L42G. Hans & Gretel, ATU 327A.
.11.-.17.23.26.-.34. (.60.)
Thestepmother, and more often the father (usually at the insistence of the new wife) leaves the children in a deserted place or sends them to the forest. They end up in the house of an ogre or cannibal, all (or at least one of them) stay alive and succeed.
Congo (?) , Somrai, Sudanese Arabs, Malgash, Berbers of Morocco, Berbers of Tunisia, Arabs of Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalans, Maltese, Sicilians, Italians (Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Valle d'Aosta , Tuscany, Umbria, Rome, Molise, Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria), Sardinians, Corsicans, Ladins, French (Upper Brittany, central France), Walloons, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania), Friezes, British, Irish, Yemen, Iraqi Arabs, Punjabi, Himachal Pakhari, Marathi (?) , Konkani, Kondas, Lisu, Taunyo, Hungarians, Serbs, Slovenes, Croats, Romanians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Russians (Pskov, Ryazan, Gorkovskaya, Kursk), Ukrainians (Galicia, Podolia, Chernigov), Belarusians, Poles, Luzhitans, Czechs, Slovaks, Nogais, Rutulans, Bakhtiyars, Persians, Yazgulyams, Estonians, Finns, Karelians, Veps, Livs, Latvians, Lithuanians, Western Sami, Swedes, Danes, Faroese, Icelanders, Mordovians, Kazan Tatars, Chuvash, Mari, Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz, Yellow Uighurs, Mongols of Ordos, (Imbabura). {There is no corresponding motive in Uther 2004's references to publications on Syria, Korea, and Japan; Mansi's presence is also questionable}.
Bantu-speaking Africa. Congo (? , Kinshasa) [the poor couple has two boys; they have nothing to eat, they decided to leave them in the forest; the first time the children returned; the second, the eldest told the youngest not to cry, they will find work; they came to the ogre's house; at night, he tied ropes to the necks of those who came; the elder bandaged them to the cannibal's children; the children ran away with all the money; the cannibal and his wife starved to death; the parents are happy that the children returned]: Paulme 1976:275-276.
West Africa. Somrai [during hunger, the wife tells her husband to leave their three children in the forest; the youngest takes millet with him, sprinkles it along the way; the father left quietly, but the youngest took the brothers home; the next day But the youngest threw peanuts behind them, and the raven pecked them; the brothers came to the house of the bird sorcerer; his wife fed them and told them to leave; the sorcerer caught up with them, but they hid in a hole and the younger one picked up the birds from their feet bracelet; brothers came to another country; the king died there; his daughter cannot find fabric for the shroud, does not want to wrap her father in bull's clothing; the younger brother tells his bracelet to move it to a country where he eats fabrics, brings it to the princess, she buries her father, the younger brother becomes king; parents come to him, they do not recognize him; he has benefited his older brother; the parents did not recognize the elder, he confessed; says he now wants to see his father on the throne; the younger does not agree to give up power; the elder fights him, the youngest kills him, then stabbed himself; their father became king]: Jungraithmayr 1981, No. 20:98-103.
Sudan - East Africa. Sudanese Arabs []: El-Shamy 2004, No. 327A: 159-160; Malgashi: Haring 1982, No. 3.2.327C (betsimisaraka) [parents told the children they would go look for food and did not return; in what was left behind the pot is not beans, but pebbles; brother goes to look for food up the river, sister goes down; they come back empty-handed; brother is angry, they divide their house in half; the next day brother brings crab, sister a dead sheep; brother smells, breaks the partition, his sister feeds him; now she goes up the river, finds the cannibal Trimobe's house, brings a lot of food from there; brother tells him to be brought to T., eats too much a lot, can't leave; sister tells me to hide under a chair; T. smells a man, but his brother kills him with a knife, his wealth goes to brother and sister], 3.2.327i (bar) [father leaves children in the forest; they they climb a tree; the elder goes to get water, comes to the pond, there are bananas, sugar cane, lots of cattle; he climbed into the bag, pretended to be a baby for the owner to pick it up; he picked it up, fed it, left it take care of cattle; gives the owner a fried porcupine liver under the guise of his own; he believes, allows a hot poker to snatch his liver, dies; brothers take his wealth; take his mother, and the father is being driven away; the mother is old, so there are so many old women], 3.2.327t (Tulear County) [parents decide to leave their three children in the woods to be eaten by the cannibal Bibibe; twice the place is familiar the children have returned, stay in the forest for the third time, climb a tree, call their parents, B. took them away; the youngest advises to fatten them first; says that they do not get fat because B.'s pets interfere; B. kills his animals; children run, climbed a tree, B. rushed to break it, crashed to death; in his stomach, children find a purse with money that belonged to one of those B. ate before; children returned to their parents, everything is fine]: 382-383, 385, 389-390.
North Africa. Moroccan Berbers: Laoust 1950, No. 90, 91, 92 (three texts in Berber dialects of central Morocco); Moroccan Arabs [a widower has a daughter and son Aamar younger than her; stepmother tyrannizes children by breaking dishes, accuses them; father throws them in the forest; they find an abandoned house, live there; the sister finds a treasure; two years later she asks A. what he would do with the gold; A. replies that he would buy toys; After a while, she would buy a gun to shoot her father and stepmother; when she replies that she would buy cattle, the sister realizes that A. has become an adult; a woman comes and asks for permission to live; sister wants drive her away, but she marries A.; hates her sister; says that whoever swallows three eggs loves A.; snake eggs, sister swallows, her stomach grows; brother ties her to a tree with his hands off; she frees herself from fetters, goes to live with deer; the sultan's people catch her; the old woman feeds her salty meat, hangs her upside down, she belches three snakes; the sultan marries her; when she leaves, warns of cunning her other two wives; they push her into a well, she gives birth to twins named Abdurrahman and Othman; the servant hears her voice, evil wives threaten to kill her children, kick her out of the palace; she tries to get water for children, at which time her hands grow; she finds an empty house, lives there; the woman's sultan and father are looking for her, coming to her house; she tells her story; the father falls through the ground, only the beard remained; the sultan burned evil wives alive]: El Koudia 2003, No. 14:90-95; the Berbers of Tunisia [the wife died leaving seven daughters; the husband took a new wife, she demanded that the daughters be taken to the forest; that supposedly led them to herd their sheep, the youngest scattered ash along the way; the father left the daughters under the tree, promised to return; they themselves found their way home; the stepmother scolds her husband; he again took the daughters far from home; threw a fez into the well, asked her to get it; each went down, leaving her clothes and jewelry; the youngest managed to take off her sisters's clothes, told her father that he was a liar; the father left, the sisters dug a way out; came to the house of a crooked cannibal; the youngest tried to steal flour, the witch left the rooster to guard, grabbed the girl; adopted her; she gave half of the food to the cannibal and her husband every day, and the other to the sisters who hid under the floor; the cannibal decided to slaughter the girl and have a feast for other cannibals; her husband took the girl to collect firewood; she asked him to climb a palm tree to pick dates, piled up around The trunk was set on fire, the cannibal burned down; the cannibal asked to take her to her husband, the girl threw her into the well; the sisters took possession of the cannibal's wealth, married in town]: Stumme 1900:43-44 (French translation in Basset 1903, No. 7:17-23; the Arabs of Tunisia, Egypt: El-Shamy 2004, No. 327A: 159-160.
Southern Europe. Spaniards (Asturias, Extremadura, Cordoba, etc.) [after the death of their mother, Periquito and Mariquita live with their father and stepmother; she did not love children, their father took them to the forest; they came to a house with candy windows; there is a cannibal; locked P. in a chicken coop, M. ordered to work; the cannibal fattens P., but he does not stick her finger, but her chicken paw; then the cannibal decided to invite guests and eat P. anyway; told M. to lie down in the stove; St. Peter and St. Paul, they stuffed her into the stove herself; M. took out the keys, unlocked the chicken coop and left in place with P.]: Camarena, Chevallier 1995, No. 327A: 134-136; Portuguese: Cardigos 2006, No. 327A [mother or stepmother persuaded father to leave the children in the forest; the boy overheard the conversation, collected pebbles, the children returned; next time, lupine seeds, they were pecked by birds; children steal food from a blind cannibal, she blames the cat, children they laugh, the cannibal caught them; they feed them, they slip a stick or bone instead of a finger; on the advice of St. Virgo or St. Antonia, a cannibal, is being pushed into the oven; two dogs jumped out of her eyes and began to serve children; children return home bringing treasures]: 78-79; Pedroso 1882, No. 14 []: 59-66; Portuguese (Coimbra) [ the father sent his son and daughter to the forest for firewood; they did not go out to the light in the forest; in the house a witch with one eye in her forehead roasts cakes; the children secretly take them, the witch thinks that the cat stole the cakes; the children laugh; the witch she grabbed them, fattened them with chestnuts; demanded to show their finger; they stick their rat tail, the witch believes that the children are thin; the tail is gone, the witch decided that the children can be fried; sent them for firewood she took bread with her, not breaking it, and a jar of wine, prohibiting removing the cork; the old woman (velhinha) made holes in the vessel and in the bread to extract the contents; taught the witch to ask herself dance in front of the stove and push there; the witch died and the children returned to their father with the witch's money]: Coelho 1879, No. 27:65-66; Catalans [boy and girl hear parents They agree to leave them in the forest; they throw pebbles along the way, come back; next time they are crumbs pecked by birds; children come to the house made of sugar and chocolate; the cannibal puts the boy in a cage, She fattens her; he doesn't stick her finger, but chicken bone; she tells the girl to melt the stove to fry her brother; she pushes her into the fire herself; the children are saved]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 327A: 77-78; Maltese [parents decide to get rid of their children; the youngest takes pebbles with him, throws them along the way, takes others out of the forest; next time parents manage to prevent them from taking pebbles; brothers come to the ogre; his wife tries to hide them, but the ogre finds them by smell; the younger one tells them to change clothes with the cannibal's daughters at night, who kills his own daughters; the brothers run away, taking the ogre's treasures]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 327A-327B: 76-80; Sicilians [widowed father marries a neighbor; she has an ugly one-eyed daughter; she tells her husband to take Maria and Peppa to the forest; M. leaves lupine seeds on the trail, then beans , then bran; each time the father hangs a pumpkin to knock in the wind, as if he were cutting wood, he leaves; the children come back on the trail twice, but the bran was taken away by the wind; P. is thirsty; the first stream murmurs that the drunk waters will become snakes; the second - P. will be a rabbit; the third - M. will become beautiful, P. will become a lamb; P. drinks; M. and a lamb live in a cave for several years; the king finds them, takes M. as his wife; she is pregnant ; stepmother comes with her daughter; stepmother pushes M. into the sea, swallows her by a shark; leaves her daughter instead of M.; imaginary M. says she is fool because of the lamb, tells him to kill him; lamb by the sea turns to his sister, says that they sharpen knives, cook cauldrons, want to slaughter him; M. replies that she is being held by a shark, she cannot even give birth; the servant tells the king; M. teaches to throw a hook into the shark's mouth, the king pulls her out; the stepmother's daughter's chopped head is sent to her stepmother under the guise of tuna; she recognizes the blind eye; the stepmother is cooked alive]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 20:130-137; Italians (Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Valle d'Aosta, Tuscany, Umbria, Rome, Molise, Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria), Sardinians: Sirese, Serafini 1975, No. 327A: 73-74; Corsicans, Ladins: Uther 2004 (1), NO. 327A: 212-213
Western Europe. The British [parents cannot feed their children, leave their three daughters in the forest; they come to the ogre's house; his wife asks for mercy for the girls; in the evening, the cannibal ties straw girls around their necks shoelaces, and hangs gold chains to her daughters; Molly Vappy's youngest girl changes shoelaces and necklaces; an ogre kills daughters, girls run away; the king promises to pass off his eldest son for the eldest girl , if MB brings an ogre's sword; she brings it, running across a thin-like hair bridge that the cannibal is afraid to step on; the same is a purse (the middle prince marries his middle sister); the king will pass MB off as a younger son, if she brings a giant ring; the giant grabs MB; she suggests putting her in a bag with a cat, a dog, scissors and a needle and thread, hanging it on the wall, going to get a club to beat her; says as if she sees something; the ogre's wife agrees to sit in the bag instead of her; the ogre kills his wife (her scream is not heard because of the dog's barking and the cat's meowing), MB marries the prince]: Jacobs 1890, No. 22:125-130 (translated in Kharitonov 2008:212-215); the Germans [under threat of hunger, the woodcutter agrees to a second wife's offer to take their children named Hansel and Gretel to the forest; the children heard the conversation; Hansel recruited whites threw pebbles along the way; father tied a block of wood to knock in the wind - like an ax); the children returned home; next time Hansel threw crumbs and birds pecked them; the children came to a hut of bread, gingerbread, candy; the half-blind old woman began to feed Hansel, but each time he held out her not a finger, but a bone; then the old woman tells Gretel to climb into the stove, but she pretends that doesn't know how; the old woman began to show her, Gretel pushed her into the oven, she burned down; the children collected treasures, the duck carried them across the river; they came home and healed well]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 15:53-58 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:48-54); French: Delarue 1957, No. 327 A and B (central France) [the widower has a son and daughter Furon Furelle; he remarried; his stepmother took the children to the forest, hung them on a tree a wooden shoe to knock in the wind, and the children thought she was cutting wood, left by herself; the children came to the house; the devil's wife fed them and put them to bed; hell came back, promised to fry them; they heard, exchanged lines and rings with the children (they are gold, and FF des soies des balai); hell fried his children in the stove; when he missed it, he chased FF; FF asked the laundresses to transport them across the river; they spread canvases on the water, the children crossed; when the hell went, the laundresses removed the canvas, the hell drowned]: 306-307; Sébillot 1894, No. 4 (Upper Brittany) [two women were giving birth from church in the evening, they lost their way, came to the ogre; his wife hid them in chests in the barn; one gave birth to a boy Pierre, the other a girl to Françoise; the cannibal found them but did not eat them; when P. grew up, the cannibal sent him to cut him the forest with a wooden ax; F. went to bring him lunch; the woman gave her a magic wand; on her order, the trees fell; the same when Pierre was told to fill the pool with water, carrying the water with a pen; F. overheard that they want to cook and eat them; put the ogre's son in P.'s place, told the wand to leave the house; the children ran away, the cannibal ate his son, chased the children; F. tells the magic wand to divide the waters of the river, to get dry; when the cannibal followed, the waters closed and he drowned; P. F. came to Christians, grew up, P. got married and F. got married], 5 [the widow took her two sons to the forest, pretended to fall asleep, the boys fell asleep too, and she got up and went home; the boys came to Saracen (= cannibal); his wife asks not to eat them; at night, a Saracen wears woolen hats for his children and wooden hats for those who come; at night he killed and ate his own children; chased boys in seven-mile boots; the boys climbed the tree; the Saracen cut him down, they jumped to another; the Saracen fell asleep, the boys put his boots on and returned home]: 49-51, 52-53; walloons [stepmother tells her husband to take him to the forest his three children with his first wife; the eldest unravels the ball behind, the children returned; then sprinkles ash; the third time he sprinkles peas, the crows pecked it; the children are lost, the eldest comes to the ogre's house and witches, the maid hides him, the cannibal finds him; the maid frees him from the bag, puts plates in there, runs with the boy; they turn into a woman baking bread, and next to him the cannibal boy does not recognize them; a witch chased, they turned into a reed and a pond; the witch tried to grab the reeds, drowned; the maid married a young man]: Laport 1932, No. 327:46-47; walloons [the lumberjack has two boys 12-13 years old and daughter Marie, and with them the little dog Courtillon-Courtillette Siivon-Sivet; in winter, the woodcutter invites his wife to take the children to the forest so as not to watch them starve to death; the dog heard everything and told the children; tells them to put peas in their pockets and throw them along the way to find their way back; the children spent the night in the forest, and in the morning the dog took them back home; the next time the children in the house found nothing but white cheese; at night, the rain washed it away; Jean and Pierre climb a tree, see nothing; M. noticed the illuminated palace; an old woman opened it: the Devil lives here; the children were left overnight in a room where the Devil's three daughters sleep with gold necklaces; the dog tells them to exchange necklaces; at night the Devil put his daughters in the oven; the dog put the children on his back and ran; in the morning the Devil rides a pig; the dog turned children as laundresses and themselves into the river; next time: a field of alfalfa, sheep, a dog and a shepherd; then two cows and a cowshed; the devil tried to cross the river on a canvas laid on the water, but drowned; happy children returned home]: Carnoy 1883:252-254; Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania), Dutch, Friesians, Flemish, Irish: Uther 2004 (1), No. 327A: 212-213.
Western Asia. Yemen [after the death of his wife, the widow takes care of the children, the husband marries her, then she demands to get rid of the children; the father takes his daughter and young son to the wadi to the cave, goes to fix it need does not return; the children are left alone; manure and ash are found in the bags of provisions left; a white bird comes to them, saying that it is their mother, who has come from paradise, feeds them; the stepmother comes, when her sister is away; her little brother tells her everything; she leaves a sharp stake where the bird usually sits; the bird is wounded; says that if the children see a white cloud at sunset in the evening, that's it well, if it's black, she won't fly again; children see black; they go at random, come to the house of a cannibal named Darkness; she also has a son and daughter; the sister suspects something is amiss; before going to bed, the old woman smears her legs children who come with henna with cow manure; the sister washes what the old woman smeared, does the opposite; the cannibal kills and cooks her children; orphans run; there is a rock on the way, a shepherd on it; the sister promises to be his wife, he raises orphans on a rope; when an ogre comes running, advises her to collect a bunch of brushwood, climb it, lowers the rope, raises it to the middle of the cliff, sets fire to the wood, throws the cannibal at fire; sister marries a shepherd, brother helps him herd sheep]: Daum 1992, No. 9:97-111; Iraqi Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 327A: 159-160.
South Asia. Himachali plowmen [the brahman has 5 daughters; after the death of his wife, he took a new one; she tells them to take his stepdaughters to the forest; the father invites them to cross the river; he will follow them, and if they see that his umbrella If he swam, he drowns; lowers his umbrella on the water and leaves; the sisters come to the house in the forest; there the woman sends them for firewood, and the eldest asks them to stay; ate it, told others that she has returned to her parents; So with the rest of the sisters, only the youngest is left; she finds the sisters' heads in the chest; they tell her to run, taking various items from the witch's house, throw them along the way, the witch will pick them up, return, she will lose time; the witch flies on a broom, picks up objects, the girl asks for protection from the tree, it opens, only the little finger is left outside; the witch bites it off, leaves; the woodcutter hears a voice from the inside of the trunk, reports Raja, he marries a girl]: Dracott 1906:31-35; Punjabi [the queen died leaving two daughters, the king took another; she hates stepdaughters; they find food on the grave deceased mother; stepmother sends the cat to find out what is going on; tells her to dig a grave; a tree grows in this place, the girls feed on its fruits; the cat reports it again; the stepmother tells me to cut down and burn it tree; get rid of stepdaughters; the father took them to the forest, hung a vessel wrapped in cloth on a pole; he knocks on a tree, the girls think that the father washes his turban by hitting it against stones; when they see this, the girls we climbed the rock, noticed the castle, came to the giantess; she hid them from her cannibal son; in the morning the girls ran away, began to live in the forest, eating deer milk; Lal Badshah hunts; sent the vizier to fry a partridge; he sees his older sister on the tree, is shocked by her beauty, the partridge has burned down; the girl gave another, telling her not to be given away; the king orders to tell the truth; the vizier does not confess, he is buried alive, but in the last moment he confessed; the king married the girl; the younger sister's flower withered; they realized that something had happened to her sister, followed her trail of mustard seeds; the courtiers are jealous of the new to the king's wife; they threw her child away, replaced her with a basket of coals; the king asked his wife to go to prison; the younger sister raised the baby; he plays with a wooden horse, tells her to drink water; the king passing by: How can a wooden one drink? My aunt teaches: next time, answer: can a woman give birth to a basket of coals? the king returned his wife, made his son heir, and rewarded his wife's sister]: Swynnerton 1892, No. 81:331-342; Marathi (?) : Knight 1913 in Thompson, Roberts 1960, No. 327A: 54-55; (cf. Marathi (Mumbai) [the beggar has an ascetic wife and six daughters; once he was given hot rice in his hands; his thumb was swollen, the wife opened the abscess, and the girl came out; the couple agreed to lock their daughters, eat the cakes themselves; the girls ate them secretly; to hide everything from her husband, the wife made two cakes out of ash; the father decided to take the girls to the forest; took them, supposedly, to their uncle; when the daughters fell asleep, the youngest, as always, began to suck her father's finger; he cut off his finger and left; the other sisters thought that the youngest had eaten her father; they began to call Baphadi ("ate father"); they found an empty house with seven rooms, each with food and clothes; Room B. is the best, but B. is silent about it, wears rags; on Sundays, sisters go to temple, B. does not go with them; comes there unrecognized in a luxurious outfit, returns before others; once lost shoe; the prince fell ill with love, climbed into the stable; saw the maids eating the horse's food themselves; they ran to the king; the king asked his son what was going on; told everyone to try on the shoe; she B. came up; the prince married her and the sisters became maids; in the absence of her husband, B. gave birth to a son; the sisters buried him under a tree, replaced him with a gravel stone; and a golden shower fell on the prince's ship (sign the birth of a boy); the next time, the daughter was replaced with a broom, silver rain fell; the third time, the daughter was buried again (buried in the church, replaced with a broom made of palm leaves); after that, the prince locked B. in in prison, married her sisters; for several years B. was fed leftovers; God saved the children, they began to beg, saying that the king (i.e. prince) was crazy; the prince heard; the children did not accept mercy from his six wives; they ordered a seventh to be brought in and seven curtains hung between her and them; streams of her milk penetrated through them into the children's mouths; six sisters had to confess; the prince returned B. and the children, and her sisters had their hair and noses cut off , put on donkeys, expelled from the country]: D'Penha 1891, No. 8:142-147); konkani (Mulwani dialect, Maharashtra) [the queen died leaving two daughters, the king took another; she hates stepdaughters; they they find food at the grave of the deceased mother; the stepmother sends the cat to find out what is going on; tells them to dig a grave; a tree grows in this place, the girls feed on its fruits; the cat reports it again; the stepmother He tells them to cut down and burn the tree; get rid of the stepdaughters; the father took them to the forest, hung a vessel wrapped in cloth on a pole; it knocks on a tree, the girls think that the father washes his turban by hitting it against stones; Seeing this, the girls climbed the rock, noticed the castle, came to the giantess; she hid them from her cannibal son; in the morning the girls ran away, lived in the forest, eating reindeer milk; Lal Badshah hunts; sent the vizier to fry the partridge; he sees his older sister on the tree, is shocked by her beauty, the partridge has burned down; the girl gave another, telling her not to be given away; the king orders to tell the truth; the vizier does not confess He is buried alive, but at the last moment he confessed; the king married the girl; the younger sister's flower wilted; they realized that something had happened to their sister, followed her trail of mustard seeds; The courtiers are jealous of the king's new wife; they threw her child away, replaced her with a basket of coals; the king asked his wife to go to prison; the younger sister raised the baby; he plays with a wooden horse, tells her to drink water; King passing by: How can a wooden one drink? My aunt teaches: next time, answer: can a woman give birth to a basket of coals? the king returned his wife, made his son heir, rewarded his wife's sister]: Swynnerton 1892, No. 81:331-342; konkani (Mulwanee dialect, Maharashtra) [the poor man decides to get rid of his five daughters; takes away they go to the forest, telling them to wait for him under a tree to cut wood; leaves, ties a deck to a branch with a rope; she knocks on the trunk, swaying in the wind; the poor man returns home; the sisters, after waiting for the evening, go to the sound; find a beautiful garden with a house; go inside, see a sleeping giant; the older sister lights a fire under a pot of oil; then the sisters pour hot oil into the giant's mouth; he dies; sisters They find gold and silver in his house, as well as a room where bran is stored; his older sister advises him not to hurry, but the other four take the treasure and go home; thieves rob them on the way; As a result, four sisters come home empty-handed; the eldest finds gems under the bran; puts them in a basket, covers them with cow manure on top; thieves let her in; she comes home, takes them away mother aside and shows what she brought]: Gangeyee 1975, No. 3:19-24; conds [poor man collects and sells firewood; he has 7 daughters; one day he and his wife decided, while their daughters are sleeping, to slaughter and eat the last chicken; but the daughters woke up and could not eat; another time the father found a fruit tree, but the daughters went with him and began to eat the fruits themselves; then the father took the daughters to (another?) to the fruit tree, and he walked away, hung the calebas on a branch and left; the wind whistled in the calebas, and the daughters thought it was the father who was whistling; when it got dark, the elders told the younger ones not to cry, or the tiger will hear; storks flew by in the morning; the older sisters decided that they were flying to the water, went in the same direction; reached the water; but as soon as the older sister touched the water, the water was gone; water: give the younger sister a ring , then I'll return the water; they threw the ring; when they got drunk and swam, the eldest tried to take the ring from the bottom and immediately failed; the youngest rushed to help her; the eldest came back and the youngest disappeared; 6 the sisters came to the tiger's house; the house was empty, but there was a lot of food; they cleaned everything up, prepared food, and when the tiger came, they hid; the tiger was surprised, ate, fell asleep; the sisters threw oil on his back; the tiger decided that he needed a second mouth on his back, because he could not reach it first; he asked the tiger to allow himself to be tied, made a hole in it with a hot rod and the tiger died; the king's servants found the house, the king came and married the eldest of the sisters, gave the rest to the courtiers; took the tiger's wealth; one day the sisters saw their poor parents and the king took them to the palace]: Schulze 1922, No. 14:79-86.
China - Korea. Lisa: Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994:427-430 [The widower has a daughter, Amima, and a son, Abep; he remarried; finds out that his wife gives her children food by putting her on the ground (which is offensive); the wife tells them to get rid of children; their father takes them to the forest, they fall asleep, he leaves, but their yellow dog then takes them home, they spend the night in a pigsty; next time the dog is tied up; the girl is eaten by a tiger; her spirit teaches her brother in a dream to go on the plateau at sunrise, there is a tree of immortality, to tear a piece off the root with his teeth and save it; along the way, Abepa picked up big beans; came to the place where they played, throwing pieces of silver; he put his beans, won, received silver; revived the dead daughter of a rich man with particles of that tree, married her, became rich; and his father and stepmother became impoverished], 431-439 [the widower has a daughter Amima and a son; he remarried; finds out what his wife gives food for the children, putting it on the ground; the wife tells them to get rid of the children; the father takes them to the forest, they fall asleep, he leaves, but their black dog then takes them home; next time the father kills the dog, feeds its children meat; the girl was eaten by a tiger; her spirit gives the boy a magic knife and crossbow, tells him to move forward, he will soon find someone to live with; he was adopted by an old woman; he grew up; won gold and silver against the king's seven sons balloons, putting on the line the huge beans he found; the king asks his sons to return their mother from the land of the dead; only an orphan enters there, pointing his knife and crossbow at the spirits; brought the king's mother, but seven his sons were killed; three fairies protect his body from animals, birds and insects; the king's mother lives in the tower; looks at the audience to see if anyone who brought it among them; the sculptor revived an orphan; his king's mother I found out; the king executed his sons, gave half the kingdom to an orphan], 456-466 [the man had a daughter Amima and a son Abep; after the death of their mother, he remarried; his stepmother persuaded him to get rid of the children; they were told to bring water; they went to the spring, left the vessels under the stream, but they did not fill; a year later, the cat, then the raven, explained that the vessels were full of holes, that the house had long been abandoned, but the chicken leg remained in it, it could be eaten; After closing the holes, the children came home, then went to look for their parents; ask for directions from those who collect buffalo, cow, pig manure; each time they are told to work and then threatened with murder; finally, they come to their parents; Amima is told to slaughter a pig, i.e. her brother; she asks to do so when the needle in her brother's forehead grows fat; she pulls out the needle for three years; then teaches her brother run up the river; if he gets rich, let rice go downstream, etc.; the supreme god Vusa gave gold and silver, offered to choose a wife among the 7 heavenly fairies; she creates a palace; Abepa He sends signs of her wealth down the river; his sister visits him; tells his parents that she got gifts by running naked on nettles; they do so; when they come to Abepa, the food he serves turns into crap; Abepa put them on the winged end, telling them to tie the reins to their legs; they suffered, the evil spouses were gone]; taunyo [mother died, father took another wife, she tells them to get rid of her stepson and stepdaughter; father left them in the fox, but the boy threw pieces of sugar cane stalk along the way and the children returned home; next time, pieces of cake, but birds pecked them; the children came to the witch; she ate the boy, She buried the bones; the young witches tried to take the magic potion away from the old one; she drove them away, took out the potion, revived the boy; the girl remembered where the drug was hidden; the witch ordered the water to boil, the girl pushed her into boiling water herself; came with her brother to the king, whose daughter died; they revived the princess, her brother married her, received half the kingdom; her sister began to live in an emerald palace]: Zapadova 1977: 293-296.
The Balkans. Hungarians: Jones, Kropf 1889 [the poor king's wife is dead, three daughters are left; the father has taken his stepmother; the youngest hears that the stepmother is about to take them to the forest; she galloped to the godmother, she is a sorceress, she let cotton wool throw behind her; but the girl should not take the sisters home - they are very angry; but the sisters asked them to take them out too; next time the godmother gave a bag of ash; the third time the girl did not go to godmother, but decided to take the peas and pour them behind her; but the birds pecked it; the sisters planted an acorn, during the night it grew an oak tree as high as a tower; the youngest climbed, saw nothing; then like two towers; the third day - three towers, the girl saw a light in the window; on the way there, the sisters dressed her in rags and told her to say that they came from a wealthy family and she was a maid; in the castle there was a one-eyed giantess; sisters persuaded them not to eat; she hid them from her husband; he also did not eat them if they were cooking; in fact, both husband and wife each wanted to eat the girls in the absence of the other; the youngest asked the giant to try whether the lard was good, she pushed her into the oven; the giantess promised to comb her hair, killed her with an iron comb; the sisters went to town, and the youngest found a golden key, opened a chest with beautiful clothes and jewelry; she came in a silver dress for a party to the castle, where her sisters were already, and then quietly left and dressed in rags again; next time she wore a gold dress; then in a diamond dress; dropped her slipper, the prince picked it up, the king ordered all the girls to try it on; the heroine rode in the best outfit, put on both shoes; the wedding; the heroine ordered the king to restore her father's rights to the kingdom he had taken away, sent sisters to her father]: 144-149 (retelling in Cox 1893, No. 111:45); Stier 1850, No. 5 [the youngest of the poor king's three daughters hears her stepmother telling her father to take them to the forest; her godmother gives a ball of thread, to go back, but tells the evil elders not to save; the stepmother took the stepdaughters to the forest, left when they fell asleep; the sisters asked the youngest to take them out of the forest; next time the godmother was angry, but gives a bag of ash; the third time the girl is ashamed to ask her godmother again, she takes a bag of grain, but birds peck it; sisters find an acorn, pour water, bring it in her mouth, in the morning an oak tree is like a tower ; on the second or third day, even higher; from this height, the younger sister notices a light in the distance; they come to the giantess's palace with one eye in her forehead; the youngest promises to sew her a dress, she hides her sisters in the closet; the giant sniffs them out, but keeps them alive because he wants to eat them alone; the giant also does not want to share them with her husband; the youngest asks the giant to see if the stove is hot enough, pushes him into the oven; asks the giantess to allow her to comb her hair, kills her head with a hammer; older sisters hold the youngest by the maid; she found the key, opened a pantry with luxurious clothes, comes to the party in a silver dress; the sisters are jealous without recognizing her; next time in a gold dress, the third in a diamond dress; the queen follows her, she runs away after losing her shoe; the queen is sick of love, king tells all the girls to try on the shoe; the younger sister cut off the older fingers to make the shoe fit them; she galloped by herself, splashing mud at them; the guns are shooting, the wedding; the sisters return to their father, to whom his {apparently lost} kingdom was returned]: 34-35 in Cox 1893, No. 111:398-399; the Serbs [the first wife left a girl and a boy, he is younger; the stepmother tells her husband to take them to the forest; the girl overheard, they filled their pockets with ash and found their way home on the ash trail; the next day, the stepmother hid all the ash and the children filled their pockets with bran; forest animals and birds ate bran; to them Two Jews came to the fire, took them to their mother; after a while, when they left in the morning, the Jews told the children's mother to fry them before they returned; the girl had already learned Jewish and understood what they were talking about; when in the morning a Jewish woman invited the boy to sit on a shovel to put him in the oven, the girl explained that the boy was small and did not understand, let her show; the children put the Jewish woman herself in the oven; ran away, crossed the river crossed the bridge into the dense forest; the Jews, seeing their fried mother, rushed in pursuit, but because of the rains, the river overflowed and demolished the bridge; they stopped chasing; the children met a woman at the spring, talked about themselves; she told the girl's tears to turn into pearls, and when she spoke, golden roses would fall from her lips; sent the children on the road home; when she heard the story and saw pearls and gold, the stepmother sent her own daughter to the spring; she was rude to the woman; she ordered the girl to cry with bloody tears, and, talking, hissing and splashing saliva; the king took brother and sister to him, and stepmother's daughter did not marry]: Karadzic 1854, No. 35:205-212; Croats, Romanians, Greeks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 327A: 212-213; Slovenes [the king loses his throne, goes to the woods; stepmother leaves Popelyusha (Cinderella and her sisters in the forest; the first time they return along a thread from a loose ball; the second time P. leaves an ash trail, but the wind scattered it; the one-eyed man takes the girls to his castle; P. manages to destroy it; older sisters come to the palace, where the king must choose a wife; P. finds gold keys, opens rooms with magic dresses; when he runs away for the second time palace, loses his shoe; the king tells girls to try it on; wedding; P. brings his father to live in the palace]: Cox 1893, No. 32:15; Bulgarians [at the insistence of his stepmother or because of poverty, the father leaves the children in mountains; the first time they come back because they threw pebbles or poured ash along the way; the second time they pour crumbs, the birds pecked them; the children came to a house with sugar walls, a roof of rolls; a witch locked them, fattens the boy, he shows a bone instead of a finger; the witch is asked to show them how to get into the oven, push them there; the children took her wealth and returned home]: Daskalova-Perkovska and dr. 1994, no. 327A: 126.
Central Europe. Russians (Pskov, Kursk), Ukrainians (Galicia, Podolia, Chernigov), Belarusians [Witch's brother and sister (sorcerer, snake): children left in the forest fall into a hut witches; she wants to fry them, but she burns in the oven herself]: SUS 1979, No. 327A=K 327E*: 120; Russians (Ryazanskaya) [Tereshechka was swimming in a boat, fishing; grandparents came to the shore, called T.: food they brought it; Baba Yaga overheard, called; took T. away; went fishing, told her daughter to fry; T. pretends not to know how to sit on a shovel; BYYA's daughter sat down by herself, T. put her in the oven, ran out, climbed on tree; shouts to Baba Yaga that she ate her daughter; BYA began to chew on the tree, broke her tooth; the blacksmith fixed it; the tree is swinging; T. asks the swans to pick it up, everyone points to the next, the last one picked it up lame, brought to my grandparents]: Samodelova 2013, No. 76:85-87 (same No. 77 [geese instead of swans]: 87-88); Russians (Ryazan) [son of poor widow Lipunyushka swam on the river in a boat, fishing; Baba Yaga she called instead of her mother: she brought cottage cheese; L. swam, she took it away, told her eldest daughter to fry; L. pretends not to know how to sit on a shovel; BYYA's daughter sat down by herself, L. put her in the oven, hid on Polatyah; shouts to Baba Yaga that she ate her daughter; the same with her middle daughter BYA; with the youngest; from the BYA herself; L. returned to her mother: visited the BIU]: Samodelova 2013, No. 78:88-89; Russians (Gorkovskaya) [mother died, her father took Baba Yaga; she told me to take Vanyusha and Masha to the forest; they collected firewood, came to the place where the father and stepmother were, and there a flask is tied to a tree, knocking in the wind; on the way to the forest, V. threw pebbles and children went out to the house; Baba Yaga tells them to take them again, V. did not have time to collect pebbles, threw crusts, but their birds pecked; came to the hut: stand backwards to the forest and front us; the children hid in the closet; Baba Yaga and her daughter returned; the children are fleeing, asking geese to be transferred across the river, they were transported; Baba Yaga did not send stepchildren to the forest anymore]: Eremina et al. 1979, No. 11:181-183; (cf. Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [a widower marries a neighbor; she conditions that he will get rid of his children Ivan and Marika; he takes them to the forest, leaving the deck beating against a tree in the wind as if he were cutting down firewood; they returned home; the next time the father took him away, the children stayed in the forest; they bake wild horseradish, go to bed with their heads in different directions; the bear, the wolf come, are surprised at the strange animal, leave; in the morning, good bread in ash; there is a magic shirt, gun, saber on sycamore; I. pulls them out, becomes a strongman; breaks into the robber's lair, there is a princess; kills 11 robbers, the 12th pretends to be dead, I. left the body, lets the girl go to her father, leaves; the robber asks M. to bring live water, pour it into the keyhole; the door opens, the robber's severed ear grows back, M. takes the robber as her husband; to kill his brother, he pretends to be sick, asks for wolf meat, then bear and other meat; the she-wolf, then the bear and other animals ask them not to kill, gives them a wolf cub, a bear cub, etc.; the robber suggests M. send his brother to fetch water from a spring between the crushing mountains; at noon they stop, I. took out water; bring flour from mills that grind human bones, open every 12 years; I. he picks up flour, manages to jump out, the doors slam shut, his animals are left inside; M. bathes I. in fresh milk, he is confused, she tied him with horsehair, the robber took his shirt with strength; they They gouged out I.'s eyes, threw him into the well; people pulled him out; he wandered through the forest, fell his head into the swamp, there was living water, he saw the light; he bought good clothes, changed clothes with his grandfather; he gave him bottles of water, one is young, the other is old; he came to M. and the robber under the guise of a beggar; when they fell asleep, he took their shirt, sword, gun; ordered him to be given his pipe; he began to play, the animals escaped from the mill, came running, they tore the robber; left M. two barrels to cry, one to cry for him, the other for the robber; in the neighboring kingdom of snakes locked the water; I. killed him, freed the princess, whom the gypsy was carrying the snake, cut off snake tongues, the gypsy cut off a piece from each tongue, demanded that the king marry the princess; at home, almost all tears were cried out for the robber; I. shows the king not the tips of his tongues, but the tongues themselves, the animals tore gypsy, I. took the princess; M. came, poisoned I., locked the animals; they escaped, the Fox brought living water; next time M. locked her verey again, put I. pitchforks in bed; the same; the animals tore M.]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:232-243); Poles [the poor man leaves his children in the forest; twice they return according to the signs left, the third time they did not find the way; they come to the gingerbread house, there is a witch; she they are fed, they show a bone or stick instead of a finger; they push a witch's daughter or cook into the oven, or change hats with the witch's children and she kills her children at night; children run away, leaving magic objects, a mountain, a forest, a river appear; a cannibal tries to drink the river and bursts; children have returned home]: Krzyżanowski 1947, No. 327A: 35-36; Luzhitsy (Upper Lusatia) [father and mother many children; the father gave each a pea, Yanka and Ganka were not enough; the father tells them not to cry: tomorrow he will take them to the forest for berries; in the forest he hung a piece of almond tree and a baton on a tree; the wind knocks in a piece trees on a baton, the children think that their father is cutting wood, and he is long gone; they came to the gingerbread house, began to break off pieces; old Vera grabbed the children for the third time, began to fatten; Yank instead a finger handed her a pipe, and Ganka held her finger with a ring; then lost the pipe and ring; Vera cut her fingers, blood flowed; the children say they do not know how to sit on the shovel, ask Vera to show her; they put it in the stove themselves, stayed in a gingerbread house]: Romanenko 1962:126-128 (another translation in Lifshits-Artemyeva 2017:170-172); Czechs, Slovaks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 327A: 212-213.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Nogais [the old man has three daughters; they all refused to treat his lower back - there is a lot of work; the old woman agreed to help; when the old man undressed, apples fell out of his bosom, picked up his daughters; he He told them that tomorrow he would take them to pick apples; told his wife to give their daughters bags full of holes; he hung two sticks on a tree in the forest, they knocked in the wind, the daughters thought that the father was cutting wood, and he was long gone; night fell, the girls came to the house of four elmauys; the youngest girl also noticed a girl with golden claws; climbed into the attic and lit the wick to make the light fall into the house; estyrnak and elmauyzy in the light helpless; in the morning the Elmauys say that they will go to the wedding; let the girls slaughter and cook one of them, feed their daughter, their estyrnyk daughter; the girls killed and cooked the Elmauyz daughter, put her head on the doll, they ran away; finding golden claws in the cauldron, the Elmauyz rushed in pursuit; the girls throw the comb, a thorny bush appeared; the Elmauyz asked how they moved; stripped naked, climbed; they climbed; the girls threw the mirror, the lake, the Elmauys drowned; the girls returned home and listened to their parents]: Kapaev 2012:165-168; Rutultsy [the fisherman's new wife says there is not enough fish for everyone; he takes son and daughter into the forest, hangs an ax to knock on the trunk in the wind, leaves; the sister warns the brother not to drink from lamb, horse hoof, he drinks from another, becomes a bull; they return to stepmother; one of her daughters does not notice anything, the other sees her stepdaughter eating butter from one ox horn, meat from the other; her stepmother tells the bull to be slaughtered; the girl's slipper is carried away by the river, the padishah's son finds him, seeks and finds an owner; wedding]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 47:425-428.
Iran - Central Asia. Bakhtiyary [every day a person brings seven partridges from hunting for himself, his wife and seven daughters; invites his wife to take his daughters to the mountains, and they will get the partridges alone; the father took his daughters to the forest and left; from now on he can't get a single partridge; the girls have come to the diva Alla Zingi; he waits for them to fall asleep to eat them; to stay awake on his own, he cuts his leg and sprinkles salt on the wound; asks are girls sleeping; older Tamti: I'm awake; AZ: what do you want? seven horses with saddles; divas bring horses; then seven bags of jewellery, ten bags of salt, ten bags of needles and shoetails, ten bags of syrup and melted butter; sisters sit on horses, they take what the diva brought with them and jump away; throw salt, needles and awls, then a wineskin with syrup; AZ licks the syrup, thinks it's T.'s blood; sisters crossed the pond; divas: how did they cross? T.: leave your foot on a white stone; but it's just white foam, the divas are drowning; the sisters dressed as men, came to town; seven princes offer them to play ball; the sisters lost, the princes got them in property, but after discovering that they are girls, they marry them; parents are looking for sisters, they come, don't recognize them; daughters open up and keep them]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 51:317-320; Persians [ (many publications); the stepmother persuades her husband to get rid of the children so that they can get all the food themselves; she and her husband eat halva, put dirt in the pot, cover it with a thin layer of halva, give the pot to the children; Once alone, the children, having eaten all their supplies, are going to eat the youngest, but he finds the diva's underground house; the children come there; the divas want to eat them when they fall asleep; the youngest is awake, demands food first, jewelry, a saddled horse, bring water in a sieve; or the children push the diva and his mother into the oven; or the diva swaps places with the children and he kills his children; the children run away, the diva chases, tries to cross the river, drowns]: Marzolph 1984, No. 327:74-76; Yazgulyam [at night, the daughter gets up, eats all the food, puts a dung in the cauldron; the mother tells her husband to take the girl and her brother to the forest; the father hangs a snuffbox on the willow to the children thought that he was still sitting on a tree, going home unnoticed; the children came to the wonder, the boy kills him, buries him under the floor; they live in a diva's house, the brother tells his sister to pour dirty water out the door; she pours it on the floor, hears the voice of the diva; she pulls it out after the diva promises to be not her sister, mother, brother, but husband; sister gives birth to a boy, diva offers to put him on the road to the brother picked it up himself; he grows up, hears how alive and his mistress agree to kill her brother, the diva will become a snake; the boy asks his uncle to take him to the back, prevents the diva from biting him; the next day, a marvelous snake hides under the threshold, the boy undertakes to carry his uncle himself; the snake climbs into the boot, the boy changes boots with his uncle, hits him with his toe; rata, the diva will become a snake; the atom, and the husband; c; the father hangs on the Ivory Coast, the snake crawls out, turns into an eagle, attacks, the boy hurts him; the divas and his mistress agree to poison both, the boy changes food, they die themselves; the nephew decides to go right, uncle to the left; uncle stops by the old woman, sees at night that half the world is having fun, half the world is crying; the old woman explains that today it is the king's turn to give her daughter to the dragon {obviously those whose turn did not come are having fun}; uncle cuts off all seven heads of the dragon, gets the king's daughter; the dragon's brother kills him; the nephew sees blood on the bullet left by his uncle, comes, puts the sword between himself and his uncle's wife (both outwardly indistinguishable, the woman takes him for her husband); makes the dragon revive the dead, both kill the dragon together; the uncle kills the nephew when he finds out that he slept in his house; the wife puts a spinning wheel between herself and her husband; the husband all understands, revives his nephew; makes him tsar]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 25:258-266.
Baltoscandia. Estonians (Otepää) [brother and sister went to pick berries, got lost, climbed the Christmas tree, saw a house; peninukid live there; the old woman began to fatten the children, although her brother let them go would be too thin; the old woman told me to show her finger; the boy showed a stick, and the girl once gave a finger; the old woman swallowed it; the cannibals left, leaving the old woman to cook the children; the boy pretended that she did not know how to sit on a baking sheet; the old woman testified that he shoved her into the oven; the children put her bast shoes backwards, ran to the lake, climbed the spruce tree; the cannibals returned, ate the old woman, found no traces fugitives, but noticed their shadows in the lake; thought the children were in the water; tried to drink the lake, burst]: Järv 2016:21-24; Swedes [parents decide to take their children (usually a boy and a girl) to the forest and leave them there; first they come back after leaving a trail, but then they go to the witch; she fattens them and tries to see if they are fat; when she wants to stuff them into the oven, she shows them how to sit down, and herself there collide]: Liungman 1961, No. 327A: 65; Veps [the man's wife dies, he has nothing to feed his children, he takes them to the forest; the youngest throws papers on the way, brings his brothers home by these signs, but they are expelled again; the boy steals speedboat boots and a bag of gold from sleeping men; all brothers return to their father with wealth]: Onegin, Zaitsev 1996, No. 121:210; Danes, Finns, Karelians, Livonians, Lithuanians, Western Sami, Faroese, Icelanders: Uther 2004 (1), No. 327A: 212-213; Latvians [Witch's brother and sister. At the instigation of the stepmother, the father takes the children to the forest. They return home twice along a pebble trail. On the third evening, abandoned peas (breadcrumbs) are pecked by birds. Children come to the hut with an edible roof. A witch lives there, she takes the children: she puts the boy in a fence for fattening, and makes the girl work around the house. The witch makes sure that the boy is well fed, tells him to show his finger, the boy shows his wand. When the witch is finally going to fry the boy, she shows how to lie on the shovel. The boy pushes it into the oven. The witch's son is chasing children. Birds and animals help them]: Arys, Medne 1977, No. 327A: 277.
Volga - Perm. Mordva: Markelov 1922, No. 14 [after the death of the mother, the son and daughter advise the father to remarry; the stepmother tells her husband to lose his children; he took them to the forest, tied a tree stump to the knot, he knocks on in the wind, the children think that the father is cutting wood; the children are crying, they call: forest fathers, forest mothers, come to bed with us; Babya Yaga came on a horse, on a cart deck, in the hands of a wasp; brought her to her; in the morning instead of my brother, a kid; he cries: axes, knives are sharpening, asking for my neck; my sister took the kid away, met merchants; Baba Yaga's daughter told her husband to buy a kid to finish it; (the text ends)]: 160-161; Paasonen 1941 (Erzya) [mother is dead, children tell father to remarry, stepmother tells her husband to take the children to the forest; he leaves the log to knock in the wind, leaves; brother and sister have come to the blind witch's house; She tries her fingers - whether they are fat; the sister gives the spindle, the brother gives the finger, the witch decides to fry the boy, the sister tells her to spread her legs, let the witch show her how to sit; they push her into the oven, they take away treasures and steal sheep; brother forgot his girdle, sister tells him not to lick the witch's fat; brother licks, becomes a lamb, sister leads him with a girdle tied; stepmother tied a stone around her stepdaughter's neck, pushed it into the water, told her husband to slaughter the lamb; he asked for permission to drink water, sings, addressing Alyonushka that the boilers were boiling, the knives were sharpening, they wanted to slaughter him; the same again; the boyar's son saw and pulled him out Alyonushka, took a lamb, treasures and a herd that they stole from the witch]: 230-236; Kazan Tatars [daughter and son from a new wife, another daughter from the deceased; they decided to lime the stepdaughter; the brother took her to the forest, ordered to pick berries, hung a club on a tree, she knocks in the wind; the girl thinks that her brother is still cutting wood; in the evening the wind has subsided, the girl went out on the road; asks the shepherd if he saw her rolling ball; he asks to get horse day; she agreed, received a horse as payment; the same from the shepherd's cows; cows; goats; came to the old woman; she asks to heat the bathhouse; tells her to push her to reach the bathhouse ; but the girl took her in her arms, carried her; carry her hair, beat her with a broom with a petiole; the girl evaporated her gently; she asks to comb her hair, gold and silver in her head; asks her to dance, gold does not fall, so the girl did not take anything; the witch gave a green chest, ordered not to open it on the way; dogs bark at home: the deceased returns rich; the chest is full of jewelry; they sent her own daughter; she refuses to herd horses, cows, goats; literally fulfills the wishes of an old woman; takes gold and silver; receives a black chest; dogs bark: the one who goes rich returns to death; the black snake from the chest strangled the girl]: Nasyrov, Polyakov 1900, No. 3:24-29; marie [lost sisters in the woods enter Vouver Kuva's house; she eats two older sisters, the youngest wants to fry, but burns herself in furnaces]: Sabitov 1989, No. 327A: 25; Chuvash: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 327A: 225.
Turkestan. Karakalpaks [the boy and girl's mother died, the father took another, she tells her husband to get rid of the children; the father takes them to the forest, tells them to fill the bag with jida, the bag is full of holes; when they return home, brother and sister see that father and stepmother have migrated; they find two worn horses; take care of them; horses are getting fat, brother and sister are growing up; they come to live in a cave; while the brother is away, the prince arrives; brother does not want to give up her sister, the prince kills him; his sister pretends to be obedient, kills the prince; comes to town in her brother's clothes; wins archery; three khans consistently pass off as an imaginary young man after daughter; the imaginary husband asks each wife to bring the most precious thing the father has; the first brings a wand that revives the deceased no later than 3 months ago, the second brings a whip (revives a one-year dead man) the third is baba yaga {apparently jalmouth kempir}, who revives the deceased up to 3 years ago; the imaginary husband takes his wives, supposedly, to his parents; goes forward, changes clothes again with his murdered brother, hides in a cave, leaves a note to his brother; wives come, see her husband's body; it is impossible to revive with a stick or a whip, Baba Yaga swallows and regurgitates a living young man; he reads the note, understands how he should behave; sister comes out of the cave, tells everything; brother meets his impoverished and widowed father, takes him to live with him]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:25-34; Kyrgyz [the old man and old woman have seven goats and three daughters; the old man is angry with his daughters: they drank all the milk from the goats, he and the old woman did not get it; he tells the old woman to get rid of his daughters; finds currant bushes, brings home a few twigs with berries; daughters eat, they want more; the old man suggests going with him for berries, tells the old woman to make three leather buckets without a bottom; takes his daughters to the currant bushes, suggests filling the buckets with berries as long as chop brushwood; adjusts the ratchet like an ax sounds, leaves, migrates with the old woman and goats; one of the girls discovers the buckets have no bottom, patches up buckets with branches and grass they fill up; the girls sound of an ax, find a ratchet, hurry home; in search of parents, they search the neighborhood, stumble upon a house in which an exhausted girl is; he explains that the old cannibal woman is everyone ate it, and keeps it to drink blood; the girls run to the station, find their father's whetstone there, throw it, the whetstone becomes a rock; the cannibal chases, overcomes the rock for a long time; the girls find it at the station the comb turns into a forest; then the mirror turns into a lake; the cannibal asks how they ended up on the other side, girls; swam across, tying trousers on their ankles and filling them with sand; the cannibal follows the advice and drowns; the girls are found by a childless khan with 40 wives, asks what their skills are; the eldest: can feed many people with a handful of oatmeal; medium: sew clothes from one sheepskin and dress a lot of people; youngest: to give birth to her husband a boy and a girl with golden heads and silver tasks; Khan the youngest, marries the youngest; when the wife is going to give birth, the khan goes hunting, demands to send a messenger with news to him; 40 wives hire a witch, who throws the children in a box into the river, replaces them with puppies; two messengers arrive to the khan, the first speaks of the birth of children, the second speaks of puppies; the khan orders his wife to be sealed with puppies in a bucket and hang them on a tree; the girls' parents live on the bank of this river; the old woman discovers that goats come with an empty udder, accuses the old man: he killed his daughters and now drinks everything milk; the old man watches the goats, they take turns falling to a drawer, children suck goats in the drawer; old people bring children, slaughter one goat in joy; children grow up, the old man plants barley for them, life getting better, they are setting up a golden pole in the yard; the old khan, hunting, stumbles upon old men with children, complains that even lonely old people have found children, but he does not; he misses at home; 40 wives suspect that this is not without reason, they accuse the witch, demand that she deal with the children; a witch comes to the children, tells the young man that it would be good to tie a golden horse to the golden pole; the sister dissuades her brother , he is stubborn, then his sister teaches how to master the horse; his brother gets it; the khan meets the children again; the witch also advises you to find the Sapan-Tash stone, which makes wishes come true; then you can get it subjects, to form a khanate and make the young man's old father a khan; the sister again dissuades, then teaches the brother; he takes possession of the stone and the girl she marries; with the help of a stone from the twins Subjects appear, a khanate is created, an old kozopaz becomes khan, and a golden bridge is built across the river into the Khan's estate with 40 wives; brother and sister visit Khan, bring him a cart of gold, in exchange they ask for a bucket hanging on a tree; the khan, who has already forgotten what is in it, gives it to the twins; the mother of the twins is half-dead in the bucket, she is brought to life; the khan comes to visit, intending to ask the young man for permission adopt his sister, recognizes his wife, he is told everything; the khan tied 40 wives to immense horses, and also executes a witch; a young man with a golden head and a silver ass becomes the khan of two khanates]: Ruslan Doutaliev, personal report. May 17, 2020: retelling of the audio recording of the fairy tale "Zheti Echkilu Abyshka Zhana Kempir" (Old Man and Old Woman with Seven Goats) performed by J. Alymbayeva, Department of Manuscripts and Publications of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR, date of recording September 10, 1984, inventory No. 1a (2), recording duration 31 minutes); yellow Uighurs (1913) [the poor old man decided to get rid of his five daughters, took them to pick their jigda berries; took one skin and a baton with him; said to his daughters: "Don't look up, I'll throw you [berries myself ], and you, looking down, pick [them]"; began to throw berries, daughters picked them; "the skin was spread out (?) near a tree, and [father] tied a stick (?) to the skin" {probably for her to knock}; the old man ran away; when the sisters looked up; he was gone; the next morning they set off, came to the old woman; she hid them from her cannibal son; he fell asleep in the old woman covered the cauldron with a lid, ordered to start a fire; in the morning there was blood in the cauldron; they poured it out, a tree grew, corals grew on it; they were put in a chest; one day the merchants came and stayed overnight; at midnight they took the chest, drove away; on the way they found a dead body; fell down the mountain, crashed; the sisters took their horses and mules, came home with gold and silver; the father and mother were at home, and the door was locked; they had no food, they lay exhausted; the sisters climbed onto the roof of the house and let three pies go through the smoke hole; the mother wondered if they had received that share from their five daughters; father replied that he left them in the feather grass, and I think they died; added: "This share is probably from heaven"; then the parents opened the door, the sisters came in and called out to their mother; she went out, the sisters were beautiful dressed up; when the father came out, they attacked him and killed him; then they took his mother and went to live in the house of the old woman (i.e. the ogre's mother)]: Malov 1967, No. 102:101-102.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Mongols (Ordos) [old people have 7 daughters, each with a goat, they do not want to slaughter them; the old people decided to eat one goat without telling their daughters; to do this, the old man led his daughters to yuba; promised to throw them off The fruits from the tree above the cliff - let the daughters pick them up; he left himself, leaving a leather jacket on the tree {which probably knocked on the tree in the wind}; the sisters got lost and came to the mangys house; They watched him go to bed in an iron pan; put heavy millstones on the lid, started the fire; the mangus burned down when he could tell me where the silver was; in the morning the sisters met a neighbor, who took them home got one goat; parents took silver, everything is fine]: Mostaert 1937, No. 21 in Solovyov 2014.
(Wed. Ecuador. Spanish borrowing. Imbabura: Chavez 1989:87-88 [stepmother tells her husband to take the children to the forest; the father tied the calebasa to a tree, she knocks in the wind as if he is cutting wood; the children are in the diablo house {no more outlined; another option on p. 99-100}], 143-144 [stepmother tells her husband to take the children to the forest; these are two boys and a baby; the boys took a cat and a baby, met two old women; at night the old woman ate baby; boys are running; a man by the river says it's chifichas, gave black cloth, let them wash it white; they're chasing again; God took the children to heaven and threw old women to hell]; Hartmann 1984 (Otavalo, 1973-1975) [three recordings like "Hans and Gretel"; children push Cificha into the oven, she burns; in one of the texts, C. has a second mouth on the back of her head to eat people; she calls her children and parents to help them]: 653; Jara, Moya 1987 [three texts like "Hans and Gretel"; children come to Chificha, the wife of a soup {demon}; she tells her to take out her lice but not look at the back of her head; fall there; the children filled her with boiling water, took possession of her C.'s property]: 78-81; Lamadrid 1993 [the man went to the forest for firewood, was grabbed by Chificha, ate his heart, took its shape, came to his wife; she began to comb it, noticed a second person on the back of his head; went out and set fire to the house; when C. was burning, she shouted "I'm going to be fleas"; this is how fleas appeared]: 34; Parsons 1945:131-133 [The widower has a boy and a girl, married a widow, she also has two children; she persuaded her husband take the children to a ravine with bears and jaguars; he left them, left them unnoticed (Var. from Cayambe: hung the calebasa on a tree, she knocked in the wind, the children thought that their father was still cutting wood); the girl carried Brother's back, came to the house, there's an old cannibal Chipicha; she left the boy with her for the night; the girl asks why he is screaming - I wash him, he's afraid of water; the next day C. went to her potato field; the girl started looking for Manuelito, found bloody bones in bed; (Var. from Cangahua: old woman and her husband, both Chifichas; tell the children (both boys) that they are their father and mother; they are fattened; the fairy tells you not to listen to C. if he asks him to get the coals out of the stove; they ask him to get him out, close the stove, make a fire, run away; the old woman returned them; "These two boys have been released the world from monsters"); C. asked the girl to look in her head; she found a second mouth on the back of her head, meat between her teeth; C. ate the boy with this mouth when she was talking to the girl to another; when C. fell asleep, the girl collected her brother's bones, ran away; (Var. from Cangahua: one of the boys looked for C. in her hair and ate with both mouths; told his brother; when C. fell asleep, they set fire to the house; the brothers collected C.'s ashes in a bag , told the man to throw him into the river; he discovered on the way, various insects flew out, ate the man to the bone); the girl got to people, got married], 133-134 [a nine-year-old girl went to the house old woman Chificha, whose breasts were thrown behind her back; she asked to look in her head; told her not to touch the back of her head; C. fell asleep, the girl saw a fanged mouth on the back of her head, pieces of meat between her teeth; the girl ran to the people who were building the house; C. ran, who offered to dance, gave her a drink, locked her in the house, set her on fire; C. began to scream that she would turn into lice, fleas, blackberries, hornets; people collected its ashes in a vessel, told one person to throw it into the canal; he opened it on the way, the creatures flew out, ate it; on Aymara "blackberry" phichaca].