L37a2. Who will be the ferry.15.16.21.23.28.31.-.33.

A person comes to ask God (fate, sun, etc.) questions asked him to ask by those he met along the way. The carrier across the river asked when he would be released from his duties (Serbs: the river asks why there are no fish in it). God answers: let him leave another person (Serbs: let someone drown in the river) instead. The hero tells this to the carrier (river) when he is on the other side.

Portuguese, Italians, Irish, Germans (Grimms, Swabia, Tyrol), French, Kachins, Bengalis, Serbs, Ukrainians (Verkhovyna, Pokutye), Russians (Arkhangelsk, Pskov, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh), Belarusians, Poles, Luzhitans, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Western Sami, Karelians, Seto, Finns, Veps (?) , Komi, Kazan Tatars, Kazakhs (including Xinjiang).

Southern Europe. The Portuguese [the poor young man is destined to marry a princess; the king sends him to get three rings of the devil, or the giant's golden hairs, or valuables to pay for the bride; the people he meets ask find out where the king's lost ring is, how to heal a sick princess, why a tree or spring has dried up, when a transporter across the river can get rid of his job; the devil's mother (grandmother, wife), or the giant helps the young man get rings or hairs and find answers to questions; he tells the questioners to marry a princess; the greedy king wants to repeat everything, goes the same way; the carrier, like taught him by a young man, gives oars to the king and he is forced to take his place forever]: Cardigos 2006, No. 461:109-110; Italians (Tuscany) [the sick king is told that he will be cured by an ogre's feather; one the courtiers go to get a pen; the owner of the inn asks to bring the pen to him too; the ferryman asks to know how long he will be at this job and also wants a pen; two well-dressed men have the dried spring is asked to bring them a pen; the monk gives a candle to shine in the cave and advises them to come there at noon when the ogre is away; the ogre's wife promises to get feathers, hides the young man under the bed and intends to run with him; the woman pretends to be sleeping, pulls out her pen every time and tells the ogre that she dreamed of this and that; the monks must begin to do good deeds; then he will find the devil and they will stop quarreling; the cannibal who has returned began to sniff out the young man, but did not find it; you have to get a snake from under the spring, the water will flow again; the ferryman must jump out before his the passenger, who will take his seat; the owner of the inn misses his daughter - she is the ogre's wife; the young man settled everything, married the daughter of the inn owner, the king has recovered; the cannibal rushed after him and stayed to work as a ferryman]: Calvino 1980, No. 57:185-188.

Western Europe. The Irish [the daughter of a rich man is seriously ill; a witch doctor says she will be cured by three feathers torn from the griffin's tail; a poor boy goes to get them; on the way, another man asks to know why his daughter unconscious; another - where did the key to his chest of money go; the carrier - why he can't leave the boat and when the shift comes; the griffin's wife hides the guy in the closet; when the griffin arrives and lies down sleep, she pulls out three feathers successively, each time asking one of the questions; the girl is unconscious because a lock of her hair has fallen into the swallow's nest; the key fell into a gap in the floor; the carrier must give the oars to another person; after receiving feathers, the young man explains to the carrier what to do after he is on the shore; receives money from the owner of the chest; teaches how to revive that girl; treats a rich man's daughter, marries her]: Danaher 1967, No. 37:119-12; Germans [the king drove through the village; he was told that the son of a poor woman was born in a shirt and was predicted to marry royal daughter; the king asked for the baby to be given to him; he put the child in the casket, threw it into the river; the miller caught the casket, raised the boy; 14 years later, the king visited the mill and found out that the boy was the foundling, understood who it was; asked to send the young man with a letter to the Queen; in the letter, an order to kill the applicant before the king returned; the young man spent the night with the old woman in a brothel of robbers; the chieftain read the letter, replaced the order to marry the giver to the royal daughter; wedding; when the king returned, he demanded that his son-in-law bring three golden hairs from hell from the devil's head; on the way, the young man is asked to know why he dried up a fountain of wine in the city square; why the apple tree no longer brings golden apples and even the leaves have fallen; on the river, the carrier asks when it will be replaced; the grandmother turned the young man into an ant, hid it in skirt; the devil falls asleep with his head on his grandmother's lap; she pulls out his golden hair three times, each time says that she dreamed of this and that (about a fountain, an apple tree, a carrier), the hell answers; under the fountain stone there is a toad; the roots of an apple tree are gnawed by a mouse; let the carrier give the pole to another; the young man gives news to the carrier only when he is on the other side; receives gold from the owners of the fountain and apple tree; tells his father-in-law that he collected gold on the river; the king went himself, the carrier gave him the pole, the king remained as a carrier]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 29:100-107 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:95-100); Germans [the royal daughter will recover if she eats an apple; the peasant's eldest son carries the apples; the man asks what he is carrying, the guy replies that they are frogs; when the basket is opened, there are frogs in it, the boy driven away; the same with the middle son (pork stubble); younger Hans and the little man are polite, the princess has recovered from the apples he brought; but the king requires 9 boats to walk on water and on land; the eldest and the middle brothers make boats, answer the little man that they are carrying wooden dishes; G. is polite again, sails to the palace in one of the boats; the king demands that a hundred rabbits be herded without loss; the little man gives a horn, to the sound of which they resort; the princess sends the maid - let G. give the hare urgently; G. demands that the princess herself come; she comes, gets the hare, he runs back to G.; the king demands griffin pen; on the way, the owner of one castle asks to know where he lost the key to the money chest; the inhabitants of another - how to cure the owner's daughter; the man by the river - how many more people he can carry to on the other side; the griffin's wife tells G. to hide, at night G. pulled out his pen; the griffin's wife says that the Christian really came in and told all sorts of nonsense; then asks questions and the griffin answers them; the key is under the threshold outside the door; the toad in the cellar made a nest out of the girl's hair; the man by the river must throw off the one he is carrying; G. took out the toad, found the key; seeing that G. was rich, the king himself walked along it in the footsteps; a man threw him into the river, and G. married a princess]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 185:482-485 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:382-387); Germans (Swabia) [the count became angry with the young servant and sent him to his wife with a letter ordering him to kill the messenger; the innkeeper replaced him with an order to marry the young man to their daughter; she was happy; when he returned, the count ordered the young man to bring a feather from the tail of an ostrich bird, believing that she it will be torn apart; the Countess asks to know where her ring is; on the way, the villagers ask to know why there is no water in the well; the ferryman asks how long it takes him to transport people across the river; the ostrich bird has an old woman hid the young man behind the bed; asks the ostrich to answer questions; the Countess's ring is under the threshold; the frog has closed the spring, we must pull it out, then the water in the well will appear; the ferryman must push the passenger into water and tell him to take his place; the old woman makes a promise from the ostrich, he has to give his pen; when he jumps out of the boat to the shore, the young man tells the ferryman what to do; the peasants take out a frog and they gave the young man money; at home, the young man indicates where the ring is, and the count is told that the ostrich bird is waiting for him to visit and gave him a golden pen; the ferryman left the count in his place, and the young man became the count]: Meier 1852, No. 79: 273-279; Germans (Tyrol, Zillertal) [the rich owner has a beautiful daughter Lisa (Liese); the handsome and brave son of a poor lumberjack fell in love with her, she agrees; her father demanded three gold dragon feather; on the way, a man asks the dragon to know how to cure his daughter; people gathered at the apple tree - why it no longer has golden apples; a fisherman - how many more people he needs to transport across the river; wife the dragon promises to help, hides the young man under the bed; the wife pulls the dragon's pen three times and, when he wakes up, asks questions: as if she dreamed it; dragon: you have to get the patient from under the bed a wafer hidden there; pull out a snake from under the roots of the apple tree; the carrier must leave his shuttle first to sit in it and run; after crossing, the young man shouted to the fisherman what to do; received gold and silver from apple tree owners and the father of a recovered girl; the young man married Lisa]: Zingerle, Zingerle 1980:71-74; the French [{very similar to the German version of the Grimms}; the king drove through the village; he was told that the newborn son of a lumberjack was predicted to marry the royal daughter; the king asked for the baby to be given him, gave him gold; he wrapped the child in a cloak and left it on the river bank; 16 years later, the king visited those places and realized that the peasant's adopted son was that boy; sent the young man to his wife, asking him to kill the bearer; the young man spent the night with the robbers, they they replaced the letter with an order to marry the young man to the king's daughter; when he returns, the king tells his son-in-law to bring three golden ecus features; on the way, the young man is asked to know why the fountain of wine in the city square has dried up; why the apple tree no longer brings golden apples; on the river, the carrier asks when he will be replaced; the devil turns the young man into a cricket; the hell falls asleep, the devil takes his ecu three times, he wakes up every time the devil says that she dreamed of this and that (about a fountain, an apple tree, a carrier), the devil answers; under the fountain stone there is a toad; a rat gnaws on the roots of the apple tree; let the carrier give oars to another; the young man transfers news to the carrier only when he was on the other side; the king himself went to get gold ecus, the carrier gave him the oars, he remained working as a carrier]: Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 461:147-149.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Kachin [the sage predicts a peasant son to be king; the king throws the boy in a chest into the river, he is picked up; the king meets the young man, finds out, orders him to carry the letter; he is ordered to kill giver; on the way, robbers replace the letter, the giver must marry the princess; the king tells his son-in-law 1) to bring three golden hairs of the naked; on the way, the young man is asked to know why the spring is dry, does not bear fruit a golden tree, how can a carrier across the river get rid of this job; an old woman (apparently nata's mother) pulls out golden hairs from a dormant nat, each time she says that in her dream she saw that the spring had dried up, etc. ; nat replies that it is necessary to drive away the frog that sat on a stone by the spring, drive the rat out from under the roots of the tree, the carrier must give the boat and paddle to another; the young man heard the answers when he became an ant; the greedy king he goes for hairs himself, receives a boat and a paddle from the carrier]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 31:109-114.

South Asia. Bengalis [the king's daughter fell ill; healer: she must eat an orange; only one peasant who brought it from afar grew an orange tree; it should just bear the first fruit; Jadu's eldest son bore fruit; a finger-sized man (Hüpf-auf-Meinen-daumen) asks what's in the basket; the young man replies that frogs; when he opens the basket in the palace, there are frogs in it; he is strong beaten; the same with Gostha's second brother (trichosant seeds (pumpkin seeds, Trichosanthes cucumber, Schangenkürbis in the basket); the younger fool Mānik is kind to the dwarf, replies that he carries oranges princess; after eating orange, the princess recovered; the king does not want to give her for the son of a peasant, comes up with new difficult assignments; 1) build a ship that moves on water and on land; I. takes the ax, answers the dwarf, what makes the barrel; the barrel turned out; the same G. (it turned out to be a plough); M. is polite to a dwarf again, it turned out to be a peacock-shaped ship painted in appropriate colors; 2) Nāgapakshvara's dragon feather decorate the royal crown; the dragon lives far away in golden palace, easily swallows people; on the way, a rich man asks the dragon to know where the lost key to his iron chest is; another asks to know how his daughter can be cured; by the river a man, who carries travelers on his shoulders, asks him to know how much more he must do this job without sleep or rest, which he has been doing all his life; the dragon's wife hides M. under the bed; the dragon I smelled a man, but believed his wife that there was no one; when he fell asleep, M. pulled the pen out of his tail; the wife tells the dragon that his feathers were just pinched; that a man came in asking for the key, sick girl and carrier; dragon: the child put the key in the mattress; the toad bit off the girl's curl and sits in the corner of the house, she must be removed from her hole; the carrier must leave the one he carries in the water, and Let him go home himself; M. gave the carrier the words of the dragon after he was on the other side; as soon as the toad was found and the curl was taken away, the girl recovered; opening the chest, the owner gave M. gold; the king He gave his daughter for M., but envied the treasures he had brought from the dragon's land; he went there himself; the man by the river left him in the water and the king began to perform his duties]: Mode, Ray 1967:309-320.

The Balkans. Serbs [two brothers shared property; one became rich, the other became impoverished; one day the poor went to a rich man; next to the sheep he saw a beautiful woman spinning a golden thread; she said she was his share brother; returning from his brother, the poor man went on a journey and came across a sleeping old maiden; she called him Doli; he began to beat her, she disappeared, saying that Fate gave everyone his share; the owner of the inn the courtyard asks him to know why his guests eat any supplies instantly; the poor man sees that the guests are throwing supplies behind the stove and being glowed there by the shadow-like old man and old woman, the owner's parents; elsewhere people ask them to know why their cattle do not breed; the river - why they have no offspring; the hermit shows the way to Destiny and tells them not to ask her anything, but to repeat everything it does; Fate She sits in the palace at a golden table, then went to bed; the one who came did the same; at night, a voice: what were born? Fate throws gold coins; this is repeated at different times; gradually the palace turns into a hut, and scraps of rags are thrown to those born; then again the palace; Fate tells the poor man to take his daughter rich brother Maritsa, thanks to her good fortune, his own will also recover; the inn owner must feed his parents well, then the guests will not eat much; cattle will multiply if Saint's day to slaughter not the worst, but the best animals; the river must drown someone; the river followed, but the man ran away; teaches those who asked him; the brother agreed that Milica live with the impoverished; the impoverished man became rich; one day a passerby asked him whose wheat was; he replied: mine; the flame immediately burned the field; the man rushed after the passer-by: no, Milice! the fire went out, the man lived in contentment and happiness]: Karadzic in Wratislaw 1890, No. 44:231-238 (=Eschker 1992, No. 17:90-100).

Central Europe. Ukrainians [the king is lost, spends the night in the attic of a coal miner, his wife is giving birth; hears angels predicting a boy to marry the king's daughter, who was born at the same hour; wife the coal miner died during childbirth, the husband gave the baby to the king, who threw him into the river, caught him by a fisherman, called him the Swimmer; the king found out; the king gives P. a letter ordering him to kill the giver, orders him to take it Queen; on the way, the Mother of the Sun replaces the letter with an order to marry P. to their daughter; the king tells her son-in-law to bring three golden hairs from Grandfather Vseved; along the way 1) people ask to know why there is no water in the well, 2 ) the carrier - how long does he have to be a carrier, 3) people - why will he not give birth to an apple tree; the mother of the Sun hides P., her fiery son enters; she pulls his hair three times, asking questions; we must remove the carrier must put another frog in its place, remove the stone from the root of the apple tree; the owners of the apple tree and the well give gold and silver, the carrier P. informs lime after he moved him; the king also goes to Grandfather Vseved hoping to get rich; the carrier throws him an oar, reserves it for himself]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:272-277; Ukrainians (Pokutye) []: Zinchuk 2005b, No. 93:455- 460; Russians (Arkhangelsk or northern Karelia) [a childless old man caught a box with a boy in it; called it a Water Finder; the tsar hunted, stayed overnight in the same house; two women came: grandmother and the godmother; she says to V. that he will marry the princess and sit on the royal throne; the king bought V. from the elderly, raised him; he wants to marry the royal daughter; Tsar: go to Grandfather Vseved, bring three golden hair; on the way, the carrier asks what needs to be done to stop being a carrier; gardener why the garden has dried up; the man at the well, why it no longer has living and dead water; V. came to to the godmother, she lives with Grandfather Vseved, and this Grandfather is the sun; she consistently pulls out the hair and asks questions; let the carrier jump out when someone gets on the boat; under the roots in the garden frog; the well should be deepened; V. received an award from the owners of the well and garden; when he returned and told the tsar, he went himself; became a carrier, and V. married his daughter and became tsar]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:50-54; Russians (Pskov) [the boy was born in a shirt with the inscription that he would be happy with Mark Bogatov; MB found out, bought a baby, left him in the snow; he was picked up by peddlers and they also brought MB; he forgave them the debt, took the baby and let them go to sea in a barrel; she sailed to the mill, the miller raised the boy; when he was 15 years old, MB ended up at the miller, he understood from the conversation who he was young man; sent to his wife ("nobleman", "to Yelmozhi") with an order to throw the giver into the cauldron at the distillery; the young man stayed with the old woman, the robbers came there, replaced the letter with an order to marry the applicant for the daughter of MB; when he returns, the MB sends his son-in-law to bring three hair of an ogre snake; on the way, the person asks to know why the water in the well has disappeared, the carrier - how long it takes to transport him; the cannibal snake the old woman turned the young man into an ant, hid him in the fold of her clothes and told him to listen; when the serpent came and fell asleep, the old woman consistently wakes him up and asks him to solve the dreams she supposedly had; snakes explains; there is a toad in the well; the carrier must give the oars to another; the old woman also pulled out three of the snake's hair, gave it to the young man; the owner of the well took out the toads, awarded the young man; he replies to MB that he took gold across the river; he hurried there, the carrier gave him his oars; MB still works as a carrier]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 15:32-36; Russians (Voronezh) [two wanderers spent the night with Marco Bogaty; his little daughter overheard what they were saying; after a while Ivan Beschastny was born, M. was called a godfather; he asked to sell the child to him and left him in the field in a ditch; he was immediately picked up and brought to M.; he abandoned a child in a barrel at sea; the monks picked up and learned information security; M. found out, bought it, sent a letter to his place with an order to cook the giver in the cauldron; towards him, the old man blew at the letter, it was replaced by an order to marry daughters; M. sent him to the magician; on the way, the oak tree asks him to know how long he will stand; two men in the boat, how long to be ferrymen; the whale on which people ride, how long to lie; the wizard's wife tells you to hide under the bed (otherwise the husband will eat it), asks questions herself; the oak will fall if you kick; whoever is left in the boat instead of himself will become a ferryman; the whale must regurgitate 12 (swallowed) M. ships; IS kicked an oak tree with treasures under it, he loaded them onto ships; M. ran to the wizard himself; the ferrymen left it instead]: Pukhova 2006, No. 9:63-65; Russians (Nizhny Novgorod) [Mark baptizes in winter the child and throws him into the ravine; merchants found him and brought him to M.; he borrowed the child from them, gave it to his wife Anastasia the Beautiful; M. threw him in a barrel into the river; the monks picked him up and raised him, his name was Vasily Infrequent; M. sent a letter to his wife to push him into a bubbling pot at a soap factory; the old man changed his content on the way {by order to marry his daughter}; M. sends the WB to his friend Tsar Serpent to pay tribute for 12 years; then about wonderful meetings and questions (oak, carrier across the river, whale fish); the girl hides the World Bank, finds out the Serpent's answers to questions; the WB returns with wealth; MB himself goes to the Serpent, stays forever by carrier]: Sumtsov 1894:10-11; Belarusians (Bykhovsky U.) []: Romanov 1887, No. 27:198-205; Poles (a very popular story) [the king tries to destroy the contender for his daughter's hand by giving him stubborn assignments; the hero must bring three hairs from the beard (head) trait; find out who is the strongest (wiser) in the world; along the way he helps people, and they ask them to ask their questions and the line; why a tree does not bear fruit; how long a river carrier will do this work; how to cure a sick queen; why has the spring dried up; where is the missing queen; how to find the missing key; why a girl cannot marry; how much does cattle die; the wife hides the hero; the devil smells him, but believes his wife that there is no one; the wife pretends that she dreamed of something, asks questions, hell answers; A treasure is buried under the tree; the carrier must hand the oars to someone else; the queen will recover when they find the swirka dragged away by the rat; the stone must be removed from the source; the missing queen and there is a wife trait; in conclusion, the devil tells what his life is; the hero returns with hairs and receives an award from those whose questions he received answers to; in particular, he tells his father the kidnapped queen, what must be done to get her back; the hero gets the princess; her father himself follows his path, becomes a carrier]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 461:143-145; Luzhitans [ the miller's beautiful daughter suddenly fainted; a young worker who liked her went to the dragon to ask why this happened; on the way, people asked to know why the water in the well was not drinkable; ferryman - how long does he still have to transport people; a woman hides a young man; at night she pulled out a dragon's feather; she dreamed that the miller's daughter was beautiful, ugly; dragon: the priest dropped the wafer, Padde {toad ?} I swallowed it, we need to find and get a wafer; next time, a well; we must get and kill Padde, which is at the bottom; third time: the carrier must push the person he is transporting into the water; in the morning, the woman is all told the young man and gave him three dragon feathers; on the way back, the young man answered the carrier and the people at the well, received an award; took out a wafer from Padde, gave it to the girl to eat, she became beautiful; old the miller went to the dragon himself, the carrier pushed him into the water and he drowned]: Veckenstedt 1880, No. 13:237-240.

Baltoscandia. Danes [father makes and sells sieves, but drinks everything; son goes to sell sieves instead of him, gets lost in the forest; sees a portrait of a beauty on a tree, but cannot reach it; a horse appears, tells him listen, then the portrait falls into your hands; in the castle, the young man was hired by a groom; his purse is filled with money, and his doodles turn into portraits; the servant sees a portrait of a long-missing princess - the one that was found in the forest; the king does not believe that the young man did not see her, since he has a portrait of her, sends her to get it; the young man goes to the phoenix bird; on the way, the horse turns into a dog; the people he meets ask find out 1) why a pear does not bear fruit; 2) where is the missing princess (the other); a young man throws meat to two struggling snakes; millet to two struggling swans; they let it through; a ferryman at the lake crossing asks him to know how long he has been a ferry driver; in the phoenix house, the princess (the one in the portrait) hides the young man under the bed; asks the phoenix questions on her own behalf; in the morning, a young man and a princess, taking gold, they run away; after crossing the lake, the young man says that the ferryman should tell the one he is transporting to take his position; the phoenix in the form of a dragon pursues, but attacks the nails with which the ship is covered; the swans bring the princess (the one they asked to find), she was in a castle hanging in the air; the young man tells me to dig a huge toad from under the pear, he is generously rewarded; when the young man returns, the princess from the hanging castle visits him; the king is told about this and he tells him to get the castle, because the princess misses it; swans raise snakes into the air, they bite gold chains, the castle falls on the ship has been delivered; the servants continue to slander the young man, he and his dog are going to be burned; the dog orders to put on the fire the dragon fat that the young man has kept; when they smear it, the young man and the dog do not feel the heat of the fire; both turn handsome; the servants themselves throw themselves into the fire but burn; the young man marries the princess from the padlock, and his assistant marries the one who was kidnapped by the phoenix; the king objects and goes to the phoenix; remains a ferryman]: Holbek 1987:567-568; Norwegians [the rich man refuses his daughter's suitors; goes to the stargazers to find out who she will marry; they are responsible for the miller's son, who is now born; a rich man buys a baby, puts him in a chest, descends him down the river; another miller finds him, adopts him; the rich man goes back to the stargazers, who confirm the previous prediction; the adopted man has already grown up the rich man buys it; sends it to his wife with a letter asking him to burn the one who brings it; the young man spends the night in the house of the robbers, who replace the letter, the new one says that the wife must immediately marry it off as a young man daughter, give the young cattle and property; when he returns, the rich man sends the young man to bring three feathers from the dragon's tail; he stays with the king, the king asks him to know why there is no clean water in his well; another the king asks to know where his daughter has gone; in the third castle, the queen wants to know where the lost golden keys are; the hunchback transporter wants to carry travelers across the river on his back; the dragon castle across the river; the princess in the castle gives a drink of strong water, tells him to hide under the bed; when she goes to bed with the dragon, asks him, saying that he dreamed of the question; the first king must pull out the rotten the stump from the bottom of the well; the missing daughter of the second is the dragon's wife; the queen forgot her keys when she was lying in the bushes at her known hour; the carrier must throw another rider into the water, saying that now he will carry people until someone frees him; the dragon fell asleep, the young man cut off his head, took feathers, jewelry and the princess; the transporter heard the story, asked about himself when the prince with the bride was already on the other side; the Queen is grateful, but told her to remain silent; the princess's father gives her to the young man; the first king takes out the stump, rewards the young man; the rich man goes for the rest dragon treasures; the carrier drops it, since then he is the carrier himself]: Dasent 1970:199-213; the Swedes [it is predicted that a poor baby will be the heir of a rich man; he buys a child and leaves him in the forest or descends the river in a box (or leaves herds on the way, on the road, etc.); the child is saved and brought up; after identifying the young man, the rich man sends him home with a letter ordering him to kill the applicant, but the letter is replaced by an order to marry him to his master's daughter; then the father-in-law sends his son-in-law on an errand, hoping that he will be thrown into the oven; but by coincidence, the rich man himself or him is thrown into the oven son; or father-in-law sends his son-in-law to bring three hair from the beard line; on the way, the young man promises to find answers to the questions asked; why the tree does not bear fruit, the water in the well has disappeared when it runs out the suffering of a certain creature living in the water, how to cure a princess when the carrier is released from his duties; the woman in the house pulls out his hair and gets answers to questions questions; father-in-law takes his son-in-law's way and stays working as a carrier]: Liungman 1961, No. 461:107; Seto [a rich man drives two beggars out of the house, giving them some bread; his little daughter hears how After getting a meal, one tells another that Ylm-ynnõlda Vassil, who was now born into a poor family, will inherit all the rich man's property; the rich man sends him in search, finds a large family in which a boy was born, but no godfather could be found, promises to become a godfather and take the child to care; he takes the child to church, the priest gives the boy the name Ylm-ynnõlda Vassil; on the way to home, the rich man leaves the child to the wasteland; soon travelers come, say they have found a baby; a rich man puts the baby in a barrel, lets him into the sea; people overseas find him and raise him; when EVE 18, a rich man accidentally comes there on business , hears a hated name, offers to marry the adopter to his daughter, but Eve himself does not say anything yet; sends EVE to his wife with a letter telling him to kill the one who brought it; on the way, the old man opens a letter, tears him up, makes another with an order to immediately marry Eve to his daughter; when he arrives, the rich man finds out that EVE has become his son-in-law; he decides to get rid of EVE by sending him to hell with an assignment to find out who is richer: he or the Lord of Hell; along the way, a thousand-year-old oak asks for how long it remains to stand, it finally wants to die; three people plow, each acting alternately as a ploughman, a horse and a plow, the furrow behind immediately disappears; they ask if they still have to suffer; the fish that serves as a bridge over the river and the carrier across another river each asks when they can free themselves; Eve comes to hell when the lords not at home; the young woman he kidnapped and married hides Eve behind the stove; looking for her returning lord in her hair, the wife pretends to be dreaming and asks what it means every time; 1) rich richer than the Lord of Hell; 2) the lord buried gold under the oak tree; 3) the ploughmen were stingy, they changed between them, they would suffer forever; 4) the fish swallowed the ship with the crew, let him burp; 5) the carrier was a thief, let will find a replacement; Eve tears off the gold, the oak immediately dried up and fell; told the carrier what to do; told the fish to regurgitate the ship, it sailed away; the ploughmen remained in pain; when he saw the gold brought, the rich man softened, but did not believe that the Lord of Hell was poorer than him; went to ask; the carrier jumped ashore and left the rich man for himself in the boat]: Sandra 2004:182-192; Karelians: Yevseyev 1981 [merchant meets a priest who goes to baptize a child; he says that the child will become the merchant's son-in-law; the merchant buys the child from his parents, descends the river in a trough; the miller picks him up; after 17 years, the merchant visits the miller; realizes that this is the same boy; buys him, sends him to his home with a letter to his wife to kill the applicant; halfway through, the old man asks the young man to show the letter, replaces him with another with an order to marry the giver with the merchant's daughter; the merchant decides to lime his son-in-law; sends him to a distant city to ask if he has a lot of money; on the way, the young man is asked to know why the oak tree dries; where the keys to the barn have gone; when the carrier will be free from her job; a woman hides the guy in a chest, asks her damn husband questions; he says that the merchant has only half of the money on earth; the oak dries because the girl gave birth and buried it there is a child under him, a prayer service must be served, land must be sketched out; the keys in his pocket are at the very line (which gives answers); let the carrier say "In the name of the father and son and the holy spirit," push the boat away, that man will become a carrier instead; the soul is a feature in the egg, in the bird, in the box, in the chest, in the stone; the guy gets an egg, the hell dies; the carrier says that the guy is the first to return, learns from him how free himself from his duties; the guy gives the keys, tells how to revive an oak tree, returns rich; the merchant goes for his money, remains a carrier]: 287-291; Onegin 2010, No. 51 (Kalevalsky district) [a rich merchant stayed overnight in the poor man's house; in a dream, the old man tells him that at night the hostess will give birth to a son who will be your happiness; the owners have many children, the merchant bought a newborn and left in the forest in a tree; another merchant picked up and named the boy Antti Puujuara, who grew up; the first merchant came to the second, guessed what had happened, asked AP to send a letter to his wife; he was on the way fell asleep; two soldiers changed the order to hang the applicant by ordering him to marry his master's daughter and hang his dog to Hurtt; the merchant returned and, to get rid of his son-in-law, sent him to Pohjela's mistress, Louhi, ask how a person can achieve great happiness; on the way, a giant asks why he can't get off a tree; another asks where are the keys to his castle, where he can't get; an old transporter across the river of fire - how long does she have to do this job; daughter L. hides AP from her mother and asks her questions herself; to be happy, you have to work hard; the giant will come down and give her two bags of gold if someone spears down the pine tree on which he is sitting; the keys to the castle under the bottom of the three steps at the gate; when an old woman carries a person, let her left heel push the boat away and tell the man replace her; on the way back, the AP taught the old woman, helped the giants, one gave the best stallion, the other gave gold; the merchant himself went for good, remained a carrier instead of the old woman]: 457-462; Stepanova 2000, No. 112 ( northern, Tunguda district) [The Savior spends the night in the merchant's house; they knock at night, the woman has given birth to a child, ask the Savior what share he will give; he tells the child to live his share; next time, the share of the owner of the house; the merchant bought the child and threw it into the snowdrift, another person picked it up, the merchant bought it again for a lot of money; raised it; let him go to sea in a barrel; the young man sings, he was nailed to the monastery shore, he began to sing in monastery; the merchant found out, bought him, sent him home with a note to be killed at home; the Savior changed the note to marry the merchant's daughter; the merchant tells his son-in-law to find out where his wealth is; on the way the bridge asks to know how long he still has to serve; the carrier - how much to work; the oak - how long to stand, it is already rotten; the son-in-law comes to the house without doors, the woman picks it up through the window, hides it; her damn husband comes; she seems to casually ask questions; her husband replies that when he hits the bridge with a rod, it will turn into ships, the oak will become gold; let the carrier leave him in the boat when he transported, he will remain in his place; the woman's husband promises to greet the merchant's son-in-law, gave him a staff; the son-in-law filled the ships with gold, gave advice to the carrier; at home, the merchant tells the workers to kill his son-in-law when he he will go to give hay to the horses; the son-in-law lay down, the merchant went himself, he was killed instead of his son-in-law, his son-in-law became the master]: 186-188; the Finns [a rich merchant and two healers stopped in the hut of a poor man with many children; the mistress gives birth; the merchant hears the conversation of the healers; the boy born will be the heir to this rich man; in the morning the merchant bought a newborn, saying he wants to adopt him; left the baby in the forest; the hunter he picked him up; named him Antti; he was given the nickname Bitch; when A. grew up, the merchant stayed at the hunter's house, heard a story about a foundling, asked A. to send A. home with a letter; in a letter, an order to hang a messenger on a birch tree; on the way, A. fell asleep; two schoolchildren changed the letter by ordering A. to marry A. to the merchant's daughter, and hang the old dog on the birch tree; when he returned, the merchant ordered A. to go to the mistress Pohela Louhi and ask where a person can find happiness; on the way, a giant asks why the fruits of his garden are covered with mold; another giant: where is the key to his palace; a third giant sits on a dry tree and asks how long he will stay in this position; the old woman in the boat: how long will she be a carrier; Louhi's daughter hides A., asks her mother questions herself; the man will find happiness by uprooting the forest and cultivating the land; in the garden between snake stones; the key under the upper step of the porch; the giant sitting on the tree must hit the ground with an alder stake; the old woman must leave the traveler in the boat and herself first jump to the ground; on the way back, A. received gold from the giants; the merchant decided to go to Louhi himself, but remained the carrier]: Konkka 1993:130-141 (=1991:182-195); Western Sami [rich Piera learns from the witch that his daughter will marry his shepherdess when he grows up; P. lowers the boy in a barrel into the river, fishermen find him, he grows up; P. finds out about him, sends him to his home, gives him a letter; on the way, the young man falls asleep in the robbers' house, they read a letter saying that the applicant should be killed, replaced by a letter asking him to marry the owner's daughter; the young man is married to daughter P., he goes to look for Stallo {it is clear from the following that P. sent him to bring three hairs C.); on the way, one king asks the young man to find out why he has no clean water in his well, the second where to find the keys lost by the Queen, and the third where did his daughter, the ferryman, go - how many more people he needs to transport across the river; S.'s girl hides a young man, pretends to be dreaming, each time S. tells S., asking the appropriate question; he replies that rotten driftwood should be removed from the well, the keys under the bush where the Queen was with the king, the kidnapped queen is her, the ferryman must throw the one he is transporting into the water; the girl tells the young man drink strong water, cut off the head of the sleeping S., pulls out the hairs; they give the ferryman the answer S. by jumping ashore; at home P. finds out that S. has a lot of gold left, goes there, the ferryman drops him into water]: Klaus 1995:47-54; Faroese, Icelanders, Veps: Uther 2004 (1), No. 460A, 460B, 461:269-272.

Volga - Perm. Komi [the wanderer tells the poor spouses that their newborn Ivan will become king; the wife talks to her neighbors, the king buys the child, puts it in a bag, throws it into the river; he catches the baby, raises the baby a bachelor miller; the king asks him, understands everything, sends a young man with a letter to the queen, telling I. to kill; in the forest, the robbers read the letter, replace him; after reading the letter, the queen passes her daughter off as I.; The king tells his son-in-law to bring three hairs from the ogre's beard; on the way, a digging well asks why there has been no water for ten years; bird cherry why it dries and does not bloom; the carrier why he works carrier; in the cannibal's house, his wife hides I.; consistently pulls out the hairs of her sleeping husband; he tells a dream about a digging well (you need to remove the frog from the well), bird cherry (kill mice under roots), the carrier (you have to give the paddle and the whole one to another, jump ashore yourself); on the way back, I. sets up the merchant, who is made by the carrier; kills mice and a frog; these three were brothers old woman; she is grateful, gives a ring; the tsar orders I. to be executed, he tells the ring to send an ax to kill the guilty; the ax kills the tsar, I. reigns]: Doronin 2004:27-32; Kazan Tatars [at Karunday The younger sister fell ill, he put her in a bathhouse; he also sent a poor old man to spend the night there; he gave the girl medicine; someone asks whose happiness to give the freshly born son of a peasant; old man: Karunbaya; a recovered sister told K. about this; K. bought a newborn, hit the ground and left him; brothers Ibrahim and Yakub picked him up; got rich, the boy grew up; K. met them, started talking, everything got it; bought a young man from them, supposedly to marry his daughter; tells him to bring gems from an overseas mountain; a carrier across the sea asks to know how long he has to be in this job; the old man in the cradle: how much he hung like this; a diva came to his daughter, who turned him into a needle; the diva returned, she asked him; those old men will be free if you read the spell three times and spit; while the divas sleep, his daughter sends the young man to the mountain; on the way back, the young man teaches the carrier to read the spell: the one he is transporting will take his place; K. went to pick up the gems himself; turned into a carrier; the young man married his daughter, inherited wealth]: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 32:256-261.

Turkestan. Kazakhs (Xinjiang) [the khan learns that the son of a peasant is predicted to marry the khan's daughter; tells him to throw the boy in a box into the river; the box is found by a miller; Ada is 18 years old, seen by a khan, sends a letter, it says to kill the bearer; the robber replaces the letter with the command to marry A. to the khan's daughter; the khan demands three hairs from the head of the king of the jins; the city guard asks why he is dry a source, another city - why did the apple tree dry up; a boatman crossing the lake to the city of gins - why he is not replaced; the grandmother of the king of genies turns A. into an ant, hides it in his sleeve; pulls it out three times sleeping grandson by a hair; says three times that he had a dream, in dreams questions from those whom A. met; gin: under the source of a toad, a mouse under an apple tree, a boatman must hand the steering wheel to a man in a red coat; A. kills a toad and a mouse, tells the khan to wear a red robe to take treasures across the lake; Khan becomes a boatman]: Lin Lin, Ustin 1959:299-305; Sidelnikov 1958 [Khan traveled incognito around the khanate; in one the village told him that the boy who was born would become the khan's son-in-law; the khan persuaded the poor man to sell his son, ordered him to be thrown into the river in a box; the miller picked him up and raised him, his name was Ada; when he arrived there by accident, Khan understood who the young man was and sent a letter to his wife; in the letter an order to kill the messenger; at the night, the robbers replaced the letter with an order to marry the sent man to the khan's daughter; the khan returned and sent his son-in-law to bring three golden hair from the head of the prince of giants; on the way in one place, the guards ask why the spring has dried up; in another, why the apple tree no longer brings golden apples; the carrier on the lake, when he will be replaced; the old woman turned A. into an ant, hid it in her sleeve; wakes up the sleeping giant three times, each time pulling out her golden hair and asking a question; giant: there is a toad at the bottom of the spring; the roots of the apple tree gnaws mouse; the carrier must hand the paddle to the man in red clothes and leave; on the way back, Ada received an award from the owners of the spring and the apple tree; Khan said that the lake has a treasure, but it is necessary to come for it red clothes; khan became a carrier]: 36-42; 1964 [the elder brother explains to Kadyr that his happiness is most likely sleeping under a Karaganda resident, while his older brother works; K. goes to look for his happiness; lion asks to know how to get rid of abdominal pain; the old man - why his field does not bear fruit; khan - why he misses; K. saw happiness that had fallen, began to beat; he says that idlers are not happy for the future, but according to answer questions; khan is a woman, let her marry; a korchaga with gold is buried in the field; the lion must eat the stupidest person; K. refuses to marry hansha, take gold as a reward; Upon learning of this, the lion rushed at him, but hit a stone and died; K. decided that he was happier now than anyone else]: 23-28.