L40B. Absurd actions to lure a character. .11.12.14.17.26.-.30.32.33.

To get the character closer, they perform absurd actions in front of his eyes. The character does not understand deception and is suitable to explain how to do the right thing.

Maviha, Dagari, Kabila, Algerian Arabs, Egyptian Arabs, Aramaians, Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Lisa, Greeks (Lesbos), Bulgarians, Macedonians, Gagauz, (Aruanians), Western Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina), Ossetians, Avars, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Lurs, Turkmens, Persians, Pashtuns, Bashkirs, Kazakhs.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Maviha [parents will pass off their daughter as someone who will catch the Ing'ondo beast ("water lizard") living high in a tree; the rabbit brought a goat and a dog to the tree, put porridge in front of the goat, leaves in front of the goat dog; I. screams that it's so wrong, Rabbit seems not to hear; I. goes down to teach, Rabbit kills him with an ax; gets a wife]: Harries 1940, No. 4:413-414.

West Africa. Dagari [father promises a dumb daughter to whoever talks to her; Der comes, asks something, the girl is silent; then D. starts feeding the puppy, pouring milk into his ass; the girl rushes to explain that they don't do this; the father asks the daughter if she really spoke; she starts explaining again; D. gets a wife]: Métuolé Somba 1991:13-14.

North Africa. Kabila: Taos Amrush 1974 [when she dies, a woman tells her husband not to sell cows; stepmother starves orphans, but the cow gives them her milk; machehina kicks Johr's daughter; stepmother tells them to slaughter them a cow, from straws on the grave, brother and sister drink butter and honey; J. tries - there is blood and bile for her; stepmother tells her to burn the grave; orphans leave; brother drinks from a stream, turns into a gazelle; sister Aisha climbs a palm tree; the witch Settuta pretends not to know how to bake cakes, A. goes down, the sultan marries her; the eldest wife pushes pregnant A. into the well; the elder wife demands that the gazelle be slaughtered; brother- The gazelle tells A. that they want to slaughter him, A. replies that he is unable to get out; the sheikh tells the Sultan about this, he gets A. and his son, the eldest wife is executed; the sheikh returns the human gazelenka appearance]: 88-95; Mammeri 1996, No. 5 [Zalgoum's brother caught her hair at the source; before that, the horse refused to approach the water; promised to marry the one who owns the hair; the mother went around everyone girls in the village, only Z. had such hair; her brother was going to marry her; her parents had to agree; the mother tried on her daughter's wedding dress, saying that her brother's fiancée had the same figure; mother gives clay and sends Z. to renew the walls of my brother's room; swallow: give me clay for my nest, I'll name my brother's fiancée; Z.: why do I need it; mother sends wheat to peel, crow asks for grains (same); sends couscous to cook; the cow asks to leave some for her calf; Z. it seems strange and she gives seeds to the crow; she says that the bride is herself; Z. runs away from home; hid in the grotto, closing the entrance with a large stone; the shepherd's goat butts a stone; the shepherd hears the song by Z. (go away the goat and tell my father from my mother that Z. is here); father came; Z.: you were my father and now my father-in-law; father: stick out your hand; Z. stuck out, he kissed her; same mother (mother-in-law); brother (husband); that compartment his hand with a sword; threw his hand on the roof - let the sun dry it or take it away by birds of prey; when he went to that spring, he pricked his knee, it became inflamed; no one can help; the prince found out about the girl in the cave, promised a reward to whoever lured her out; an old healer; she made a fire, put the pan upside down, began to cook clumsily on purpose; said that she could not see anything from her old age; Z. went out hiding the prince grabbed her, she agreed to go with him; the prince hid her in the upper room of the palace, but the jealous wives found her; noticed the absence of a hand; suggested to the prince: let everyone paint their nails with henna; Z .: I do it late at night; wives: who will sew and sew the best clothes for the prince; the crow asks Z. for a thread, found a dried hand on the roof, brought it, sewed it, grassed a cure, his hand grew; Z. she managed to make the best clothes; she gave birth to two sons, who grew up and went to find her parents; Z. with them, told them to hide her luxurious outfit under rags - from dust and robbers; entered her brother's house disguised as a beggar; his wife and child are there; his brother is lying, his swollen leg is black and thorn; Z. easily pulled it out with the hand that her brother had once cut off; he recovered; remembered his sister's curse: you Only the hand you cut off will heal; Z. ran away, all the inhabitants chased her, but she threw a handful of bran into their eyes; returned with her sons to her husband and told him her story]: 82-98; Algerian Arabs : Belamri 1982 [mother dies, stepmother tyrannites stepdaughter and stepson, cow gives them her milk; when stepmother sent her daughter to the cow, she knocked out her eye with her hoof; stepmother tells her husband to sell a cow, but he, selling it at the bazaar, predicts misfortune to the one who bought it; they do not buy a cow; then the stepmother persuaded the butcher to buy a cow for any price and slaughter it; the husband asked to give him the udder, put it down on the grave of the first wife, milk continued to flow from the orphan nipples; when the stepmother's own daughter venerated, there was blood and pus in her nipples; the stepmother threw the udder to the dogs and ordered the children to be taken to the forest; but they returned; then the stepmother, husband and daughter left themselves; the stepmother left the poisoned bread, but the sister gave it first to the cat, she died; brother and sister went on a journey; the shepherd warned: if drink water from the spring and then breathe, you will become a gazelle; the brother deliberately left a talisman at the source to return; drank, sighed, became a gazelle; the sister began to live in the forest, the gazelle is with her; while combing her hair, her sister dropped her hair in the stream; the Sultan noticed him, decided to marry the owner; old Settoute went up the stream, found the girl, told the Sultan; he came with his men; to force the girl to come down from the tree, S. began to grind the grain, placing the millstones incorrectly; the girl went down to show how to do it, S.Yu quietly nailed her clothes to the ground with a peg, the sultan grabbed the girl, married, promised not to harm the gazelles; a beggar came, the young sultan recognized her father, put a gold coin in his bread; the stepmother guessed that the Sultan was her stepdaughter; brought her daughter to the palace; when the Sultan was ready to give birth, she began to comb her, pushed her into the well, took her place; ordered the gazelle to be slaughtered; the gazelle asks her to say goodbye to her sister, goes to the well; "They sharpen knives and cauldrons they boil"; sister: "On one knee my sons Lahcène and d'el-Hocine, and on the other there are snakes with an open mouth"; the sultan asked the wise el-Moudjarrab for advice; he ordered to lower only like a slaughtered cow; the snake climbed into the carcass, at which time the Sultan and the children were pulled out; the sultan cut off his imaginary wife's head, cooked the meat, put his head in a bag, the meat on top; sent a cat and a dog take the bag to her stepmother; she ate the meat, believing that she was eating a gazelle, then found her daughter's head]: 15-28; Desparmet 1910 (Blida) [the girl went to the well to get water; the ghoul wanted it, the old woman promised to help; did pretending that she could not cook barley - she put the pan not on the fire, but next to her; the girl went to show her how to do it, the ghoul took her away; the neighbor had 7 sons; she took out a luxurious man's attire, promised that to a son who will return the kidnapped girl; each of the seven has a special ability and has a corresponding name; one hears, leads to a ghoul; the other opens doors; the girl's hair in the teeth of a sleeping ghoul; the third quietly pulled out her hair, the fourth threw the girl out of the ghoul's lair and picked her up; the ghoul took the form of a vulture, followed him, his brothers hit him with arrows, then one of them threw him high, the ghoul fell and crashed; the girl was awarded to someone who managed to extract her hair from the ghoul's mouth]: 271-279; Filleul de Pétigny 1951 [Jew sells conception apples; childless king is interested; his younger wife I heard and bought an apple, cut it in half, ate half; when I wanted to eat the second one, it turned out that the king ate it himself; the wife gave birth to a boy, and my husband was bloated on his leg; it was opened and taken out something alive, but a female peacock who climbed into the room grabbed it and carried it to a nest in a tree; raised a girl; the prince also grew up, went to find out what the goats were afraid of; saw the girl's reflection in the source; fell ill with love; told that Jew; he turned the girl into a dove; the dove flies away; but on the seventh day, the Jew managed to get the dove to go down to the prince under the tree and become a girl again; the prince was already married to his mother's sister's daughter; his father married him to a girl who was mistaken for jinnia; the prince's first wife and mother asked the Jew to turn her back into a dove; he gave a pin, the prince's mother I stuck it in my daughter-in-law's head and she flew away as a dove; the gardeners hear a voice: I was born from an apple, pava raised me, your mother and your first wife turned me into a dove; it starts raining, but how only people hide under a tree, the sun comes out again; so many times; when he found out about this, the prince asked the old woman for help; she came under a tree, put the hand mill upside down and began to grind; the girl- the dove began to explain that they did not do this; the old woman asked me to go down and show her how to do it; then began to sift the flour with the sieve upside down; then bake cakes on the convex side of the bowl; at the end finally, the dove came down and the old woman caught her; the prince kept the dove in his room in his room; the mother picked up the key, pulled out the dove and threw it on the pile of coal; the prince washed the dove, felt for the pin and pulled it out; the dove became a girl again; the prince executed his mother and first wife; the prince and wife were visited by a woman in a luxurious outfit - she took the form of a pava]: 11-23; Egyptian Arabs [childless woman bought a pomegranate, put it under the sauerkraut; the husband came and wanted to eat; the wife: eat what is under the washing pan, but not what is under the sauerkraut; but he found and ate the pomegranate, decided that his wife was hiding from him the best; he became pregnant; when 9 months had passed, his wife told me to go to the desert; if a boy was born, you should wrap him in cloth and bring it, and if the girl was born, wrap it in silk and leave it; a girl was born, her father left her in the tree, took the falcon to his nest and raised her; the Sultan's son began to water the horse, saw the girl's reflection in the water, fell ill with love; his grandmother promised to lure the girl out of the tree; brought a sheep and pretended to slaughter her from the tail side; then from the back; from her leg; the girl says it's wrong every time, the old woman pretends not to understand; the girl told the tree to be the size of her finger, went down to show her; the prince grabbed her, took her to the palace and married her; went to the Hajj; his mother did not give bread to her daughter-in-law, gave her hand in exchange for permission to cut off her hand; so with all her limbs; she threw what was left out the window; she fell on the "ring of royalty", the spirit asked him what to do; the girl demanded that she be made whole and healthy again, and that the palace and garden with fruits should not be nearby season; the prince's mother took the form of his wife and said that his mother had died; became pregnant, asked for grapes from the next garden; the prince sent a servant to his mistress (i.e. his true wife), and she responded: my father conceived me, the falcon and the peacock fed me, and now the Sultan's son is pregnant with his mother, let the scissors cut off the tip of the questioner's tongue so as not to bring it to me; the same with the second servant; then the prince himself went; she told him what had happened; the prince poured kerosene on his mother and burned it, brought his wife back]: El-Shamy 1975:159-163.

Western Asia. Aramei [the widow's son finds a bird's egg every day, sells it for a hundred piastres; brings the bird home; the merchant persuades the widow to slaughter the bird; the young man eats its heart and finds it at the head in the morning 500 piastres; a merchant persuades the widow to kill his son, he leaves; admitted to the princess, she solders him, he belches the bird's heart, she eats him; the old man decides to help the young man; teaches him to start with the blunt side of the knife slaughter a kid outside the palace windows, cook it in a leaky cauldron, stick meat not in his mouth, but in his ears; every time the princess teaches fools how to do the right thing; the old man goes up to the roof, says it's a minaret, is going to call for prayer; the princess is afraid that her father will beat her if there is a noise and is forced to regurgitate the bird's heart and return it to the young man]: Belov, Wilsker 1960:307-311; Syrian Arabs [ the merchant gave an apple to make the woman pregnant; she cut off a piece, the rest was accidentally eaten by a man; his ankle was swollen, 9 months later a girl was born; she was carried away by a hawk, brought her to a palm tree, became to bring food, the girl grew up; the prince drove up to the spring to give his horse a drink, saw a reflection, the girl refused to go down; the prince returned home, the old woman offered to help; pretended not to be able fry scrambled eggs on the fire (either a frying pan upside down, then pours fuel into the fire); the girl came down to show, the prince took her away, hid her in his chambers; tells her mother to bring double portions of food; goes to Mecca, the mother finds the girl, leads to the window, throws her out the window; below the black snake fought against the white snake, the girl wished black victory, she won, offered to fulfill any wishes; the girl wished the palace with servants and a vineyard in front of the prince's palace; when the prince returned, the mother pretended to be his wife; he asks why she has different eyes, mouth, nose, etc., she always replies that fatigue, waiting, etc.; and the mother allegedly died; the imaginary wife pretends to be pregnant, asks the prince to send the maid for grapes; the girl answers who she is, tells the maid to cut off the scissors tongue; the same with the second, with the third maid; the prince comes himself, everything is explained; he executed his mother, her long bones were made into the crossbars of the ladder; when the prince's wife climbed them, they creaked]: Kuhr 1993:218-224; Iraqi Arabs (Shiites of Lower Eurath) [after the death of a wealthy merchant, his son Jamil continued his work; going on business, he saw a beautiful woman in the window; he was told that Amira lets you see her face, chest and beyond for a lot of money, but does not allow her to enter and refuses to marry; she is terribly rich; Abu Nuwas promised to help; they drove up under window A . in a boat dragged by a donkey over land; they made a fire in the cauldron and put the dry rice under the pot; then AN told J. that the rice was cooked and they began to pour rice by the collar; A. and the maid went out ask; NA said that they came from a country beyond China, where a pious lord did not order to pollute the fire with food, ride a horse or eat a wheel; and food should not be put in mouth; A. and the maid were invited to eat with him; AHN asked them to put food in their mouths, otherwise their lord had all-seeing glass; when AN made love to the maid, A. asked J. to do the same in her most; but J. noticed that the NA's right eye was closed, which means it was too early; J. said that if he agreed, he would not be able to return home and his property would be confiscated; so let A. rewrite all her possessions were on him; she did it; after learning this story from the Academy of Sciences, Harun er Rashid laughed, gave J. a high position in Basra, and the NA a bag of gold]: Campbell 1950:43-55.

China - Korea. Fox: Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994:446-448 [the princess is silent; the king promised the hand of her daughter and half the kingdom to whoever talks to her; the poor orphan began to boil an egg, placing the pan on two supports; she turned over and filled the fire; princess: there must be three supports! then the orphan pretended not to know how to eat an egg: it has neither an end nor a beginning; the princess told and showed; the orphan received a princess, half the kingdom and gold], 510-512 [the rich man's daughter does not speak, he will give it to someone who can get her to talk; Khwàdjasap'à brought a pig, began to beat her with a stone; girl: fool, pigs are not killed like that; gave a sword; K. was going to cut the pig's throat with a basket; fool, blood is not poured into the basket; gave a vessel; K. begins to make a fire under a thatched roof; fool - the house will catch fire; the rich man gave his daughter to K.].

The Balkans. Greeks (Lesbos) [a woman bought an apple from which children are born, left it on the table, her husband ate it, his thigh began to swell, he went to the doctor through a bush, an abscess broke, a girl fell out , he did not notice it, decided that he had recovered; the Eagle raised the girl in his nest in a tree above the spring; the prince's horse came for a drink, noticed her shadow on the water; the prince sent the old woman to lure the girl out; she pretended to be blind, began to pour water into the inverted pot; the girl went down to help her, the prince grabbed her, married her; in his absence, his mother dressed his wife as a shepherdess, sent geese to herd, said son that his wife is dead; prince heard her song in which she told her story; brought his wife back]: Paton 1900, No. 9:335-336; Bulgarians [brother and sister flee from cannibal parents or from evil stepmother ; flee from the chase (magical escape); contrary to his sister's warning, the brother drinks from the deer's footprint, becomes a deer; the sister climbs a tree (poplar); the prince notices her, but she refuses to go down; the old woman lures her out, starting to do some ridiculous homework in front of her eyes (the girl goes down to show her how to do it); the king's son takes the girl as his wife, brother -the deer remains with her, a) takes on a human form, 2) slaughtered, and from his bones collected by his sister, an apple tree or cypress grows into wonderful objects; a gypsy, a maid, a stepmother, a daughter collides a girl in a well, where it is swallowed by fish or turned into fish; takes her place; wants to kill a deer who knows the truth; a deer complains at the well to his sister; it is noticed, the fish is caught, sister (with her baby) takes her place next to the prince]: Mladenova 2006:56-57; Macedonians [three sisters are orphans, the older ones are ugly; envious of the younger Dafa, they smeared her face soot; but men still like it better; the sisters left her in the forest; for the night she climbed the sycamore tree above the spring; the prince's servant came to water the horse, he was frightened; the prince himself arrived, noticed a girl in goatskin; to lure her out, the prince called the old woman; she brought flour and tried to bake cakes in a ridiculous way; D. went down to show that the prince married her; everyone went to wedding; D. took off her goatskin, dressed in a luxurious dress and also came; the prince's mother shows what beauty he should marry; prince: so this is my wife, she took off her skin; prince's mother burned her skin, everything was fine; when she found out that D. married the prince, her sisters pretended to be beggars, came to her; put two needles in her head and two under her arms, turning them into an owl; they did the same to D.'s children, turning them into an owl them in the owls; when she heard their tender voices, the Queen Mother ordered the owls to be caught; took the needles out of the owls' bodies, they became three children again; but the mother owl flew away; her grave voice has since been heard]: Douma 1893: 414-417; Gagauz people [stepmother tells her husband to get rid of his children from his first wife; he took them to the forest, hung an empty pumpkin on the tree, who knocks in the wind as if he was still cutting wood; the children went to look house; the boy wants to get drunk from a wolf trail, his sister does not say: you will become a wolf; he drank from a bull, became a goby with golden horns, silver hooves and tinsel hair; on the poplar by the well, gold swing, the girl climbed onto the poplar, sat on the swing; the prince sees her, she refuses to get down; he orders the poplar to be cut down; at night the goby brings food to his sister, licks the felling; to lure the girl, woman sifts the flour through the underside of the dough, puts the pot upside down, the tripod upside down, the firewood standing; the girl went down to show how to cook hominy, caught, the prince married her; the goby went with them]: Moshkov 1904, No. 52:90-92; Aruanians (Macedonia; {the text is the same as that referred to the Macedonians; it is more reliable to consider it Macedonian until the Romanian version is found}) [two older sisters they envy the beauty of the youngest; they took her into the forest and left her; she came out of the forest, pulled on a goatskin, climbed the plane tree above the spring; the prince brought her horse to water, the horse is frightened when he sees the reflection in the water; the girl refuses to get down; then the old woman began to cook noodles, doing everything against common sense; the girl got down to show her how to do it, the prince took her away, married her; the Queen Mother agreed to marriage, only when the daughter-in-law took off and burned her skin; the older sisters came to the wedding, stabbed a pin into their sister's arm and head, who flew away an owl; they also stabbed their sister's three sons, they also became owls; the prince caught them, took out their pins, the sons became human again; but he didn't catch the owl wife, she still flies and calls children]: Dähnhardt 1910:382.

Central Europe. Western Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina) [a woman has such a beautiful daughter that she demands money from someone who wants to see her; the gypsy promises the poor guy to arrange a job; tells him to bring a pig, ask permission to slaughter her; ask for a knife; they began to poke the pig, she screams, the woman calls Ganya to look at the fools who do not know how to slaughter pigs; G. tells the mother to slaughter herself; the gypsies and the guy ask for the night to cook meat; the meat was put in front of the hearth; the woman again calls G. to see how those who came do not know how to fry meat; began to eat dinner; those who came sat down with their backs to the table, fumble their hands behind their backs; woman She laid bed to those who came to another hut, and they lay across; G. went to show them; lay down with the young man, and her mother with the old one (i.e. with the gypsy); they still live like this]: Zinchuk 2006a, No. 126:380-382.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians: Abaev et al. 1957:189-194 [young Batradz and his shepherd peer see fire-eyed Soslan and Juandon's son Urag coming out of the sea; they are invited to play with them; they join the players Sons of the Month, Afsati (animal owner), Falwar (patron saint of goats and sheep), Uatsil; S. and W. win the shooting, take away the hats of B. and other boys; Syrdon advises them to turn to Satan; she advises them to turn to Satan; she advises shave Uryzmag on the shore with his left hand with the blunt side of the razor; S. comes out of the sea to teach him how to shave; he is slightly wounded in the head with a razor, after which he can no longer return to sea; in the village of sledges everyone welcomes S.]; Libedinsky 1978 [(a brief retelling of the main episode in Tuite 1998:329); Khamyts meets a hunter boy of incredible strength; he is from the family of Bycent, relatives of the Donbettyrs, they live underground, the entrance is through an anthill; H. comes to Bycent with sledges for the boy's promised bride Bytsenon; this is a frog; at X.'s house she turns into a girl at night; contrary to B.'s ban, H. brings her to pocket for a sledge meeting; Syrdon laughs at him; B. cannot tolerate ridicule, returns to his world, blowing the conceived child into a tumor on H.'s back; when Satana cuts a tumor that is hot the steel baby Batradz jumps out, jumps into the sea; he is raised by the Donbettyrs; when the Nart boys play in winter, B. comes out from under the ice, beats them, taking all the alchiki; S. teaches how to catch B. ; Uryzmaga is shaved on the seashore; B. spies, wants to be shaved too; after his hair is thrown into the sea, he goes with sledges, settles in with his father H.; easily defeats young men in archery; performs feats; only God kills him]: 294-303; Miller 1881, No. 10 [Rostom Khan had a mistress, he went to her on a wind horse; his wife quietly sat behind her husband, killed her rival; when she died, she asked to take the child out; R. took a child named Amiran out of her stomach, threw it into the water; R. fell ill with grief; he had sons Badri and Rusi; they were fishing; a pretty one jumped out of the water boy, began to play on the surface of the sea; R. taught his sons to catch him; let one sit on the shore and the other shave him not along but across; you have to touch the boy's head with a razor when he will approach to teach him how to shave properly; when A. was caught, he was locked behind 7 iron doors so that he would not hear the noise of the enemies in charge of the house - Voyugov and Gumirov; he heard, cut down enemies; remained only Avzaron Pascondi; A. cut down his 6 heads, but the seventh remained and the AP flew to heaven; together with his brothers A. went to fight the snake Zariag-Calm; let himself be swallowed, cut from the inside, came out all shabby; did not receive the field he wanted from the brothers, and left; Woyugi and Gumirs became rulers again; the brothers put on copper shoes, took iron staffs, went to look for A.; returned them, but on the way back, the AP took the brothers away to heaven; A. killed a sea bull, climbed into his skin; AP took the skin from A. inside to heaven; persuaded the brothers to tell AP that they had a dream: A. tore off his head; he rushed at them and A. killed him; along a rope brothers descended to earth; A. again forced Voyugov and Gumirov to pay tribute]: 145-147; Avars [three brothers inherited silver from her father; Khan's daughter will show her face if she is given silver; old man offers a choice to see the beauty's face or his advice; two older brothers want a beauty, they are shown the face of a crooked maid; the youngest chose advice; old man: stand outside the beauty's window, hit them with iron hammer, say that you are a silversmith; a beautiful woman takes him for a fool who is easy to deceive; calls to her, teaches me to hit iron with a hammer; eat bread, not poke it in your ears ("I'm always mother fed"); sleeping on the bed under the blanket, not on the bare floor; "Mother slept next to me"; the beautiful woman goes to bed with a young man]: Atayev 1972, No. 28:40-42; Avars []: Khalilov 1965, No. 57:162-166; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 82 (1878, Dusheti) [the king gives his son money, he buys a mouse that the woman is going to drown; next time a cat and a puppy; then a prince who was going to drown kill robbers; he tells him to ask his parents for a gem; this stone fulfills wishes; after the death of his parents, the young man asks the beggar to marry him to the queen of women; he orders in front of her windows stab the goat with an awl; the queen sent the wet nurse to show how to cut a goat; the same is to cook meat (they beat meat against tagan); eat meat (spank them on the tagan); sleep (one goes to bed, the other gets up immediately); the queen shows how to go to bed, married a young man; he tells her about the stone of desire; she takes the young man to the square and her palace to the sea; a cat and a mouse swim there on the dog's back; the cat knocked over the vinegar vessel, the spray hit the queen's face, at which time the mouse carried away the stone; the dog barked at the catfish, dropped the stone; the man saw the catfish and killed, leaving the entrails to the animals, in the intestines that stone turned out to be; the wife made peace with the young man, everything was fine], 93 (Onsky district) [the bob peasant's ankle was swollen, a baby girl fell out of the abscess, the peasant left her by the river; the crow took the girl away into her nest, began to raise her, stole people's clothes for her; the girl became beautiful, the prince saw her, but could not climb the tree; the old woman asks for a goat, an awl and a sleepy potion; under the tree she became pretend that she does not know how to slaughter a goat, so she stabs it with an awl; the girl tells me to cut the goat's throat; the old woman begins to shred the carcass, the girl goes down to show that you need to take off the skin first, the old woman cooks a barbecue, puts a dope in it, brings the girl to the king; she only cries, is silent; the old woman stains the prince's clothes with blood, says that he was wounded while hunting, and then eaten by wolves; the girl begins to sing, telling who she is]: 72-77, 134-138; Chikovani 1954, No. 60 (Pshavia) [=Chikovani 1986:279-284; stepmother pretends to be sick, she will be cured by her stepson's liver; father sharpens a knife; Koasnukh's bull tells the boy to sit down at him, take a sharpener, a comb, a bottle of water; the father chases a pig; the boy pours water from a bottle (the pig swims across the sea), a comb (the pig gnaws through the forest), the sharpener (the pig falls down the mountain, breaks); the bull leaves the boy on a high poplar, gives two flutes; he plays the joyful, the butterflies dance; the shepherd, then the king wants a pipe for himself; if trouble, let him play on the painful, the bull will come to the rescue ; to lure the boy off the tree, they send an old woman; she leads a goat to the poplar and begins to stab her with an awl - supposedly does not know how to slaughter her; the boy came down to show, he was grabbed and locked; he asks a crow, a crow, an eagle, a bird to bring his flute from the poplar; everyone refuses, for the boy did not leave them prey, caught them in a snare; the swallow brings; the boy plays the joyful flute, Rubella comes running, breaks eight doors, breaks the horn; the mouse takes the horn for the promise to eat it with carrion; the bull breaks the ninth door, brings the boy to the poplar; one day he plays the joyful flute, but the bull did not appear; the boy went down and found his corpse pecked by birds; after that he never played his flutes again]: 299-303; Georgians (Kakheti) [the beauty is even ready to show her hand only for a lot of money; the king gives money to the eldest sons, but not to the youngest; the beardless tells him to buy a goat and an awl; in front of the house, beauties begin to stab the goat with an awl, as if they do not know how to slaughter; the servants call show the lady how to do this; then the beardless puts the cauldron upside down (same); when the meat is cooked, the prince and the beardless beat their lips against the table as if they can't eat; the beauty came out, she was also fed; then the prince and the beardless pretend to fall asleep, each time they lie on top of each other; the beardless karasavitsa tells the servant to be put to bed, and takes the prince into his room; gives three mules loaded with gold and silver; if he doubles his wealth, he becomes his wife, but he will not; the prince gives one mule to the seller khashi (boiled tripe with garlic and pepper), let him give him a head later (khashi sellers sell boiled sheep heads); the mule gives the matsoni seller for matsoni, the third to the rope seller for the rope; the person explains to the merchants that the seller may demand a human head from them, matsoni from human milk, a rope from the seller's mustache; the prince heard this, came and demanded it; everyone gave him twice as much good as he received; the prince married a beautiful woman]: Chikovani 1986:268-261; Azerbaijanis [Ilyas goes to travel; his mother teaches me to choose the right companion; if she waits as long as necessary, she will share the bread equally, and if she says that she will slowly move forward, she will take No more bread for himself; a young man named Gulab passed the test; teaches how to force the princess to leave the palace; they tear the goat by the ears, not cut it; they hit the carcass with sticks, and do not take off the skin properly; Once in the princess's room, they stand on their heads - this is how they sleep here; but the princess guessed it and drove the young men out; they went to bed in the tomb; the robbers came in with the loot; they were going to slaughter the dead; the brothers jumped up, the robbers ran away in horror; two came up, but G. tore off one hat - supposedly there were so many dead people that everyone did not have enough money; in the afternoon, the robbers guessed the fraud and set off to look for young men ; when they saw them, G. and I. seemed to support the pole: we are angels, and this is a pillar of heaven, the sky may fall; G. and I. are preparing for weddings; robbers have come again; friends told the king who robbed the treasury, robbers were executed]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:566-574; Turks: Stebleva 1986, No. 33 [stepmother wants to throw children into the oven; boy and sister go to their mother's grave; a voice tells them to take a comb, a brush, soap; stepmother sent soldiers in pursuit; the abandoned comb became thickets of thorns, the brush with snakes covered the ground, soap with the sea; the children walk along the steppe, the boy is thirsty; the sister does not tell me to drink from reindeer hooves, who drinks, turns into a deer; a girl climbs a poplar, shahzade sees her reflection; tells her to cut; during the night, felling overgrows; the old woman begins to bake bread, putting the baking sheet upside down; the girl goes down to help her, shahzadeh picks her up and the deer, gets married; while swimming, the arapka pushes her into a deep place, puts on her clothes, says that she has turned black, waiting for her husband to return; asks to slaughter the deer; the deer brother tells his sister how knives are sharpened to slaughter him; the sister replies that she is in the stomach of a fish, her son is in her chest; people hear, shahzade overhears, the sultan and the child are taken out, the arapka is tied to the tails of 40 mules]: 131-134; Kúnos 1901 [after the death of the padishah, his son and daughter went broke, went on a journey; the sister warns his brother in vain not to drink dirty water, he drinks, turns into a deer; the sister climbed a tree above the spring, the padishah's horses see her reflection, are frightened; then the servants also see; she refuses to get down, the padishah tells the padishah to cut down the tree; when the servants have gone to rest, the deer licked the felling, the tree was intact; the next evening; then they called the old woman; she pretended to be blind, put the cauldron upside down, poured water by; the next time you did not cook meat, but ash; on the third day she slaughtered the sheep, poking it from behind, rather than cutting her throat; the girl went down, the padishah grabbed her, she agreed to marry him if he took her deer brother; black the maid pushed the padishah's wife into the spring, she was swallowed by the fish; the maid took her place, saying that she had darkened in the sun; she pretended to be sick: the meat of a deer will cure her; he says to his sister: the knife is sharpened, the water is boiling, hurry up, sister; sister in response: I am inside the fish, there is a golden saucer on my hand, there is a silver sandal on my leg, there is a small padishah at my chest; the padishah heard, the spring was drained, the fish's belly was ripped open, there was a wife with his son; the deer licked the fish's blood, became a young man again; the maid's padishah: 4 swords or 4 horses? maid: let swords against my enemies, I choose horses; she was tied to the tails of horses, torn]: 1-11.

Iran - Central Asia. Lura [when leaving, the husband demands that his wife have a son and daughter by his return; the mullah turned the egg into a girl, the tibia into a boy; the husband returned a month later, did not believe that they were children, threw the egg on the manure heap and the bone at the dogs; the dal bird asked if she could pick the egg; the woman allowed it, the bird carried the egg to its nest, it became a girl; (the egg turned into a girl again) ; the girl has grown up, the bird brings her everything she needs; she weaved the carpet; wants to go down to wash; the bird teaches how to tell the rock to go down and how to lift it back; the girl has lost her shoe and curl of hair, they fell into the eye of the prince's mare; he wants to marry the owner; the old woman promises to find her; refuses gold, asks for a skein of rope according to her weight; began rubbing rice on the bottom of the inverted mortars, pouring water on top, extinguishing the fire, pretended to slaughter the ram with the back of the knife; the girl shouts to her how to do it; old woman: I can't see anything; the girl went down to show; the old woman asks look in her head; at this time, the old woman's daughter pinned the girl's dress to the ground with pegs; the horsemen arrived and took the girl away; the old woman told the riders to leave, put the girl's clothes on her daughter, passed it off as a king, and left the girl tied to a tree; the lion ate the girl, but a drop of blood fell to the ground and reeds grew in this place; the shepherd cut it off and made a pipe, played, she sings; "Play, shepherd, play, play beautifully! I was the daughter of a Dali bird in a cave on a rock. The old woman tied me to the willow, the lion ate me"; the mother of the prince's imaginary wife heard me, threw the pipe on the pile of manure; the woman who grazed the geese picked me up to burn when it was dry; someone cooks and cleans her house; she waited for the girl and grabbed her; she replied that she was both a man and a fairy; the girl stayed with a sheep's stomach on her head - as if she were lousy; once she took off sheep's stomach to wash; the prince went to pick up his dice and saw the girl; ordered the old woman and her lousy daughter to be taken to the palace; pretended to be sick: let the lousy woman bring it a bowl of broth on his head; ripped off her lamb's stomach, married her]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 17:83-88; Turkmens [Aldarkose sees that the poor young man is avoiding him; he says his father told him not to mess with beardless; A.: I do not touch the poor and honest; the young man goes to pay 10 Tyumen to see the daughter of the padishah; A.: let's do it cheaper; they start slaughtering a kid in front of the window princesses, cutting him indiscriminately; the princess makes a noise, advises him to cut the kid's throat; then they pretend to cook the kid by hanging it on a branch and making a fire under it; the princess sends the cauldron; A. puts the cauldron upside down; princess: turn the cauldron over; when the meat is ready, A. and the young man pretend not to know how to eat, poke pieces of meat in the nose and then in the ears; the princess tells bring eccentrics to her; A.: we are used to wives feeding us from their hands; that they go to bed with us at night; the padishah's daughter lay down with A., and the maid with that guy; in the morning A. pretends to scream Azan; the princess gives him 300 Tyumen residents for his silence, he shares them with the guy, they leave]: Kekilov, Kosaev 1962:84-88; Persians: Osmanov 1987:240-243 [Raven tells boy and girl that their stepmother is going to kill them; they leave, the sister does not tell them to drink from the springs so as not to turn into chamois; the brother drinks, turns; picking pistachios, the sister finds them rich in clothes and jewelry; climbs a tree; not gets off when shahzade asks her to go with him; the old woman pretends to be trying to collect water with the boiler, lowering it with the hole down; the girl gets down to explain to her, shahzade takes her away; leaves for a year; the old woman covers the pit with a plate of salt, pours warm water on Shahzade's wife, the salt melts, the girl falls into the hole, gives birth to a golden-haired boy there; the old woman replaces her with her daughter; she explains to the returnee shahzade, what has changed from separation from him; asks to slaughter a chamois; brother complains to his sister, sister replies that let the butcher go blind; the other will break his arms and legs; for the third time shahzade hears a voice, pulls his wife and son out of the pit; pushes the false wife into boiling water, cooks pilaf from her, sends her to the old woman; the son and husband of the old woman see the hand of a sister/daughter in pilaf; the old woman does not believe, kills them with a spit; when she sees for herself jumps into a hot tanur], 447-451 [Haji's son fell in love with the Sultan's daughter; when he died, Haji left three tips: avoid bad comrades; before selling the house, let him break all the constipation, and then them he will fix it; if he hangs himself in despair, let him tie a rope to the middle beam of the ceiling; the son went broke, began to hang himself, the beam broke, gold coins fell down; the old man promised to bring him together with his daughter Sultan; they slaughtered the ram, but stabbed it in the side with a knife; the Sultan's daughter went to the window, began to move her finger over the neck; began to take off her skin - they beat the carcass with a stick; the Sultan's daughter raised her leg and ran it over it; they began to cook meat, turning the cauldron over; the Sultan's daughter ordered these stupid people to be brought to her; they pretend that they do not know how to eat or sleep; the Sultan's daughter took Haji's son as her husband, and passed off the maid as that old man] ; Pashtuns [Akhoond fell in love with the princess; his brother figured out how to get it; in front of her house they tried to kill a goat, but did not cut her throat, but hammered it between its horns; she told the maid to show how to slaughter goats; the same with removing the skin (the brothers began to pluck the goat like a chicken); the brothers put the whole goat in the cauldron and made the fire aside; the maid showed how to eat; when they began to eat, spoons they put them not in their mouths, but in their eyes; the princess went out by herself: began to feed one young man and the maid to another; the brothers wanted to sleep, for this purpose they tried to stand on the roof on their heads; the princess ordered them to be put in to himself and the maid to bed; in the morning A. said he should scream when calling for prayer; the princess gave him money to keep him quiet]: Thorburn 1876:200-201.

Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [Akkhan and Karakhan decided to marry children if wives give birth to babies of different sexes; A. has a son, K. has a daughter; A. died, K. forgot his promise; A.'s eldest daughter-in-law to his son: what is wrong with me to flirt, it would be better to go to the bride; the son asked his mother to fry wheat, held her in her hand, she had to confess; K.'s wife died, telling him to take a new wife more beautiful than her; K. found no one more beautiful than her daughter ; she set a condition: sew a flea fur coat and a lice leather handkerchief; K. fulfilled; she dug a hole in the bathhouse and covered it with a carpet; K. went, failed; the daughter left, began to live with the elderly; son A. found K ., pulled it out of the hole; K. says that his daughter killed her mother and went to the maiden; A.'s son came to the house where daughter K. lived; began to pluck the wool from the ram, put the meat on an inverted cauldron and poured water on top ; the girl, seeing this, laughed and became more and more beautiful; they fell in love with each other, he brought her to his mother, married her; beggar K. came; at night he stabbed his daughter's son, put a knife on her; said that this the witch killed her mother; the mother kicked her daughter-in-law out; the young returned to those old people, taking the child's body; son A. sees how the snake revived another by dragging her around the hummock; revived his son; the young man grew up, went fight the devil; stopped by an old woman, she wants to burn him in a copper bath, he drags her there himself, tells her to show the way to the deva; she sends him to her sister; she has a silver bath; the same goes to her older sister ; golden bath; the old woman orders to oil the deva's gate, chop snakes and lions with a sword, gives a handkerchief to heal the horse's leg if the lion hurts him; the young man drove the deva up to his throat into the ground, then put him in a cage, freed the beauties, the princess gave him a ring; he brought his mother to him; K. came, opened the cage with the deva, who advised him to send the young man for the bear's milk; K. called himself the boy's grandfather, his mother is unconscious, must be cured; the young man pulled a sharp stone out of the bear's paw, she gave milk; K. released the deva, the young man defeated him, he fell into the ground; the young man sprayed milk on K., he petrified, the millstone closed the place, where was the devil; the young man threw a ring into the jug of the princess's maid; she recognized him; wedding]: Barag 1988, No. 54:377-385.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [the miser asks Aldar-Kosa to help him look at Khan's daughter Hanshaim, for which the khan demands 100 rubles; he asks for a loan of 2 fish; the miser gives on the condition that A. gives the money, as as soon as they return home; A. offers the shepherd 2 rubles for the worst kid; then the same 2 rubles and a kid for the best lamb; in the end he gets a ram, but the shepherd does not understand that he has been deceived; A. with a miser they put up a tent; tell the maid that they are people from heaven; they cut a bound ram with an ax, the maid tells H. that heavenly people do not know how to slaughter a ram; then they put the meat in a hole and make a fire on overturned from above; they pull out pieces of hot meat and put them on their cheeks - they do not know how to eat; every time H. comes closer, then invites "heavenly people" to the palace; "heavenly people" hung by their feet to the ceiling - they do not know how to sleep; when they return, A. does not pay two rubles; agrees with his wife that he will pretend to be dead and she will bury him; then A. meets a miser; in horror that he is dead in front of him, he died]: Daurenbekov 1979:305-308.