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L19b1. The seven-headed dragon.

.11.-.17.21.23.-.25.27.-.34. (.35.52.56.61.)

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seven-headed reptile is described or depicted (except when snakes with the largest number of heads are consistently described and "seven" is not the largest by number).

Digo, Ronga, Fulbe, Mandingo, Zaghawa, Sudanese Arabs, Oromo, Malgashi, Western Sahara, Kabila, Portuguese, Spanish, Basques, Aragon, Corsicans, Sardinians, Italians (Tuscany, Naples), Ladins, Maltese, Bretons, French (including Upper Brittany), Walloons, Germans (Hanover, Grimms, Baden-Würtenberg, Swabia, Austria), New (and Old) Testament, Ugarit, Sumer, Akkad (?) , Garo, Ancient India, Marathi, Kannada, Simalur, Minangkabau, Solor, Tetum, Visayas, Romanians, Serbs, Greeks, Russians (Arkhangelsk), Belarusians [snakes are essentially anthropomorphene], Crimean Tatars, Nogais, Ingush, Lucks, Gunzibs, Aguls, Lezgins, Turks, Kurds, Lurs, Ishkashim, Bartangans, Pashais, Swedes, Bashkirs, Mordovians, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Khakas, Altaians, Chelkans, (Southern Khanty; Mishteks, Triks, Embera, Desana).

Bantu-speaking Africa. 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 the seven-headed one appear snakes to make K. petrified; at night, the snake crawls to the sleeping X. and his wife; K. cuts off the heads, accidentally cuts off the tip of X.; K. is forced to tell everything (not everything is clear in the paraphrase), consistently stones; H. cries; wife H. tells her father that (spirit?) comes at night K., his father tells him to throw a noose; K. is no longer stony, but breaks off relations with X.]: Arewa 1961, No. 3027:141-142; ronga [{the beginning is an explicit Portuguese borrowing, the second half of the text is probably too}; the poor king goes fishing; the seven-headed serpent gives him treasures for promising to give 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 has come for him; the son sings, two people appear, tell him to put the snake seven in a pot of milk; he drinks seven with his mouths, says he is satisfied, gives the boy the ability understand the language of animals; if he talks about it, he dies; the boy has grown up, married, hears birds talking, smiling; the wife says he laughs because she is ugly; the husband hears a rooster explains to the chicken: the wife should just be beaten; the husband does so]: Klipple 1992:225-226.

West Africa. Fulbe (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]: Knappert 1997:142; Mandingo (Arabic borrowing, cf. Fulbe; Guinea-Bissau) [Malan goes hunting, his stupid and angry sister Njatta tells me not to take from dogs; M. throws beans behind to find his way home, N. follows and picks up; M. searches for fire, sees smoke, comes to the blind cannibal; a huge cat brings her a man; M. crept in to take her coal, but N. tells the cannibal that her brother has come; the cannibal tells her hair to tie those who come; dogs hear, come running, kill the cannibal; M. and the dogs go one way, N. to the other; dogs see how a hedgehog kills a frog and immediately revives it with grass; M. collects this grass; the girl Maria Futuma {Fatima} is eaten by a seven-headed snake in exchange for water; M.'s dogs are killed by a snake, he carves out tongues; the swineherd says that he killed the snake, N. confirms; it turns out that the swineherd and N. pulls out his tongue; N. puts a knife in M.'s bed, he dies, he is buried; dogs find revitalizing grass , kill N., revive M.]: Mendelssohn 1971:203-212).

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 her, but refuse to fly because she drove them away from the grain; the raven flies, sings her song, leads her brothers, each cuts off the head from the seven-headed snake; on the way home, the girl finds an egg, 6 days later 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 the 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 and 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 serpent swallowed the villagers; a woman lived nearby, with seven sons and a daughter; she quarreled with an old woman, the old woman advised that, out of revenge, the girl send her brothers to get the bell from T.'s neck; each of the brothers cut off one of the heads was swallowed by the other; the youngest remained, cut off the last head, released the brothers, all the animals and people swallowed from T.'s womb; he was allowed to choose the most beautiful girl as his wife; he chose a swallowed slave; the brothers brought his sister a bell; the youngest's 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's on sky; 5) running like the wind; 6) cultivating the field; the husband beat their sister; the old woman advised me to tell him that her brothers are stronger than him; she led her husband to them; said that the river is her mother's urine, if he He will set foot, die; he set foot, lost consciousness, she pulled him 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 his mother-in-law's eye; A week later, she said that something caught her eye, his wife pulled him out; he fell into a 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, caught her; the husband recognized the power of his wife's brothers, did not beat her anymore]: 47-52, 92-100; Sudanese Arabs (Jaaaliyin) [the Sultan has two wives: a slave who has two a son, and a free one, whose son Muhammad; every year a palm tree harvests dates, and a snake devours them; the sons of the slave went to guard, did not notice anything; M. cut off the snake's head; two fell from her head pen: gold and silver; M. brought silver to his father, gold disappeared; the father sends his sons to find him; at the crossroads, a woman gives them food, explains: one road - if you go - you will not return, and the other the road of peace; M. took the path 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 would lead to a local to the Sultan; he will give two chickens, black and white; they must be caught with his eyes closed; a man with a sword will kill someone who catches a white one, but lets go if he catches a black one; M. caught a white one, but asked him to let go: he himself is the son of the Sultan; M. returned to the snake; she sends to the Sultan, who will offer, closing his eyes, to catch horses with gold and silver harness; whoever catches a horse with golden harness will be punished; (the same as with chickens); the snake again sends 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 on the road of non-return; they ask them to go down to the well for water; there are black and white sheep; if you say "white will knock down the black", Allah will save; if, on the contrary, you fall down 7 worlds; M. said just like that, 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 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 whoever saves her; M. fell asleep, the princess's tear fell in M.'s ear, he jumped up, cut off the crocodile's head; so all 7 heads; marked with blood on each; exchanged rings with the princess; the king checked whether the rings were the right, ordered M. to raise his severed head; making sure that he was the hero, the king, betrayed for M. daughter]: Hurreiz 1977, No. 9:85-87; Oromo [a man found a bound boy in the cave; he asked him to untie, kill a seven-headed serpent; ask his father for a hat as a reward, which he wore in his youth, and his mother has the lamp she lit in her youth; they gave; the hat is invisible, and two wish-fulfilling people come out of the lamp]: Basset 1903, No. 31:81-84; malgashi ( Merina) [there is a snake with 7 heads in folklore but little known]: Molet 1979:189.

North Africa. Western Sahara [two sisters are married to two brothers; when they leave, they say that if children of different sexes are born, one family should go east and the other west; one sister has a boy Nehry Bugam, they decide to dress him as a girl; NB has grown up, the truth is revealed; NB has grown up, goes looking for his cousin Dayesmus, with him an ostrich, a camel and a horse, a young camel with a camel, a dog and a raven ; the snakes pulling the mountains allowed him to pass, the mountains only cut off the tip of the young camel's tail; the NB gives the shepherd a ring to throw into a bowl of milk that the chief's daughter (i.e. D.) will take; the shepherd says that the seven-headed serpent demands girls, the last one left is the leader's daughter; the NB tells the snake that he has come to see such a glorious creature, asks for permission to take one of his heads as a keepsake; then the second; the other five are cut off in battle, hidden under a huge rock; no one else can pick him up, the NB gets D. as his wife; foreign warriors injure the NB, take his wife; animals care for him; he wins enemies, brings his wife back, the mountains and the snakes let them through again; everything is fine]: Aris, Cladellas 1999:65-73; kabila [younger brother Ahmed leaves home; kills jackal, lion, panther, shepherds each time they give him a sheep, a cow, etc., he asks to keep the animal in the herd until his return; the seven-headed dragon does not allow him 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; the sultan warns of danger in the forest; M. goes to the forest, Ceriel swallowed him with a horse and a greyhound; the tree of the house turned yellow, the elder Brother Mehand goes to save A.; shepherds take him for A., they say that animals have produced abundant offspring; M. kills C., takes out the corpses of A., the horse and the dog; sees a lizard kill another, revives her with grass; M. revives those swallowed with the same grass; brothers with wife A. and herds return home]: Taos-Amrush 1974:117-128 (Blida) [Emhammed lives with his mother and brothers; began to steal treasures from the Sultan's treasury; Having found a hole, the Sultan ordered to put a pot of resin there; her thief would fall; on that day E.'s mother advised me to take her younger brother with him - let him also learn how to steal; brother fell into the resin; E. cut him off and brought her head to her mother; said that if she left the house today crying, he would kill her; the next morning, the Sultan ordered the headless body to be crucified and all the inhabitants of the city brought there; E. ordered his mother to bring a jug of butter and drop it; everyone will believe that she is crying for the missing oil; the sultan tells the adviser to feed the ostrich with pearls and diamonds and bring it to the castle; someone who is used to stealing if he he will notice jewelry in the bird's feces, rush to collect them; E. dressed up as an old woman, went to the castle and woke up the grains; the ostrich began to peck at them, E. lured him, stabbed him and took the jewelry out of his stomach; the adviser suggested sending an old woman around the city to say that the Sultan would pay a lot of money to someone who has ostrich fat (considered a strong medicine); E.'s mother is ingenuous replied that she had fat; noticing this, E. killed the old woman and buried the corpse; adviser to the Sultan: arrange a holiday for the people, warning that the old, big and crippled should not come; give everyone wine, tongues would untie; E. began to talk about his exploits; the Sultan ordered him to shave half his beard to find him; E. took a knife and began to cut off half his beards to everyone he could; the Sultan ordered everyone to be imprisoned prison; at this time, the Sultan's son brought the horse to drink, pushing the old woman away from the water; old woman: it would be better to get King Cefretmâge's daughter ("King in Yellow Boots"); the prince demanded that he be released in search princesses; E. admitted that he was stealing, asked the others to let go; the Sultan did not execute him, but ordered him to accompany his son; on the way, the prince fell asleep, and E. went to explore the surroundings and entered the castle of two guley; they warned that if the prince wanted to drink, he should ask them for water; the stream was poisoned by the venom of a seven-headed snake; when the prince woke up, E. brought him to the castle; they did not find the ghouls, and the cellars are full of human and animal bones; when the prince fell asleep again, E. went to the stream and cut off 6 heads of the snake; snake: for the first time such a brave man came; bring the prince and receive a gift; E. and the prince came to dungeon; there are two naked beauties; one is a princess, the other is the daughter of his vizier; 7 days ago someone kidnapped them from the royal garden; leaving the girls, E. and the prince rode on horseback; the old man herds camels; says that only guli live next; gives a razor, a comb and a mirror; if you get to the stove, pick it up, you'll find yourself underground; there's an old man whose eyelashes cover his eyes; he'll ask him to shave - shave and only then ask questions; spears are always ready; this old man gave a mirror and sent him to his older brother; and so 7 brothers who need to cut off their eyelashes are each sent to the elder; seventh - to an old woman, the mother of all seven; she will take the King in yellow boots to the gates of the city; but do not approach her if she pushes salt and a black dove flies around her; turn when she pushes grain and flies white dove; lie down on her breasts; E. and the prince did everything, the old woman had a feast for them; says that 90 young men have already been beheaded for asking for the princess's hand in marriage; leave my horses and clothes, put on rags; for money, a woman in town agreed to show the house where the princess lives; when he entered the sleeping princess, E. put together the chandeliers in the corners and left; so three times; when the princess grabbed his finger, the hair that Gulya wrapped around him turned into a shining ring; the princess changed it to her magic ring; it fulfilled any wish that was not intended to harm the princess; they came to the Sultan; he offers difficult tasks; 1) find out what three items are in the bundle inside the chest; E. learned this from the princess: the princess's mother's comb, her marriage contract and "black black ocean skin"; 2) holding a bowl of milk in his teeth, climb a palm tree without splashing it; E. ordered the ring to complete the task; 3) indicate which of the hundred closed palanquins the bride finds herself, grab her camel's reins and take her away; thanks to the ring, everything was successful; Gulya met them in the form of a young girl; when they got out of the dungeon, a cloud carried away the princess; E. turned to the ring, but it was gone; E. went in search alone; the camel driver and then the shepherdess send him to the Women Thief; overhears him as he succumbs to the princess's persuasion to report what his life; in a string in an ostrich egg in the dungeon where the ghoul king lives; the shepherdess agreed to take him there; after driving the ostrich to the ground, E. stabbed it, broke the egg and burned the thread; the kidnapper burned down with it; hundreds of kidnapped women are happy; E. brought herds to the prince; the magic ring was found again, the women were sent home, the prince married the King's daughter in yellow boots]: Desparmet 1912:245 in Lajoye 2014: 23-24.

Southern Europe. Portuguese: Braga 2002 [The family has many children; for the latter, the father took St. Antonia; the brothers went to the forest, got to the old woman, she put them in a cage, began to fatten them, regularly asked them to show their finger whether they were fat; the godson of St. Antonia poked her rat tail; she still decided to fry the boys, but St. Antonia asked me to show her how to get into the oven, the brothers fried her; two dogs jumped out of their bursting eyes, the godson of St. Antonia took them and came to a city where mourning is; the seven-headed dragon is given to be eaten by people, it is the princess's turn; with the help of his dogs, the godson of St. Antonia killed the dragon, cut off the tips of his tongues; the deceiver cut off his heads and claimed that he was the princess's savior; the godson of St. Antonia presented his tongues and married a princess]: 231-233; Cardigos 2006, No. 300 (a lot of records) [the young man receives dogs (lions) that were born with him, or he received them by exchanging them for something either because he spared animals; he also received a magic sword; the princess is given to a seven-headed dragon, the savior will receive her hand; the young man falls asleep with his head on his knees princess, wakes up to her fallen tears; his dogs (lion, horse) help kill the dragon; the young man cuts off his tongues, takes the princess's handkerchief or piece of her dress; the deceiver shows dragon heads, his wedding with the princess is being prepared; sometimes a deceiver kills a young man, but his dogs revive him; on his wedding day, the young man shows his tongues (ring, handkerchief, etc.]: 54-56; Spaniards (Andalusia, Extremadura, Castilla, Leon, Asturias) [three poor widows per son; one herds three cows, the second three sheep, the third three pigs; the owner of cows was richer than the others, but she kept her son starving; two refused to share food with the old man, and the cow shepherdess gave him everything he brought; the old man trades three cows for three dogs named Sun, Month and Morning Star; they will get the owner has everything he needs; the dogs made a pogrom at home, the mother is furious; the young man took the dogs and left; the young man did not ask where the dogs brought him food; the traveler says that he appeared in Madrid a seven-headed serpent, eats a girl every day; the princess was the last; and then the snake would eat everyone; the young man's dogs tore the snake; the princess gave a ring; the black man cut off the heads, brought it to the king, said that he had killed the snake; when he learned about the preparations for the wedding world, the young man sent his dogs to carry everything he had prepared from the kitchen; the dogs and the young man were found, brought to the king; he called the black man a deceiver and showed his tongues which he carved out of snake heads, as well as the ring; the dogs brought all the food back; the black man was tied to four stallions and torn to pieces]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 300:14-19; Basques: Barandiaran 1962b [the Pyrenees tell of a seven- or three-headed serpent living in a cave]: 8; Webster 1879 [the giant seven-headed serpent woke up every three months and ate everyone; people melted a lot iron, the snake woke up, it swallowed the hot iron, died]: 21-22; 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, it is 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 off his tongues and took them with him; three Italian coal burners made the princess say they saved her; the young man comes back, shows his tongues cut off; a wedding is being prepared; coal burns have locked the dogs, put a poisoned stiletto in the young man's bed; he is buried, but dogs that have escaped 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 youngest Bertuolo rode Bertuolo's donkey; B. gave him what his mother baked for him, The donkey ate and dies; B. tells the seven bandits that he wants to rob himself; gives them the same thing as the donkey, they died; a hundred crows, having bitten their bodies, also died; the king first of all demands that he give him a riddle; B. : I had 2 cakes that killed Bertha 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 on 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; to meet the old man: let the young man forget that he is a prince; old woman: there will be a garden with marble statues; among them are the young man's parents; 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 (Tuscany) [the fisherman has no children; he caught an extraordinary fish, which asked to let it go and sent it to the pond, where a huge catch was waiting for him; but his wife demands to bring it this particular fish for her; the same again; the third time the fisherman brought fish to his wife; she asks the fisherman's wife to eat her meat, the mare to drink the broth, the dog eat the head, bury three fins in the garden, and the biliary Hang a bubble in the kitchen; children will be born and when they are in trouble, blood will trickle out of the bubble; the wife gave birth to three boys, a mare to three foals, a dog to three puppies, three swords grew out of the fins; when the brothers grew up, alone on their horse, with their dog and sword, went to seek happiness; in the city, the seven-headed dragon devours the girl every day, the princess's turn; the king promised her to wives to the savior; the young man cut off the dragon's heads, carved out his tongues, wrapped them in the princess's handkerchief, and went to the inn to change clothes; the coal miner picked up the heads, brought the king and claimed the victory for himself; when a young man came, he was not allowed in; he sent his dog to appear to the princess and pull the tablecloth off the laid table; so twice; the third time the young man tells the dog to bring the audience to his wedding; young man he showed his tongues, hung the coal miner; the morning after the wedding, the young man went hunting in the forest; a thunderstorm began, he made a fire; the old woman asked permission to warm up, gave the young man, dog, horse food, grease sword - everyone turned to stone; the second brother saw blood flowing from the fish bubble, followed his older brother's trail, mistook him; at night he put the sword in bed between himself and the princess; went to hunt - also petrified; the third brother came, did not let himself be deceived, forced the old woman to get an ointment and revive the petrified ones; then the brothers chopped her to pieces; when they found out that the younger brothers had slept with his wife, the elder killed them; repented and revived the old woman with ointment; the king gave noble girls to his younger brothers]: Calvino 1980, No. 58:189-196; Italians (Naples) [Cienzo, son of a wealthy merchant, got into a fight with his son the king and smashed his head; his father tells him to leave as soon as possible; went into an empty castle, was not afraid of three ghosts, there were treasures in the cellar; but C. left them to the owner of the castle and went on; killed him in the forest robbers and freed the fairy; goes on, in the city of mourning: every day a seven-headed dragon is given a man to be eaten, now it is Princess Menekella's turn; C. attacked him, cut off his head, she grew up; then he cut down all seven at once, cut out and took with him tongues, and collected the magic grass used by the dragon; the man picked up the heads, brought them to the king, he put a crown on him; C. writes letter to M., tells his dog to take it; C. receives the princess and forgives the deceiver; sees a beauty from the bedchamber window; comes to her, she entangled him with her hair, he remains tied; younger C.'s brother, Meo, follows in his footsteps; his wife takes him for her husband, but he says that the doctor prescribed him abstinence; when he saw the girl in the window, M. also came to her, but his dog swallowed her and the dog's hairs they disgraced C.; after learning that M. was with his wife, C. cut off his head; after learning from his wife how it was, C. raised M.'s head with magic grass; everything is fine]: Basile 2018:101-114; Italians (Campania, Capri) [seven-headed serpent]: Zschalig 1925:31-32; Ladins: Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 7 [after his father's death, the youngest son received only three dogs; he was pointed to a castle where no one dares spend the night: the seven-headed dragon kills everyone; the young man stayed in the castle; the dogs defeated the dragon; the young man forced him to give the key to the basement and show where the treasure is; the dragon is dead, the young man got everything ]: 69-77; Uffer 1973, No. 1 [three young men went in search of a princess kidnapped by dragons; reached a deep crevice; the youngest asked to be lowered on a rope; there is a princess; sequentially dragons appeared with one, two, seven heads, the young man cut off their heads; the princess gave her ring; the companions picked her up; decided to throw the young man down, but he guessed their intentions, tied it 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 it to the ground; the young man came to the palace, where the princess's wedding was being prepared with imaginary savior; persuaded him to leave him in the kitchen; threw a ring into the princess's food; she ordered the young man to be called, the wedding opened; each of the companions was torn apart by four horses]: 5-7; Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 56 [the son chose to be a hunter, his parents gave him hunting equipment and a Curasch dog; once killed a fish, a duck and a hare with one shot; the old woman ordered not to give them to his mother cook and take it with you tomorrow; he went into the hut; the girl said that robbers would come; there were two beds on the second floor - don't lie in them; told the robbers that she had sheltered the beggar, they pulled rope, knives fell on the bed; he made an agreement 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 is now with the girl; the girl will pretend that sick, she will ask for milk from the owner's cows, who has 70 cows; there is a bear (throw a duck for him) and a lion (throw a hare) as guards; they will serve him; fish should be given to the dog; return to the girl, say that she did not bring anything, hide the animals; the girl will say that her chest hurts, she will send them to the damn mill for flour; the ladies will be given a stone to grind, we must lower a bear, a lion, a dog on them, they will tear everyone apart; girl he will say that his chest is gone, ask permission to tie his thumbs; a robber will break in, 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, she almost died, but he fed fish in pieces, the dog recovered; the young man did not take the robbers' money, but went to tell the king about it; there is mourning in the city: the seven-headed dragon demands a girl every year, now it is the king's daughter's turn; the young man let his animals on the dragon, cut off his tongues, promised the princess to return in a year and 3 days; when he returned, he was told that tomorrow the princess and the coachman would marry: he allegedly killed the dragon; 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; ladins [three knights went look for adventure; failure in the forest; one asked others to let him down on a rope; there's a princess; a knight defeated a one-headed dragon, then a three-headed dragon, then a seven-headed dragon; sent a girl upstairs; not trusting his companions, he hung a piece of tree trunk on a rope; they cut off the rope; the fox offered to hold it by the tail and brought the knight to the surface; he came to the palace, where one of the deceivers is preparing to marry the princess; hired him in the kitchen and threw the ring she gave him into the princess's food; the king gave the knight his daughter and throne; the liars were torn by horses]: Jecklin 1878:100-103; Maltese: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 300 [the shepherd exchanges for assistant dogs; the princess is sent to be eaten by a seven-headed dragon; her savior will receive her hand; shepherd falls asleep, the princess's tear wakes him up, he kills the dragon with the help of his dogs, hides his tongues, leaves; the deceiver cuts off his heads, demands the princess as his wife; on the wedding day, the shepherd shows his tongues, gets princess; var.: 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 lift an iron stick, received it as payment for work; c 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 the seven-headed 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 that he be the first to get up guy, 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 to marry them princesses; the guy brought princess capes and showed snake tongues; asked his companions to cook in oil]: 68-69.

Western Europe. The French [the main text is Alsatian, but it is clear from brief summaries that the seven-headed serpent motif is known in several parts of 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, she will give a lot of fish for it; and so it happened, the miller sold a lot of fish; the wife reproaches him for letting the fish king go; the miller caught him again; he tells his wife to eat him, his fins to a mare and a dog; the wife will give birth to three boys with the sun on their foreheads, a mare three foals with the moon, and a dog three puppies with a star on their forehead; the brothers have grown up, the eldest comes to a city where mourning: the girls are given to the seven-headed monster, the princess's turn; the young man kills the monster, gets it from the princess the ring, cuts off and takes her tongues with her, promises to return in a year and a day; three coal miners make her say that they killed the monster; in a year and a day there should be a wedding with one of them; a young man comes to a 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, it turns into an iron chain; she leads when he comes to the bridge, he 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 a spear between her and him, or sleeps with one leg down beds; with him the same as with his older brother; the good sorceress teaches the third not to let the dog be tied with hair, let the witch go forward, make him give a reviving elixir; the young man revived everyone, forced the witch leave the castle; the husband is back to the princess, she sees how all three brothers look alike]: Delarue 1957, No. 303:147-150; the French (Haute-Brittany) [the guy traded the cow for the master's 7 dogs; hunting met a seven-headed monster; every day it cuts off the head, then the tail, then the last head]: Sébillot in Delarue 1957:106; the Walloons [the eldest, middle sons come to see the witch, that gives them a potion, they turn into toads; the youngest does not drink, 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 ; the young man's dogs 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 a princess, constantly hunts, his wife tries to lime him; dogs save him, then revive him; he returns to his father]: Laporte 1932, No. 300:37-39; the French (Haute-Bretagne, 1879) [King Dungober's gold-haired daughter refused a sorcerer; he turned her into a scorpion and placed her in a castle hanging on chains somewhere north between heaven and earth; D. promises the throne and the princess to her savior; those who volunteered to do so sailed by ship, but only the lumberjack noticed something hanging in the sky; together with the sailors he went {not entirely clear how} to the gate guarded by a winged snake; threw meat at it, but she did not eat it; he drank live water himself and served it the snake is a barrel of intoxicating; the snake fell asleep and the lumberjack and two sailors killed her with a spear; the second gate is guarded by a lion, exhausting flame from his nostrils; he was given meat, moistened with strong alcohol, and a lion fell asleep; he was stabbed with a spear, but only finished off on the fifth day; at the third gate there was a seven-headed creature; the captain decided to cut off his last head alone, but was bitten in half; then his head cut off; a giant at the fourth door; one person {lumberjack?} hid in a bag of rags; when the giant turned against the others, he shot him; a scorpion in the room on the table; when the man hiding in the bag touched him, the scorpion became a princess; she was taken by ship, and the castle was towed; the one in a bag of rags received the princess's hand]: Sébillot 1880, No. 25:164-169; the Bretons [the fisherman caught an eel, he asks to let him go, gives gold the key to the treasury in the forest castle, tells no one to tell anyone; the wife said the castle was gone; the fisherman caught a pike; she ordered it to be eaten, the wife will give birth to three sons with a star in her forehead, the fat will drink the way a mare, will give birth to three foals; bury bones in the garden, a stream will flow; if confused, 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 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]: Orain 1904:111-137; Germans (Hanover) [the shepherd's wife was looking for a cow, got lost, spent the night in a cave; a bear came there; leaving, he blocked the exit with a stone; she gave birth to a boy, at 9 months he was already grown up, incredibly strong; they went down to the village, people drove the bear away; the boy was baptized by Peter - Peter Beer ("bear", PM); he forged a huge an iron club, went on a journey; the boulder thrower replies that he is weak compared to PB; he says he is PB, takes it as a companion; another strongman ties and unties him in a knot iron stake (same); the third uproots trees (same); they live in a house in the woods, take turns cooking; a long-bearded dwarf asks for food, eats everything and hits the cook; when it's the turn PB, he tied him with his beard to the bed; companions came, everyone ate; the dwarf cut off his beard, ran, disappeared into the well; PB told him to be lowered in the basket; there was an old woman; you can see the castle through the window; old woman: in it princess kidnapped by four giants; PB killed them with her club; princess gave them a handkerchief and a ring; through the window you can see another castle, there is the sister of the first princess, with 8 giants with her; (all the same); through the window you can see the castle where her younger sister is guarded by a fire-breathing seven-headed dragon; PB killed 4 giant guards, then a dragon, then 12 more giants sitting at a table in the hall; healed her wounds with the ointment given by the old woman; the companions pulled the princesses out; for the fourth time, PB put a stone in place of himself just in case; the satellites threw a stone on top and cut off the rope; PB makes the old woman say how to get out; she has a dragon, but she must be fed in flight; cut off the last piece from her leg; healed the wound with an old woman's ointment; the king promises a thousand ducats to whoever is for the rescued princesses will bring the rings they had when they were stolen; PB hired a jeweler, drank and ate at night, and gave them rings in the morning - as if he had made them; the princesses knew from them that their savior was not far away; then came under looking like a beggar, he showed his scarves; the king married him to his youngest daughter, after his death PB inherited the throne]: Colshorn, Colshorn 1854, No. 5:18-30; Germans (Hanover) [drummer, corporal and sergeant spent the night in the forest in a tree; the sergeant saw light in the distance; they came to the castle; the table was laid there; at midnight there was a rumble, and then there was silence again; they stayed there to live; they took turns cooking; a bearded dwarf appears, asks for food, beats the cook; when it is the sergeant's turn, he pulled out part of the dwarf's beard, depriving him of his strength; they came on a bloody trail to the hole; they were the first to lower the drummer - the rope was short; they took a longer one, the corporal climbed - same; sergeant, a long rope, went down, there was an old woman; sent him to the eldest kidnapped princess; she gave strong water, and the giant who came sleepy; the sergeant cut off his head, the princess gave her a handkerchief with a silver star; the second princess has the same (gave a golden apple); with the youngest, a seven-headed dragon; the battle is three days, the princess still gives strong water; the sergeant cut off all 7 heads, took tongues, the princess gave a handkerchief with diamond stars; the companions raised only princesses; the sergeant descended into a world below this, where dwarfs live; ready to make the sergeant their king, but not to raise him to the ground can; advised to contact an old woman, she has a vulture bird; a sergeant feeds her in flight; on the ground he came to the wedding of two older princesses; companions told them to call them saviors; soldiers about everything tells, shows tongues, scarves, an apple; marries a younger princess; forgave his companions and married his elders]: Wolf 1845, No. 21:93-105; Germans [a rich, unkind brother was a goldsmith, the poor man knitted a broom; he has two twin boys; the poor man saw a golden bird, threw a stone, a golden pen fell, his jeweler brother gave a lot of money for it; then the poor man found a bird's nest, brought an egg; Then he hit the bird, sold it to his brother; he told his wife to fry it; whoever eats its 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 had fallen; the frightened wife fried her husband's heart and liver, and the boys found gold under the pillow in the morning; upon learning about this, the rich brother advised the poor to take the boys to the forest - they contacted the devil; they found them the hunter sheltered, saved the morning gold; the brothers grew up and went on a journey; the hunter gave everyone gold, a gun and a dog; let the knife stick at the crossroads; if it rust, with another brother trouble; brothers hunt, feel sorry for animals, everyone gets a rabbit, fox, wolf cub, bear cub and lion cub; brothers broke up, the youngest came to the city, where all the girls were given to be eaten by the dragon, it's the turn royal; 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 7 snake heads, animals tore his 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; the marshal cut off the hunter's head and took the princess away; she made it a condition to have a 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, the lion put the young man's head backwards in advance, 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, he brought the baker to the 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 a young king; chased a white one in the forest deer; spent the night around the fire; the old woman asked to let her warm up and hit the animals with her twig; they became petrified, the old woman touched the king with a twig; there were many similar stones nearby; 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; made the petrified ones revive, the brothers burned the old woman 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; the Queen identified her husband by the golden lock that she gave him to the lion; the king learned about a sword in bed]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 60:212-227 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:171-187); Germans (Baden-Württemberg) [the king sends three sons into the world; they part by the oak tree with swords 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; the seven-headed dragon demands sacrifice, it is the turn of the royal daughter; the prince and animals 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 her tongues, the princess shows the gold chains she tied around the necks of animals; the coachman is executed, the prince marries the princess]: Hubrich-Messow 1988, No. 2:7-11; Germans (Swabia) [king sends three sons into the world; they part by the oak tree, stabbing swords into it; whoever rusts is dead; the youngest goes straight through the forest, meets, does not kill, takes a bear, wolf, lion as assistants; living on woe in the castle, the seven-headed dragon 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 a year and a day later; 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 on the necks of animals; the coachman is executed, the prince marries a princess]: Meier 1852, No. 58:204-210 (=Hubrich-Messow 1988, No. 2:7-11); Germans (Austria) [a grinder with two sons went to town; sent sons eating; they saw a bird, caught it, brought it to their father, he saw an inscription on her head: the one who ate my head would find a bag of gold every day; the old man told the cook to cook the bird, left; the elder her brother ate it, giving the youngest a head; the old man beat his sons, found out everything, began to find gold under the younger's pillow; the brothers left, hired a miller; the maid thinks they are throwing her gold; brothers broke up with knives stuck in the oak tree; the elder Hans does not kill, takes a fox, a wolf, a bear as his companions; in the city, every year they give the girl to the seven-headed dragon, the royal turn; G. kills him, cuts off his tongues, the princess gives him a ring, a chain, a handkerchief; the servant cut off the head of G. who had slept, brought the dragon's heads, demands a princess for himself; the fox brought the grass of life (it was given by a white deer); a bear first he put his head backwards, the fox had to bring a new blade of grass; a fox, a wolf, a bear bring the princess a ring, a chain, a handkerchief; everything is explained, G. marries a princess; sees a roe deer, chases, meets an old woman, who turns him and the animals into stones; the younger brother sees the elder's rusted knife, with him also a fox, a wolf and a bear; the princess takes him for her husband; he also sees a roe deer, chases, but she cuts off the old woman's arms and legs, smears stones with ointment, the animals tore the old woman to pieces; both brothers consider the princess their own, she chooses the one who killed the dragon]: Cerf 1992:193-203.

Western Asia. Ugarit [Balu defeated the seven-headed serpent Latana; see H7]: Tsirkin 2000:97, 351; Old and New Testament [Mikhail Seleznev: There is a dragon in the Old Testament many-headed: "You (God) have crushed Leviathan's heads" (Ps 73:14 (Heb. 74:14)). The Russian (Synodal) translation here mistakenly uses units. ("head"). The number of heads is not specified in the Hebrew text. However, there is a seven-headed dragon in the New Testament (Revelation John 12:3). Given (1) that the imagery of the New Testament comes from the imagery of the Old Testament and the Jewish tradition, and (2) that the Jewish tradition is related to the Ugaritic tradition, it is highly likely that the Jewish dragon is also was seven-headed - although surviving Hebrew texts do not say so explicitly]; Sumer [Ninurta, the patron god of Lagash, killed the seven-headed serpent and hung its body on his "shining cross-beam" chariots]: The electronic text corpus of Sumerian literature, lines 55-63; Sumer [Mikhail Seleznev: The seven-headed dragon is depicted on a plaque from early dynastic Mesopotamia (mid-3rd millennium BC) .) and on press from Eshnunna (Tell Asmar, ca. 23rd century BC, Diyala Valley)]; Akkad [muš-ma-u, meaning "Exalted/Distinguished Serpent"; hybrid of serpent, lion and bird, sometimes identified with the seven-headed serpent slain by Ninurta in the mythology of the Sumerian period. He is one of the three horned snakes, with his companions, Bašmu and Ušumgallu, with who he may have shared a common mythological origin].

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Garo [episodes of a long text about the exploits of Goera, who became the god of Thunder; after her husband's death, a young widow had to incest with her maternal uncle; G. said who he was while still in his womb mother; G.'s other two brothers were swallowed by a giant boar; he has 7 heads on one neck, each mouth has 7 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 the boar; began to eat its flesh to argue with the tiger; pretended that the piece was stuck in his throat, sent the tiger to fetch water; at this 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 giantess who lay her ear under her when she went to bed; after completing her exploits, G. took to heaven]: Rongmuthu 1960:152-184.

South Asia. Ancient India [Vishnu, Brahma and Lakshmi on the seven-headed snake Shesha (medieval drawing)]: Erman 1980:542; Marathi [raja brought fish, one fish is alive, childless rani began to take care of her, keeps her in larger vessels, then in a pond; the fish is a turned prince; he asks Rani to marry him; no one agrees; the new wife of the fakir wants to get rid of her stepdaughter, ready to give it away, sends her to wash her sari; the seven-headed cobra gives her three pebbles to throw in the fish when she comes out of the river on her wedding night; the fish turns into a prince; the stepmother wants replace her with her daughter; when the prince's wife comes to visit her father, her stepmother's own daughter asks her to try on jewelry, pushes her into the water; the seven-headed cobra saves her; on the third day, the prince notices substitution, drives away a false wife, her mother hides; in the cobra house, the real wife gave birth to a son; he grew up, breaks the bells they give him all the time, the bell seller sells them, got rich; says prince; he takes his wife and son, everyone is happy]: Frere 1868, No. 19:238-248; kannada [poor Mudanna learned from a beggar that his wife, son and both beloved oxen Ram and Lakshman are about to die; and 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 only for death as a reward, 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 a diamond; the local princess promised to marry only whoever 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 and promised to bite him the princess, and M. will be able to revive her; this is what 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 the king father young again; the Monkey God puts M. in prison for himself on his tail and stretches his tail to Brahma's world; Brahma unlocks three doors: W.'s wife, son and oxen; asks if he wants a drink or the return of his family and animals; he chooses a family, a princess he doesn't need it; everything is fine]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 41:114-117;

Malaysia-Indonesia. Simalur [an elderly childless Raja and his wife promise that if they have a daughter, they will marry her as the Master of the Upper Reaches; the girl is followed by a seven-headed serpent; two brothers they undertake to release her; 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 with everyone to 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 [during eclipses of the luminary swallows 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 it from falling; 7 days later R. threw a coconut into the water; after another 7 days it fell to the ground; brother and sister descended and gave birth to sons Léwa Sira Padzi and Lé wa Sira Demon; both wanted to suck their mother's right breast, got into a fight, D. won; brothers separated to live in different parts of the island]: Arndt 1938:5-6; tetum or kemak {European borrowing?) [throwing a net at the shore, the brother pulls out a singing coconut, the seven sisters like it; their mother finds it, cooks it; the brother promises to find another one like it; climbs a palm tree, there is a seven-headed snake in exchange for a coconut, he demands seven girls; takes them away, goes to fetch water, the kite raises them to the tree; when the snake has almost gnawed through the trunk, the kite invites it to open its mouths to throw the girls at them, throws pieces of iron; girls come home]: Pascoal 1967:319-321.

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 Kang ordered 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.

The Balkans. Romanians [the mighty king always laughs with his right eye and cries with his left eye; he has three sons; the mighty tall Florea, the dense strong Costan and the younger Petru are tall, but girlish; older brothers refused, P. agreed to ask his father about his eyes and received a slap in the face from him; but he thought his left eye was crying less and his right eye laughing more; and he asked again; the father both laughed eyes: that three sons are good, but they are unlikely to be able to protect themselves from their neighbors; therefore laughter and tears; but if you bring water from the well of the Morning Dawn fairy, I will moisten my eyes and both will laugh, for I will understand that sons are brave; F. rode his best horse to the border of his father's possessions; there is a bridge and a three-headed dragon: one jaw in the sky, the other on earth; F. turned, but did not return home a year, month and day later; K. ; the dragon also has three heads; also turned, but did not return home; P. went, the dragon has 7 heads; the horse stands on its hind legs, P. returned to take another horse; the old nurse: you need the horse that your father rode ; he replies that the horse fell a long time ago, and there are only scraps of bridle in the stall; the nurse tells me to bring such a piece and hit the pole with it; then a beautiful horse appears under the precious saddle; now at the bridge 12-headed dragon; the horse tells you to cut off the main head and flies forward - one day like the wind, the other as a thought; in front of them there is a copper wall, as well as trees, bushes and herbs made of copper; flowers whisper, but the horse forbids tear them off; otherwise you will have to fight Velva; but he tore them off to see her; she has a horse's mane, deer antlers, bear face, ferret eyes, bodies of various creatures; after three days of battle, P. threw it over the velva bridle and it turned into a beautiful horse; this is the brother of the horse P., who was bewitched; so they galloped through the copper forest; then silver (still another velva horse); golden (the same, the most disgraced the strongest and youngest of these horses); now they are traveling through the frozen country of Saint Sereda, and there is fire around the edges; this is the frost that causes the calf in the womb to freeze and the rocks crumble; when they arrive to the house of St. Sereda, she gave a box that will show the way home and tell you who is doing what now; P. asks about his father; a box: his eldest sons have taken away his power; now they are traveling through the red-hot land of St. . Thursdays (Joi, Jupiter); rocks began to melt under their hooves; from the cool valleys, where springs and flowers, girls turn to P.; St. Thursday: Next will be the country of St. Fridays, tell her my wishes for good health; it is not cold or hot there; but darkness has descended and Tornado's daughters are in it; Tornadoes guard Friday's house; the horse tells me to throw a copper wreath, the spirits rushed behind the wreath ; a silver wreath showed Friday and she allowed her to enter; Friday is an ancient old woman; when the world arose, she was a child; asks for a mug of water from the spring of the Morning Dawn Fairy on the way back; gave the flute, the sounds of which make them fall asleep; in the morning P. fed his horses with hot coals; Friday: leave one horse here now, and enter the Fairy dismounted; she has a terrible appearance: owl eyes, fox face, claws cats; her gaze deprives her of reason; the Fairy's palace where the earth touches the sky; flowers along the way; neither warm nor cold, eternal twilight; P. sedated the giant watchman and seven-headed dragons with a flute; the milk river does not flow on sandy or jelly shores, but on banks made of gems and pearls, flows quickly and slowly at the same time; lions with golden skin and iron teeth; beautiful fairies sleep in flowers; P. tied the sleeping giant's fingers, woke him up, told him to carry him across the river - then we'll fight; but the giant hammered P. into the ground to his knees, and P. to his waist; giant P. to his chest, P. to his neck; then half tied the giant agreed to carry P., standing with both legs on different banks of the river; on the table in front of the fairy's bed, the bread of strength and the wine of youth; he bit off bread and took a sip of wine, kissed Fairy, put a golden wreath on her, took water and left; gave water to Friday; Thursday warned not to communicate with people on the way back; gave a handkerchief to protect against lightning, spears and bullets; a knowledgeable box warns: the brothers found out that P. will bring water, they want to kill it; P. does not believe it, broke the box; the brothers met him, asked for water from a deep well, left it there, took the Fairy's water and came to their father; the Fairy woke up and sent to look for all the guards for P.; they did not find; the Sun looked for 7 days, but P. where its rays did not reach; the Fairy ordered darkness to come, and now only the king father, who saw the light from that water, began to see, and that's it the rest did not; Florea came to see the fairy, but could not say how he got that water; the fairy blinded him; {the same with his middle brother}; The fairy told everyone to come to her so that the winds, flowers, springs, people and giants everyone was just crying; Friday sent tornadoes to look for P.; and only one spring breeze heard P. end up in the well; now there were only bones and ashes; Thursday boiled ashes in the cauldron with the dew of life, it turned out ointment, her bones were rubbed, P. came to life; tells the horse to fly fast like a curse; came to Fairy, kissed her; the flowers bloomed, the sun shone, the world came to life again; P. brothers found sight to see his happiness]: Kremnitz 1882, No. 20:237-295; 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 build a tower and wall 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 are shorter in winter and hot in summer; Tsar Tatar came and examined the empty 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; the old woman: It's good that I did it, because 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, and the third instantly will build a tower, the fourth will be 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 seven-headed dragon, a third built a tower, and that's it they took refuge in it; the dragon scorched the tower from above with the seventh 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 She should get it; the Mother of the Wind asked, 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 the Wind, the Month, the Sun, thank them for their advice; from spring Yuriev's Day to Vidovdan (June 28), they are on the road, not visible]: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:212-218; the Greeks [the priest's cattle died; he went on a journey, met a carpenter and a tailor; they came to an empty house with food; after eating, they went to bed, the watchman took turns; the carpenter carved the statue, the tailor dressed it, the priest revived it; Kadiy awarded the girl to the priest as a daughter; she promises to marry the one who brings her a handkerchief that embroiders princess on Death Road; a poor young man agrees to go there drunk, kills a seven-headed snake in the woods about to eat eagles; adult birds want to kill him first, the chicks explain that he is their savior; they agree to take him to the Death Road (they must be fed and watered on the way), leave their pen; everyone in that country seems to be frozen; he finds a princess, takes a handkerchief; only the priest is alive , asks the one who has exhausted them to return; when he returns, the young man talks about his adventures; after listening, the girl flies away as a dove, tells them to find her; her soul was taken to revive the statue; when the young man comes back to Death Road, everyone is alive there, he marries a princess]: Paton 1901, No. 23:317-320; the Greeks (Zakynthos) [the king sailed on a journey, ended up 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 collected treasures, came to the lake; it spoke; the seven-headed serpent king will soon wake up; 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 everyone ordered to send him 12 girls and 12 young men to eat for a 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 died and A 19-year-old boy 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.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Mezen, d. Desert, 1927) [An old man and an old woman have two sons. When there was nothing to eat, the old man took them to the forest to feed themselves. The sons got lost, met the hunter, who took them to his place. When the hunter grew old, he decided to send his adopters "for their fate." Hunter: Shoot a goose with one arrow from each corner, I'll bake pies out of a goose, give you a knife, you stick it in a tree at the crossroads, whichever side rusts, that brother dies. After bringing a goose, the brothers went hunting. They caught a hare and he gave them two bunnies instead. After that, a fox was caught, and she gave her two foxes instead. It was the same with the wolf, the bear and the lion. After hunting, they reached the crossroads and stuck a knife in it. The eldest (S.) went to the left, the youngest (M.) to the right, each accompanied by his animals. M. came to the city, where there is mourning, a seven-headed serpent kidnapped girls, and they are going to take the queen to him. M. drank three kegs of wine, beer and vodka and felt strong. M. told the Queen to go to church and pray for his victory. A serpent flew in, M. (=Ivan), with the help of his animals, defeated him, cut off his heads and tongues, wrapped him in the queen's handkerchief, put him in his pocket, and ordered the queen to protect his sleep. She first watched, then wanted to sleep and asked the lion to watch, then the bear, and so it was the turn of the hare, which also fell asleep. Then a courtier came and watched from the palace, cut off M.'s head, and, under threat of death, ordered the Queen to marry him and declare him savior. The Queen has scheduled her wedding in a year. The animals that woke up wanted to tear the hare to pieces, but he volunteered to revive M. and did it with a wonderful "waste". A year later, M. came to the same city to visit the old man who spoke about the reason for the mourning. Now the city was getting ready for the wedding. M. sent a hare to the Queen for vodka, a fox for beer, a bear for a snack, and a lion for food. The bear destroyed three regiments of court soldiers, and the lion destroyed the rest of the soldiers. The king sent a servant to M., M. asked for a royal dress, carriage, horses, and came to the palace, showing his tongues. The courtier was shot, and M. married the Queen. After a while he got bored and wanted to visit S. I returned to the intersection, met a deer there, chased him and drove him until night. He lit a fire and saw a woman screaming at the spruce tree, she refused to go down, afraid of animals. The woman threw off her bars so that M. would hit the animals with them and they became stone. M. did so. Then the woman came down, hit M. herself with a rod, and he became a stone. C. I also got bored and went to look for M. Driving through the intersection, I noticed that one side of the knife was rusted. I came to see his wife M., she mistook him for her husband, he lived with her for 2 days and went to look for his brother. At the crossroads of S. He also chased the deer, drove until night, cut down the fire and saw his grandmother screaming at the spruce tree. She also refused to get off because she was afraid of his animals and offered to hit them with a rod. S. hit the hare with a rod, it became stone, S. noticed many of the same stones and guessed everything. He threatened his grandmother, who was the mother of a seven-headed serpent, that she would shoot her, and she disgraced M. and his animals. Her brothers shot her and brought the corpse to the city on their horses]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 133:301-306; Belarusians (Grodno Region) [two brothers go to plow in the forest, mark the road with straw, the sister must walk along it to bring them lunch; the seven-headed Serpent overheard, changed signs, the girl came to the Snake; one, then the second brothers come, the Serpent shows his wealth, offers iron bread, hangs his brothers on a beam; their mother's pea turns into a boy Pokatypea (P.), he grows up, the blacksmith makes him a seven-pound mace, he throws it to the clouds, it falls, breaks; he orders a stronger one; comes to the Snake, eats iron bread, breaks a deck without an ax, burns it without fire; P. and the Serpent are driven each other into the ground, P. drives him whole, kills him with a mace; kills a horse, hides in a carcass, grabs the Crow that has descended, orders him to bring living and dead water; he brings, P. tears the Raven in two, glues, revives him with water; revives brothers; on the way back, brothers tie him to an oak tree, not believing that he is their brother; he drags the oak tree to the house, leaves his parents, leaves; meets, takes in comrades Vyrvigoru, Vyrvidub; P. kills a six-, seven-, nine-headed snake, brings tongues to the king; the wives of the Snakes turn into a bed, into an apple tree, P. cuts them without allowing their comrades to sit down and taste apples; in the third Snakes fall from ground to sky; P. throws three kani (stones?) into her mouth , three falcons, comrades; each time she Snake returns to drink; P. hides with blacksmiths; they tell the Snake to wipe the doors with their tongue, grab her tongue with ticks, P. kills her]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 134:254- 263.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars (Bakhchisaray District, Karalez) [the padishah has two sons; he does not order to hunt in the west and east, let them go towards the Kaaba; there is no game there, the elder suggests going east; the well can be seen for a month; the youngest begins to lower the elder, he tells him to pull it out: he burns; the youngest comes down, does not tell him to pull it out; below the door the beauty has a golden tray, on it a golden greyhound chases the silver hare; then a man nailed to the wall, the young man freed him; the dove at the spring tells him to return to the beautiful woman; she is the daughter of the seven-headed Azhdakh, gave the sword Zulfikar; the young man drove Azhdakha knee-deep into the ground, cut off six heads; refused to cut the seventh - you are not my father's pair of oxen; the young man sent the girl and the treasures upstairs, then the older brother threw the rope; at home he told his father that the youngest went to look for his fate; the youngest plunged into the spring and found strength; in the city, the old woman gives her urine instead of water; the seven-headed ajdaha gives water in exchange for the girls; the turn of the padishah's daughter; the young man fell asleep on her lap, woke up to her tears; the young man and Azhdaha drive each other into the ground; the young man drove him to his knees, cut off six heads; abandoned the daughter of the padishah, who gave him gold; to the nest of the bird Chan-Kush A three-headed snake crawls, the young man chopped it, fed the chicks meat; Chan-Kushu thinks that he killed her chicks every year, but the chicks explained everything; the young man asks to be taken to the ground; took a barrel of meat with him and a barrel of water; cut off the last piece from his thigh; on the ground, a bird put it back; a young man came to his older brother's wedding; bride: I have been in mourning for 40 days; a young man sees a young man under his window; a young man showed a mole on his body, his father recognized him; the older brother was beheaded, the youngest married a rescued girl]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 30; Nogais [father sends sons to guard a thief stealing golden apples; the older, middle brother falls asleep, the younger one snatches out the feather of a golden bird; the elder, middle brother goes to look for it, disappear; the younger comes to the fork, "you will die on the right road, the horse on the left"; walks along left; The wolf eats the horse; the young man is lucky; tells him 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; the wolf tells not to take the bridle; the young man takes, The king promises to give the horse for a gold-haired girl; a young man kills Azdaa with one, two, etc. (up to seven) heads; the wolf pretends to be a girl, a horse, a young man returns with a girl, a horse, a bird; 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; a king puts a young man on an eagle, food and water for seven days; he is in short supply; a young man cuts off meat from his hips, gives his eyes instead of water; on the ground, the eagle returns everything; in the guise of a beggar, a young man comes to the wedding of his gold-haired and older brother; shows the firebird's feather; the brothers are torn horses]: Nogai 1979, No. 10:34-45; Ingush: Malsagov 1983, No. 13 [(also see note 7 on p. 327: Sarmak is a serpent, a dragon, sometimes polyheaded); a sart 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 it out of the dungeon a heroic horse (sitting on others, the young man breaks their backs); the young man is accompanied by a prince; when a young man descends into the sea to fight with the Vampals, the prince leaves, taking the horse; the young man kills the Vampals from one to seven-headed; it is not blood that flows out, but snakes, cockroaches and other insects come out (the origin of 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; a horse tells an aged warrior to give it to a young horseman; a young man comes to the tower; the hostess promises to become his wife if he finds out the secret of the noseless Sealimah; he will reveal her accomplished feat; the horseman wins, takes a young man as his companion; kills the terrible wolf Berza Kazá; the companion brings the horseman to his castle, where his brother's sick wife; the horseman goes for with medicine, the horse carries it between the crushing rocks; the horseman takes out a splinter to the lion, he 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 as a reward and gray oath; the husband is S.; he says that he and his seven comrades were chased by a seven-headed serpent, threw a stone, killed his comrades, cut off the tip of his nose; the horseman tells the horse to return to to the previous owner, sits on a nag, she becomes a heroic horse; a dzhigit comes to the bride; wedding]: 87-91, 115-119; Dargins [father killed daughters; son saved a newborn, left with her, he is here But they grew up; they began to live in the house of seven days, they came, the young man killed them; the sister saved one wounded, began to live with him; gave birth to a baby, threw it to her brother, who brought it to her; the boy grew up, warned Uncle does not eat porridge poisoned by his sister, drink water, wear shirts; brother almost died after touching the poisoned gate, but the boy brought him medicine; brother killed sister and ajdaha; names sister's son younger brother; when leaving, tells you to come to the rescue if a green flower opens, not a red flower; kills a seven-headed ajdah who closed the water, gets a girl for it; wins the hero - wife's cousin, marries her younger brother]: Ganiyeva 2011, No. 27:275-278; Lucky [women disappear in the state, pathah hides his wife, youngest son steals the key, opens a room where The mother sits, 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 the ajdaha, frees three kidnapped princesses and his mother, lowers them and treasures, the princesses give the young man each 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 his native city; he is hired by a blacksmith, a dwarf does any job; princesses order golden apples, an imaginary assistant blacksmith gives them the ones they gave him; gathers people, tells their story, kills brothers from bow, marries the best princess, gets the throne]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 10:142-149 (=Khalilov 1965, No. 58:167-174); the Gunzibs [the dragon killed the peasant; his son grew up, defeated the dragon, imprisoned his castle in the dungeon, moved his mother 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 his mother will pretend to be sick, the cure is black grapes in the seven-headed dragon garden; a young man wounded a tiger on the way, and the tiger cub asks not to kill him father, went with the young man; the young man defeated the seven-headed man, brought grapes; the dragon gave his mother intoxicating wine, the son drank it, fell asleep, the dragon pulled out his eyes, put him in his pockets, threw him into the abyss; the tiger cub became Take 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; gave the hunter's seven-headed castle]: Berg 1995, No. 20:207-218; aguly [three brothers live in a mill, cook in turn; a bearded dwarf comes, eats meat, asks for more; the older two refuse, he ties them with his hair; the youngest Ahmed is polite, offers food himself, receives a wonderful sword, they must kill the seven-headed ajdaha who has closed the water, who must be given to the princess; A. kills Azhdakha, the princess puts a savior on her back mark; the brothers bind A., let them go along the river in a boat, say that they killed Azhdakha; the princess objects, then they threaten everything with a wonderful sword; the dwarf saves A., turns the brothers into wolves, A. receives 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 completes the task, goes to fight dragons; on the way he meets trees pulling trees and leveling mountains; companions cook; the long-bearded dwarf ties the cook with his hair every time , eats everything; Z. throws him to the sky, the dwarf falls, hides underground; the satellites 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, leave M. below; the youngest manages to say that he must grab the leg of a white gazelle, he will take him to the upper world; M. mistakenly has enough black, that takes him to the black world; the seven-headed dragon closes the water, gives it for the girls; Z. kills him; the king advises him to go to the plane tree, where the parrot's nest; Z. kills a snake that is going to eat the chicks; The parrot carries it to the upper world; Z. cuts off the last piece of meat from his leg, the bird puts it back on the ground; Z. comes to the wedding, kills traitors, marries, gives two other girls for laborers]: Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 79-91 (=Khalilov 1965, No. 34:54-68); Turks [Padishah's 40 sons want to marry only 40 sisters; father finds only families with 39 daughters; brothers go to searching; the father tells us not to stop at the spring, in the caravanserai for him, or in the desert further; but they spent the night at the spring and only the youngest does not sleep; a seven-headed dragon; the young man cut off his six heads with one blow, the last one disappeared into the well; the young man went down the rope, there was a palace with 40 rooms, each beautiful, they are sisters, the dragon killed their parents; the young man returns to his brothers, says nothing; 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 his brothers the keys to the first two wells, where girls and treasures, began to fight C.; he prevails, tells him to get Princess Chin-i-Machin for him; bridles to tame the horse that will take him to the goal; old lady: C. has been trying to get a princess for a long time; the young man was hired as a gardener, the princess fell in love with him; they agreed that she would find out what C.'s life was; the princess found out, the horse brought the young man, he killed the 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 got a wife, and the youngest two (one of the sisters and Princess Chin-i-Machin)]: Kúnos 1901:143-153; Kurds [Mullah Mazbura went to the cemetery at night to see Ankir and Munkir (angels asking a deceased Muslim questions to identify him 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 shouted that he was alive; the mules dropped the bales in fear, the dishes in them broke; M. was beaten; in the morning the neighbors found him and asked what the angels said; M,: If you don't scare the mules, they won't touch you; saying: My bast shoes are torn and I didn't get anything]: Eyubi, Smirnova 1968:259-261.

Iran - Central Asia. Lura [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 cuts off the heads of a seven-headed snake with arrows; the second time she kills the dragon; the third time an old woman came, took the souls of the sleeping brothers; the youngest came to the forest, grabbed one of the 7 dancers and singing girls, 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; the demon appeared riding a whirlwind, tied up the brothers, left a four-eyed dog as a watchman; he ate his older 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 him the goat, who was in charge of the herd, put on his skin; when he left 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; and 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 the man who herded cows; he offered him his sister, but warned him that if one of the spouses died, the other was buried with him; his wife died, he was left with her in the grave; but the chief, his wife, also died they were also placed in the grave; the young man and the leader's widow got out when they 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 will reach them]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 11:54-59; Ishkashim [someone pulls trees in the royal garden; two older brothers are watching, seeing no one; the younger Bald cuts off his hand to a woman who comes, a woman hides in a cave under a stone; the brothers let Pleshivets down on a rope, he kills that woman, sends the girl upstairs, the brothers leave Pleshivets in the cave; he sleeps with an old woman; with on the one hand, you can hear crying (there the dragon takes the girls), on the other hand, fun (he finished taking it there); Plesivets cuts off 7 dragon heads; the grateful king says that there is a bird that will take him to the upper world; ways Plesivets feeds her meat; returns to her father]: Pakhalina 1959, No. 1:113-117; the 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 king had to let his son go look for a beautiful woman; 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 their arms; the prince and the divas ate a portion, and V. 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 them again for 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 They pulled him out himself, then when they saw that they were not a diva, they threw them 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; it was the turn of the royal daughter; V. fell asleep with his head on her lap; 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. could raise their heads; the king gave V. the 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 must stick a white feather into your head, and black for the young; for that girl there was a fight, V. took her 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; Pasha'i [a young man kills a seven-headed dragon to whom the princess is given to be eaten]: Morgenstierne 1944, No. 10:70-76.

Baltoscandia. Swedes [the mother has a cow, her son herds her; in the forest, the old man offers to change it to a gun and tells him to shoot it at the first living creature he meets; the guy shoots a bird, it falls from one branch to another; the same after the second shot; after the third, it falls to the ground; the bird put it on its back, flew over the sea, throws it off and picks it up three times, it sinks into the water up to his hips, to the chest, to the chin; bird: I felt the same fear when you shot; the moon rises in the distance; the bird brings it there, the guy there gets a whistle, a sword, a robe and a horse; a star in the distance; then the sun; every time the guy gets the same set; arrived at the castle, where the king promised the dragon three daughters; whoever saves them will get them as his wife; the guy arrives in an outfit received where the moon rose; puts head to the princess's lap to clean his head; when the dragon comes out, the guy whistles on the whistle, blows all three heads away; next time a star set, five heads; from the sun, seven heads ; the soldier claims that he defeated the dragons; the king demands that he defeat 5,000 warriors; the guy demolished the deceiver's head, married a younger princess, and received the throne]: Schier 1974, No. 32:127-133.

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs [Khan Mamut, his vizier Ametkhan; sacrificed 40 camels and a son Timirkhan was born; playing, he maimed other boys; his father advised him to leave; on the way, a shepherd advised him to take another horse, one of those who will go down to the watering hole; A. sees a beaten army; A. defeated the daredevil who did it, he became his friend; three girls praise the strength of Yalaletdin Batyr; A. killed him; by the lake The princess is tied to a tree, she was given to be eaten by a seven-headed ajdaha; A. killed Azhdakha, the king gave him a daughter; he found out that his parents had been blinded by enemies; they can be cured with sorceress fat Utkuz; she burns; you have to cover your face with a frying pan, come from behind and cut her buttocks with a sword; A. brought her sighted parents to his wedding feast; made his father king in the neighboring kingdom, and he became edit in his own]: Barag 1988, No. 28:183-186; Mordovians (Erzya) [in the forest, the old man Uncle Nai-Nai tells the old man to give what he does not know at home; he finds his son at home; he grows up, goes to D., greets him Viriava's hut; she sends to her older sister; she teaches the youngest of D.'s three bathing daughters to hide the clothes; this is Marya the Beautiful; give it when she calls him not brother, but husband; D. tells 1) count millet in the barn, 2) build a palace and a glass bridge (wife performs), 3) drive around the stallion; this is a seven-headed serpent; the guy cuts off his heads with an iron club; 4) get to know his wife among three doves (bite others in the back); 5) among three girls (wipes a fly off his face); M. leaves his ring to answer, runs with her husband, turns himself into a herd, him into a shepherd; both into two flowers; into a lake and duck; this time it is not the servants who are chasing, but D. himself, unable to drink water; M. tells her husband not to kiss his younger sister at home; he kisses, forgets M., prepares for a new wedding; sees M.'s reflection in the well, recalls marrying her]: Samorodov 1972:282-292

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Bosingen 1984 [the famous hunter Buldymergen sees a golden-haired deer in the mountains; he asks not to shoot, turns into an elder; his son is a khan of the underworld, there is a gorge, in it The seven-headed dragon takes a girl, a boy and ten rams every week; the poison does not work on him, only B. can master it; B. takes his diamond sword, lets himself be sucked into the dragon's mouth, cuts it with a sword, receives treasures as a reward, returns home]: 94-95; Sidelnikov 1952:213-228 (Turgai University) [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; every night the brothers sleep, J. kills a seven-headed bird, seven-headed dragon; goes underground, eats more than 60 giants meat, kills each one at a time, cuts off their ears; all three brothers go down to that country; the local khan is grateful that the bird , the dragon and giants are killed; J. renounces the khan's daughter and the throne, leaves the throne and the khan's daughter to Ashken, with M. goes on; M. says he is able to drink the sea, J. - that his heart is in his dagger; the snake eats a girl and a ram every day, it's the turn of the khan's daughter; J. lets herself 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 is invited to a feast, J. identified, gives the girl and the throne to Moshken; 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. see blood dripping from the star, M. drinks the sea, they take out a dagger, revive J., he exterminates the khan and his people, returns his wife], 261-269 [from Sobolev 1940:158-165; the younger brother is rich and childless, the elder poor, he has sons Hasen and Husain; they brought blue-streaked white bird eggs from the forest; his uncle bought them for a high price and asked him to bring the bird itself; they brought it, the uncle told his wife to cook it; brothers they saw the brew, ate the heart in half; the uncle's wife replaced him with the heart of a rooster; the uncle ate it, but in the morning he did not find gold under the pillow, but the brothers found it at home; when the elder brother found it, the younger brother says to the younger that his sons were spoiled by the spirit, they must be killed; the youngest took the children to pick berries and left them in the steppe; they settled with the old man; when the brothers grew up, they no longer had new gold; the brothers left, everyone left a knife; Hasen came to the city, where every day one girl and one hare are given to the seven-headed snake; it is the turn of the khan's daughter; Hasen woke up to the girl's tear, cut off the snake's head , received a ring from the girl; the vizier said that he killed the snake; but could not move the carcass, and Hasen did it easily, he received the khan's daughter; an old woman approached his fire, turned it into his stones, his horse and his dog; Husain found his brother's wife, found an old woman, pointed a gun at her, she gave her wand to revive the transformed; the brothers returned to their impoverished and blind parents; the uncle was thrown into the well] ; 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. orders to surround the fortress, promises to execute the one whose head the roe deer will jump over; she jumped over the head of a deva named Ethirmat and ran away; E. he chased her, followed by the Khan's warriors; towards the caravan of another khan's son; he gives the caravan to the warrior leader and asks him to say that E. was killed; he took E. for himself; said that he was looking for a beautiful woman from Chungmagun city (apparently Chin-Machin); E. asks to leave him to sleep for 40 days, and then promises to get a girl; tells him to wait 40 days; on the way to Cinmagun, each bridge was guarded by 5 guards; on the bridge bells; 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 believed it; by evening he fell ill, he was taken to the mountains and left; then 40 girls; E. pretended to be an orphan girl; she was taken to watch the fire in the hearth; the girls got used to her; she taught them how to play with tying eye and tied to each other; E. went on, 40 horsemen on the road; E. pretended to be an orphan boy; he was taken to look after horses; E. developed timidity in his horses, they carried away the riders unknown where; 40 dogs, E. threw them dice; sycamore tree 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 Simurg}; E. turned into a dragon with 15 heads; when he saw him, the seven-headed dragon left; E. flew to the sycamore tree as a bird, persuaded Deva Semuruk to take the girl to his son; then Dev Semuruk left, and Dev E. fell asleep for 40 days, telling the khan's son and girlfriend to follow the dog; but they fell behind and went 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. up, he went to the house of the devas, called, they went out one by one, he tore off their heads; E. fought with the seventh deva for a long time, the girl helped E. win, throwing a lasso over another deva; E. asks the girl not to open one door in the caravanserai; she opened it, two calves are tied there: black and red, black asks him to untie; became a black maiden and does not tell untie the redhead; she untied her, both devas took her away; she gave birth to a boy out of fear; E. came to 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 he wants to know where the deva's soul is; dev: go all over the land 7 times to get to a place where there are two mountains; at their foot there is a lake, a capricorn grazes by the lake, a heavy key in Capricorn's stomach from the cave, there are two pigeons in it: black and red; these are the souls of two devas; E. overheard it, killed a black dove, brought a redhead, tells the deva to let the prisoners go; dev let go, E. brought it to his home in Cuykap (mountains Kaf); put a yurt to the khan's son and his wife; but E.'s elder daughter-in-law harbored envy of people; threw the scorpion into the pond where the Khan's son and wife were swimming; E. saw and knocked down the scorpion with a click, but a drop of blood at the bottom a scorpion hit the girl's face; E. began to suck blood; Semuruk descended from heaven and showed a scorpion hidden by Ehirmat'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 [the padishah has two sons with his elder wife, one Hamra from his youngest; padishah fell ill when he saw in a dream the bird Bulbugia living on Mount Kaf; he will recover if it is brought to him; sons are called to catch poultry; H. goes south, from where you will not return, the older and middle brothers are going west and east ("you'll come back"; "maybe you'll come back, maybe not"); Black Div owns the country on his way to Kaf; the old man orders to kill the Black Diva's mother first; H. kills her, throws her stone-eyed into the spring, the stones turn into humans again; then H. kills Diva; Peri says she was kidnapped by a seven-headed dragon; he devours the Kara-Kush chicks, taking strength from it; H. kills the dragon, Peri gives his braids to tie the rope, Kara-Kush brings him to Mount Kaf, H. goes down the rope into the dungeon, blinds the guards Owl, takes the bird; finds the impoverished brothers; they gave him drink, threw him into the well, they brought the bird to his father, but she is silent; the merchants take H. out of the well, he burns Peri's hair, she arrives, he marries her, returns to his father, the bird sings, the padishah recovers, the brothers are thrown into prison] : Kabirov 1963:49-64.

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 Mohs, who looks like a seven-headed dragon; He reaches the sky with one head, supports the earth with the other; listens to heaven with one ear, and the growing tree roots with the other]: 103-104; Altaians: Garf, Kuchiyak 1978 [wolves carried away the cow and goat Juskuzek a; it is carried by the Kaan-Kerede bird, pulls him out of the abyss; Wolves invite him into the mountain; there their mother feeds on cow milk, a husky puppy plays a goat; Wolves reluctantly give him a puppy; someone cooks at his house; Yu watches, hides dog skin, marries Altyn-Chach (Golden Braids); she says that hiding from Karata-Kaan a, her brothers became wolves, she is a puppy; K. demands 1 ) hide three times (A. helps Yu, who finds K., who has become an onion, stallion, birch, K. does not find it); 2) get the Kaan-Kerede egg; her nest is on an iron poplar with nine branches; its roots rest into the lower world, the branches touch the third heaven, a seven-headed serpent crawls along the trunk; one chick is crying, its serpent will eat it now; the other laughs, it will be eaten tomorrow; Yu cut off the snake's heads with an ax, blood formed the sea; the chick held out its wing, Yu crossed into the nest along it; Kaan-Kerede flew in, her tears fell in the warm rain; recognizes his claw marks on Yu; says that K.'s soul is in the golden egg, but she does not know where it is; brings Y. to his poor old parents; K. takes A.; Yu has been fighting him for seven years; wolves killed K.'s horse, Kaak-Kerede took him to heaven; A. found gold in K.'s palace an egg, threw it into the fire, K. died; A. and Yu began to rule Altai]: 215-239; Yutkanakov, Tokmashov 1935 [see motif K27; Karaty-Kan gives Kuskun-Kara-Matyr difficult assignments; get seven foals kidnapped by the Kan-Kerede bird; KKM comes to heaven, where Kan-Kerede's nest on a silver poplar; its chicks are eaten every year by a seven-headed snake; one chick cries (it is today they will eat), the other laughs; the snake comes out of the sea, the cash register cuts off its heads with an arrow; the elder chick held out its wing, the cash register crossed it across the sea into the nest; the chicks reply that their parents will arrive in the rain ( tears) and with the wind (flapping wings), hide the cash register under their wings; grateful birds give foals to the CCM; then Kan-Kerede saves him; he destroys the KK country; takes Kan-Kerede's chick daughter as his wife]: 129-171; Chelkan residents: Kandarakova 1988 [after calling a shaman, the wife of childless Ak-Kaan gives birth to seven sons; after the second vocation, six-eyed Karagys; the eldest son Maka-Maatyr sees how a girl gets up from the cradle, devours animals, lies back; MM runs away, marries the youngest daughter of a great khan; two other sons-in-law are persuaded to give MM difficult tasks, the wife explains how perform; 1) get the golden eagle's feather; MM cuts off the heads of a seven-headed snake coming out of the lake to devour the golden eagle chicks with an arrow; they hide it from their parents; their father arrives with a rare snow, mother with heavy rain (these are the tears of golden eagles), carry deer in their claws; the chicks explain that MM saved them, the golden eagle does not kill MM, but gives a feather; 2) get the tooth of a monstrous wolverine (one of her horns is stuck in the ground, the other supports the sky; MM jumps between the horns, the wolverine runs under the clouds, cannot shed it, gives two teeth); sons-in-law do not know how, MM makes a cauldron, working these teeth as tools; 3) bring Altyn-Tan, daughter of God; wife gives MM fur coats to have them, the AT brothers ask her to show MM face, drink araki from a thimble; AT loses consciousness, MM takes her away; brothers catch up, she sends them back; turns the khan into a fox, his people and property into black ground; MM climbs the mountain, sees his camp, cries; says that the branch, the pipes, the wind have damaged the eye; AT punishes them, the mother of the wind explains what's going on; MM gets home on a six-legged horse; six-eyed K. ate everyone, chases MM, tears off all the horse's legs one by one; AT tells her not to touch her husband, K. leaves]: 44-72; Sadalova 2002, No. 20 [after turning to a shaman and sacrificing a horse, the wife gives birth to seven sons, the eldest Maka-Maatyr; next time she asks a girl, but donates not a mare, but a dog, gives birth to a six-eyed Karagys; MM sees K. getting up from the cradle, eating a calf, lying back; then a foal, a bull; MM says that he will leave for a while, leaves altogether; marries the youngest of three daughters, Ulug- Pia; other sons-in-law advise her father-in-law to tell MM to bring 1) the feathers of the Purush bird; the wife says that her nest is on top of one of the seven larches; a seven-headed one crawls from lake to nest the snake, MM, kills seven heads with arrows, climbs into the nest; the chicks say that this snake always eats chicks; Father P. flew in with wind and fine snow, then the mother with wind and rain (these are her tears) gives two feathers; 2) the tooth of a wolverine living at the confluence of seven rivers to make a tagan; the wife says that one horn is stuck in the ground, the other is raised to the sky, you have to cling to both; wolverine gives two teeth; 3) Kuday's youngest daughter Altyn-Tana; his wife teaches how to make a home where K. gets water; his three sons will come; for a fur coat made from collected from the mountains, ask to show half of his sister's face; for a fur coat made from collected from the meadows - a button under his arm; from rivers - let him drink araka from a thimble; AT is intoxicated, MM takes it away; the brothers who receive fur coats catch up, AT sends them; turns the UE cattle into black land, them into fox; MM marries AT; she says that only six-eyed K. remains at MM's father's camp; AT gives him a six-legged trotter; K. swallows his parents' bones, sees MM on the chimney, chases, cuts off, eats The horse's sixth, fifth leg, fights with her brother; AT tells her to leave, she returns home; AT and MM live on]: 173-201.

(Wed. Western Siberia. {The enemy is not a reptile, although its specific appearance has not been described}. Southern Khanty (b. Konda, S. Patkanov, 1888) [A childless old man set fire to his barns so that smoke could rise to Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother-why doesn't he have children? Heavenly Father sent a son, who gave three seeds, let the old man let his wife eat; she gave birth to a boy, he grew up quickly, came to one of the ends of the earth, the bear and the wolf let him see the old woman, who gave him a name Like Aspen Leaf, the Agile Husband (VM); he returned home, only one foal from his father's herd did not bend at his arm, he took it; tells his father to marry him one of the three royal daughters; the father was beaten, expelled; the priest's youngest daughter was given without dowry; his wife refuses to look in his head - she did not even look aside where the Merchant, the Wanderer (KS); his flying horse brought him to the old woman; she says that no one returned from the city of CS; gave a bundle of 60 silver rings; the next old woman gave a ball of thread, the third gave a white towel; teaches how to avoid a mountain of human bones, throw rings to 60 warriors, cross the bridge across the sea; the warriors shot, only pulled three hairs out of the horse's tail; the CS's mother turned the VM into a needle, hid it from her son; he orders to show the person who came, became his brother, ordered his wife to be beaten, when she arrives magpie and gets out of her magpie skin, with three silver bars; the wife is forty again and flew away; the COP does not tell me to open the seventh room; in others - frogs and lizards, in the seventh - the girl is CS's sister; the VM married her; goes to fight the seven-headed menqua, tells his wife not to leave the house at that time; cuts down the menqua warriors, but there are more and more of them; then cut husband, who carved warriors out of flint like sparks, destroyed warriors, hit something with a sword; found out at home that the COP had left the house - he hurt him, why did they release him? 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, the VM 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 around his neck, then cut; then the VM cut off his head; came to the Menkwa mother, fights with her, changed the buckets of strong and weak water; the old woman's daughter shows that the old woman should be stabbed chin; VM did so, killed an old woman; daughter tells her to burn her, sweep away frogs and lizards that will crawl out of her into the fire; VM tells the girl to jump over the fire - if she used to live with a man, she will fall into fire; she fell, she also had lizards, he burned them; he took the eyes of the old people, restored their sight; they told them to cook meat, put firebirds on their backs; she brought them to the ground, he cut off the last two pieces from the calves of the legs; the firebird belched them and put them back; the wife lies between two men; the VM wanted to hack them, the wife: these are your sons; the VM cut the youngest son, sprinkled blood on his body of the CS, he came to life; revived son with live water; his wife's brother (i.e. CS) set up a copper playground for games, the VM arranged a silver one; everyone puts a block of stone on his court with his foot; the VM takes flint, sparks turn into husbands; when throws his stone, he breaks the arms and legs of the CS people, tears them apart; the COP lets the VM and his wife (i.e. his sister) go home to the VM - he cannot live with a hero who is stronger than him; on the way they go to those to three old women, his wife turns them young; at home, the VM climbed onto the roof, looks into the house, where his parents are quarreling over a spark; he poured water or snowed to put out their fire; they swear; he opened their daughter-in-law turned them young; the VM scatters chips brought from another world, they turn into a populated city; abundance is all around]: Lukina 1990, No. 88:220-237).

(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).

(Wed. The Northern Andes. {Probably European borrowing}. Embera (chami) [the rainbow is a seven-headed serpent; lives on a mountain, descended to the river, causing a landslide; drinking water at both ends; swallows people; they come out from the other end, changing sex]: Turbay Ceballos 1998:13-14).

(Wed. NW Amazon. {Probably European borrowing, although other motives are local}. Desana [the girl was in a separate hut for her period; a seven-headed serpent converges with her; shamans (paye) killed him and burned him; he came to life, turned into the Milky Way]: Reichel-Dolmatoff 1968, No. 4:200).