L39D. Put the apple in your hands .14.15.21.-.23.28.30.

A boy climbs a tree for fruit. The demonic character asks you to share with him, but not to throw the fruit on the ground, but to hand it from hand to hand. He grabs the boy and takes him away.

Algerian Arabs, Tunisian Berbers, Italians (Friuli, Tuscany), Sardinians, Rai, Bhutan, Garo, Northern India (Hindi), Rajastans, Oriya, Ho, Sinhales, Maldives, Russians (Moscow, Ryazan, Tambov), Tajiks, mountain Tajiks, Uzbeks, Yagnobs, Parya, Pashayas.

North Africa. Algerian Arabs [Gulya keeps trying to catch Hadidouane, but he hides in his bronze house every time; promises to go with her for water and firewood, but let her pour out the water that is still eat, does not take ropes with her; he does not go to fetch water himself, Gulya cannot cook bundles of firewood; finally she caught H., carried it in a bag; H. recalled that Gulya missed the prayer time; Gulya went to pray, H. filled the bag with stones, ran away; once he found a coin, bought a fig, ate it, threw it away, threw it away, a large tree grew out of it overnight; H. climbed a tree, began to eat fruit; gulya asks for it, not to throw it, but hand to hand; Gulya grabbed him again and brought him home in a bag; began to fatten him, each time feeling her hand - whether he was fat, but H. put her hand not her hand, but a spindle; realizing the deception, Gulya went to call relatives, telling her daughter to cook a "calf"; H. says that there is a dangerous louse around Guli's daughter's neck, she asks her to kill, H. cuts off Guli's daughter's head, cooks meat, puts on her clothes; while gulya eats, H. runs away and shouts from afar that Gulya has his daughter; the cannibals covered H.'s house with firewood and set it on fire, but H. sat in a water tank]: Belamri 1982:100-106; the Berbers of Tunisia [Father Ali has a garden with figs; to Ali a witch comes up, asks for figs; does not want to pick it up herself, let her give it from hand to hand; grabs the boy and takes it away; asks people to drink; they fix her bag, take the boy out, put it in bag jug; the witch comes again, everything repeats itself, this time she brought the boy to her daughter, told her to raise her; when Ali grew up, the witch went to invite her sisters to a feast, and told Ali to kill her daughter and cook couscous; but Ali heard them negotiating; stabbed the witch's daughter with a razor himself, cooked it, put the severed breasts in a bowl, put the witch's daughter's clothes on; while the witch and her sister were eating, Ali cooked a horse, collected valuables; invited the witch to look for his daughter's chest in a bowl; killed a cannibal; returned home]: Stumme 1900:44-45.

Southern Europe. Italians: Calvino 1980, No. 37 (Friuli; the plot is known throughout northern and central Italy) [Pierino Pierone boy climbed a pear; a witch asked him to go down and give her pears; PP refused, threw a pear, it fell into a cow going into the horse droppings; then PP went down, the witch put it in a bag, carried it, stopped on the way and went to relieve himself; PP gnawed the rope, filled it the bag ran away with stones; at home, the witch dumped the contents of the bag into the boiling pot, which crashed, boiling water flooded the room; the witch put on a wig, came back to the pear tree; PP recognized her, but still went down; could not gnaw the rope, but at that moment the hunter came up, untied the bag, replaced the boy with the dog; when the witch untied the bag, the dog bit her and ran away; the third time the witch had a red wig; she brought PP home; left for a while, telling her daughter to cook it; PP pretends not to know how to put her head on a board for Margarita to cut it off; cut off her head, threw it into the cauldron; climbed on a shelf above the hearth; a witch asks how he got there; PP says he made a ladder out of a spoon, knife and fork; the witch tried it, fell into the fire and burned down]: 110-114, 723; Crane 1885, No. 85 (Tuscany) [ Buchettino found the money, bought a fig, climbed a tree and began to eat; the cannibal asked him to throw it off; one, the other fell into the mud; the cannibal asked B. to get down and hand it in his hands, grabbed it, carried it away in a bag, along the way stopped, walked away; B. cut the bag, filled it with stones, ran away; at home, the cannibal threw the stones into the cauldron, realized that he had been deceived; went back; B. on the roof, says he climbed in with pans on top of each other, pots and other dishes; the cannibal did so, fell and crashed]: 265-267; Sardinians [the mother allows the boy to go into the forest; on the way he throws crumbs on the ground, but the ants ate them; the boy found them fig tree and climbed it to eat fruit; a cannibal comes up, asks him to throw a fig tree; says that he has fallen into the mud; in manure; asks for a hand; grabs the boy, pulls him off the tree and takes him away; in absence of an ogre, a boy gets out of the cage where he is planted, kills the ogre's wife and makes soup with her; the cannibal eats him; the boy has returned home, everyone is celebrating his return]: Aprile 2000:398.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Rai: Ebert, Gaenszle 2008:83-92 [Orphan Khosipa (X.) has two older sisters - the elder Tõwama and the younger Khliyama; their uncle Saphopte (an owl; they are all birds too) is angry; K. teases him, he He tears his throat, eats him, leaves only his bones; his sisters revive him by putting his bone in a calebass with beer; they have difficulty getting some rice, putting him to cook, he accidentally overturns the pot; falls asleep; they they think that he is dead, buried with a knife on the grave; he wakes up, gets out of the grave, tells the banana to grow and ripen right away, eats bananas; the cannibal Cakrodhoma asks to lower her banana, tied to the boy's long hair, pulls her hair off, brings it to her, tells his daughter to cook the prey, goes to call her brothers; the daughter is surprised how long the boy's hair is; he says he doused it on them with boiling oil; puts her head in boiling oil, pushes her pestle, puts on her clothes; K. eats her daughter; H. shouts to her what she ate, runs away; throws ash (a cloud of fog), a shard (a mountain), an egg (a river) behind her; K. asks how he crossed; you have to tie your hands and feet, go into the water; the river carried it away; then motive F7], 111-124 [two sisters, they have a younger brother Hecchakuppa (X.); their father went up (i.e. north, mother down (i.e. south); sisters fed brother pine resin; he let his stepmother talk about it, she put soot in the resin to spoil the taste; they had a goat, she gave the children everything they needed; the stepmother pretended to be sick, only a medicine made from the goat's flesh would cure her; the goat was slaughtered, the children were crying, the stepmother pretended to feel better; H. lost consciousness from hunger, the sisters thought he was dead, they buried him with a knife and a calebass; they trampled the grave, heard the calebasses crunch, they think it was a crunching skull; Tangwama's sister went to her mother, Khiyama's sister to her father; when T. returned, it turned out that their grandfather killed K.; she revived her by putting her bones in the pig's trough; the sisters were spinning; the brother got up from the grave, called the sisters, they left the excrement, urine, drooling and snot responsible for themselves, left; a banana grew, H. climbed in at him; the cannibal asked her to throw off her bananas; he threw her foot, she asked to tie her to her hair, pulled her hair, brought her home, told her daughter to cook, put her to sleep, taking out H.'s lice; daughter the cannibal fell asleep by herself, H. killed her with a pestle, cooked her, the cannibal ate her; H. shouted who she ate, ran away; threw fried rice and chicken eggs behind, the cannibal picked them up and ate them, wasted time; the fishermen transported H. across the river; he answered the cannibal to enter the water with ants on his buttocks; the water carried her away; she was dragged through chicken and pig crap, and H. was carried in a palanquin; both were given bags; from this Tigers came out to the cannibal, ate her; from this X., food and wealth]; Bhutan [the parents have a daughter Boded; they decided to leave her: the harvest on the plot is scarce, and the demons are shinpo around; they told B. to dry it the grain, driving the birds away from it; the raven screams that the parents are leaving; B. rushed into the house, but they have not yet left; the crow no longer listens; finally, he screams that the parents are gone; no one is at home, the girl climbed on peach tree to see if they can be seen on the road; someone asks to throw him a peach; she threw it; "fell into the manure, go down, throw more"; same; "give it in your hands"; D. held out a peach, sinpo grabbed {man} He put her in a bag and took her to his house; there is an old hungry dog; whispers: if you feed her a little, I will give three words of wisdom; B. had food left with her, she fed the dog, she told her to take it out of her ear three bags of seeds: useful when you run; Shinpo tells B. to grind rice and say "I'm here" every now and then; the louse promises to be responsible for it: let him take it out of his hair and leave it in the spit; when the saliva is dry, the louse died and stopped responding; Shinpo ran in pursuit; B. threw pepper tree seeds, a forest of pepper trees grew; then pine seeds; bamboo seeds; shinpo was about to break through bamboo; the moon rose; B . asks her to lower her iron chain, not a wool ladder; the moon Acho La La answers every time: wait, I'm still washing my face; making breakfast; eating breakfast; cleaning the dishes; looking for a chain; straightening it; moon she lowered the chain, B. climbed; the sinpo also asks him to lower the chain; the moon answers the same thing as the girl (I wash my face, etc.); lowered the wool ladder; when he climbed half, cut off the stairs; the shinpo fell, fell deep into the ground; you can see a girl milking a moon cow on the moon]: Choden 1994:35-40; garo: Mandal 2009 [brother and sister are orphans, went to the forest for fruit, got lost; sister went to look for water, did not return; brother climbed the fruit tree; began to eat fruit and call his sister; Rakshasa and Rakshasi came; the boy agreed to shed fruit for them, but refused to go down; they say that the fruits they fall into the mud, swore not to touch him, but put him in a basket and brought him home; left him in a pigsty and left; the son of the Rakshasa asks why the boy has fair skin; he explains that he should swim in hot water; the Rakshasa son released him, the boy put him in a basket and scalded him to death; returned home, but his sister was gone]: 109-110; Rongmuthu 1960 [Jerang boy, an orphan, climbed into the forest to the fruit shop a tree; a pair of Matchadus (werewolf tigers) came up; they asked them to shed fruit; said that they were in the mud, let J. hand them the fruit between their toes; they stole it, brought it home, they told their son to cook, but they left; the son of cannibals asks why people have light skin; J.: we wash in boiling water; the cannibal released J. from the cage, undressed, and he scalded him to death with boiling water; put it on his clothes were covered with soot; his parents ate their son, thinking that J. was eating; the imaginary son asked where his parents had hidden their treasures; they answered and left, and he hid them across the river; asked the cannibals to teach him how to swim; swam across the river and said who they ate; said that the river could be crossed in leaky jugs; the cannibals drowned; J. brought the treasures they had obtained to the cave; there was a boa constrictor, J. . killed him, filled his skin with treasures and climbed into it himself; two daughters of a peasant chased parrots; J. answered the one he liked best; she went into the cave, J. got out of the skin of a boa constrictor; taught the girl asked her parents to pass her off as a boa constrictor; her father resettled her, brought a boa constrictor from the cave, which contained a young man and treasures; on her wedding night, the servants spied: a young man with a girl, wealth in the house; her older sister also demanded that she be passed off as a boa constrictor; he ate her at night; and J.'s descendants became kings, queens and brave warriors]: 100-194.

South Asia. North India, Balundshahr County, Hindi [the potter's son climbed a tree for fruit; the cannibal asked for fruit; when he went down and handed her the fruit, she grabbed the boy, put it in the bag took it away; on the way he got out, put stones and thorns in his place; the next time it happened again, but the cannibal carried the boy home; told his daughter-in-law to cook it; she wonders what The boy has beautiful eyes and the shape of his head; he says that his mother pierced his eyes with a hot needle and treated his head with a pestle; the boy blinded her, crushed her head, put it on cooking, put her clothes on; when the ogre was eating, she also gave it to the cat; he ordered him to spit it out: she was eating her daughter-in-law; the cannibal did not hear, the young man (disguised as a daughter-in-law) said that he would explain now, ran away; he did not fit that tree again]: Crooke 1895, No. 540:193; Rajastans [widow is fasting to improve karma; her son wants to fast with her; she persuades him not to do so, and he agrees only after she agrees baked him his favorite treat - gulguls (sweet pies); he ate 6 gulgul, and buried the seventh, watered it, ordered him to grow up with a tree on which gulguls grow; he climbed on it, began to eat, in everyone's place Two grow up torn; a witch and her daughter come up; the witch also asks her to give a gulgul; does not tell her to throw it off, asks to put it in a turban and lower it; pulls the turban, the boy falls, the witch puts him in a bag with thorns and carries him to eat; on the way he asks once or 0 to allow him to drink in the lake, dives, swims away; climbed back on the gulgulu; the witch comes again, changing his face; the same (she takes him away in a keg from under water); at home, a witch tells her daughter to stretch the pestle caught, cook it, and went for wine herself; the boy shows the witch's daughter her teeth; she wants her teeth just as beautiful; he says that his mother every day He kneads it with a pestle, but before that he must change clothes; the boy broke the witch's daughter's head, cooked the meat; the witch eats it; the cat asks for it, since the mother eats her daughter, but the witch is drunk and does not listen; finds her daughter's finger, but does not want to believe it; the next morning the groom came to pick up her daughter; on the way, the imaginary bride gave a sign to stop to relieve her need, ran away; the witch came again to the gulgul tree; to this since the boy did not fall, but threw a stone on the witch, killing her; since then, mother and son have always eaten gulgulas and distributed them to neighbors]: Dinesh 1979:99-114; ho [boy grazes cattle, mother every day gives him bread; one day he left a half-eaten piece, it grew into a tree that brought bread instead of fruit; one day he climbed a tree to buy bread; Rakshasi came, asked for bread, told him not to throw it away - he gets dirty, she's old to catch; the boy came down, she put him in a bag, carried him away; while she was going down to the water for a drink, the travelers heard the boy screams, released him, he put stones in the bag; they and found Rakshasi's daughter at home; the next day, Rakshasi lured the boy in the same way, brought her daughter, went to buy firewood; the daughter replied to the boy that she would crush his head; he asked him to show how bore her head, put on her clothes, cooked meat; Rakshasi ate her daughter and fell asleep; the boy killed her with a stone, returned home]: Bompas 1909:464-465; oriya: Kudinova, Kudinov 1995 [the shepherdess planted rice cake, a tree grew on which tortillas; the cannibal took the form of an old woman, asked for cakes; the boy asked her to collect the ones that had fallen, but she needed fresh ones; he went down, she stole it from wood, put it in a bag, took it away; went to drink water; at this time, the plowmen released the boy, put stones in the bag; they were found there by the witch's daughter; the next time the witch carried the boy home; he persuaded her daughter to let him go, promising to teach her how to grow beautiful hair (rub goat's milk into her head); the witch went after the boy again; he asked her to open her mouth, threw a crowbar at him, killing him witch]: 280-284; Mohanti 1975 [the boy planted a cake, a tree grew on which cakes were fruits; the cannibal took the image of an old woman, asked for cakes; the boy invited her to collect the ones that fell, but she needs fresh ones; he went down, she put it in a bag, took it away; on the way she went to relieve herself; the boy ran away with thorns and stones in the bag; at home, the cannibal saw that the prey was gone; the same the next day, but the cannibal did not stop, brought her daughter's bag, told her to cook, and went to the blacksmith to sharpen her teeth; the daughter was adopted, kidnapped; she hid the boy, cooked the birds; this is how they live for a while; the girl pretends to be afraid to be alone; the cannibal says that gold is under the floor, and you can only kill her by pulling out one of the hairs on her head; the girl has become hers to comb, pulled out her hair; she and the boy took the gold, got married]: 103-105; Sinhalese [Yakshini has a son and daughter, the son brought flour under his fingernail, the pot filled to the brim, the mother cooked pies (kevums ), ate everything with her daughter, my son got only one that fell into the ash (the mother said that the owners of the flour took everything); the son planted a pie, a tree grew, kewums ripened on it; yakshini asks to throw her kevum; says that he fell on a spit, into the mud, into the manure; asks him to take the kevum in his mouth and jump into the bag; takes the boy, leaves the bag for a while, people untie it, the boy puts clods of mud in his place, returns to the tree; yakshini tells her daughter to slaughter the boy, put a cup of blood under the stairs, let the meat be fried; the girl found only clods of earth in the bag; the yakshini goes back to the tree (same boy puts rat catchers instead); the third time Yakshini brings a boy; he invites Yakshini's daughter to comb her hair, stabbed her, left the meat to roast, put a cup of blood, taking a pestle, a pestle and a mortar, climbed a tree; yakshini began to eat her daughter's meat, the boy began to sing about it; she climbed a tree, he threw a pestle, mortar, pestle at her, killing Yakshini]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 162:368-371; Maldives [the poor old woman found a coin and let her daughter Koe' buy a pie; on the way home, K. ate half a pie, and then, hiding the pie under the leaf, went to relieve herself; the crab dragged it into her mink; a tree grew in this place, on which there were pies instead of fruit; and no matter how many K. ate them, their number did not decrease; one day a cannibal came up and asked to drop the pie; said that it fell into sea; etc.; asked not to throw it, but to hold it between her toes and give it to her; the cannibal pulled K. by the leg, put it in a bag, brought it to her daughter and told her to cook while she was washing herself; daughter out of curiosity untied the bag; K. offered to exchange clothes and jewelry first, and then see who was sleeping better; when the cannibal's daughter closed her eyes, K. cut off her head, chopped her body into pieces, and cooked it; climbed a tree; the cannibal ate her daughter; K. began singing about it, replying that she was talking to a crow, a bat (and then to others), but then told how it happened; the cannibal tried to knock down tree; K. jumped down, ran; the cannibal followed, but fell into a pit with lime, caught fire, burned down]: Romero-Frias 2012, No. 18:65-71.

Central Europe. Russians (Moscow) [the cat went fishing, Khikhilyushka planted on an apple tree to play with golden apples; Baba Yaga asks to give her an apple in her hand; she grabbed H., carried it; he calls the cat: Brother cat, help me out! the third time the cat went far and did not hear; Baba Yaga told her daughter to fry H.; he pretended not to know how to sit on the shovel; Baba Yaga's daughter sat down to show, H. put her in the oven; Baba Yaga goes and sings," I'll ride, lying on the gikhilyushkin bones"; H. from the attic: over her daughter's bones; she climbed into the attic, he pushed her down the stairs, she crashed to death; H. returned home, began to live happily ever after with the cat good money]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 34:84-85; Russians (Ryazan) [the cat and Khikhilyushka lived; the cat planted H. on the apple tree to play with golden apples; Baba Yaga asks to give her an apple from hand to hand hand; H. grabbed, carried it; H.: brother cat! the cat caught up, took H.; the same second time; the third time the cat is far away, does not hear; Baba Yaga tells his daughter to fry H.; he asks to show how to sit on a shovel, pushes Baba Yaga's daughter into the oven; Baba Yaga has returned, sings about riding, lying on X. bones; H. from the attic: over your daughter's bones; Baba Yaga climbed into the attic, H. pushed her, she fell, crashed; H. returned to the cat]: Smirnov 1917, No. 231:120; Russians (Tambov) [Vanyushka was left to watch apples; Brown: hand to hand; V.: they did not tell me to give it from hand to hand; but Yaga still dragged him; he shouts, "Brown carried me over the steep mountains, for the high forests!" Parents caught up, took away; next time the same; parents warn: now they will go far, they will not hear; the third time Buraya brought V. to her daughters, ordered them to fatten; V. is not getting fat; for the Buraya holiday told me to cook it anyway; V. pretends not to know how to get into the stove; Bura's daughters are shown that he fried them himself; Buraya came in - Vanya is not there, but her daughter is fried in the stove]: Smirnov 1917, No. 250:251 -252.

Iran - Central Asia. Mountain Tajiks (Darvaz) [Odin's boy, nicknamed Zardoliyak, planted an apricot kernel, a tree grew, he climbed on it to eat fruit; the old woman asked herself not to catch it the thrown apricot, told her to go down, give her a handful in a skullcap, carried Z. in a bag; on the way she left for a while, Z. cut the bag with a knife, filled it with stones, returned to eat apricots; the old woman brought the bag daughters, poured the contents into the cauldron, the stones split the cauldron; the next time the old woman brought Z. home, who hid under the roof of her house; said that she sat on a hot shovel, she lifted it under the roof; the old woman sat on a shovel, burned down]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990:208-209; Tajiks [boy Bakhrom planted an apricot; apricot grew quickly, B. climbed on it, began to eat apricots; the blind witch asks throw off the fruit, go down and serve her; takes B. in a bag to his home; while he kindles the fire, B. runs away, climbs the poplar; says that he climbed by sitting on a hot shovel; the witch dies]: Amonov, Ulug- back 1960:148-149; Uzbeks (Kokand) [the girl did not split the apricot bone, but planted it, ordered it to grow quickly; climbed on an apricot for fruit; an old woman came, asked to drop her fruits, asked to go down - it is difficult for her to collect; the girl went down, the old woman carried her in a bag; sat down to rest, the girl ran away, climbed the apricot again; the old woman came again and finally persuaded the girl to get down; this time she tied the bag, brought them home, left the girl to her 40 divas sons; they fell asleep, the girl cut off their heads with a golden sword, ran home]: Ostroumov 1890, No. 25:141-143; parya [ the boy Bahram found an apricot kernel; his mother advised not to split it, but to plant it; by morning a tree grew, B. ate apricots on it every day; the diamonds asked not to throw it off, but to serve it; took B. to bag to his home; while she was making a fire, B. made a hole in the bag, climbed a tree; said the diamonds that he climbed by sitting on a hot shovel; the diamonds heated the shovel, burned down]: Vinnikov 1977, No. 9:161-162; Yagnobtsy [Shomilty asks the reaper to help reap the sickle; he sends him for a sickle to his wife; S. tells her that the king demands girls; she does not give it, he shouts to her husband about it, he tells her to give it back, S. takes it away girl; promises to cure a bald shepherd, buries her neck in the ground, kills, takes the herd away; plants an apricot seed, threatens to grind it, an apricot grows in a few days, S. climbs on it; the old woman asks to throw off the fruit, asks for her hands, grabs S., takes her in a bag; the reapers offer her to eat bread, S. runs away, leaving stones in the bag; the old woman's daughter lowers the contents of the bag into the cauldron, he breaks; the old woman catches Sh again in the same way, does not stop eating bread, brings S. home; while she sleeps, S. gets out, cuts off the heads of the old woman's daughters, throws one into the cauldron, hides at the top plane trees; an old woman eats meat, discovers her dead daughters; asks how S. climbed; he says he hit himself in the ass with a hot iron; she does so, burns, dies]: Andreev, Peshereva 1957, No. 33:167-169; the pacha'i [the orphan boy said that when the mulberry grew and the fruits on it were ripe, he would eat; she grew up, he climbed the tree; a cannibal came, asked to drop the fruit, said that they're not good, he dropped the branch (bent over?) , she grabbed it, brought it home, told her daughter to cook it; the boy asked the cannibal's daughter to give him her dress, dressed like her, threw her into boiling water; the cannibal did not understand that the daughter had been replaced; the imaginary daughter says she does not want a human, she will eat chicken; asks the cannibal to give her her long hair; ties her up, runs away; the cannibal sees what her daughter has cooked, cries; the boy killed her with a stick]: Morgenstierne 1944, No. 21:127-129.