of a girl; Azhdaha believed; K. lives with four wives]: Barag 1988, No. 32:200-213.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Potanin 1972, No. 6 [the hero of Koblanda destroyed the people, killed the young hero Karaman; the old man, the boy Talas-pay and the foal Kozu-Gar'at remain; for three days, swans torment the old man; T. dresses in his clothes, defeats the swans, they drop his gold ring; the lousy guy says that the swans are Kadyr-kan's daughters; T. kills him, puts on his clothes, saying words he learns from him transports cattle across the sea; pretends to be sick; at night, daughter K. tells him to lick her legs, he touches her with a cow's tongue cut off beforehand; the next day, the girls in the guise of swans come to swim, the youngest learns T., they sleep together; the khan is given three loaves, one is burned, the other half (this is the daughters' readiness to marry); daughters choose suitors, the youngest chooses T., they are settled separately; only he kills a saiga, gives meat to his older sons-in-law, takes giblets for himself; but only the khan liked them; the foals of a black winged mare are carried away every year by the Alyp-Kara-Gus bird; T. shoots, knocks down the tail a foal and a silver feather; only T. is able to lift it up; the khan sends his sons-in-law to find an eagle; the seven-headed old woman offers T. a man, he does not eat; they exchange salt, promise to help each other; T. kills a bird, defeats a hero girl, her daughter; brings a new wife and a bird's property; the snake gives him the gift of understanding the language of animals; T. appears to his father-in-law in his true form; migrates to his father, kills Koblandy, puts up with his people]: 123-130; Sidelnikov 1952 [Ashken, Moshken and younger Zhumageldy leave their father's house; he does not tell them to spend the night in the forest, on a lonely grave, in a cemetery; they spend the night; everyone at night, the brothers sleep, J. kills a seven-headed bird, a seven-headed dragon; goes underground, eats more than 60 giants, kills each one at a time, cuts off their ears; all three brothers go down into that night country; the local khan is grateful that the bird, dragon and giants are killed; J. renounces the khan's daughter and the throne, leaves A., moves on with M.; M. says he is able to drink the sea, J. - that his heart is in his dagger; the snake eats the girl and the ram every day, it's the turn of the khan's daughter; J. lets himself be swallowed, rips the snake open from the inside with a dagger; runs away, the edge of the robe remains in the girl's hands; everyone called to a feast, J. is identified, gives the girl and the throne to M.; kills three giants, marries their sister; the khan is jealous; the old woman asks his wife to ask J. where his soul is, throws a dagger into the sea, takes the widow to the khan; A. and M. sees blood dripping from the star, M. drinks the sea, they take out a dagger, revive J., who exterminates Khan and his people, returns his wife]: 213-228; Kyrgyz [Khan named Garshas has only son; returning from hunting, he saw a roe deer at the entrance to the cave; she ran into the cave; the young man looked - the cave was beautiful; she became a roe deer again and jumped, jumped over the fortress wall; Khan G. says surround the fortress, promises to execute the one whose head the roe deer jumps over; she jumped over the head of a deva named Echermat and ran away; E. chased her, and the Khan's warriors followed him; towards the caravan the son of another khan; he gives the caravan to the warrior leader and asks him to say that E. was killed; he took E. for himself; said that he was looking for a beautiful woman from the city of Chungmagun (apparently, Chin-Machin); E. asks him to leave him to sleep 40 days, and then promises to get the girl; tells him to wait 40 days; on the way to Cinmagyn, each of the bridges was guarded by 5 guards; bells on the bridge; E. turned into a child, took water in his mouth, began to pour water into bells; then turned into a fly and flew across the bridge; then 40 elders; E. pretended to be a dervish named Majurup; one elder did not believe it; by evening he fell ill, he was taken to the mountains and thrown; then 40 girls; E. pretended to be an orphan girl; she was taken to watch the fire in the hearth; the girls got used to her; she taught them blindfolded and blindfolded games; E. went on, on road 40 horsemen; E. pretended to be an orphan boy; he was taken to look after horses; E. developed timidity in his horses, they took the riders to nowhere; 40 dogs, E. threw bones to them; sycamore tree leaves branches into the sky, At the foot there is a seven-headed dragon, at the top in a golden cage a girl, guards the golden cage of Dev Semuruk {from the Simurg bird}; E. turned into a dragon with 15 heads; when he saw him, a 7-headed dragon retired; E. flew to the plane tree as a bird, persuaded Deva Semuruk to take the girl to the khan's son; then Dev Semuruk left, and dev E. fell asleep for 40 days, telling the khan's son and girlfriend to follow the dog; but they fell behind, got to the deva brothers; the girl hid in the thickets, and the khan's son was thrown into a bucket of salt water; but the dog realized that the Khan's son was in trouble, woke E., who went to the deva house and became call, they went out one by one, he tore off their heads; E. fought with the seventh deva for a long time, the girl helped E. win by throwing a lasso over another deva; E. asks the girl not to open one door in the caravanserai; she opened, two calves are tied there: black and red, black asks him to untie; became a black deva and does not tell you to untie the redhead; she untied, both devas took her away; she gave birth to a boy out of fear; E. penetrated her, teaches her to tell the deva that her teeth hurt, let her bring a dental remedy; then the girl must pinch her son to cry; say she wants to know where the deva's soul is; dev: go all over the earth 7 times, to get to a place where there are two mountains; there is a lake at their foot, a capricorn grazes by the lake, a heavy key to the cave in Capricorn's stomach, it has two pigeons: black and red; these are the souls of two devas; E. overheard it, killed a black pigeon, brought a redhead, tells the deva to release the prisoners; dev let the prisoners go, E. brought him to his home in Kuykap (Mount Kaf); set up a yurt for the khan's son and his wife; but E.'s elder daughter-in-law harbored envy people; threw a scorpion into a pond where Khan's son and wife were swimming; E. saw and knocked down a scorpion with a click, but at the bottom a drop of scorpion blood fell on the girl's face; E. began to suck blood; Semuruk descended from heaven and showed a scorpion hidden by Etimat's elder daughter-in-law; E. drove her away; Semuruk took the khan's son and wife to him; when flying, some stars collided and fell down; so we see shooting stars]: Sabyr uulu 2008:331-335; Uighurs: Aliyev, Kabirov 1989 [the fisherman dreams of catching a goldfish; his son caught it and released it; the father wants to kill him, the young man leaves; the mother tells me to take it the companion of the one who agrees to wait; the young man weans, the companion leaves; so twice; the third comrade is loyal; friends did not pay for food, they want to kill them first, then the vizier offers to send them for Khan's daughter, kidnapped by seven-headed Yalmauz; she draws in air, her companion's sword cuts her with a sword; then her companion kills her two sons; the young man is married to the liberated khan's daughter; they return , the satellite says he is the goldfish hiding in the river]: 55-61; Malov 1956, No. 14 (Lobnor) [seven-headed Yalmunguz chased a man named Kaya-Kokul ("black braid"); that climbed into the tree; I took out my tooth, made an ax out of it, began to cut it; the fox asked me to chop it; I. fell asleep, and the fox knocked with a shovel and an ax for the sake of appearance; asked K. to remove the glue; corrected (gluing) osokor, leaned him against others; another portion glued the witch's eyes; ran to K.'s parents; the witch rubbed her eyes, began to cut him again; the fox came again, said that she was steppe, and she was sandy places; the fox sealed Y.'s eyes again, told K.'s parents; they came with an army; they cut down the 7th head, and the orphan's head ran away; she was caught up and killed too]: 86-88a; yellow Uighurs [husband warns the wife did not let the fire go out; one day she fell ill, woke up late, the fire went out; she went to look for fire, came to the old woman's cave; she gave coals, sprinkled with ashes; on the trail found the woman's house; when her husband woman hunting, came three-headed on horseback on a white dog; plunged needles into the woman's body, drank blood, gave the dog a drink; the husband remained on guard; the witch appeared, the husband hit her two heads, but she killed her, began to devour her; her wife killed her and her dog with a sword; in blue cloth, she brought people what was left of her husband; since then, Yugur have been using blue cloth at funerals]: Stuart, Jhang 1996:18-19; salars [the horse gave birth to Atdn Qihkhn Masinbo; he set off; shot at the rocks with a bow, from there Daxdən Qihkhn Daxdakhu appeared; they continued their journey together; AtQm shot at wood salt, from there came Aghxdn Qihkhn Monigu; all three fraternized; one day they returned home and saw that the food was cooked; the next day DQD stayed to guard the house; saw that the food is cooked by Sun Girl, Moon Girl and Star Girl; DQD turned into a stick and lay outside the door; girls used it as a poker; DQD told his brothers about the incident; the next AgQm remained on duty for the day; he turned into a bench and could not catch the girls either; AtQm remained guarding the house; he hid on the roof and frightened the girls with his scream; they agreed to become wives sister cities; AtQM stained DS's face with black paint; DQD and AgQM married DL and DZ; DS became AtQM's wife; when the twins went hunting, the girls stayed at home embroidering; the cat confused threads and one of the girls beat her; the cat put out the fire; the girl went looking for him and came to the old woman; she shared the fire; began to come to the girls every day, and asking her to look for her in head, drink their blood; the girls began to wither away; husbands noticed it; DQD stayed to guard the house and turned into a saddle cover; the old woman sat on her and began to suck the girls' blood; DQD could not stop it; AgQm remained on duty the next day, but also to no avail; atQM hid on the roof and waited for the old woman to arrive; killed her by shooting her 9 heads (they appeared one after another); when DS washed her hair, DQD and AgQm realized that she was beautiful; told the girls to throw their combs into the well; the DL and DZ combs were wooden, and the DS comb was golden, and therefore drowned; AtQm went down the well on a rope and took out all three crest; then handed them over to his brothers; they let go of the rope and AtQM fell down; met a man with a grindstone and told him what had happened; the man promised to help and told him to catch a hundred sparrows; AtQM brought 99; the man turned into an eagle, told him to sit on his back and feed him sparrows while flying; sparrows ran out, AtQM cut off a piece of meat from his leg; when they landed, the eagle saw that AtQM was limping, and when he found out what was going on, he regurgitated a piece of his leg; AtQm came to his wife, asked her to look in his head; the wife cried, said that her husband had a similar mole; AtQM admitted that got out of the well; then went to his brothers and killed them with one arrow]: Ma et al. 2001, No. 4.1:39-60; salara [in a mountain village, a mare swallowed a piece of red cloth, gave birth to a boy, he was named Atentsigen Masymu ("a child born by a horse"); he became a hunter; he was an excellent archery; one day in late spring and early summer he stopped on the river bank and began to sing smoke from the crevice. "Hey-hey-hey, what kind of little guy is this freaking out here? If a passer-by, then go your own way, if you are looking for relatives, let's get to know each other"; a young man in white clothes came out of white smoke; M. said he was looking for relatives, offered to become sister cities; the young man took the name Dashitentsigen Dashidagu ("a child born from a boulder"); young men came to the forest, saw fog come out of the grove; M. shot, a young man came out, also became a sister, his name was Agaishitentzigen Munigu ("child born from a tree trunk"); the brothers began to cook; three white doves sank to the lake shore, removed their plumage, turned into girls, threw them into the water to swim; these are the celestials of Guni-ana , Ie-ana, and Yulutusa-ana. ("Sunny Maiden, Moon Maiden, and Star Maiden"); the brothers took their clothes; the girls agreed to marry them; three married couples returned home and began to enjoy life; but G., M.'s wife, suddenly she became gloomy and taciturn, and frowned, refused to explain why; one evening her fire went out; she saw smoke from the chimney in the distance, went to ask for fire; old woman Mansikhanyer was in her house ( nine-headed demon); gave fire, but put sesame seeds in her pocket so that they would fall through the hole on the road; began to come to G. to comb each other's hair; G. began to think how To get rid of her, told her husband; he was the first to guard; Dashidag; he turned into a pillow and sat on the doorstep; Mansikhanyer came, sat on the pillow; when she left, D. complained that it was terribly heavy, he He could not do anything; the next day Munigu turned into a broom; Mansihaner swept the yard with it; G. told her husband that Mansihaner could only be defeated by cunning; Masymu hid and shot only when Mansihaner turned into a nine-headed six-armed blue-faced fanged monster; Masymu and Mansihaner began to fight, Mansikhanyer went to a hole under the mill; Masymu ordered him to be lowered rope; G. broke the mirror and gave it half; in the lower world, M. met an old man who told him not to scream; M. shouted, a tiger appeared, M. killed him with a sword; elsewhere M. was attacked by a boa constrictor, he and him shot, hacked; they were two Mansihaner commanders; M. exchanged clothes with the shepherd, drove cows and sheep; Mansihanier: "Go faster, go faster! Finish eating and go to lick your wounds faster"; M. 8 heads wounded with an arrow enjoyed being licked by shepherds; M. prepared cow tongues in advance and began to stroke Mansikhanyer's wounds with them; she screamed from The sword hurt, and M. hit her sword, but Mansihanyer slipped out and ran, and then rushed at M.; feeling that M. was stronger, she emitted a cloud of black smoke, rushed to run, but M. pointed a mirror at her light and killed with arrows; I heard a scream, an iron cage came up, inside the eagle, asking for release, around the bone; this is the real Mansikhanyer nest; an eagle flew in, the eagle first hid M. under the wing, then told his mother who saved him; the eagle agrees to take M. to the ground, tells him to harvest 100 sparrows; the last sparrow was not enough, M. cut off the meat from his leg; met his wife they recognized a friend a friend in half of the mirror, so changed from exhaustion; Dashidag and Muniga forced G. to work when she refused to be their mistress; under the guise of a beggar, M. offer to entertain them with archery; pierced both with one arrow; prosperity was established among the people, M. and G. are happy until old age]: Chen, Wang 1989:420-439; Dungans: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 7 [mynguzi about 7 heads sucks blood princesses, not allowing her to marry; Duanzhan thinks to fight him, but his mother advises sending his stepson named Ponzhyr; the princess gives him a ring; P. wakes up from her tears, kills a monster who comes in the morning; gets a wife; she is kidnapped by a werewolf; D. pushes P. into the abyss, the princess rejects D. because he does not have her ring; P. kills the werewolf, returns his wife; D. is buried up to the neck on road, stepmother tied to a horse's tail], 75 [nine-headed werewolf yoguey]: 68-73, 345; Dungans: Shujang Li, Luckert 1994 (Changji, Xinjiang) [the old woman only has a horse; one day she came back to she is a boy, he is a Brother Horse; he went on a journey, broke a rock with an arrow, Brother Stone came out; then he split a tree, Brother Elm came out; they cultivate the land, hunt; someone in the house cooks and cleans up; they take turns guarding, two fall asleep; when it is Brother-Horse's turn, three white doves arrive and become girls; he asks them to marry him and his brothers, but first become doves again; invites the brothers to choose; he takes the rest for himself, the doves become girls; the cat came, stayed, mischievous; the women slapped him, for which he put out the fire and left; the women went to look for coals; the shepherd says that the fire is owned by a nine-headed monster, let them go to him; the maids took them deep into the cave; the monster has a human body and 9 heads, all but the central one, are blind; he orders to give fire and a bag of beans; it has a hole, the beans woke up on the way back; the next day, the monster followed this trail, sucked women's blood; then the eyes on his other heads see; so many days; Brother horse notices that the wives are losing weight, they tell him everything; the first is Brother Stone, then Brother Elm, both are afraid; The horse brother hits the monster with an arrow in the eye, he runs; The horse brother lets the shepherd go, comes to a cave under his guise, taking sheep's tongue with him; the shepherd must lick the monster's damaged eye; the horse brother strokes him with sheep's tongue, the monster hurts; he says his tongue is rough because he has a cold; then kills the monster, cutting off all its heads; distributes the monster's property; his brothers want to take possession of everything themselves; lead the Horse Brother to look at the lotuses, push him off the cliff; he fell on the lotuses, alive, but unable get back; healed the swan's wing, he lifted it upstairs, the flight lasted three days and three nights; he returned home a year later; he was not recognized, his wife did not recognize him, he cries; he takes his bow; the brothers say that only Brother Horse, who fell off a cliff, could pull it; he shoots at the stone, Brother Stone disappears into the stone; shoots at the elm tree - Brother Elm returns to the tree; since then there are stone steps in the gate, and elm trunks cracked; Brother Horse's wife stayed with him, and the other two women put on their pigeon clothes and flew away; since then, people near Mount Bogotá have loved white pigeons]: 111-118.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas: Butanayev 2003 [the sons of the seven Irliks are called "mohs"; they are black as the bottom of the cauldron, so "hara moos"; their head is the Great Moos, who looks like a seven-headed dragon; he is one-headed reaches the sky, the other supports the earth; listens to heaven with one ear, growing tree roots with the other]: 103-104; Popov in Alekseev 1980 (Kachins) [seven-headed winged hero Jelbegen (b) began to devour people; the Month took pity on them, dragged D. off the ground; he clung to the karagan bush; the Month pulled him along with the bush, they are still visible on it]: 88; Siberian Tatars: Valeev 1978 [Chelbegen (Elbegen) as an evil spirit, the seven-headed monster is often found in fairy tales; it is an earthly spirit, but has wings and can fly for many days; with man It is rare, but when he meets him, he certainly kills and eats him]: 122; Radloff, Proven, IV, 443 in Potanin 1916 (Tyumen) [was bai Tokpay-bai, he has 9 sons; they drove herds, at this time his mother became pregnant; wanted a horse's sternum (tyustyuk); gave birth to a son Ir-Tyustyuk; playing with money, he offended a lousy guy; he: it would be better if you found your brothers; IT gave him all the money, including gold, asked mother cooked wheat, pressed her hands against the cauldron, she had to tell; IT found brothers, the follower became unrecognized, eating everything; they got to know each other, the brothers agreed to return to parents; IT tamed the foal and the mare, began to ride them; the elder brother asked his father to marry him to 10 sisters; he stopped in the fisherman's yurt; when he saw 5 hats, he cried, the other 5 laughed (first I thought that there were only 5 brides in the house, and then realized that 10); the fisherman gave his daughters to Bayu; the youngest Kunjakei told me to spend the night on a waterless hill; bai was angry, stopped by the water, his lung was swimming there; buy hit him, it became an old woman (camper) with 7 heads, began to strangle him; refused to take horses, 9 sons, demanded IT; Bai promised to leave her grandma and send IT for her; after the wedding, IT asked about his grandmother, IT was going to follow her; K. ordered Shal-Guiruk to sit on Shal-Guiruk's white horse, take Ak-Polat's white sword, Ak-Syrmal's white chain mail; S. says IT that Kempier-jalmouse is sitting in place of the yurt; that replied that she could not get up; S. became huge, then small, IT grabbed his grandmother, galloped; they started fighting the old woman, both fell into the ground; S. left IT one hair to call her; IT meets, companions 1) hitting one mountain against another, 2) drinking a lake, 3) a runner who catches animals easily, 4) hears at any distance; they came to Ulmis Khan (his daughter sent those comrades for IT to marry her); they said that a fugitive allegedly fled to the village of UH, demanded their daughter UH; he orders 1) to overcome the strongman (the thief overcame the mountains), 2) overtake the old woman (the runner overtook); khan put IT and his companions in an iron house, covered it with firewood, set it on fire (water bread filled the fire); the listener said where the daughter UH was hidden (on the ground); IT went home with the girl he had taken; Choyun-gulak came out to him, invited him, joined the fight; IT defeated him, but the saber did not take him, CHG defeated him; S. ran to his comrades, who saved IT; IT asked CHG's wife to find out where his soul was; she made their child cry ChG explained that the child wants to add his soul to his father's soul; CHG: There is an iron box at the top of the mountain at the bottom of the well, containing 4 quails; IT killed them; everything is fine]: 89-93; tubalars: Radlov 1898 [ The seven-headed Jälbägän asks Lisenko how to get across the river; he advises making a raft, rocking it in the middle of the river; the raft fell apart, J. fell into the water]: 221; Radloff 1866, No. 13 [there were three brothers, one of them stupid; drove up to the house, broke down the door, the room, the food on it; the foolish one offers food, the others are afraid; the foolish man began to eat; the wind blew, the brothers climbed into the basement, there are three girls; the brothers returned to the room, finished their meals; the seven-headed Zhelbegen appears, says that the house smells of human spirit, sees that the food has been eaten; tells one of the girls to cook for her man, give his liver; J. leaves; three girls are going to bake one of the brothers in the oven; two are afraid to go out, the stupid one goes out; the girl tells him to lie on a shovel, which is sent in a fever what is needed bake; stupid brother: I don't know how, show it yourself; the girl lies on the shovel, the stupid brother pushes her into the oven; when she's baked, she cuts out the liver, puts it on the table; J.: "Well done, baby, made me a liver," eats; then screams that it is not a person's liver, but her daughter's liver; orders the two remaining girls to cook a man for her, leaves again; (the same as with the first girl; then the same with the third); the brothers want to go out, but the door is locked; a stupid brother fights against J. who comes, kills her, cuts her off and puts his hand (she is like an ax) and leg in his belt; twelve-headed J., brothers, came. climbed a tree; the stupid also overcomes her; the brothers recognize the superiority of the stupid]: 283-290; Kumandins: Dyrenkova 1949b, No. 14 [in the taiga, the hunter made a shore (pipe) out of hogweed and began to play; the red-haired girl (the mistress of the mountain) heard, came up, began to sing and dance; told him to go home to buy maps and come back; brought snakes inside the mountain; the hunter began to play cards, lost, the mountain owner wanted give it to a 9-headed snake to be eaten; the guy began to play the shore, the mountain owner pleaded defeated; the guy married a red-haired girl; the nine-headed serpent gave gold and told all animals to have fun and birds; the guy brought his wife home, she endowed him with all kinds of wealth]: 126-128; Novikov 1949 [käp-jylan (in the local vowel kär-chylan) is a nine-headed snake monster, the "king of serpents"]: 160; Altaians: Dyrenkova 1927 [ordinary prayer address to the fire mistress, 30-headed mother fire, 40-headed mother girl]: 70-77 and Karunovskaya 1927:27-28; Kandarakova 1988 [leaving dogs reindeer hooves, tendon guards, becoming a cat, the guy enters the girl's chambers, regains his appearance; they have a son; when leaving, the wife does not tell you to open one barn; the husband opens, 77 sit there seven-headed Tielven's; he gives them water, they lock him and his son in the barn; the wife returns, kills the Tielven, puts the latter on the moon; the children are told not to reach out to the moon; one held out, T. went down, grabbed him; the boy tried to hold on to the willow; the moon shows seven-headed T., in front of him a boy with a willow]: 120-122 (in the same collection and other texts with mentioning seven-headed cannibal giants); Shors [the epic character Chelbegen is described in the texts as having 2, 9, or 180 heads]: Funk 2005:316; Tofalars [when the world was created, alone the man had 5 heads, 10 eyes, one mouth; his wife did not allow him to speak; her hair was 6 quarters long; her husband cut them off; since then, the woman has become short; the man today, hearing everything and Seeing everything, he knows a lot]: Katanov 1891:45; darkhats (recorded from a Tuvan who understands only Darkhat) [Tangyl Mergen wins, makes hero Khaeran-Hara-Byoho a friend; they kill a 23-headed Athar shar mangysa; at this time, 30-headed Mangys swallowed TM's house and sister; then swallowed them themselves; TM cut it from the inside, freed his sister and people; goes to get his betrothed Dagina, the daughter of Lusay Khan; shoots an arrow at the fox, the fox is entangled in the tail of the arrow, asks not to kill, talks about obstacles on the way; a red rock to the sky; two crows pecking their eyes; two cannibal camels; two Khasyr dogs -Basyr; vast sea; TM pierces the rock with an arrow, throws eye bags to crows, solonets to camels, bones to dogs, horses have jumped over the sea; they meet Lusay Khan's shepherds, one of them says that L.'s death in a white stone in a mouse hole under the ridge; to get L.'s daughter, you have to win the competition between her fiancé Kuruldey-Mergen; horses were allowed to run around Mount Sumbur, but KM people shot TM; KM married D., but she wants to bring her betrothed to life, flies to Erlik, takes a bottle of potion, tells HHB to kill the tiger TM was reborn into, pours a potion into the nostril of the killed man, who is revived by Tanguyl Mergen; TM kills L., destroying the receptacle of his soul, kills KM (his death was in a needle stuck in a bow); they returned home, TM gave his sister XXB]: Potanin 1983, No. 148:512-517; Buryats, Mongols [Geser fights Mangadhai monsters about 67, 77, 108, 500, 600 and 1008 heads]: Sharakshinova 1980:36-37; Khalha Mongols: Potanin 1883, No. 112 [Jeonun-bel goes to marry his wife to north, kills 20-headed Hotgor-Hara-Mangys and his men; old woman remains alone, goes looking for her husband; rejects someone who has a penis like a stallion; marries someone who answers with his penis can wrap the mountain three times; they have many children; they led their people down the mountain across the sea; the old man's penis serves as a bridge; a crow pecked him, he moved, the people drowned; the old man makes a seine out of his wool ; those who were caught became Mongols (or even humans), those who remained in the water became fish]: 384-387; Ramstedt 1902 (Orkhon) [in fairy tales, mangas appear as 15 or 25-headed cannibal monsters]: 50; Mongols Ordosa [Ondey, the best man, is immensely rich in cattle; someone kidnaps the foals his mare gives birth to every year; he is going to give a foal to Hormusta; the mare gives birth, but the yellow rainbow takes him away ; O. fired an arrow, the foal fell, the mare licked it; the long yellow llama also fell; said that he was stealing foals on the orders of the Burkhan; O. dug a deep well, lowered Dolny there, put it on the hole of the bull and camel, telling them not to get up, even if they are beaten and the brushwood and the stick break; went to inspect the herds; O.'s wife went out to look for fire, hears a song, goes to well; Long advises to offer animals herbs and water - O. did not tell them about it; the animals got up, Long got out, the woman brought him to her; says that she will not return to her husband again; Long advises pretend to be sick, ask for the heart of a monstrous snake; O. took his dogs Arja and Barja, a peacock and a parrot, went in search; came to a black yurt, in front of her golden and silver horseback riding, O. tied the mare to the gold one; the girl called to the house, the old woman fed and paid tribute; when he reached the mountain, behind which the serpent, the horse teaches to close its eyes, the horse will jump, making thunder, the snake will close its mouth in fear, you have to shoot, swallowed people will come out of its mouth, then insert an arrow, enter the snake, cut off the heart; the snake's upper lip is flush with the mountain in the west, the lower lip is flush with the mountain in the east; when O. pulled out his heart, blood flowed, causing a flood; when he reached the yurt, O. lost consciousness; the old woman tells her daughter to throw a snake's heart into the abyss, replace the bull with her heart; at home Long advises a woman to feed the heart of the snake to her husband is poisonous, he will die; O. is not dead; Long advises to return to the patient, ask for the brain of a 12-headed black mangus; O. goes to a black yurt, there are other girls and an old woman; an old woman tells the girl to cook a bull for a guest, keep her brain separate; the horse trampled on the mangus, O. collected the brain; the old woman tells her daughter to replace the mangus brain with the brain of a bull; the wife only pretended to eat the brain; gave her husband a drink insensitive; Long got out of the chest, cut O. into pieces; a mare, a peacock, a parrot and both dogs grabbed and carried away pieces; the wife gave birth first to son O., and then to son Long; animals guard O.'s severed body, Naran Gho (daughter of an old woman from a white yurt) found them, his mother gave a magic object to revive O.; gives him a daughter as his wife, gives him a new name Shudurg Mergen Chagadai Khan (Chagadai Mergen); Long flew to heaven; World Cup (i.e. former O.) arrived when only his son was at home; opened up to him; took the animal's meat out of the cauldron, cooked Long's son; asks his wife if she wants to live with five jings or with someone who does not like; she: with jings; he tied her to five horses; when the World Cup mare started, her son, on whom Long was sitting in the sky, rushed carrying a rider; S. cut it into 5 pieces and cooked it; lives with his wife, hers mother and son; by order of Hormusta, he became the son of Genghis, became emperor]: Mostaert 1937, No. 1 in Solovyov 2014; the Mongols of Inner Mongolia (Chakhars, Khoshun Shand) [the rich man watered his well a herd of horses and saw something like a liver in the watering deck; he took it out and stoned it; she turned into a humpback old man who was a mangus, the monster of the twelve heads; the mangus said, "Will you give me your herd of eight hundred heads, or would you prefer to give me your son? If you do not comply with my request, I will swallow you"; the rich man decided to give his son and replied: "My son likes to play ram dice. It has one gold bone and one silver bone. Before I migrate, I will try to forget his two talus bones and leave them in the place of his nomadic. The son in the new place will want to play with his bones and will look for them, and they are forgotten in the old place. I'll make him go there to pick them up. That's when you'll grab him"; the rich man's family migrated to a new place; the boy asked his father where the bones were; the rich man replied that they were left on an old nomad, told his son to go pick them up on horseback about eight legs ; the horse told the boy to take with him a comb, a mirror, a bar, a bag of lice and a bag of nits; the boy listened, set off; arrived in the nomadic and saw a humpback old man sitting near the bones; the boy guessed it was a mango, grabbed the bones and rushed away; the mangus chased him; threw a stick at the horse and tore off one leg; the horse told the boy to drop his bag with lice; the boy did it, the mangus fell behind, busy collecting and destroying lice; after the mangus continued to pursue, threw the stick and tore off the horse's other leg; the boy threw the bag with nits, the mangus stayed a little longer, collecting and destroying nits; then continued his pursuit, threw his stick and tore off the horse's other leg; the horse told the boy to throw the bar; the boy did it, A rock appeared in front of the mangus; he overcame it, continued to pursue it; once again took out his horse with a stick and tore off his leg; the horse told the boy to throw the comb; the boy did it, grew thick in front of the mangus the forest; when the mangus crossed it, the boy threw down the mirror; it turned into an ocean, the mangus drowned in it; the horse said: "Your parents are rich people, but they care more about and love their livestock than their children. When you get home, you call your father "Wolf's Heart," your mother, "Wet Eyes," and your sister, "Between Two Fires (Letters. in ticks)"; the boy returned home, began to call his parents and sister as the horse ordered]: Todayeva 1981:102-104; Oirats (Karashar's merchants) [childless Bujin-Dava Khan sends dog Hasar to hunting; he sees the house, hears an old woman asking three daughters what they have learned; one, if the BDH takes her as his wife, promises to cook dinner for 500 people from one egg, the other from one's wool a goat to make a carpet for 500 people, the youngest is beautiful to give birth to a golden son and a silver daughter; H. told the khan, he took the sisters as his wife; the youngest becomes pregnant, 502 childless wives ask for tushmyl-eunuch Tsok- Gyryla help; he replaces two puppies who have given birth to children; DBH buries his wife and puppies alive at the crossroads of three roads; CG puts real children in gold, silver, copper, iron, wooden, leather boxes (one in the other), descends into the river; they are caught by a fisherman; his old wife feeds the children; the old woman, then the old man dies; the old man tells them to come to the grave, on the third morning the young man catches a horse; hunts ; the elder khatun Mani-Dara comes to his sister in his absence, persuades him to ask his brother to bring her 1) a branch of the Saikhan-Saglar tree; the horse tells the prince that the tree is guarded by three Mangyt-Khai about 15, 25, 35 heads; the prince pulls out, MX only cut off the horse's tail, the tree began to give whatever you want; 2) marry Saikhan-Sarane, daughter of Zandan-Tengir; the horse carries the owner through a dangerous forest, mountain, fiery the sea; the prince returns from the SS, who on the way turns people who had previously become trees and stones back into people; the sister marries a hero; the SS orders to dig an old grave, throw away dog bones, bring human, revives her husband's mother; she forgives DHL; throwing ash, SS turns CG into wild boar, 502 wives into wild pigs]: Bennigsen 1912:44-55; Dagurs [Angar Mergen wins competitions; hears old man asks why he won't release his father; asks his mother to tell me everything; she explains that on his way back from a fur hunt, AM's father met a 9-headed mangie named Yeladengayar and his relatives; they everyone was killed, AM's father was captured; one man ran away, said he also died; the mother shows where his grandfather's sword and spear are in the pantry; AM rides, wins along the way, captivates mangie; learns from him that Y. has a wife and three children; kills Y., frees father, kills wife and sons Y.]: Bender, Su Huana 1984:31-43; Mongors: Todayeva 1973, No. 10 [childless old woman prays for a child; God sends her a son; her black mare gives birth to a stomach, there is a boy in it; children tease him, he tells the old woman to fry wheat, clamps hot grains in her fist, she is forced to admit that she did not give birth to him; he goes to look parents, brothers, sisters; shoots at a stone, a young man comes out from under it Stone; from under the tree - a Tree; three brothers hunt, someone cooks in their house; Stone, Wood fall asleep, the Mare's son is enough for three doves turned into girls; the most beautiful smears with soot, Stone and Wood choose others, the beauty goes to the son of the Mare; women forgot to leave food for the cat, he extinguished the fire with his tail; the son's wife The mares come to the nine-headed old woman for fire; she gives fire and an armful of yellow flowers, tells them to throw them along the way; in the absence of husbands, she comes to suck women's blood; Stone, Tree remain guard, numb with fear; the Mare's son cuts off the old woman's eight heads, comes to her dungeon; she tells the boy to lick her wounds; the Mare's son tells them to stroke them with cow's tongue, the old woman screams in pain; then when a dog, the old woman goes to bed, says that it will be warmer on the iron bed; the Mare's son and the boy put her in the cauldron, cover her, burn her; the brothers live well with their wives]: 289-295; Jugui et al. 2012 [mother, leaving for brushwood, warns her daughters (eldest Nduangmu, middle Kangxi, youngest Zuzuri) not to unlock strangers; the nine-headed old woman changed her appearance, asked the woman what her daughters were named, swallowed it, came, asked N. to unlock it, she refused - her mother had white clothes; the old woman was lying in white clay, called K.; she replied that her mother had green clothes; she was lying in the grass, called Z., she: her mother had red clothes; she was lying in red clay; N. and K. asked not to unlock, but Z. believed and unlocked; the imaginary mother asked her to put a bowl of wheat grains and a bowl of water at her bed; at night she began to eat Z., answered K. and N. that she was eating wheat grains; when only their heads were left, the sisters asked them to leave the house to urinate; the old woman tied them by the rope; they bandaged the chickens to their legs, climbed on a tree; the old woman pulled the rope, ate the chickens; went out, asked how the girls climbed the tree; stabbing her nails into the trunk; sliding on her stomach; the old woman tries, got hurt, could not climb; they tied, they lowered their belts, raised her, threw her off, she crashed to death]: 51-54; Stuart, Limusishiden 1994:80-84, 148-152 [see motif I22; Erlang (local Geser) passes between the rugged mountains on her way to battle with a nine-headed monster].

Western Siberia. The Nenets [the main object of worship on Fr. Vaigach was Vesyako's seven-sided idol]: archimandrite. Veniamin 1855 in Semenov 1994:119; Eastern Khanty: Kulemzin, Lukina 1978, No. 102 [The Pimsky and Ugutsky guys go hunting; leave decks instead, consistently kill three-, five-, seven-headed Mank-yki; turn into Ping-yki and Yagun-yki - lungs guarding their people]: 93-95; Pelikh 1972 [(five options are known); Pyutchkali lived with his sister, they are birds; caught a pike; sister all ate alone; P. decided to give it to the seven-headed line; flew to hell, ate his fat; hell began to fry it, P. promised him a sister as his wife; told him to enter the house with his pants off, backwards; he stuffed a hot walk into him, began to burn the corpse; the daughter comes a devil, P. kicked her, she flew away; the same - the devil's sister became a star; the other sister became beautiful, P.'s wife; it's light from her in the hut and beautiful]: 360-361; Sanghi 1989 (oriental?) [Grandma Syashimi has Imihila's grandson; meets a three-headed, then two-headed, another three-headed Menk 'a (forest spirit); everyone sends him to his wife, supposedly telling him to feed him , but they beat I.; I. kills Menkov by throwing them on iron stakes, turning their wives into river backwaters]: 66-73; northern Khanty: Lukina 1990, No. 26 (b. Kazim) [the elderly spouses are childless; the old woman's knee is swollen, the old man took a stone out of the abscess; put it on the shelf; the food disappears at night; the old woman watches, the boy, the next time the young man eats; fights with his father; in the morning says he will go to kill four-headed Yalians; two-headed Yalian rides a two-headed beast Vures, a young man kills him; the same with three- and seven-headed; burns the latter, ashes turn into mosquitoes]: 90-93; Moldanov 1999 (Kazimsky, d. Overweight) [the "two-headed, four-armed" spirit from Pashit is associated with menk (yaly) forest spirits; in fairy tales, menki two-, three- and seven-headed]: 74; Steinitz 2014, No. 3 (Obdorsk, Son dialect) [three brothers they live in a hut, take turns cooking; the elder hears three swans fly in; three women come in, scoop hot meat on the cook's stomach; when the brothers return, he replies that the cauldron overturned; the same with his middle brother; the younger Kemyas hid between the beams, burned his swan clothes, three women became brothers' wives; when they left, men tell them not to play cards; they play, come seven-headed Menk-Iki, plays, wins, takes women away; K. goes in search, consistently sleeps with three old people, each forges iron; the latter says that M. has an employee Male- The size of a squirrel tail, he has an iron club; I must tell him that he is lost, throw a club at him, take his form, bring into M.'s house with seven armfuls of firewood weighing 7 sledges; and that's what happened; he feeds M.; put the ring in a cup of water, the eldest of the women recognized him; in the morning the women ran away; K. fed M. so crazy that he went crazy; seven knives hung in the sky, K. cut them off, M.'s heads fell; his torso chases K.; those old men pierce him with iron walks; then they put him on an iron top, people throw her into the Ob; the brothers got their wives back; they were beaten, a white pebble fell from the eldest and middle, from the youngest no, it's not her fault; K. and his wife went down the Ob River, the middle one went up, the eldest went to the Urals]: 219-226; Southern Khanty (b. Conda, 1888) [the old man is going to burn his many barns so that the smoke reaches Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother and they will notice that they have not given him children; speaking of fire, the old man calls it "the multilingual mouth of the virgin Tarn "; Heavenly Father sent a son, who gave the old man a seed the size of a bird cherry seed; the wife ate, became pregnant, gave birth to a son and a daughter; the son has a bone through the bone and the brain (bones) can be seen through the brain (bones); he grew up and went on a journey; came to an old woman; she tells the wolf and bear to tear the person apart if he does not like them, but to bring him into the house, if they love; they bring him into the house, the old woman calls the young man a grandson; he asks for his name; old woman: "Like an aspen leaf, a nimble husband" ("Poi-Lipetta..", hereinafter P.); when P. returned to his father, he thought that when he was young he had reached that old woman in a week, and his son reached that old woman in a day; P. tries to put his hand and leg on his father's horses, none of them can stand it; the lousy foal withstood; the root immediately grew; brought P. to a distant city; stays with poor old people; they report that the local king had three daughters; P. returned to his father, told him to take gold, silver and furs, go to marry his wife for P.; the old man was beaten; the same for the second time; the third time the old man asked the priest's youngest daughter, her they gave it away without dowry; the wife apparently has a lover: she refused to look for her husband in her head, says that she did not even look for Taras-hui ("The Merchant") in her head; P. leaves, comes to the old woman; she gives a bundle with 60 silver rings, tells P. to find his aunts in the city where T. lives; the next old woman gives a towel and teaches him what will happen next and what to do; the horse will carry him to the sea through a bunch of human bones that have almost hidden the cedar; the men guarding the bridge have to throw 60 rings, they will rush to them, you can drive; P. came to Mother T., she hid it, turning it into a needle without an ear and putting logs into the crack; T. promises to make the visitor a brother, P. comes out, talks about the reason for coming; T. gives him his clothes and 3 silver bars with which he tells him to beat his wife; his wife flew in magpie, threw off her skin; P. grabbed his wife and began to beat, broke his arm, leg, knocked out her eye; she became forty again and flew away; P. and T. were feasting; T. went to fight the 7-headed menkv ("goblin"); forbids unlocking the seventh room; in six - lizards and frogs; in the seventh, the girl, dragged P. to her, made her husband; T. does not mind; the wife gave birth to a son; goes to fight the seven-headed menqua, tells his wife not to leave the house at that time; he cuts down Menqua warriors, but there are more and more of them; then he cut off her husband, who carved warriors out of the flint like sparks, killed the warriors, hit something with a sword; at home he found out that P. had left the house - he hurt him, why released? they found the body, put it in the coffin; wife: mother-in-law wants to kill you; he entered his mother-in-law's house, fell into the lower world; there the old man and old woman adopted him; they do not tell him to herd cattle in the Menqua estate, he stole their eyes; but grass is better on the other side, P. drives cattle there; hacked one-, two-, etc. -headed menkvas; the seven-headed man cannot be cut down, he drove him into the ground, the menkv asks him to take his white towel, wrap it around his neck, then cut; then the VM cut off his head; came to the Menkwa mother, fights with her, changed buckets of strong and weak water; the old woman's daughter shows that the old woman should be stabbed in the chin with a knife ; P. did so, killed the old woman; the daughter tells her to burn her, sweep away frogs and lizards that will crawl out of her into the fire; P. tells the girl to jump over the fire - if she used to live with a man, she will fall into the fire; she she fell, she also had lizards, he burned them; he took the eyes of the old people, restored their sight; they told them to prepare meat, immerse firebirds on their backs; she brought them to the ground, he cut off the last two pieces from the calves of his legs; fever -the bird regurgitated them and put them back; the wife lies between two men; P. wanted to hack them, wife: these are your sons; P. cut his youngest son, sprinkled blood on T.'s body, he came to life; revived his son alive with water; his wife's brother (i.e. T.) set up a copper playground for games, P. built a silver one; each puts a block of stone on his court with his foot; the VM takes flint, sparks turn into husbands; when he lets his a stone that breaks the arms and legs of T.'s people, tears them apart; T. lets P. and his wife (i.e. his sister) go home - he cannot live with a hero who is stronger than him; on the way they go to those three old women his wife turns them young; at home P. climbed onto the roof, looks into the house, where his parents are quarreling over a spark; he poured water or snowed, putting out their fire; they swear; he opened up, his daughter-in-law turned them they are young; P. throws chips brought from another world, they turn into a city inhabited by people; abundance around]: Patkanov 1999, No. 1:302-323 (=Lukina 1990, No. 88:220-237); Mansi: Lukina 1990, No. 176 [two- and three-headed menkvas fight to share gold; three-headed kills a two-headed man, tells him not to give him away when the five-headed one comes; then the five-headed kills three-headed, seven-headed; an old man kills a seven-headed man with a sword, takes a box of gold]: 457-459; Popova 2001, No. 6 [Ekva Pygris lives with her grandmother, she does not tell walk north; he goes, one, two- and three-headed menkwa giants ask for his companions; he cooks food for them, he gives him lots of sables with him]: 51-56; Kannisto 1956, No. 16 [someone ruins the garden turnips; the father tells three sons to guard; the eldest, the middle fall asleep, the youngest grabs the Copper Man (MCH); he tells the horses to go home and tell the sisters that the brother is in trouble; the father and sons send news to the tsar, he pays 300 rubles for turnips, puts MCH in prison; the royal son Vanya fired an arrow with a toy bow, it fell on the roof of the prison; MCH teaches: roar and stomp your feet, you will be offered different things, calm down when they give you a bunch of keys; open the prison, I'll get you an arrow; once free, MCH promises to help the boy when necessary; disappears; neighboring kings who have come to see MCH ; dissatisfied; decide to give V. a coachman and expel him from the state; the coachman is Uncle Senpalt; V. is thirsty, S. lowers him into the well; promises to raise him if V. agrees with him to change roles and names and to sign his blood; now S. rides in a carriage, and V. is a coachman; they come to another tsar, the imaginary prince asks to give his daughter; the king: feed 30 stallions for three days and three nights; the imaginary prince: my uncle S. will herd; V. calls MCH, he takes him to his place, his older sister gives him a handkerchief (dancers, musicians, food to wave); then back, MCH collects horses, there are 60 of them; the same the next day (the middle sister gives a box, people come out of there and ask for work; horses are 90); on the third day (the younger sister gives an egg (it contains food, drinks, dancers, warriors); MCH is a Hiiro horse and a sword; 120 horses); the princess sees this, understands that the shepherd is a real prince, not S.; S. demands a wedding the next day; the three-headed devil demands that the princess be given to him; V. kills him, S. says he killed; the same with the 6- and 9-headed lines; the princess bandaged the wound, then she sees her handkerchief on the hand of an imaginary shepherd; at the wedding, the princess showed the second half of the scarf; S. was driven away, V. took the princess and inherited the kingdom]: 154-176 (=Kippar 2002:212-228); Ust-Poluisky culture (4th century BC - 2nd century AD) [cast copper plaque, diameter 5.7 cm; in ancient times it is engraved with the figure of a seven-headed monster standing above an animal; such plaques are characteristic of Ust-Poluy; from modern Khanty Home Sanctuary]: Baulo 2002:153-154, Figure 14; Nganasans: Gracheva 1983 [chors - toothy, with metal claws, sometimes three-headed cannibals]: 30; Ivanov 1970 [three-headed figures met; perhaps related to ideas about fire]: 100; Kets: Dulzon 1966, No. 26 [the old man makes seven clay cups (coltutes; var.: seven-ear cauldron), the old woman shakes them, they turn into boys (var.: boys jump out of the cauldron); the eldest comes to the Hosyads to marry the brides; she gives seven mezgirei (i.e. spiders); at home they turn into seven girls; Damn comes to suck women's blood; younger brother guards, hits Devil, toe runs into the ice-hole; seven devils come out with one, two, etc. - seven heads; They fight with brothers, everyone kills each other; sends skis to their parents, they come, burn dotets; they put their sons in the cauldron; the old man does not let him fall to the west; he falls to the east, brothers come to life]: 83-91 (=Alekseenko 2001, No. 126:225-228); Southern Selkups: Pelikh 1972 (southern) [lymbel is an eagle, and kvydargu is the rank of vines (devils), the eldest of them; in Napas there was a kvydarga with 7 heads, to him little kvydarga obeyed]: 337; Tuchkova 2004 [a six-headed serpent surfaced into the sea; the youngest grandson of the Black Tsar cut off three heads first, then two, threw the last one overseas, fed his body to magpies and crows]: 203-204; Northern Selkups: Prokofiev 1981 [every shaman in heaven has a patron assistant, a bull spirit; these bull spirits were born from the "end of heaven, a horse spirit"; he has 7 heads, from his mouth and The flame blazes with the nostril; the "spirit of the sky of the end" sits on it]: 60; Tuchkova 2004:249 [P ě nakasa defeats the snake brothers with one, two, three heads; the first cuts off the ears, the second and third take out the heart and liver; hang ears and one set of viscera on the sledge, the other attaches chorea to the back of the chorea], 294 [devils with different numbers of heads, from one to seven, are described] .

Eastern Siberia. Baikal Evenks (Barguzinsky - Bauntovsky District, Buryatia) [a person is looking for a missing horse; on the way, one girl gives a comb, a second stone; the third explains that the kidnapper is a three-headed man, tells him to ask him for a box; carrying the box back, a person hears the noise of a chase, throws a comb (thicket), a stone (mountain); in the box is a wife, the daughter of a three-headed; a man divides people (the origin of peoples); his father-in-law calls him to the bones, his wife gives filings; a man is soldered, taken away, sewn into the skin of a bull, thrown into the water; his daughters find him, he lives with his wife again]: Voskoboynikov 1973, No. 17:75-80; Baikal Evenks (Ingarigdov, Barguzinsky Range) [Muchuna's older brother and younger Berkoltun have a six-headed sister; she decided to marry the demon Chulugda; sent them to bring a bear, they brought them; she drank them drunk, put them in two iron boxes, drowned them; the brothers woke up, broke the boxes, went to the ground; killing larger birds and animals, they do increasingly strong bow; came to Manga (=Ch.), killed his six-headed sister with his fist and arrows]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 50:66-67; Far Eastern Evenks [while Torganay and his brother are hunting, the three-headed Kadanay carries his wife by air; the mare gives birth to a heroic horse for T.; he drives T. to a river full of human teeth and bones, teaches him to say that the river is good, the water is decreasing; the horse slips through the crushing rocks, crushed; T. takes not black, but white foam, lubricates the bones, the horse comes to life; drives him to the rock, turns into a berry meadow; girls descend, T. sticks with a needle to the headscarf of one of them; T. cuts down K.'s two heads; his wife orders to burn three squirrels, K. and his rock house disappear, T. returns his wife home]: Varlamova 2004, No. 5:164-174; Evenks (solons) [ nine-headed Little caught, ate hunters; then began to take a boy from his family a year; one old man gave him a killed goat instead of his son; M. liked goat meat more than human meat, he agreed sacrifice goats; Agni smashed M. with lightning; people burned the remains, the smoke has gone to the mountains; now M. owns forest animals, the souls of suicides and those who are not buried in a ritual, harms people]: Sam, Osokina 1986: 96; Evens [near the home of the three brothers, an unknown woman puts a plague; her older brother left and disappeared; she called the middle one - the same; the youngest named Chimchavel; he went and sat in the wrong place she dug a hole with stakes, saw her brothers' heads cut off, ran away, the woman Burak promised to find him everywhere; he comes to a woman who gives him new clothes, burns old ones; he lay down in the wrong place where she is told me, saw a hole, rushed to run, B.'s clothes were torn to shreds; he comes naked to the Kholuk woman's home, at first thinks that this is again the embodiment of B.; she says that B. came from the lower peace, wants to destroy all worlds; tells her to turn into a louse on her spit, her deer gather on their own, the property adds up by itself; she and B. will look in each other's heads, you have to crawl on B.'s spit, pulling out her golden hair is her life; C. pulled out her hair, began to fight B., won, tore off her head; the bird (his daughter Chimchep appeared in this image) calls him, he followed her, could not overcome the bear, runs into his wife's house, she hit the bear with a board, killed him, his older brother Irkanmel jumped out of the bear {out of the bear}; C. met another bear, his wife cut off his head, and Horage's middle brother appeared; one day, the three-headed serpent Dyabdalan, Father H., comes out of the hearth, calls the brothers sons-in-law; they fight him, he fires, each of the brothers cut off one head; they followed in the footsteps a snake in a hole into the lower world, there's a spider, they chopped him and his net; they came to the house, killed the centipede, started fighting the owner, killed him, opened a passage to the lower house, there were two tied women, the older brothers married them, they all returned to earth]: Lavrille, Matic 2013:13-78.

SV Asia. Coastal Koryaks [Ememkut rises to the Sun, wins running, raising stones; The Sun admits defeat, but says that E. will not be able to marry the five-headed daughter kamaka; at home, his father promises to help him; E. sails in a boat, feeds K., grabs his daughter; K. swallows him five times, E. comes out from the other end; kills K., takes his daughter; she defecates with beads and copper rings; E. gets rich]: Jochelson 1908, No. 128:323-324; Chukchi [hunger, boy and sister left, boy made onions, killed mosquito, then gadfly, winter, pizza, hare, fox, grows up, kills an elk, a bear, seals, walruses; began to cry his wife, found a home, brought his wife; she disappeared; his sister gave 5 pairs of shoes, he asked for five more; on the seashore, an old owl gives a bandage with wooden men, cuts off a piece of ice from the ice floe, tells him to swim on it; he swam across, entered the house in the rock, where the kidnapper's sister spat, the exit is closed; she wants to fresh it and feed it to her children, throws a knife, he cut off the right hand of a wooden man on a bandage; the hero threw the knife himself, cut off the woman's hand; the same left hand; throws his teeth, cut off the head of a wooden man, the hero cut off her head; killed children; becoming an ermine, he got out, dug a hole under a stone, ran to another stone house, climbed inside, gnawed through his sleeping peritoneum, jumped inside, gnawed his heart, took his wife, brought her on the ice floe back; beats his wife to tell her if there is anyone stronger than him; sister: there is a five-headed kele on the island; her brother came to him, nailed his hands with stakes, put him on a stake, cut off his wings, flew them back home; next time my sister sends them to a woman in the east; she cut her brother into pieces, cooked it, and he was reborn; she burned him - the same; fed him to the Kela dog - the same; he pulled it out she has a heart and entrails, she ran; she followed: give it back and marry me, we will be the strongest; he did so, he did not return home]: Bogoraz 1900, No. 75:196-199.

Amur - Sakhalin. The Manchus [hero Balus Ulu (BU) inherited a powerful bow and other weapon from his father; at the edge of the thicket, a sable god, always sat on a green stone; once he was carried away by a monster, no one no longer went to the forest, hunger began; BU went in search, rode his horse into a cold cave; when the light came again, he saw a stone with a sable, and a three-headed stone appeared from behind the stone three-eyed demon lynx; from one eye a deadly ray, from the other, smelly water, from the central eye, fire; BU hit all three with arrows, killed the monster; took out the sable, it became possible to hunt again; one day, On his way home, BU noticed a girl who had cooked food and fled; a female chief of the Sakala Mama tribe explained that this girl named Akumi had sent a sable; he returned home, A. was waiting for him there; she is the daughter of a neighboring tribe leader; holiday]: Bäcker 1988, No. 7:44-50; Negidals [episode in the epic tale of the marriage of heroes of the Middle World to the younger sisters of the heroes of the Upper Earth; The muslikon sees the trail of a one-legged steel horse riding somewhere in front - first a trail from a year ago, then a month, a week, then in the morning, and finally, completely fresh - excited with water; catches up with the Five-Headed Hero of the Western Night Side Dolborindh, who also goes to marry Nyltokchan, the Sun Maiden, to the Upper Land; in a duel, O. kills D.; that comes to life, N. helps to kill him completely]: Cincius 1970:55; ulchi [the guy lives alone; the girl comes in, manages, he is embarrassed; she flies up; he goes looking for her; the old woman tries unsuccessfully kill him; by a tree, an evil spirit brings a woman in his claws, a guy seriously wounds him, takes a woman as a wife; goes on; by the sea seven seals throw off the appearance of animals, the guy grabs one, marries him; she says that her parents want the heart of an evil spirit; his mouth is like a lake; the boy asks the spirit to open it, jumps into his mouth, inserts a pointed tree trunk, cuts it off, brings the heart; the seal wife teaches how to defeat another spirit; you have to drink your own vodka, not his vodka; the spirit drinks his vodka, two of his three heads fall off; the guy finishes him off; takes his people away; lives with two wives; his name is Batouri (hero)]: Sunik 1985, No. 7:136-143; Orochi: Aurora, Lebedeva 1966:60-89, 150-182 in Gurvich 1983 [Dolonucanu is chased by a three-headed hero by a monster and kills him in a duel]: 160; Medvedev 1992 [an old man and an old woman had a boy; grew up right away; came to hunters; tells old people that a snake devil will come; hits him on the head with a hammer: broke one head , then two, then the remaining four; returned to parents]: 363-364; nivhi [the older shaman sister tells her brother that she is sick, sends her to iron larch, where the cuckoo can find out how recover; on the way, a tit, a kuksha warn the young man that his sister has sent him into a trap to marry the son of the master of heaven; he does not believe, sticks to a stone at the butt of the larch; hell with two and a devil with three heads brings him inside a rock; he is teased like a bear; an iron rat gnaws through his fetters, he comes out of a cliff, kills a pig, pulls out a box, eggs in it, presses them, killing devils; frees the daughter of the water owner captured by them; flies to heaven, kills his sister and her husband; when she returns, shoots a cuckoo, she turns into a woman, he marries her]: Panfilov 1965:230-240.

(Wed. Mesoamerica {Probably European borrowing}. Mishteki [brothers, who then become the sun and month, kill the seven-headed snake, take its eyes; then the owner of the snake, who has teeth in her vagina, is given chirimoya fruits to eat, from why does she fall asleep; her younger brother (next Month) knocked out her teeth with ticks (con una tenaza) or a grain grater chimes, copulated with her; when she woke up, she threw a boot (zapato) at her younger brother, which went to heaven and became a Pleiades; a woman lost a lot of blood and since then women have been menstruating because the month is visiting them]: Valentina Glockner Fagetti in Chinchilla Mazariegos 2010a: 130; 2011:94 {miscellaneous details in 2010a and 2011 stories}; tricks [the world is dark, people are burning fires; two brothers fight a seven-headed serpent; kill him by throwing hot stones in their mouths; younger brother takes his right, bright eye, the eldest gets the left eye; he causes all water sources to dry out, the youngest agrees to change, becomes the Month; the eldest becomes the Sun]: Cruz 1946:248-230; juice [when the boa constrictor grows up, goes into the river, turns into a snake with seven heads; males can turn into men, seduce women, females can turn into men]: Sulvarán López 2007:169)

The Northern Andes. Ijcanúsi ("dead people") is associated with a devil; but according to one version, they are two characters, a man with 7 and a woman with 9 heads; they live where the sky meets the earth; they see everything sides; related to the dead and illnesses; some consider I. a good character]: Lucena Salmoral 1969:235-236; pihao, muisques (Tunja) [there are human figures in the sanctuaries with one torso and three heads or three faces]: Simon 1882-1892 (2) [1627], ch. 3:283; (cf. embera (chami; probably a European source; Indians have no motive for changing sex when they come into contact with the rainbow) [rainbow is a seven-headed snake; lives on a mountain, descended to the river, causing a landslide; drinks water with both ends; swallows people; they come out from the other end, changing sex]: Turbay Ceballos 1998:13-14).

Guiana. Warrau [jaguars with two and three heads]: Wilbert 1970, No. 197:459

The Central Andes. Huancarani culture (mountainous Bolivia, Lake District. Pope, 1-2 thousand BC) [stone percussion or slashing guns with an anthropomorphic figure on its butt; the figure has one pair of arms but two or three heads]: Alcina Franch 1965, fig.521-1; Querejazu Lewis 1987:66; Wegner 1938:170.