L37C. Two shares, ATU 735.

.15.16.22.23.27.-.29.31.-.34.38.

A person meets the incarnations of Doli (and Nedoli) - his own or someone else's. He manages to influence their behavior and change (for himself) the course of things for the better.

Italians (Campania, Basilicata), Irish, Monks, Nepalis (?) , chemical plowmen, Assames, Tamils, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Croats, Romanians, Albanians, Serbs, Greeks, Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Yaroslavl, Novgorod, Pskov, Penza, Voronezh, Kursk), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Transcarpathia, Galicia, Volyn, Podolia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava, Yekaterinoslavskaya), Belarusians, Poles, Georgians, Eastern Sami (Skolts, Inari), Finns, Karelians, Estonians, Setus, Lithuanians, Latvians, Maris, Udmurts, Kazakhs, Oirats, Japanese.

Southern Europe. Italians (Campania, Basilicata): Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 735:160

Western Europe. The Irish: Uther 2004 (1), No. 735:392

Burma - Indochina. Mona [the younger brother is married to a rich woman, the elder to the poor; wives quarrel, the brothers share the household, the youngest is richer, the older one is poorer; the elder sees the youngest's assistant plowing for him; finds his nata assistant, who advises him to trade; sees an old woman who is his pest; invites her to climb into the chest, he will take her with him to the bazaar; locks and buries the chest; the youngest The old woman digs up envy of the rich elder; she tells the youngest that she will be with him now, he is broke]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 151:363-367.

South Asia. Nepal (Nepali?) [The younger brother's field is without water; at night he waits for a girl who draws water to the field of her older brother; she replies that she is the fate of the elder; the youngest goes to look for her own; on the road, the tree asks you to know why its leaves are yellow from below, the merchant - why he can't complete the house, the fish - why it's cold in the water, it's hot on land; when he falls asleep in the clearing, the younger brother wakes up at night She sees many girls, grabs one of them; she promises that there will be water in his field; says that the leaves are yellow with the shine of diamonds buried under the tree; the house collapses when the merchant's daughter is debauchery; a fish is a pandita who hid his knowledge from everyone in a past life, let him share; a fish transports a young man across the river, gives him knowledge; a merchant marries him to another daughter; a young man finds diamonds under a tree; fish becomes rich, that he rules to look for his own#]: Aganina 1971:210-217; himachali is a plowman [Bhinwa is a wealthy peasant, and his brother Hinwa works for him for 4 dry cakes a day ; B.: this is because your Destiny sleeps across the 7 seas; H. went to look for it; saw a snake crawling to an eagle's nest on a big tree; killed her; parent eagles flew in; a grateful eagle father agreed to take it H. to his Destiny; before that, the Tree asks Destiny to know why its leaves are dry; upon arrival, H. woke up Destiny; the tree dries because a snake guards treasures under its roots: let him kill the snake and dig up treasures; having learned this, H. returned to his land on an eagle; killed the snake, took the treasures, the tree turned green; H. tamed and saddled the wild horse; found out that the princess was sick, cured it, received it in wives; returned home with treasures and wife; brothers healed well]: Seethalakshmi 1960, No. 15:56-57; Assamese [people complain about robbers; king orders three sons to guard the city at night; elders They don't notice anything special; the youngest sees a young woman leaving the palace; the woman explains that she is the king's Luck; since he dies tonight, she no longer needs to guard the palace; The prince asks her to return if the king, contrary to her words, does not die; upon entering his father's bedchamber, the prince sees a cobra at his bed; kills a cobra]: Grierson 1903a:430-431; Tamils [brother and sister They agreed that if they had children of different sexes, they would marry them; the brother had three sons and the sister had three daughters; the brother went bankrupt; the sister passed off the older daughters to the rich, and the youngest went to the poor betrothed; Garuda picked up the king's precious ring, dropped it in the brothers' house; they took it to the king; the youngest's wife asked for a reward to order all the lights in the city to be turned off on Friday, leaving only her house; my husband and his brothers swear never to leave home and never to return from home; 8 incarnations of wealth came, but poverty and failure were gone; the family became rich]: Natesa Sastri 1884-1888, No. 17:196-204.

The Balkans. Bulgarians [a poor man whose Share is lazy has forgotten a sickle (or something else) in the field or vineyard of his rich brother; in the evening he goes there to pick up what he has forgotten and meets the Good Luck (Fate) of the rich; that tells him where to find his own; the poor man finds her (in the form of a hare) or sees her chilling under a tree, in the bushes, around the fire, dancing, playing the flute, etc.; he hits her with a stick and makes him work; she gives him a bird a golden egg, a chestnut, etc. or gives advice (become a merchant, cure a princess, marry a certain girl, making the poor man rich]: Daskalova- Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 735:251-252; 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 gold thread; she said she was his brother's share; when he returned from his brother, the poor man went on a journey and came across a sleeping old maiden; she called himself Doli; he began to beat her, she disappeared, saying that everyone of him Destiny gives the share; the owner of the inn asks why his guests eat any supplies instantly; the poor man sees that the guests throw supplies behind the stove and they are eaten there by an old man and an old woman like shadows - 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 them anything, but to repeat after it all she does; Fate 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]: Wratislaw 1890, No. 44:231-238 (=Eschker 1992, No. 17:90-100); Romanians [Serekuc Petru is poor, he has two children; his rich Schwager is calling for help knit sheaves; some old man eats food for the SP; this is his brother's happiness, and his own is drunk and sitting in a shank; let him go there and get the chicken of happiness; the chicken rushes every day and SP got rich; the teacher fell in love with SP's wife; read what the chicken has written under its wing; whoever eats the kidneys will find gold under the pillow, and who will find the heart will become king; the teacher tells the woman to kill and cook chicken, but the kidneys and heart were schemed by the children of the SP; the teacher sends the hangman to kill the children in the forest and get what they ate, but they persuaded the hangman to let them go; the boy ate pears from the tree, they grew up horns, ate apples - horns are gone; they came to live with the old man; then they came to town; the crown flew in and sat on one of them's head; the second brother returned to the old man and married the minister's daughter; she has a lover, gave her the drug; she gave it to her husband, he regurgitated pieces of swallowed liver; his wife swallowed them herself and drove him away; on the advice of the old man, the young man picked pears and apples from those trees, sold them from his wife horns grew; brothers turned into two stars {not very clear}]: Bîrlea 1966:445-446; Croats, Macedonians, Albanians, Greeks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 735:392.

Central Europe. Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Yaroslavl, Novgorod, Pskov, Penza, Voronezh, Kursk), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Transcarpathia, Galicia, Volyn, Podolia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava, Yekaterinoslavskaya), Belarusians [Two Shares: Dolya's rich brother does all the work for him, the poor brother has a lazy share; he beats her; she teaches how become a merchant; the poor man is getting rich]: SUS 1979, No. 735:181-182; Russians (Vologda) [father is dead; two sons have no children, fool Vanya has seven; he goes to ask for grain from his older brother; daughter-in-law indignant; on Sunday he went wherever his eyes looked; the woman cuts firewood, says that she is the older brother's fate, and his, Vanya, is fate, does not work on weekdays, but works with her lover; the woman teaches how to find Vanya's fate tells the blacksmith to order three iron bars; fate will offer vodka, drink two shots, the third not to drink, but to beat fate until the bars are destroyed; she gives a chicken that lays golden eggs; brothers they sail away on commercial ships, Vanya asks to sell three eggs laid by his chicken; the brothers do not know that they are gold; they received three ships with goods for eggs, they wanted to take them for themselves, all ships they immediately stopped; they had to give goods and ships to Vanya, he became rich; Vanina's wife had a lover; he read chickens on the scallop: whoever eats the scallop will become king, who is the navel, will spit gold ; lover: if you don't kill chickens for me, I'll leave you; Vanya's children Mishka da Grishka ate chicken; they hear their mother promise to skin them off; left home; stayed with an old woman, paid in gold; she says that they will choose a tsar; whoever has a candle in his hands will be chosen; Grishka's candle lit up, he became king; married; Mishka went to look for a wife; ate one herb - fell ill, ate another - recovered; cured the queen, married her; she gave him so much drink that he began to vomit, his chicken navel fell out, his wife ordered him to be thrown into the toilet; M. woke up, left, found apples that make horns grow , and others that fall off her head; sold the first to the king, the royal's horns grew; under the guise of a doctor, ordered the queen to be sent to the bathhouse; beat her with iron bars until she lost consciousness and her navel regurgitated; then fed other apples; the young forgave each other and began to live well; both brothers went, found their father, he herded pigs; they tore their mother in half, taking her by the legs, and their lover shot at the door], No. 32:249-254; Russians (Tambov) [A childless man separates from his brother, does not want to "feed his children." But he lives poorly, and his brother is rich. The childless brother went broke completely, went to ask for money, but on the way to the field, his brother saw a white man, asked who was plowing his brother's field, the man answered "fraternal happiness." He explains that the childless brother did not save his happiness, he fell asleep, sends him to the birch tree around which it is wrapped, gives a ball and a whip to hit his happiness three times and wake him up. The man wakes up his happiness ("Fu-fu-fu, how long he slept. - He slept for a long time, but got up at the right time"), it leads the man to the lake, they put their snare, happiness orders not to take any prey while he sleeps. The man can't stand it and takes one of the golden birds out of his snares. Happiness reproaches the man for not following his instructions, leaving him with the bird, advising him to put it in between and sell its golden eggs. The man sells eggs for a hundred rubles, got rich, bought steamers and ships. The wife asks her husband how she got rich, transfers the bird to the kitchen so that it would not be stolen from the field. She is having two children. Her husband is going overseas, she falls in love with a clerk and talks about the bird and shows it. He sees predictions on his wings that whoever eats one wing will become king, the other becomes king. The clerk asks to kill the bird, the wife is afraid of her husband, but he threatens not to appear for a month and she agrees. Orders his servants to fry the bird. Children accidentally eat poultry meat, the clerk finds out and demands that the children be killed, the wife orders the workers to do so. They feel sorry for the children and let them go; instead of children, they kill the dog, fry it. The clerk eats. Children grow up in the forest and are afraid to go to the city. Vanya is the first to go, they are looking for a king in the city - he will be the one on whom the lamp falls from the city gate, she falls on the boy. Kolya goes to another state, stays with her grandmother, sews shoes and spits "golden drools". The princess buys them and is interested. Grandma brings Kolya to the princess. She makes him drink wine, he refuses, but she threatens, he drinks and spits out the golden top, the princess takes it, washes it and swallows it, and sends Kolya in one vest to Buyan Ostrov. He tries different berries - some grow horns and tails, others make him beautiful. He hears birds squeaking, covers him with his vest. The mother of the chicks wants to thank Kolya - if not for him, they froze and promises to take them to the city. Kolya takes berries with her and sells them at the royal palace. Gives one free of charge to the cook, she is noticeably prettier. The princess notices this and asks to buy her berries, he sells her the berries that produce horns and tails. No one can cure the princess, Kolya is called to help. Her father promises to make king whoever cures the princess. Kolya orders to build a bathhouse outside the city, whips the princess with a rod and says that this is because she drugged him and sent him to Buyan Ostrov. She spits out the top, Kolya washes and swallows it, gives the princess another berry, she becomes beautiful. They are getting married]: Tseitlin 1911, No. 13:11-14; Russians: Afanasiev 1994 [many options]: 392-408; Belarusians: Afanasiev 1994 [many options]: 392-408); Poles [when faced with happiness a rich brother, the poor learns from him that his own is sleeping under a bush; finds him and it makes him rich]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 735:225.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Georgians [a lazy man sees a man walking among a large herd; he replies that he is the happiness of the herd owner, and happiness is sleeping under the bush; the lazy man found him and began to beat him; happiness says that if the owner is idle, so is he; the lazy man changed his mind, started working, got rich]: Chikovani 1954:218-219.

Baltoscandia. Eastern Sami (Skolts, Neiden) [poor brother hears someone working in the forest; a stranger replies that he is the luck of his older brother, and the younger brother's luck sleeps behind a mountain by a rock; the poor man has found his good luck and began to beat; she gave a stone: if you throw money from hand to hand; the elder brother persuaded him to tell me how the younger brother became rich, forced him to sell him the stone; the youngest became impoverished again; went again to her luck, she gave her satchel, understood it; the boy brought him home, two soldiers jumped out and beat him; he told them to return to the satchel; sold the satchel to the elder, and the soldiers began to beat him until he did not return the stone and the money obtained with it]: Lagercrants 1961, No. 296:145-150; Eastern Sami (Inari): Koskimies, Itkonen 1917:78-79 in Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 735:236; Karelians [poor brother works day and night, still poor, rich on the contrary; poor brother went to the forest for a horse, came across nine men who cut fire; we are your brother's shares; and yours is on the shore Black Sea on a big stone, sleeping in red cloth; take three rowan branches and hit her on the back; Dolya gave a magic tablecloth; rich brother borrowed, did not give it back; poor again to Dola, that gave an inexhaustible purse; the same; Share gives the bag: you have to open it, ask for intelligence; then "Enough, bag, mind, no more"; there are three men in the bag with whips; the beaten rich brother returned the tablecloth and purse; now (everyone) lives well, honestly]: Konkka, Tupitsyna 1967, No. 43:328-332; Seto [the poor man sees someone in his wheat field; hears back: I am your neighbor's happiness, I take ears from and I pass him on to his field; and your happiness sleeps, because you do not work yourself, but only go hunting; follow him to the house in the forest, it is there in yellow clothes; the poor man has come, his happiness called out to him by itself, gave a chicken; she laid an egg at home, the poor man went to sell, no one had money to buy, and finally a rich merchant gave a hundred rubles; so every day, the poor man and his wife became rich, their sons were sent to school; the wife met the priest, showed him the chicken; he saw that on the tip of her left wing she had the words "the one who ate will become the money king", and on the tip of the right wing "the one who eats will become king"; the wife agrees roast the chicken; the boys who come from school ate the tips of their wings; the pop tells his mistress to stab her sons, fry their hearts; she sends a maid to kill the boys, she kills the goose and the puppy told the children to run; the pop ate the hearts of the goose and the puppy, began to cry and bark; the boys broke up; the eldest settled with a poor woman, every day he had gold at his head; they got rich, bought a merchant's house near the royal palace, they began to live richly; the younger brother went to the priest, who raised him; the king died, began to choose a new one; everyone went to church, a candle fell on his younger brother twice, him they chose king; the brothers recognized each other; came unrecognized to their father's house; there their mother and priest, their father was resettled, he became a shepherd; the brothers brought their father, opened; the younger threw up a sword, falling, he compartmented mother's head; priest shackled, sent to eternal hard labor in Siberia]: Sandra 2004:114-128; Latvians [poor man sees someone mowing his rich brother in the field on Sunday; this is happiness rich man, it tells the poor to look for happiness not in the field, but outside the door in a tavern (on an oak tree), and advises him to trade; the poor man follows the advice, soon gets rich, measures the money borrowed from his rich brother quadruple; a rich man, with the help of resin thrown to the bottom of a quadrangle, finds out that the poor man has become rich, starts trading himself, goes bankrupt]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 735:315; Lithuanians, Estonians, Finns: Uther 2004 (1), No. 735:391-392

Volga - Perm. Marie: Sabitov 1989, No. 735 [Two happiness (gods): rich brothers have happiness (god) does all the work for them, poor happiness (god) is lazy; he beats him; happiness (god) teaches how get rid of poverty; poor man gets richer]: 43; Tudorovskaya, Eman 1945 [(first-person story); two brothers are rich, the third is poor; sees someone working on the brothers' field late at night; they were theirs gods; said that his god in a red shirt was playing the accordion; the guy beat him, he began to help him; told him to buy a cat; the guy came with it to the merchant, who had a rat in the basement; the cat strangled the rats, the merchant gave a lot of money; the same in another house; the guy borrowed the brothers a measure of money; the elder, out of envy, decided to set fire to his house, but the fire spread to the arsonist's house; the guy beat his brother and his wife, but let me live with him]: 75-78; Udmurts [two brothers sow oats; the elder always has a good harvest, and the youngest has a bad harvest; one spring the youngest saw an older unfamiliar sower in the field; he asked do not beat him; he is the happiness of his older brother, and the younger brother's happiness sleeps under the fir; the younger one found his happiness and she replied that he did not need to sow oats - let him trade; the younger one did so got rich; one day at Christmas, the elder saw a dead dog and threw it out the younger dog's window; the youngest's happiness sat on the bunk and said it was gold; the youngest got even more rich]: Wichmann 1901, No. 40: 145-146.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [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; the lion asks him to know how to get rid of the pain in his stomach; the old man - why does his field not bear fruit; khan - why does he miss; K. saw happiness that had slept, began to beat; it says that idlers are not happy for the future, but agrees to answer questions; khan - a woman, let her marry; a korchaga with gold is buried in the field; the lion must eat the stupidest man; K. refuses to marry a khansha, take gold as a reward; upon learning about this, the lion rushed at him, but hit a rock and died; K. decided he was the happiest now]: Sidelnikov 1964:23-28.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Oirats (durbuts) [the poor man asked the llama how to get rich; he ordered to find his hare; rich bunnies drive by, saying that they are not his; finally, a beggar goes; teaches him to fill the camel's skin with straw, drag him up the mountain; bunnies: look what a strongman; all the gods and hare turned to look, the poor man is rich; dissatisfied that thieves and wolves are stealing his cattle, should be reduced; llama: let him not regret it; man: no , sorry; then the llama ordered to do what is strictly forbidden: taking the ash out of the yurt south for seven days, opening the door with a trough and bucket for seven days, hitting the dog seven times with a puzzle; the man became poor again]: Potanin 1983, No. 98:359-360.

Japan. The Japanese (7 versions, from Tohoku to southern Honshu) [the couple found out that the god of Poverty has settled in their home and decide to move; wherever they go, they still have him, so they decide return; the god of Poverty is getting fat because the spouses are lazy; then they got to work, the god of Poverty became uncomfortable and left their home, and the couple became rich]: Ikeda 1971, No. 735B: 172.