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Ethnicities and habitats

L57A. The hero's companion returns his organ.

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Hostile creatures take possession of a part of the character's body, he dies or gets sick. The other (usually using a trick) returns the missing part, the character comes to life or recovers.

Ashanti, Shilluk, Arabs of Sudan, Egypt, Portuguese, Spanish, Galicians, Catalans, Italians (Piedmont), French (Gascony), Iraqi Arabs, Harsousi, Truk Islands, Mustang, Thais, Punjabi, Tamils, Lombok, Hittites, Ancient Greece, Bulgarians, Serbs, Croats, Hungarians, Greeks (?) , Romanians, Moldovans, Albanians, Western and Eastern Ukrainians, Russians (Teresky Bereg, Arkhangelsk, Karelia), Belarusians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Kalmyks, Abkhazians, Karachays, Balkarians, Georgians, Svans, Armenians, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Tajiks, Mountain Tajiks, Uzbeks, Norwegians, Latvians, Lithuanians (?) , Bashkirs, Nenets, Southern Khanty, Ket, Chugach, Upper Kuskokvim, Tanana, Kuchin, Chipewayyan, Khaida, Comox, Tillamook, Alsea, Cous, Upper Coquil, Takelma, Steppe Cree, Menominee, Ojibwa, Winnebago, Teton, iowa (omaha and ponca), tubatulabal, kawaiisu, serrano, northern payut, western and northern shoshones, goshiute, southern payute, havasupai, valapai, pima, maricopa.

West Africa. Ashanti [eight sisters go looking for husbands, do not want to take their younger brother Kwasi Gyinamoa with them; he goes; hitting his cow's tail with his whip, tells the three-jet waters to part ( white, red, black) rivers; in an empty city, an old woman took off her head, put her head on her knees, looked for insects in her hair; when she sees them, she puts her head in place; gives girls her eight husbands sons; at night, KG sees the old woman's teeth turn red to eat the girls; promises to fall asleep if the old woman brings him water in a leaky calebass; outweighs the amulets from the old woman's sons on her sisters; at night, an old woman burns her sons' necks with her teeth; those who come run away; an old woman in the form of a young girl comes to their village; promises to marry someone who pierces her calebass with an arrow; this is done by KG, but his uncle marries; at night, an imaginary girl takes his eyes out, takes him away; knowing that the old woman's granddaughter is pregnant, GK comes disguised as a pregnant woman, says that her husband has fallen, lost his eyes; the old woman gives replacing the eyes of Uncle GK, GK inserts them back to him; bathes with other children, the old woman takes him away; leaves him in the vessel at home to cook, goes for spices; KG knocks with pebbles, the old woman's granddaughter believes that these are nuts, she wants it too, opens the vessel, the KG kills her, puts her skin on, puts the meat to cook; KG and the old woman eat the brew; the old woman adorns her imaginary granddaughter with gold jewelry; KG runs away, gives jewelry to her relatives; the old woman is chasing; you can still hear a rustle along the trail, this is the old woman chasing KG]: Rattray 1930:221-227.

Sudan - East Africa. Shilluk [woman gives birth to daughter Nyajak; people hear a drum, children go to the sound, think it's a holiday in a nearby village, don't know it's a lion village; N. insists he'll go with everyone; at night replies that she is awake, hungry, let the ram be slaughtered; the lion brings meat; the same ox, the goat; N. sends the lion to bring water in the basket, wakes the children up, tells them to run, stays alone; the lion rushes at her, but every time she disappears, returns home; the lion comes, takes the form of a sycamore; N. warns not to approach her, but the children climb for the fruit, the lion takes them away; N. comes in the form of an old man, asks for water; then turns into a rat; while the lion is away, tells the children to run; the lion in the form of a girl comes to brother N.; he does not believe that it is a lion, at night the lion takes out his eye; N. comes disguised as an old woman, says that she is the sister of a lion who was once carried away by the wind; the lion gives her the eye of N., warns her not to be carried away by a crow - they will eat it during the meal; leaves; N. turns into a crow, grabs an eye, brings it to his brother; the lion decided not to come again]: Westermann 1912, No. 88:213-217; Sudanese Arabs [the poor man's wife went to her sister for food, but one day she closed the door in front of her; they went to live in another place; the woman spent time with the Sultan's wives and servants; three hawks flew in, the women guessed it was perfume; the Sultan's wife asked for a wise and powerful son, the minister's wife asked for a wise and powerful son, the minister's wife a son as beautiful as the moon, the wife of a poor man is a daughter who, if she cries, it rains, if she laughs, sapphires fall, if she steps, grass grows; another sultan heard this, married; when the girl reached marriageable age, she was sent to the Sultan accompanied by her aunt, who also has a daughter (she closed the door to her sister, but then came to her and stayed when she found out that she was held in high esteem); on the way she gave her niece drink in exchange for eyes; left blind in the desert; she was picked up by a woodcutter; he already has 7 daughters; when the picked up cries, it rains, when she laughs, jewelry falls; she asks the person who picked up to buy her material; made a doll, ordered to exchange it in the palace for the eyes (there, the Sultan's wife instead of her aunt); she made another doll, hid in it, her adoptive father brought her to the palace, the sultan took it for himself; three At night she goes out and cleans his room; he cut his finger on purpose to stay awake; finds a girl; everything is clear; aunt and her daughter are ripped apart by three camels]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 14:95- 98.

North Africa. Arabs of Egypt [a woman takes off her clothes from her feathers, bathes in a spring, then flies away; the king sees this, steals clothes, asks for an article by his wife; the woman agrees provided that the king will dazzle his former 40 wives; one of them is a princess, the rest are slaves; the blinded are kept in the basement under the kitchen; each gave birth, the children were eaten, the princess kept her own; the boy steals food in the kitchen, feeds dazzled; the king meets a young man who calls himself Kitchen Bear, but his real name is Mohammed the Intelligent; the new wife has guessed who this young man is; pretended to be sick, asks the king to send M. the medicine is the heart of a black valley bull; he fell to Guli's chest; she gave a ball to follow, and a dagger to slaughter the bull; if he asked to hit again, do not hit; next time, the bull's heart red valley (same); the new wife decides to send M. to her sister to kill him; sends him to bring a heavy white valley grenade (weighing about 50 kg); Guli's son teaches him to find a grenade, he is from the king's wife's sister; throw the ring, follow it; throw bread of meat to dogs, then cannibals, they will miss it, grab a grenade and run without looking back; the wife tells you to bring a flying castle from Mount Kaf; the cannibal teaches you to give to the maid of incense, she will take M. to her room; there is a bottle with the life of the king's wife and another with the eyes of blinded wives; and a wand that drives the castle; and a spear that hits orders to the left and to the right; when the maid fell asleep, M. killed the scarab in which her life was; M. ordered to kill everyone with a spear, carries the lock, opens to his father, breaks the bottle with the life of the witch wife, restores sight to the blinded women, receives the throne from his father]: Spitta-Bey 1883, No. 2:12-29 (summary in Nowak 1969, No. 177:182-183).

Southern Europe. Portuguese: Braga 2002 [the family has an older sister and a little brother; brother hears parents agree to kill one of the children - not to feed them; tells his sister they are running away; brother sleeps with her sister's head on her knees; three fairies passing by tell the girl's face to be beautiful, gold falls off her hair when she combs her hair; brother and sister came to the angry old woman and became her to live; the brother went to buy something; the king was told that the boy had gold, they did not believe the boy's story, they put him in a tower - let him introduce his sister; at this time her sister had nothing to eat; she gave for food and drink the old woman's eyes; led her daughter to the king, and threw the gold-haired woman into the sea; the boy saw his sister in the sea, lowered the rope out of the window; the sister told her brother to ask the jailer for thin paper; made a branch with in gold flowers, asked to sell not for money, but for her eyes; the old woman gave her eyes; everything was clarified; the sister asked the old woman's skin to be pulled over the drum and the bones be made into a seat]: 151-152; Cardigos 2006, № 403 (many entries) [brother and sister leave home; fairies give a girl: if she combs her hair, pearls (or golden hair) fall, when it touches the water, fish appear in her, dry wells fill up with water; give the young man an inexhaustible supply of money and hunting skills; brother talks about his sister to the king, who sends for her; the rival's mother throws her off the ship; (pulls her eyes out); brother thrown into prison; the girl is swallowed by a whale; he takes her ashore; she is picked up by a royal gardener (servant); she sends bouquets, gets her eyes back, sending out seasonal fruit for them; the king hears her talking to the dog at the moment when her brother is about to be executed; everything is explained, the liars are punished]: 88-89; Pedroso 1882, No. 9 [if there is a married girl in the house, a golden ball must be hung at the door; for two the eldest daughters were hanged, they married princes; there was not enough money for gold for the youngest, they hung a silver ball; the older sisters refused to meet the youngest and her husband; when she gave birth to a daughter, three appeared fairies; one gave the girl beauty, the other with wealth, the third because flowers would fall from her lips if she spoke; and the fairy turned the house into a luxurious palace; the girl grew up; a prince was going to to marry the daughter of one of his older sisters, but when he saw the youngest daughter, he chose her; when, on the advice of doctors, the prince went to travel and the bride went up to the tower to see him after him, the eldest's daughter the sister crept up behind and pulled out her eyes; a man picked up a blind woman; when the prince returned, the criminal pretended to be his fiancée; the blind woman sent flowers to the wedding in exchange for her eyes; came to Prince, who recognized his ring on her finger, then found out; married a true bride]: 37-40; Spaniards [several records, including Galicia; the woodcutter's father brought a snake to his daughter Maria; she washed her, fed her; when the snake grew up, she crawled away, promising to help if necessary; people noticed that pearls were lying near the lumberjack's house; it was M. who poured water into which she dropped her hands; the king found out and decided to marry M.; a neighbor, who has her own daughter, persuaded M. to ask her father to marry her; went with M. to the king; the stepmother ordered the coachman to feed M. salty food on the way, and when she she would want to drink, pull out her eyes; instead of M., the stepmother sent her daughter to the king; seeing not pearls in the water, but toads and snakes, the king ordered the liar, her mother and her husband to be locked; Mary was picked up by rich people; she called a snake; the snake ordered to collect the flowers that had grown at that spring and send someone to the palace to mark the flowers for their eyes, but not for money; the stepmother gave her eyes, the snake put them back in M.; sent her to the palace, telling him to put his finger in the chocolate that the king would carry; he understood everything, ordered him to call the girl who came, let her put her hands in the water - there are pearls; the king married M.]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 533*: 503-506; Spaniards [the king brings a rose to his wife, she hides it in a box; from there the voice: open it! the king opens, Queen Rosa appears, tells him to get rid of the former queen; the king blinds her, throws her into the basement; the king has Tomasito's son, R. tells him to consider her mother; T. hears a voice from under the ground mother; R. says she is sick, tells T. to bring water from the Arenal spring; the old man tells T. not to look back on the way back, T. brings water; the same is three lemons, three oranges; the old man changes T's appearance ., tells him to stay with two sisters R.; they ask the young man if he has seen the T. they want to kill; show him three candles, their lives are in them; T. immediately extinguishes two, brings the third to his father so that he has hers blew out; R. disappears; the old man took the queen's torn eyes from the king, returned them to her, she saw the light]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 462:337-340 (translated into Malinovskaya 2002:131-134); Catalans (including Mallorca) [the girl saves the snake; for this she rewards her with the ability to turn what she touches into gold; the king marries her; the rival dazzles her, leaves her in the forest, pretends herself queen; the snake gives the dazzled a precious fruit that she changes to her eyes; the king recognizes his wife and punishes the impostor]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 404:90; Italians (Piedmont; p. 718; motif a pomegranate tree, the fruits of which only a girl can pick, added from the Tuscan version of Gradi) [the peasant has three daughters; the eldest goes to take dinner to his father, sits on a stump, and a snake crawls out of there, the girl runs home; the same with the middle one; the youngest carries two servings, gives one to the snake, she asks to take it with her; lives under the girl's bed; when she grows up and crawls away, gives her the ability to cry pearls and silver, laugh at the golden pomegranate seeds that will fall out of her hair, and when she washes her hands, fish will appear in the water; the sisters are jealous, lock the youngest in the attic; the prince sees her; under her window is a pomegranate tree, which grows taller as soon as the prince tries to pick fruit; the old man says that whoever can pick the fruits will become the prince's wife; the king gathers all the girls; the sisters hide the youngest, but they find her, the wedding is announced; the youngest goes through the forest with the elders; they cut off her hands, gouge out her eyes and throw her in the forest, the older sister replaces her; the poor lumberjack picked up the crippled one; became rich by collecting her silver and pearls; the snake tells her that the new wife of the prince, who is now king, is expecting a child and wants figs; the handless tells the logger to take the figs to the palace (they grew up out of season right away) and barter for eyes; next time peaches in exchange for hands; the younger sister got her eyes and hands back, they grew; the queen gave birth to a scorpion; younger sister came to the ball, the king recognized her as his true wife: pearls and gold were falling, fish were swimming in the washbasin; the older sisters were burned at the stake along with the scorpion]: Calvino 1980, No. 12:37-40.

Western Europe. The French (Gascony) [the widower has 9 sons and a daughter; he married a widow with an ugly daughter; the brothers met the king and said that when their sister washes her hands, they fall off gold and silver, and when she combs her hair, rye and wheat fall off his hair; the king tells his stepmother to be brought and rewarded if they tell the truth, but hang her if they lie; on the way to the palace, the brother tells his stepmother to took care of his sister, his sister asked again, his stepmother said that her brother told her to pull out her eyes; threw the girl into the swamp, replaced her with her daughter; the king married her, but hanged her brothers; blinded the poor man picked up, became rich thanks to the silver and gold that fell from her hands; the girl sent the poor man's wife to sell the queen a spindle first, then a spinning wheel in exchange for her eyes; returning her eyes, the girl went to sea, took a dog; in the sea a gold chain; the girl asks the dog where her brothers are (hanged), where is the stepmother's daughter (in the king's bed), stepmother (in the royal apartments); girl: pull, pull the chain, take me to sea; people hear, tell the king; he asks the mother of the liar's wife what the murdered nine young men and the girl deserve; she says that she must be cooked in oil and salt; so they did, her daughter became dishwasher; the king married a girl]: Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 403:47-50.

Western Asia. The Arabs of Iraq [a wealthy merchant asks who he owes his fortune and position to; the older two answer that to himself, the youngest to God's blessing; the merchant kicked her out - let him seek God's blessings; she went to the mule drivers, met a beggar like herself, and they got married; the wife gave birth to a girl; when she was bathed, drops of water turned into gold, and jasmines fell from her lips and lilies; she grew up and the prince married her; sent her to him; an aunt and her daughter were forced to accompany her; the girl is thirsty, the aunt gives a little bit in exchange for her eyes, leaves the bride in the desert and puts his own daughter in her place; the old man picked her up; his family was delighted when the washing dishes were filled with gold coins; the prince saw that flowers did not fall from his wife's lips, but the one given to her She allegedly lost the ring; realized that the bride was changed, but was afraid of losing face; the real bride sent the old man to town to sell flowers in exchange for her eyes; the aunt pulled out her daughter's eyes to she could say that flowers were falling from her lips in the prince's absence; and the bride got her eyes back and saw the light; dressed as a young man, she came to court and hired to drive a mule in the mill; the mule was so amazed at her the beauty that he started running faster; everyone wonders where so much torment came from; the prince found out about this and, when the girl was swimming, he hid the ring he had once given her; the aunt and her daughter were sent home, and the prince arranged a new wedding for 40 days]: Bushnaq 1987:75-79; jibbali [one sister married a rich man, the other married a poor man, both daughters; the poor man's daughter blew her nose into a beggar's cup, there was a golden one coin; he told the Sultan about a girl who has snot - gold coins, when she bathes, gold appears, when she cries, it rains, when she laughs, lightning flashes, whose urine is musk and bowel movements - amber; the sultan decided to marry her; the aunt and daughter took the girl on the ship; did not let her eat or drink; first took her jewelry for water, then gave her eyes to her daughter, threw her niece into the sea into the sea into basket; the fisherman caught her, he and his wife think she is an old woman; she asks for water to wash, the water basin is filled with gold; they come to the Sultan, the girl tells her story, every time she asks bowls of water, is this true; the bowl replies that it is true; the sultan takes his eyes away from the imaginary wife, returns the real one, she sees the light; asks to hang his aunt by the legs in front of the entrance so that everyone who passes is beaten her; asks her cousin to place a hot coals brazier on her body; both died, the Sultan stayed with his real wife]: Müller 1907, No. 16:63-69.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Satawan (Truk County, Central Carolina) [son of Satawan Island Chief (=Kuttu) took his eyes out of his eye sockets and left them on the shore when he was swimming; the cannibal Likechmwocho stole them to eat, hung it around her neck in a rag; the young man's father sent a servant to Olofat (a trickster god); he first took the form of a bird, then a pile of crap, but then came; became a stick, but L. recognized him, threw away the stick; then at night he shed four coconuts, became fifth himself; L. did not notice that she heard the sound of only four coconuts falling; at night O. brought L. to a deep sleep, took his eyes away, returned the young man]: Mitchell 1973, No. 31:92- 95.

Burma - Indochina. Thais [poor Non brought 12 bananas to the monastery (option: 7), he had 12 (7) daughters, he had nothing to feed them, he took them to the forest, they came to see the cannibal Santaman; the older sister found a pile of human bones, the girls ran, asked elephants, bears, tigers, horses and other animals to cover them; climbed the banyan; the king's humpback maid went to fetch water, saw a reflection, thought it was her, came back, breaking the jug; the king gave her a silver bucket, she broke it too, she could not break the leather bucket; one sister laughed, King Raja Sith married the sisters; Santaman accepted the girl's appearance, met the king, he fell in love with her, she pretended to be sick, demanded the eyes of 12 queens; pulled out both eleven eyes, and the youngest one, sent the eyes of her daughter Kang Ri; blind the queens were walled up in a cave, each gave birth to a child, they ate them; the youngest hid the meat, then gave it to others, keeping her son Raja Sen; he grew up, began to leave the cave and bring food; began to play backgammon with the king, who recognized his son; to get rid of MS, S. tells him to bring from his daughter a mango that yawns, and a lemon that screams gives a letter asking him to kill the bearer; the hermit changed letter ordering to marry RS; after marrying the Kyrgyz Republic, RS found the eyes of queens, took talismans, set off to flee; KR catches up, he throws talismans, fire, mountains, forest, desert, river appear; KR dies asking in the next incarnation, make her human; S. also died of grief, and MS returned sight to his mother and aunts]: Kornev 1963:14-21; (retelling in Low 1836:345-348).

South Asia. Punjabi [the fakir promises the king that his 7 wives will finally give birth; wives ask the king not to hunt on the north side - they have a bad feeling; he breaks the ban, chases a white doe with gold horns; finds herself alone in the gorge; in the hut there is a white-bodied gold-haired maiden; she was a doe; agrees to become the king's wife if he brings her the eyes of 7 former wives; blinding his wives, the king threw them into the dungeon, and the new queen hung a necklace from her eyes to her mother's neck; each wife gives birth to a boy, they eat him; the youngest kept the pieces, fed the others, did not let her baby eat; the boy grew up immediately, made a way out, brought food to the women; once met a witch queen; she promises to help him regain the eyes of the blinded, sends him to his mother with a letter on her shard ordering him to kill the giver; he comes to the city where the princess promises to marry only the son of seven mothers; the young man marries her; she replaces the letter with an order to comply with all the young man's requests; the old woman gives 13 eyes, and she has already eaten the 14th; a young man returns sight to women, his own mother has one eye and her other is himself; the witch queen sends him back to his mother for a cow that does not run out of milk, again after writing an order to kill the giver; the wife replaces the letter; the young man pretends that Indra demands the skin of the yoga guardian of the cow on the drum, he pays off with a cow; the same for the third time: a rice stalk with 1000 branches, ripening in a day; the young man's wife builds a palace next to the king's palace; he comes, everything is explained, the witch queen is executed]: Steel, Temple 1884, No. 10:98-110; Tamils [Raja had a daughter; Seeing her, the royal elephant cried out and became petrified; the Raja ordered her to be taken to the forest and killed, but the servants brought him jackal blood; the girl came to the palace where the young woman held her youngest in captivity brother so that he would not see other women and then marry her daughter; the girl told the young man about herself, and he accommodated her in a man's dress; asks for a double portion of food; aunt suspected fraud; sent her shoes and when the girl put them on, they took them to her aunt; she pulled them out and hid her, shaved them and threw them into the well; the sadhu heard screams, took out the girl; fed her; because she blind, rats were feasting at her plate; the rat king told them to figure out how to thank the girl; when they found out about the torn eyes, they found them, brought them to the girl, she saw the light again; she grew long hair; daughter The young man's aunt must marry him in three days and wants the same ones; the girl advised her to shave, stick her head with a needle and rub pepper into her skin, then bandage him; the wounds began to rot; the young man loosened from such a bride, took a girl, they came to her father Raja, the young man inherited the throne]: Blackburn 2005, No. 19.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Lombok [daughter of giants Danava Sari was taught magic; she was lowered into the sea in a box; Raja Panji Anom with seven childless wives went to the seashore to ask for children to be sent to him; on the shore they caught a box, DS in it, the Raja made her beloved wife; when the other wives became pregnant, DS ordered them to be imprisoned in an underground receptacle and magically removed their eyes; the children of six blind died, and one seventh eye was left and her child survived; he grew up and got out of the receptacle; DS persuaded him to send him to her parents, supposedly so that the young man could learn magic; gave a letter ordering him to kill the applicant; the Minister replaced the letter with a new one; it said that the young man was the son of DS, let him be taught magic; he learned to do everything that DS did, flew back on his own, asking the DC father to give him his eyes blinded women; they regained their sight; the young man defeated DS (both turned into giants, snakes, garuda; DS into fire, young man in downpour; when Garuda-DS fell to the ground with his winged down, people cut her into pieces; the young man inherited the PA kingdom]: Kratz 1973, No. 23:138-147.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece [Gaia was combined with Tartar, gave birth to Typhon in Cilicia; his head touched the stars, his arms stretched from sunrise to sunset; part of his body below his hips consisted of writhing rings serpent; the gods fled from him to Egypt, taking the form of animals; Zeus wounded him with a crooked sword, but T. snatched his sword, cut his tendons, locked him in the Coricia cave in Cilicia, and hid him there the tendons, telling the dragon Dolphin to guard them; Hermes and Egipan stole them, inserted Zeus; in pursuit of T., Z. threw Mount Etna at him, and because of the peruns thrown there, flames burst out of it]: Apollod., I, 6,3 (Apollodorus 1972:10); Hungarians [the old woman advised a childless woman to swallow legumes that she would sweep out of the house; the woman found, swallowed three grains, and gave birth to sons named Evening, Night Owl, Dawn; they grew up, went to seek service; the king asks to clean the well, promises three daughters; the brothers have done their job, but the king admitted that his daughters are guarded by dragons; in the forest the brothers saw a hole, stopped, began to cook one by one; every time the little man knocks down the cook, eats everything; when Dawn was left, he pinched the little man's beard with a tree; his brothers let him go for his promise show how to go down into the hole; Dawn came down, the queen gave a multiplying ring, Dawn blew the dragon 9 heads away; hitting the table with this royal stick turned the palace into a silver apple; then But with the other two royals (12-headed dragon, golden apple; 18-headed, diamond apple); sent the queens upstairs; tied a stone instead, the brothers cut off the rope; Dawn sees blind spouses , passing food to each other; their eyes were pulled out by a 24-headed dragon; Dawn quietly took the meat; then opened; the couple ordered not to herd sheep in the dragon's dominion; Dawn killed the dragon, brought their eyes blinded; one woman's eye was swallowed by a cat, Dawn put a cat's eye in the woman, she began to catch mice at night; Dawn hid the vulture birds from the hail; the mother bird tells me to cook meat and wine, carries Dawn on the ground, there was not enough meat, he cut off the meat from the calf; the bird: it was delicious, I would know it ate you; under the guise of a beggar, Dawn came to the king, the brothers did not recognize him; they answer that whoever knows your brother must be tied to the tail of a horse, and the queen who saved him must be married to her; the royals recognized their rings; Dawn forgave the brothers, married the younger princess]: Ortutai 1957, No. 5:141-150; Albanians [the peasant's son agrees to sit on a magic bird, climb the Crystal Mountain; drops his jewelry from there, but the people below refuse to let him back down; the young man finds a goat pen, cleans it; the three-eyed goat that returns tells one goat, then the other goat to guard, one goes to graze, the other falls asleep, the young man cleans the pen imperceptibly both times; the third time the goat himself remains, takes him to his blind master; he lets the young man herd, does not tell him to take the goats to the edge of the cliff; there the peri dance, the young man plays the pipe, the peri is the first to get tired, the young man ties her, makes her eyes return owner; having seen the light, the owner gives the young man the keys, tells him not to unlock the twelfth room; three Beauties of the Earth fly into it to swim, the young man hides the youngest's belt, brings his wife home on a heroic horse, the key to the belt gives it to her mother; three years later, she goes with her daughter-in-law to the wedding, gives her a belt, her daughter-in-law flies through a smoke hole; the young man flies back to the mountain, the old man sends him to his older brother, who The oldest, he sends him to the spring, where the maids of the Beauty of the Earth collect water, the young man throws a ring into the jug, the wife and her sisters come to him, turn an apple so that their cannibal brothers they did not eat it; they smell it, agree to give it to their sister if the son-in-law 1) brings an armful of firewood, 2) a barrel of water larger than them (the young man pretends to tie the forest with a rope, digs up the entire spring); 3) catch hare, get a nut; a young man falls on a hare from a tree, gets a wife]: Serkova 1989:55-57; Bulgarians [a young man herds sheep or goats of a blind old man; he does not tell them to drive them to the ground by himself, who are his blinded; the young man violates the ban and forces his own eyes to return; to do this, he provokes them to stick their fingers into a split log and knocks out a wedge; or hangs his hair on a tree; or tells them to pay for their play on the flute]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 321:120-121; Bulgarians [orisnitsa (i.e. fairies) give a newborn the ability to drop pearls from the mouth of a rose when she laughs when she cries; the girl grows up, the king wants to marry her; on the way to the king, the bride is blinded and replaced; the poor old man picks up the blind; at a time when there are no roses, he sells roses to the king, receives the girl's eyes for them; sells pearls; the old man tells the king about the girl's abilities; the king meets her at the source, listens to her story, marries her; the liar (and her mother) are punished]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 403:140-141; Serbs [Turks and Turkish women go to the bathhouse and pay small money; one has no money, she is not allowed in; but she has given birth to a happy girl: if she bathes, the water turns golden, laughs - mallows fall from her lips, cries - tears turn into pearls, steps - the grass turns green behind; after buying the girl, the woman collected gold and went to the bathhouse; got rich; {the girl grew up}; the prince decided to marry to her, sent a wagon with a gypsy maid for her; she snatched the bride's eyes, threw her out of the wagon, dressed in her clothes; the girl was picked up by an old man; she became rich thanks to her; she asked him to sell pearls in exchange for eyes; the liar agreed to give one eye; in the evening she told the prince that thinking of her parents, she cried and here were pearls; she gave the other eye for mallows; the prince became king; drought, hunger; king gives out horses, two to each, so that people take care of them; the old man received skinny naws; after the disaster ended, people returned their horses - all skinny; old man: let my daughter take them out; when he steps, she turns green grass, so the horses recovered; everything became clear; the king married the girl, and the gypsy woman was smeared with tar and burned]: Eschker 1992, No. 26:138-140; Croats [the poor couple have 9 daughters; when born tenth, her husband carried her to throw her into the sea; her voice forbids him to do so three times; he saves the girl's life; when she cries, diamonds fall off her, when she laughs, roses; the girl grew up, the queen went into the house, saw her, decided to marry her; on the way to the palace he left three times; the cook tells the young wife that her husband ordered her eyes to be pulled out; cut off her hands; throw her into the river; replaces the woman with his daughter; The feast made her laugh, but snakes fell from her lips; after that, the prince and his servant retired to the forest for 7 years; the real wife was pulled out of the river by a hermit; she tells her to water her, the water turns into gold; the hermit makes a spinning wheel out of gold, the woman tells her to exchange it for eyes; then the cord (Litze) for one hand, the spindle for the other; now roses fall from her lips again, diamonds from her eyes; she has given birth to a son and a daughter; Seven years later, the Queen and his servant enter this house, everything is explained; the cook and daughter were doused with oil and burned, the other was torn apart by four horses]: Schütz 1960, No. 177-188; Romanians [ poor old people three sons, the youngest Tsugul; the fairies gave him a good fate, but the sorceress snake took away his veins; the brothers reluctantly put Ts on a mare, take him hunting; the fairy gives him a belt: he can take any form to restore the Snake's veins; becoming a bee, C. flies to the Snake's house; from a conversation between the Snake and his daughters, he learns that the veins are in the chest behind the stove; next time he arrives like a fly, picks it up strands; fighting, kills three snake sons-in-law of the Snake Witch, gave their horses to his brothers, took the youngest for himself; the Snake tells his daughters to take a different form to destroy Ts; the elder brother wants to pick grapes, C. cuts down a vineyard, black blood flows; the same is a plum orchard; the same is a stream (the brothers wanted to get drunk, C. plunged a spear into the stream, blood flowed); the witch herself flies, C. hides in the cave, then comes to visit to the king, asks to forge a club; heated it, put it in a hole in the fortress wall; the snake pulled air into itself, a red-hot club fell into her mouth, she died; the boyars advise the tsar to get rid of Ts., suggest send him to the Kingdom of Strier, marry the king; C. meets, takes as companions 1) an eternally hungry man who plows seven plows; 2) hares running and stroking on the run, tied to his feet millstones; 3) freezing on a hot day, one mustache is white, the other is black; 4) an arrow hitting a mosquito in the sky; 5) a sage (waving a stick, birds flock); everyone, not knowing first who is in front of him, says that he is not a hero, but a real hero - C.; The Streer king demands: 1) eat all the breads baked in 9 ovens per day (Ovedelo eats); 2) drink 9 barrels of wine (Drinks); 3) enter the hot stove (Freezing cooled her); 4) bring water from the magic spring, overtaking the maid (the maid put Skorokhod to sleep, looking for him in his head; The shooter wakes him up by knocking out the horse left by the girl from under his head skull, Skorokhod came first); 5) let 50 infertile women be born overnight (The Sage did so that they gave birth; touched the king with a stick - behind the king there is a brood of ducklings, everyone laughs); C. spared the eagle, pulled out a thorn from the bear's paw, they promised to help; brought the princess to the king, who gave her to him himself; the brothers stabbed Ts., took the horse and the bride; C. was still a little alive, his eagle and bear were coming out, the eagle brought him alive and dead water, C. became the same; the eagle untied the horse C., the bear frightened the brothers; the horse killed the brothers with hooves, the Streer king bequeathed the throne to C., he married the princess, received both kingdoms]: Sadetsky 1973:79-101; Romanians [dragons stole the sun, moon, stars, and the king's eyes; two elder princes went in search, but traded, lost money and were detained as debtors; younger Dragan Cenusa (" chenusha" - "ash"), who had previously been sitting in ash, got on a horse that ate hot coals, took out weapons and armor, as well as ash cakes given by his mother, and went in search; bought the brothers, taking out gold from the horse's ear; while the brothers were sleeping, killed a dragon on a copper bridge that stole the stars, they returned to heaven; on the silver bridge, the moon; the long battle on the golden bridge; DC promised the crow more meat than the dragon promised, who sprinkled it with cold water and the dragon with hot water; DC killed the dragon, freed the sun; chipped in with his mouse, penetrated to the mother of the dragons and took away the box with his father's eyes; the dragon sent her two daughters to look like an apple tree and a well, and starved and thirsty on the brothers; DC crossed them with a sword, bleed; sent the brothers home to carry their father's eyes, and came to Mark himself Armenasha, asked for 99 quintals of hot coals; when the dragon tried to stick her head, poured coals into her mouth and it exploded; DC went with MA to get a bride, the daughter of the Green King; they they meet and accompany someone who hears oats grow and sees what is happening in another world; an arrow, a tree destroyer; drank; ate; capable of freezing the sea; this last one covered the sea with ice to cross to the country of the Green King; they were put in a hot iron house, which froze it; drank and ate and ate everything they were offered; compete on the run with an old woman, she put the runner to sleep with a dragon bone under his head; the shooter knocked out the bone; they got a princess, crossed the ice, the freezer melted the ice again, the king and queen who rushed to pursue drowned; DC I met an old man: there is no water, the dragon closed the spring, allows you to take water in exchange for people, the princess's turn; DC killed the dragon, cut off the tips of his tongues; a dwarf with a long beard came to his hut, ate all the meat; DC split the beech, pinched his beard in the trunk; the dwarf pulled out the beech, disappeared into the lower world; DC came on a bloody trail; ordered him to be lowered into the black world on a rope; pretended to be a musician; devils They promise a lot of wagons of gold if he can free their king's beard from beech wood; DC cut off his head, ran up to the rope, pulled, but no one picked up the rope; hears the squeak of the griffin chicks: to the nest the dragon crawls to eat them; (killed the dragon); the griffin swallowed it and regurgitated it, making it stronger; agreed to carry them to the ground; on the way, the meat ran out, DC cut off a piece from his feet and from under his knee; The princess recognized DC by the dragon's severed tongues; the brothers' wives poisoned DCH's wife out of envy; he went for living water; the old man gave him a staff and a sheep, telling him not to leave them in the forest, where the entrance to hell is located; The bird, while flying, dropped three feathers (her wife's hair) and three drops of blood (which fell from her wife's cheeks); DH left his staff and sheep in the forest and went home; turned into a walnut tree]: Bîrlea 1966:384-387; Moldovans [An old man lives with an old woman. They don't have kids. An old man goes around the world to look for his son so that there is someone to take care of them in his old age. After wandering, he comes to the well. At the well, an old man has eyelids to the waist, eyelashes to the knees, and a beard to the toes. In response to the story about the purpose of the trip, he sends him home, because in the morning this morning his boy has been dragging jugs around the yard, watered the garden, filled all the vats and barrels. The old man returns home, sees a guy in his yard, as handsome as an oak tree, doing all the work in the yard. His grandfather and woman dress him, feed him, and call him Fat Frumos. He plows, sows, threshes, collects grapes, takes care of old people. One afternoon, when he sleeps, he hears a strong scream that makes the waters in the rivers cloudy, the trees bend to the ground, and the ground hums for three hours. FF asks who shouted it, his father and mother do not know, they send him to his grandfather at the well, who has eyelids to the waist, eyelashes to the knees, and a beard to toe. FF sets off, comes to his grandfather at the well. He explains that it was Verya-Bogatyr who shouted at Kodrul-Revakul, he heard his name, but he didn't see him, we should go to his brother and he'll tell him how to find him. FF comes to the shack, where the old man is so old that his eyebrows close his eyes and he can't see anything. The old man lays out his food and starts eating. FF eats too. The old man eats everything quickly and stays hungry. He makes lunch for himself again, and the hungry wanderer eats almost everything again. Then the old man realizes that someone is around and says: "If you are older than me, be my father, if you are younger, be my son." FF confesses that he is younger, explains that he visited his brother and wants to know why the WB shouted at Kodrul-Revakul, so that the waters in the rivers became cloudy, the trees bent to the ground, and the ground was buzzing for three hours. The old man says that only his sister, Ilana-Kosynzyan, knows, and if not, no one will tell him about it. The road to it is long, and the WB courtyard is so cleverly fenced that you can walk around it for three days and three nights without knowing where the gate is. But on the third night, you'll see a crack and light from them. You have to knock and they'll open it to him. The old man gives a horse and two dogs. After three days and three nights of travel, at dusk, the horse asks if you can see anything in the distance. FF replies that it's like it's starting to dawn, like the sun wants to rise. The horse says that the sun has just gone down - these are WB palaces. It took them three days and three nights to reach the palaces. For three days and three nights, they jump around the fence, and finally notice a crack that makes light. They knock, the gate opens. FF enters the gate, and WB IK's sister just went out on the water, walks, hums, and the jugs in front of her are jumping and dancing. FF says hello to her, and IK wonders how he got here, naming FF by name. She reports that the World Bank has been ill for 9 years, lying down, and it carries him from the shade to the sun. Why he has the disease, he does not say. FF suggests bringing him some water and asking him. IK goes with the jugs full, lets his brother get drunk and asks. The WB refuses to say it wants to destroy him. After a while, FF sends it again. The WB hits her cheek. My sister is sad, but comes back after a while. Then the WB tells him to be moved to another room and tells the secret of his misfortune. He was on a hunt and shot three turtles. I sat down with a horse and dogs under a tree so big that you can't ride it on horseback in a day, cut off a dry branch, made a fire to fry pigeons, heard the voice of an old woman from the top of the tree - complained in the cold. He offered to go down to warm up. She came down a little bit but said she was afraid of dogs and horses. She gave me three hairs, told me to throw two hairs at dogs, and one on a horse. After that, the old woman went down to the fire with frogs on a spit. WB roasted pigeons and she fried frogs, and kept trying to touch the pigeons with her frogs. Seeing that the woman was ruining his food, the WB pushed her away from the fire, and suddenly it began to grow, hung over him as a monster, strangled him, and he felt unable to move. The old woman pulled out a small sword, ripped open his stomach and took out his entrails, and put wood rot instead. In pain, the WB screamed so much that the waters in the rivers became cloudy, the trees bent to the ground and the ground was buzzing for three hours. And the old woman told WB that as soon as he revealed to someone the secret of his illness, he would die right away. As soon as WB finished the story, it gave up its breath. The yard is shaking, the trees are crouching to the ground. IK is crying, telling FF about his grief. FF jumps to Kodrul-Revakul to that tree. He shot a turtledot on the way. When he found a tree, he cut off a branch from it, lit a fire, put up a tripod, and began to fry a turtle. He hears a voice from a tree complaining about the cold, invites you to go down and warm up. The witch goes lower, complains about dogs and the horse, gives three hairs. FF throws them into the fire. He assures the witch that it was his dog who burned its tail. The woman goes down, sits by the fire with frogs on a spit, strives to touch FF pigeons with her frogs. He explains that whoever roasts pigeons should eat frogs, and whoever roasts frogs will eat pigeons. She says she killed a lot of brave men like that. FF pushes her away. The old woman gets up to grow into a scarecrow, and he tells the dogs and the horse to take her. Dogs begin to vomit and drag the woman along the ground. When she gets up, the horse knocks her down with his hoof. She asks for mercy, the FF demands to tell me where the heart and kidneys of the WB are. Old woman: At the top of the tree, in the third room upstairs between two jugs with living and dead water. FF climbs a tree, takes his heart and kidneys. When they step on the ground, dogs turn their heads. The witch opens her eyes, looks at the tree, blows at it; the tree falls down. FF turns around and throws the tree into the sky so forcefully that chips fly from the sky for three days. On his order, dogs and a horse tear it apart, FF splashes dead water on it, pieces grow together, splashes alive - the woman comes to life. Dogs throw themselves at the witch again, tear them to pieces. FF burns what's left, scattered the ash down the wind. The horse saddles. Goes to the IC. They go to the dead WB, cut its stomach; after throwing away the wood dust, they wash it with wine, put the heart and kidneys in their original place, splash dead water, and the entrails grow together. FF gives a jug of live water to IR, and steps aside by itself. When the sister sprayed WB with live water, he says that he slept for a long time. IK: I would have slept my eyelid and wouldn't wake up if his heart and kidneys hadn't returned to him, and FF did it. WB hugs him, kisses him and happily swallows him. The IC asks me to let him go. WB releases, FF is becoming much more beautiful. The World Bank thanks him for his return to his strength, gives his sister and all the goods in the palace. He warns that there is a manor house near where there are snakes. He has long dreamed of marrying IK. They fought many times, but neither he could defeat Verya-Bogatyr, nor his World Bank. We must beware of stepping on his land. As soon as they cross the border of his estate, he will select IC. On a holiday, FF and IK go to inspect their properties. Bypassing them, they accidentally step on the border of the snake estate, fog falls to the ground, turns into darkness and darkness, and IR disappears. FF returns in tears to Vere-Bogatyr, says goodbye, goes to look for IR. A man sits by a large river, one jaw on one bank and the other on the other, and when he swallows water, not a drop of water remains in the river, fish fight on land and the ground cracks. No matter how much water comes into that river, he drinks all over and shouts: "I'm dying of thirst, dying of thirst!" FF is surprised. The man suggests that it is better to marvel at the FF, who killed the witch and resurrected the WB. FF says it's him, going to the dragon for IC. The person asks to take it with him, promises to come in handy. They fraternize, walk, see 12 plows in a row in one field, a person goes after plows, eats furrows and shouts to plow sooner, otherwise he dies of hunger! FF is surprised. The one who ate the furrows, Flamynzila-Unsaturated, suggests that FF caught the witch, burned her, and scattered the ashes to the wind. He asks you to take it with him, maybe he will help him, or maybe he'll get food for himself, otherwise he won't remember being full since he lives. They fraternize, walk, see 12 firewood trucks burning, and among them a man dressed in 12 covers, crooked in three deaths, so that his head touches his legs and trembles with the cold. FF laughs at Jerila-Freezila, who tells you to laugh at himself, because without him, you can't get rid of the snake IC. They fraternize, walk, see a man with 6 millstones on one leg and 6 on the other. When it hits the millstones on the left with millstones on the right, it runs around half the world, and when it hits from left to right, it rushes like the wind in the opposite direction. When a sieve of water collects, it returns it to its place unspilled. This is Fujila-Runaway Dogonyu, he doesn't feel any stones on his legs. I tell myself to be surprised: where you go, it's hard to be without him. They fraternize, walk, meet an unwashed shooter: 6 pounds of dirt in each eye, and he kills a mosquito in the ninth sky with an arrow without aiming. I tell myself to be surprised: where you go, it's hard to be without him. They fraternize, walk, meet a man who sleeps on a rope and screams in his sleep that he has nowhere to stretch out. They fraternize, walk, come to the serpent's palace. The palace is surrounded by a fence of stakes, each with a human head on it. Only one pole at the gate is headless and shouts: "Head, head!" They knock on the gate, the serpent comes out. When the serpent finds out why the FF came, he says he will give him the IC, but let him follow all orders, otherwise hang out on an empty cola. The serpent tells its servants to prepare rest rooms for guests. The servant leads to the copper house, under which day and night are fire, the house is red outside and inside.. Freezer comes in first, from his breathing in the house like on a summer evening, just right to rest. Everyone goes to bed, Freezer sticks her head out so as not to freeze her friends with her breath. By morning, frost covers him like feathers, and when he sighs, he sweeps snow at the door. The serpent calls the servant to remove the ash and bones from the house. The servant opens the doors: they are icy, the guests scream that they are freezing. The snake gets scared, puts everyone at the table. If they eat and drink everything they put on the table, they will give it to IR. It brings 99 cows, 99 bread ovens and 99 barrels of wine. Insatiated and Drink-I want to tell my brothers to take as much as they need, eat and drink the rest. The serpent is telling FF to raze the hills around the castle to the ground by tomorrow morning. Drive-Hills-Encircling throws a rope and starts tying the two hills together, and then twisting it overhead so that one hill flies to one end of the earth and the other to the other. The serpent agrees to give the IC, but first you should send a brave man to bring a bucket of water from the Gray Mountains. The snake will also send a grandmother with a bucket for water, and if the FF person comes earlier, he will give the IR. The serpent sends his grandmother with the bucket through the water in the evening, and Run-Dogon goes to bed. It is difficult to wake him up at dawn. The old woman is already turning back. Run away and Dogonyu starts throwing millstones and gets to the Gray Mountains while they are still sleeping, collects a bucket of water and catches up with his grandmother. She offers to take a break, put her head in her arms and rest, puts her spell, and puts a snake bone under his head. At the request of FF Okila, the All-Seeing sees why he hesitates to Run Away and Dogon, sees that only the grandmother is coming, and Run-Catch Up is sleeping. He fires an arrow, she knocks a bone out from under the sleeping man, he catches up with his grandmother, brings water. The serpent gives to IK FF, but forbids them to walk on its lands, their way by sea. He thinks they won't be able to cross the sea and will remain his servants for life. When they reach the sea, Freezela freezes it, they cross over to the other side. The serpent is chasing. When it's in the middle of the sea, Frozen breathes fire from one nostril, the serpent sinks to the bottom and is eaten by crayfish and fish. FF and Ilyana Kosynzyana go their own way. Each assistant is left in his place. They arrive at Vere-Bogatyr, who blesses them to the crown. He turns all his wealth into three golden apples and gives them as a dowry. From there, young people go home to their grandmother and grandfather and have a wedding there]: Botezat 1981:235-246

Central Europe. Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Khust Oblast, p. Gorinchevo) [The tsar has one son Ivan, it's time for him to get married, he only wants a native girl (SD). She takes a warrior with him and goes looking for her. He turns right, drives through the wasteland, sees a lonely mill. There's an old woman with knee-length lashes. He says hello and calls his mother sweet. She raises her eyelashes. I haven't seen a living soul in ages. She suggests taking a break and going to see her middle sister tomorrow. It gives a horse and a ball of thread, you have to hold on to the thread. A year later, I. reaches his middle sister. She has eyelashes down to the ground. The Tsarevich also greets her and calls her mother sweet. She raises her lashes and explains that she hadn't seen a living soul in 200 years. She suggests going to see her older sister in the morning. It gives a horse and a ball of thread. A year later, I. reaches his oldest sister. She says hello, calls her mother sweet. The woman barely lifts her eyelashes - so long. In the morning, he gives three wheat grains, tells you to go to the sandbank to the sea, put wheat under your tongue and turn into a hare. Eleven pigeons will arrive, but there will be no diabetes among them. The cabbage rolls will swim in the sea, rejoice and sing, then they will fly away, and only then will she arrive. This is what happens. When SD arrives, she sheds her feathers and goes swimming. The prince takes her clothes, wraps her in a handkerchief, runs to the woman, who tells her to sit on her horse and go on the road without looking back, although SD will run after him and ask for clothes. As soon as he looks back, the clothes will fall out of his hands, the CD will catch up, hit his mouth and go away. We should keep quiet. When you're at home, you should give SD regular clothes and then talk and hide your feathers. I. rides, the girl follows him, persuades him to return her clothes, she will be ashamed to walk naked around the city, she will not leave him anymore. He looks around, feathers fly out of his hands, SD hits I. on the mouth, flies away. The woman gives three other grains, turns him into a deer, he steals clothes, sits on a horse and rushes without looking back or talking. At the palace, SD wears home clothes, gives the feathers to her mother, who sews them into her retinue, which she wears once a year. They live happily, they give birth to a boy with five golden hairs on his head. I. goes hunting, the mother asks her daughter-in-law why she is so beautiful and does not have parents. She replies that her clothes are even more beautiful, and her mother-in-law did not see them in them. The queen rips off her retinue, the feathers fly up on the girl themselves, she flies away through the window. Ivan goes looking, and three years later he gets to the woman who helped him. She explains that his wife is overseas with her demon mother will need to be cunning. A wolf is serving in the mill. Baba will hide it at the bottom of the barrel, and the wolf will carry it to the other side of the sea. The barrel is heavy, the wolf decides not to serve anymore on the way and throws it into the sea. The barrel breaks on the shore, I. gets out of the sea, goes out onto a glass road, comes to the palace to an old demon, and is hired. She tells you to dig up the mountain, level it, plow it, and sow wheat. Wheat must ripen by tomorrow, he must harvest it, grind it, grind flour, bake rolls and give it to it early in the morning, otherwise he will be headless. I.'s pickaxe and shovel break, he sits down and cries. The demon tells his daughter to bring him food, he doesn't recognize SD, and she recognizes him. She tells me to eat, she pulls out a squeaker from under her right hand, squeaks, all the devils run away. The SD tells them to do whatever I. The next year, the demon gives a wooden trough, leads to the lake without end and edge, tells you to scoop out water, plant grapes, hand over three large bowls of wine in the morning, otherwise he will lose his head. The wife brings food, calls the devils together with a squeaker, and they complete the task. So I. served his second year. The devil says she'll give him more work in the morning. I. sees a prisoner who has already served in an iron furnace, on fire, on seven chains, who cannot warm up. He sits down and cries. A demon sends her daughter to find out what happened. She calls the devils with a squeaker, tells them to obey her husband's order. Ivan orders the hell to get him and his wife home by morning. The devils spread the red fly, Ivan and the SD sit on it, fly away. On the way, I. burns from behind a blue flame. This is a demon. He turns around, a demon grabs his eye. He is blind. The wife leaves him with his handkerchief in place, turns into a pigeon, overtakes the demon and, picking up two lumps of manure from the road, turns into a well under two sycamores. A heated demon bends down to get drunk, and the girl replaces I.'s eyes in her sinus with dung. He flies to Ivan, regains his eyes, and finally recognizes her as his wife. The demon rushes home, the prisoner from the furnace asks if she brought him a partner, who says she took his eyes, climbs into her bosom, finds manure. The prisoner laughs so much that he warms up. The demon flies back, flies to the border, bursts with anger. I. and SD get home, live happily]: Lintur 1979:5-11; Western Ukrainians (Gorinchevo, Khust District, Transcarpathia) [Count's son goes hunting every day. In the morning he wakes up, opens the window, sees that a woman is walking down the street, bringing her son to eat in a pot. The count's son, to test his accuracy, shoots at the pot and breaks it. Baba sees him laughing and says that she barely begged her son for food. She curses him to only marry Seipentel Ilona. The guy runs after his grandmother and asks where she is. She replies that where ninety-nine human heads are on the stakes, and leaves. The count's son does not find a place for himself, he is going to look for his betrothed. He sees how a bear crashes ants, feels sorry for ants, drives a bear into the thicket. Ants give him a pipe that he can use to summon them to help. The guy goes on, sees that the boys have caught a fox and hit it. He asks to keep it and pays them a crown. The fox gives him a pipe to play on, and she will come to his aid. The count's son comes to the water and sees the fish fighting. He throws bread to the fish. The fish calms down, thanks him and gives him a pipe to call for help. More often, he bumps into a hut, around 99 human heads on poles. He comes in and sees the woman he smashed the pot with on the stove. She serves him by telling him to look after her three mares. If he doesn't pull him back, his head will be on a pole. The guy falls asleep, and when he wakes up, he does not find mares. It causes ants with the help of a flute, who explain that the mares have become ants. Real ants will start biting them, then they'll start running away. When the first one runs and then the second one, you don't have to do anything, and when the third one runs, you have to whip it and say, "Be what you used to be!" That's what the guy does. In the evening, a woman checks, sees mares, gets angry and hits them with an iron club (these are her daughters). In the morning, she orders her daughters to go to the water and become fish. When the guy wakes up, he calls fish with the help of a flute. She reports that mares have become goldfish. Real fish will bite them. When the third one jumps out of the water, you should whip it and say, "Be what you were!" That's what the guy does. The woman gets angry in the evening, whips the mares with a fiery whip, accusing them of being in a romantic relationship with the guy. They deny it and tell their mother that she is wise and he is wiser. On the third day, the mares disappear again. The fox summoned by the flute explains that the woman turned them into eggs, put them in a basket on the stove, and sat on them herself. But the woman in the attic has a rooster. The fox will call the ferret, which will start chasing the rooster. The woman will get up from her eggs and climb to save the rooster. Then you have to run into the hut, whip the balls and say, "Be what you used to be!" The ferret starts chasing the rooster, the woman, when she hears a scream, climbs into the attic. The guy hits the balls, the mares are back in the barn, the guy sits on a chair. Baba is convinced that he is wiser than her. He says he served her faithfully and asks what he asks for his service. He wants to stay in service for three more years. Baba agrees, takes him to a big lake in the morning, gives him a wooden shovel, a wooden hoe, a wooden coinage, and tells this lake to fall asleep and walled up so that she can ride it on horseback, if not will do - be his head on the stake. His tools break immediately, he sits and grieves. Babina, Seipentel's daughter Ilona, brings him food and finds out the cause of his burning. After feeding him, she puts him into a deep sleep, whistling to the devils. They fall asleep and walled up the lake. When the guy wakes up, he notifies the woman, she checks, but the lake does not break through under the horse. She sends him into the thicket the next day. There, the wind scattered beech and oak seeds. They must be harvested, each seed separately. At noon, the girl brings food and finds out about the task. The guy eats up and falls asleep because Ilona sleeps on him, and she whistles, devils run, and in an hour all the seeds are collected as the woman wanted. On the third day, the woman orders to cut down the thicket, dig it up, and sow it with wheat. By evening, wheat must be ripe, and he must squeeze it, bring it, grind it, grind the flour and bake bread. The guy cuts down one tree and gets tired. SI wants to bring him an afternoon snack, but the woman yells at her, even breathes fire, suspects that she is doing all the work for him, and he's not so wise, let his sister carry it. But after a while she calms down and leaves her daughter alone. SI brings in an afternoon snack, finds the guy crying. When he has lunch, she falls into a deep sleep, and she cries the devils like sea sand. Everything is ready by evening. Ilona wakes him up, gives him a fresh roll and asks him to tell the woman when she asks what he wants for his service, what he wants to stay with her for another three years. Baba pretty agrees. The count's son stays with her, does everything well, but one day, when a woman falls asleep, SI and her boyfriend get ready for a long journey. SI turns herself and his boyfriend into pigeons, they're flying, and SI asks if you can see anything. The guy turns around and says he sees a cloud of fire. She replies that she is a mother and that she will turn herself into a mill and him into an old miller. The old woman will ask if he saw two pigeons, and he must answer what he saw a long time ago. Baba decides it's not them and comes home. SI turns them into pigeons again and they fly to its land. She asks again, and he sees a fiery cloud again. Then SI turns itself into grass and it into a braid. He tells Baba he saw two pigeons when he was clearing this field for a meadow. Baba is coming home. Two pigeons hit the road again. After a while, SI asks again who he sees. He says the woman is on a fiery horse. SI turns them into fish, but tells them not to stick their heads out of the water or they'll go blind and she'll talk to her mother. But the guy wants to hear what they're talking about, sticks his head out of the water, the woman steals his eyes and comes home. The girl cries, goes like a dove behind his eyes. At home, she gives her mother and sisters a deep sleep, climbs into her mother's bosom, reaches out her eyes, and instead puts pigeon eggs so that her mother thinks when she wakes up, that her eyes are in her bosom. She flies to the riverbank and returns the guy's eyes. They fly to his village. The guy is happy, he leads the girl by the hand. She asks where he's taking her. He replies to their homestead. She tells me not to do this, because she is not yet known there, asks to be taken to their innkeeper neighbor, who will serve him. In a month, let him tell his father and mother that she wants to get married. They'll get married then, but he must remember not to let anyone at home kiss him. The guy leaves his betrothed with the innkeeper, returns to his parents himself. They welcome him, they want to hug him and kiss him, but they don't give him. Tired, he goes to bed, in the evening an aunt comes to them and kisses a sleepy man in bed. He forgets about the girl. It takes two weeks and two months. His relatives decide to marry him. They choose a bride, marry, and set a wedding day. SI knows everything, she cries, makes the guy fall and dislocated his leg. They send him for a doctor, and the innkeeper's maid says she'll heal him faster. This is what happens. The guy asks what to reward her with. She doesn't want anything but asks to be invited to the wedding. The wedding day is coming. She bites through a golden nut, takes out her gold clothes and comes to the wedding. The young ones are just about to get married. But when a young woman sees an innkeeper's maid, she refuses to get married until she gets the same dress. They start looking for silver clothes. They cannot find it anywhere and have to buy it from the maid, they promise to pay her dearly. She doesn't want anything, she asks permission to be with her young man. XI kisses the guy, talks about everything, but he doesn't remember anything. A servant hides under the bed and hears what the girl said. "I've saved your life six times and you've forgotten it all! But it's not all gone. At dawn, I'll be cuckoo at your house, and then you'll see me, then you'll recognize me..." She's going home. The servant crawls out from under the bed, tells the young master what he has heard. After that, the guy remembers everything. In the morning he goes out into the yard, sees a cuckoo, and immediately recalls SI. But the cuckoo is flying away. The count's son is going to travel. The bride is told that they will not get married, she can marry someone else. He orders iron tables from the master and goes around the world. Looking for a betrothed for seven years. One day he sits under the willow, looks - the tables are torn. She thinks this is the only place she should be if his tables are broken. The cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo cucko The guy says it's his Ilonka. The bird says it's his. He calls her to his place. She asks me to be afraid that she won't invite her aunt to the wedding, who kissed him. He takes an oath. Then she flies off and becomes a girl. The guy is happy, takes her hand and brings her to his parents. They celebrate their wedding and live happily ever after]: Lintur 1979:121-129; Eastern Ukrainians (Poltava) [the prince looks into the hut, where the girl cries with pearls, laughs with flowers; the girl has grown up, prince married her, took her home; the prince stopped, went hunting; the angry woman took off the bride's clothes and jewelry, gouged out her eyes, pushed her into a hole, dressed up her daughter; the grandfather found a blind girl; his wife advises to exchange for the pearls she wept for; he exchanges the woman for one, then for the other eye; the girl sends her grandfather to a feast with the king with a towel embroidered by her; the king learns the embroidery, brings the bride, the woman's daughter sends pigs to herd]: Pankeev 1992:254-256; Eastern Ukrainians (Kharkiv, Lebedinsky University, c. 1878) [Son Lev steals and sells his father's best horse, parents send him with coachmen to the forest, They're ordering him to be killed. They feel sorry and cut off his little finger, kill the dog, bring the boy's heart, liver and finger to his parents. The father buries what is left of his son at home, and an apple tree with silver and golden apples and branches grows. When an apple is plucked, blood flows from the tree, and the words are heard: "deception, my friend is a snake." The lion finds himself in a deep yar, walks into a beautiful house, sees that the windows are open, pancakes lie on them, blind old people live here, the woman bakes pancakes and puts them on the window, the lion eats them, the grandfather asks for a treat, the old woman realizes that the pancakes are gone. They ask the stranger to identify himself (if the old one is a parent, the young one is a son), Leo responds and stays with them like a son. They rejoice at him, he herds their goats, they warn them if they herd them near fast waters - they give them a bucket of milk, but the snake forbids them: they gouged out the eyes of the old people. The serpent forbids Leo to lead goats, drives a goat, holds her ear and presses a snake, asks where he keeps the eyes of old people - under a trough in the yard, makes them insert, tells the woman to warm the milk, wash it with it eyes and insert. A lion and a snake rub the eyes of old people, and they see the light. The lion plants the snake in the oven. Old people go to look for a bride for their son, forbid him to enter the barn, he enters, for the first lock, money for the second, silver, for the third - a "personal horse with golden hooves.." a tall bay horse with golden hooves, he sits on it, the old people hear that their horse has been released, the old man harnesses six goats, the horse tells Leo to say "become goats" three times, he says they stop. Leo returns to his native village, tells his story, plays, and is asked to play for his father. He listens, asks Lev to stay with him as a son, learns his story, admits that he is his father]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 79:304-307; Belarusians [option; Ivan Tsarevich descended to the lower world, killed a polar bear, sent princesses of copper, silver, golden palaces to the ground; raising him himself, the brothers let go of the rope; he came to the blind old man and old woman, whose snake had drunk their eyes; hired herd goats; contrary to his grandfather's orders, he drove them to the snake's meadow; defeated the snake, forced the old people to regain their sight; they ordered them to take the skin of a white bear instead of a horse, an otter instead of a saddle, a female snake instead of a whip, hit the skin three times, the skin brought to the white world]: Romanov 1887, No. 10:85; Russians (Arkhangelsk), Ukrainians (Kharkiv), Belarusians [The young man serves as a shepherd for the blind old man and old woman: herds cattle in the forbidden meadow of a witch (snake) and forces her to restore their sight to the elderly (he gets medicine, living and dead water); after seeing the light, the old man rewards the young man]: SUS 1970, No. 321:117-118; Russians (Terek coast) [the tsar grew old, sent his sons for rejuvenating berries; the eldest, the middle son went, did not return; there are three roads from the pole: he is alive, the horse is hungry; himself I live not to be; the woman is smooth, the feather bed is soft; Ivan Tsarevich goes where I do not live; the old woman gives a horse, sends it to her sister, she sends it to the other, the third to their brother; there everyone must bow: the old man, his wife, three sons and three daughters-in-law, from the eldest to the youngest; the old man has a head in a big corner, his legs are on the doorstep; the mistress of the rejuvenating berries is sleeping, you have to jump around the house, you have to jump over so that the strings do not rang; I. took live water, rejuvenating berries, kissed the heroic girl; on the way back, the horse hit the strings; the girl woke up: she was unwashed, unwashed, drank but did not close the well; the old women detained the girl, I. managed to jump to his land; I. came to the girl, there was a bed with screws, he unscrewed the screws, pushed the girl into the cellar where people rescued those who were still alive, including his brothers; when he fell asleep, the brothers pushed I. into a hole, took everything for themselves; in the lower world, I. came to an old man; he asks not to herd oxen on the east side, where Baba Yaga with her three daughters, she blinded him and killed his old woman; I. leads there are cows there, each time she tears off the head of one baba yaga, puts it under the bed; the old man made him look away; he is grateful, calls the bird to his aunt's foot; she takes I. to the ground, there is not enough meat, he cut off his legs from his calves, the bird regurgitated and put them back; I. returned to her parents; the girl sailed by ship, with her two boys; the elder, middle brother call themselves fathers, the girl tells the children to accept them, they beat them, cut the buckle out of their ass; I. goes, looking like a kabatskaya goal, his wife meets and takes them home]: Balashov 1970, No. 43:139-146; Russians (Arkhangelsk, summer coast of the White Sea, Nyonoksa) [ After going fishing, the three brothers walk along the blood river to the barnyard. One is left to fry the bull, the others hunt. He appears with a fingernail, a beard from an elbow (hereinafter referred to as Himself), demands to take him to the table, eats a bull, hits his brother and leaves. The brothers come back, spend the night hungry, and the next day the other brother stays to fry the bull (same). On the third, the youngest Ivan does not agree to carry Himself to the table, hangs him by the beard to the matitsa. The brothers come back, eat and throw bones at Himself's beard. They let him go and move on, and Himself goes under the rock. The brothers cut the belt out of all the bulls in the yard and lower Ivan into the hole, promise to wait for him and pick him up when he pulls the belt. Ivan enters the kingdom of copper and sees a red girl. She weaves and soldiers jump out of each cotton with stuffing (a bird in a loom) and two more, saying that this is an army against Ivan the Fool. Ivan asks her not to weave. She sends him to her sister in the silver kingdom, everything repeats itself, she to the third girl in the golden kingdom (the size of a sieve). She also agrees not to weave more soldiers, tells me how to get three girls out and defeat Himself. Ivan finds him by the sea (in a strong spirit), they are fighting, thirsty and leading Ivan to the field. There are bowls with strong and empty water, the girl swaps them in advance. Ivan drank a lot, defeated Himself - he put it in the palm of his hand, pressed down the other. He took the girls, rolled each of the three kingdoms into an egg. Brothers raise girls, but they don't want Ivan. A girl from the golden kingdom begs her betrothed (Ivan) to get her betrothed. They lower his rope, Ivan ties a stone to his belt, and his belt breaks off. The brothers wanted to marry the girls, but they refused. A girl from the golden kingdom goes to work as a cook for her ass. Ivan in the lower world is hired by a blind old man as a shepherd. The old man warns that Baba Yaga pulled out his eyes and will pull Ivan out. Ivan herds the herd in Baba Yaga's field, she sends her daughter to grab him, Ivan tears off his daughter's head and brings him home to the shop, and tells the old man that it is birch bark for bast shoes. She does the same with her second daughter. On the third day, she drives the cattle to Yaga's house, and she goes out to catch them. Ivan sits on horseback, holds her hair, chains Baba Yaga, cuts her with iron bars, and she says where the old man's eyes are. With his eyes inserted into the old man, Ivan cuts Yaga to death. The old man gives Ivan a bird to get to his world and feed the bird a bucket of meat in flight. Ivan returns to his village, finds out that girls don't want to marry his brothers until they get dresses from their kingdoms, Ivan rolls out kingdoms, takes dresses and rolls the kingdoms back. The girls understand that Ivan is near. Two marry brothers, a princess from the golden kingdom for Ivan]: Onchukov 2008, No. 86:226-229; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Leshukonsky District, p. Vozhgory, 1928) [Pop got lost, met a bear, helped arrange a den, and winters in her. Palfil Popovich (PP) was born to a bear. In spring, pop returns to the village with his son. Popadya does not immediately recognize her husband, she is happy. PP is large, eats a lot, it is difficult for parents to feed it, they send it to the forest to herd cows. PP catches a bear who wants to pick up a cow, brings him to the village and locks him in the barn. The maid comes in when the bear eats the last cow. Pop sends PP to the king for tribute, he rides a bear, meets an enchanted man. To break free from the spell, he must "bring the mountains to one place." PP helps him, they go together. It's the same with having to uproot an oak tree. The three of them and the bear come to the king, the PP demands tribute, the king pays to leave as soon as possible. PP gave one bag of gold to his ass, and left with the other four. The three of us stayed in a hut, catching bulls. Two go to town for food, Gornik stays to cook, an old man appears from under the floorboard, demands a treat, the man refuses, the old man beats him, eats everything. It's the same when Dubnik stays to cook. PP defeats the old man, reproaches his comrades for not admitting why the food was not ready. PP wants to know if there's any other ground under the floor. He cuts bulls, makes belts, and his comrades pull him down. PP enters a copper, silver and gold tower, meets three girls, reports that the old man who stole them is dead. The girls are happy and ask to take them with them. It's a pity for PP to leave the tower. Everyone throws the ring from her hand onto the roof, the tower turns into rings, they are given to PP. Satellites lift the girls, but the PP is too heavy, the companions cut off their belts, the PP falls, goes waist-deep into the ground. He is hired by a blind old man to herd cows. He shows the border of the Baba Yaga glade and forbids herding cows there. The PP complies with the ban three times, and the fourth time she drives cows to Baba Yaga's land, she is angry, he promises not to bring cattle to her anymore. The cows are full and roaring. PP takes the herd back to Baba Yaga's meadow. She says she would fight with the PP hero and hear about his strength. We agreed to hit three times. Two PP blows do not harm Baba Yaga, then PP hits the mortar, Yaga becomes a woman, he puts her in a bag and tramples her, lets the old man feel at home, who makes sure that Yaga has been killed. PP kills one of the bulls, climbs into his skin, catches a crow that has flown up, sends the other for living and dead water. After receiving water, he tests it: he tears the bird, then revives it. He offers to cure the old man's eyes, sprinkles dead and living water, he sees the light, and in gratitude promises to bring the PP to the ground. His witch daughter does this, she eats people and knows how to turn into a bird. Orders to tie an iron spear and prepare 40 barrels of meat and 40 water. There was not enough meat, PP cut off its calves. The bird says its meat is sweet and would eat it, but his father's request doesn't allow it. Spits out swallowed, PP's legs are intact again. After 10 years of absence, PP returns to his kingdom, the girl from the golden hut is waiting for him, he marries her. PP punishes his comrades: he cuts off one arm and the other's leg. He puts up a silver and gold tower, lives in them]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 109, 272-278; Russians (Zaonezhye) [the widow became pregnant, gave birth to a son Okati-Goroshka; the tsar received rumors about his pampering, OG asked the king not to execute him, he would find his three missing daughters; the tsar agreed; OG meets, takes the heroes of Roznigor as companions, then Usynya; came to the house, R. and W. could not shake the gate, OG opened the gate; R. cooked dinner, but he came with his fingernail, his beard off his elbow and ate everything; the next day he did the same with W.; on the third day, OG took his Sam-with-nail into the yard, pinched his beard; the heroes went to the mountain throw the anchor, R. and W. did not anchor, OG, climbed the chain and came to the copper kingdom; the elder princess hid it, her husband flew in, sensed the Russian spirit, the princess began to caress him, he fell asleep, the OG cut off his head and followed the second princess (the same, the silver palace); the third in gold; each packed her palace in a box; the princesses went down, the heroes pulled off the chain and OG was left alone at the top; came to the house by the lake; there the old man asks to herd his cattle, but on the road, not on the grass; OG disobeyed and the snakes began to sting the cattle; OG killed them with a sword; on the third day, a 12-headed snake, the mother of the dead, arrived, tried to eat OG, he cut off six heads for leaving the other six, brought her alive and dead water; he smeared the old man's eyes with them, he saw the light; the grateful old man sent OG home, putting it on an eagle; there was not enough meat, had to be cut off from her own calves; the shoemaker said that the first princess followed R., the second for W., and the third for the one who would sew her shoes like they were in the golden kingdom; OG opened a box in which the golden palace and took out his gold boots, sent a shoemaker with shoes to the princess, who understood everything and asked for the same dress; then the whole palace; in the morning, the shoemaker was asked who was the builder of the palace, he pointed to OG; OG married a princess, R. and U. to two other princesses]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 41:119-123; Czechs, Slovaks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 321:205-207; Poles: Shcherbakov 1980 [on the shepherd's field a golden life has grown; he tells his three sons to guard him; when it is the youngest's turn, the bird took the sheaf; the young man behind her; there is a house in the forest, by the fire on that sheaf lies an old man; the young man invited him to be his son; blind the old man's wife agrees; the old man gives sheep to herd, does not tell them to be allowed into the dry pond - the Rock Spirit will take away; gives a violin; the spirit drove the sheep; the young man gave him the violin to play, he broke the string; the young man promises teach him to play, first you have to straighten your fingers; the spirit put them in the split trunk; the young man let him go for promising not to touch the sheep; the spirit points to grass that will restore blind vision; old people promise to get adopted son girl; you have to drive a goat to the sea; three ducks will arrive, throw off their clothes, become girls; you need to hide the shirt you like; the guy succumbed to persuasion, gave his shirt, duck flew away; a year later, the old man sends the guy again; after bringing the girl home, the guy took pity again and returned his shirt; the third time was the last; the goat (this is the old man) is transported to another sea; the young man did not give up his shirt , the old man gave the maiden a cape; the young man, his wife and newborn daughter went to visit his real father; having a golden life, the shepherd became a prince; at a feast, the daughter-in-law asks his father-in-law to get her best outfit - the husband hides it in the chest; became a duck and flew away with his duckling daughter; that old man gives the young man a masm to become a hare, fish, fly; the young man reached the top of the glass mountain; overheard that his wife was without He grieves, became human again; his wife's parents handed him the throne; he sent for his real father and for that old man, made them ministers]: 115-125; Uther 2004 (1), No. 321 (Silesia, Malinowski 1900): 205-207.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks [two daughters ask their father to bring outfits, the youngest Tsagan is a black-browed khan's son; the khan agrees, asks Ts to make a shirt and trousers, is satisfied with his work; Ts goes to Khan in accompanied by a neighbor, old woman Syavda and her daughter; they took food from Ts. They gave them food in exchange for their eyes, threw them into the well; S.'s daughter explains to Khan that she was looking for everything, sniffing out how far the Khan's ulus was, so the eyes became ugly, the nose was long; the old man pulled C. out of the well; she made a pouch, tells me to exchange it for the eye; the same is the second; S. knows that C.'s soul is in the heart of a silverfish, pretends to be sick, tells me to catch, S. takes a fish heart; when she dies, C. tells her body to be thrown into the lake; Khan comes to the lake, there is an underwater palace, a girl lies next to her cries; when the khan gave her the heart of a fish, she put him in C.'s mouth, she came to life, told everything; Khan asks S. and her daughter if they want sword and blood or horse tails; they say tails; they are tied to horse tails]: Vatagin 1964:239-245; Abkhazians [the prince's son marries the one chosen by his favorite pigeon; he finds the daughter of another prince; through a pigeon they arrange a wedding; the bride is sent on a ship with a maid; she bribes sailor, the bride is put in a box, her eyes are gouged out, thrown into the sea; the prince's son marries the visitor, but she is not as beautiful as he thought; the shepherd caught the box, the girl tells him to make a hut for her in in the forest; the dove finds her, brings the prince's son, who converges with the girl, not knowing that she is his true bride; she gives birth to a son, the prince's son takes him to him, says he has found him; the boy makes give him the box to his stepmother, his mother's eyes are in it, he and his father come to her, returns her eyes; the liar was tied to horses, torn to pieces]: Shakryl 1975, No. 9:31-41; Karachays [=Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983:56-60; an elderly couple gives birth to a daughter Alakez; four genies give her 1) a talisman of immortality; 2) a gift to turn water into gold; 3) tears are diamonds; 4) flowers under her feet; khan takes her to wives, on the way, a widow neighbor dazzles her, leaves her in the forest, replaces her with her daughter; she says that she does not do magic every day; Ivan and his wife sheltered a blind man, the old woman gave them A.'s eyes for diamonds; a tower was built for A.; the old woman sent him to steal the talisman of immortality from her sleeping hand, she died; khansha dropped the talisman, picked it up by a boy, came to the tower with the khan, dropped the talisman on A.'s body, she came to life; the liar and her mother were tied to the tails of horses]: Kapiyeva 1991:214-217; Balkarians [stepmother tells her stepdaughter to herd a cow and spin her hair; there is so much yarn that she cannot make it before dark; wind took the wool away; the girl saw an old woman; she told me to tie the wool to the cow's head - she will hide herself; the stepmother peeked, ordered the cow to be slaughtered; the old woman tells me to bury the remains of the cow; three daughters of the old woman helped to do the job - to whitewash the house; invited to the one; in a pit with bones - a beautiful outfit; the girl is mistaken for a khan's daughter; when she returns, she lost her slipper; the khan tells everyone to try it on; it came only to an orphan; the stepmother took her stepdaughter to the forest and gouged out her eyes; the woodcutter adopted her; the stepmother gave Khan her own daughter, who does not like her; that woman found her stepdaughter, gave her apples, told her to sell in two eyes; the girl saw the light, her tears turned into gold; the woodcutter built a rich house; the khan and his entourage, including the girl's father, stayed there; the girl tells her story; the khan married her, and expelled her unloved wife and her mother]: Malkonduev 2017:305-309; Georgians: Chikovani 1954 (Kartley) [the older brother's wife tells her husband to drive away the younger brother and his wife; they have a daughter, her tears are pearls, laughs - violets and roses are falling; the prince hunts, the servant enters the hut, is amazed by the girl's beauty, because of this, the pheasant is burned; the prince himself goes, amazed by the beauty, takes the girl to marry; on the way, his uncle gives her salty food, takes her eyes for water, dresses his black daughter in her clothes; explains to the prince that she is fool from waiting; a blind woman in the forest cries with pearls, picks her up old man; exchanges violets and roses, an uncle's necklace for a girl's eyes; she dies, her son sucks milk in his mother's coffin; the prince finds a son, he tears off the necklace from his imaginary wife, puts it on his mother, she comes to life; uncle and daughter were torn with horses], No. 46:244-249 (=1986:248-255); Kurdovanidze 2000, No. 437 [the beauty goes to the groom, suffers from thirst, the royal nanny lets her get drunk in exchange for her eyes; replaces leaves her in the forest with her daughter; the girl regains her eyes, everything is fine]: 42-43; Georgians [Vision received from a witch: the hero gets to a blind maiden; he grazes cattle on forbidden mountains of devas and, defeating them, he multiplies the cattle, pulls out the witch's handkerchief, soaks it in golden water and restores the deva's sight, he also becomes golden-haired]: Kurdovanidze 1977, No. 321:245; swana: Dumezil 1996:84-85 [=Margiani 1890b: 6-11; when dying, Amiran's mother tells her husband to remove the premature fetus from her body and put it in the bull's stomach for a month; then put A. in the cradle and put it in Iaman spring; women came to get water, A. took the jugs and beat the women; Jaman brought A. to be a servant of his sons Visib and Badri; all three became twin brothers; they offend other children; they ask: If you are strong, why don't you find Jaman's eye and put it in to him; I. explained: he had to deliver firewood to the monster; when he was old, he could not do it, the monster took an eye, otherwise it would take away his sons; You can only fight the monster if you can crush a millstone on your knee; they did it; A. fought the gray maiden, V. fought the red maiden, B. with the black; red and black killed, but the gray swallowed A.; V. and B. shouted to A. to take out his diamond knife; A. cut the maiden from the inside; came out blind; the brothers smeared his eyes with the insides of the maiden, A. saw the light; with the help of the sister of the 9 virgins A. and his their brothers killed them; she made a bridge of her hair over the abyss; when her brothers crossed it, V. cut her hair and the maiden remained on the other side; she cursed A., ordering her to marry Bright Kaklotia (she lives in the air); the brothers came to the maiden, who is going to eat them in the morning; his sister is chained in his house; the brothers released her, she pointed to a diamond sword that can kill a virgin; A. killed him, in his there is a pole in the house, there are many eyes on it, on top of a box with I.'s eye; A. got a girl in the air; an army was sent for her, V. and B. died, the girl revived them; A. returns I.'s eye, marries the girl ], 85-86 [published on cargo in 1897; Amirani, Yusibi, Badri noticed that their father Iamani was blind in one eye; the mother replies that the father had smallpox; then the sons put hot corn bread on her chest; the mother said that when B. and Yu were born, Dev demanded to give one of them; the father did not agree, then Dev took one eye from him; the brothers go to look for the deva, see him on the rock, he spins (spruce - spindle, millstone - spindle); dev swallows A., who rips his stomach off, but loses his eye; threatens to kill the deva if he does not heal him; dev tells him to take a piece from his heart and liver, rub it eye socket, A. recovers; dev now demands to heal his side, but A. inserts a wooden braid in it, otherwise dev would swallow the whole world; now when dev swallows the sun or moon, the star soon comes out through a braided line; A. demands to return I.'s eye; dev shows a pole in the house, there is a box on it, another eye in it; the brothers return the eye to his father]; Armenians ["the girl gave the old man/old woman roses and rehan, who fell out of her mouth, told me to sell it by the eyes"]: Gullakyan 1983:106; Azerbaijanis [the eldest daughter asks the merchant to bring a shirt made of onion husk, a medium brocade shawl, and a younger cat; the dervish gives a shirt, a handkerchief, asks the older, middle sister for his wife; offers to eat a man, the wife hides the meat behind the gate, it falls to the floor, the dervish nails the older, middle sister by the braids; the youngest takes the cat eats the meat, the dervish is happy; leaves; the wife opens the fortieth room, frees the sisters; all three fly away in a plane chest; the youngest is married by the son of the padishah, an average nobleman, the chief vizier; the dervish gives the guards sleeping pills almonds, the lion and the tiger lamb, the prince's wife pushes him down the stairs, the lion and the tiger kill him; for her salvation, the woman promised a daughter, who she has will be born; when she is five years old, she is summoned by three beggars, given wonderful abilities (if she cries, a hurricane, laughs, roses fall, walks, gold and silver traces); the girl's father's evil sister feeds her salty, gives water in exchange for an eye, then for the second; leaves her in a deserted place, replaces his daughter at a wedding with a padishah; a poor man finds a blind man, sells flowers that have fallen from her mouth to an evil aunt in exchange for her eyes, the girl sees the light; the prince married her, her aunt and daughter are tied to mules]: Akhundov 1955:230-240; Turks [a girl was born in a poor family (var.: princess); three (or more) dervishes (peri; dead mother) predict that where she passes, the grass will turn green, her tears will become pearls, if she laughs, roses will fall from her lips, gold will appear in the water that she washes; they give her an amulet ( bracelet); the girl grows up, marries the prince, goes to him accompanied by another woman (sister, maid, neighbor, black woman, etc.; the vizier decides to replace the beauty with his ugly daughter); suffers from thirst, her companion gives her water in exchange for her eyes; takes her place; the blind woman lives with other people; roses are needed in the palace, they fall from the girl's lips, they are sold in exchange for her eyes, the girl sees the light; (the padishah sees the grass turning green under the girl walking); the liar steals the girl's amulet, she loses consciousness, is put in a tomb; (she has a child, he sucks the chest of a dead mother); her prince finds and revives]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 240:291-294; Kurds [after giving birth to a daughter, the shepherd's wife hears three doves telling her to be named Golbarin; if she laughs, roses will fall from the sky if she will cry, it will rain; accompanied by aunt G., they marry her son padishah; the aunt feeds the girl salty food, gives water in exchange for her eyes, dresses her ugly daughter in her clothes; the shepherd picks up blind, she tells me to exchange her roses for eyes in the city; pigeons teach her to wash her eyes in a spring, run a pen over them, G. sees the light; goes to serve her aunt; receives beautiful clothes from doves; the son of a shepherd recognizes her as a real bride, her aunt and her daughters are cut off their heads, the shepherd is invited to live in the palace]: Farizov, Rudenko 1959:29-33;

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Hittites [The serpent defeated God of the Storm, took from his heart and eyes; then BG married the daughter of a mortal man, Poor; she gave birth to a son, who grew up and married the daughter of the Snake; asked the Snake for his father's heart and eyes, brought him back; regaining his former appearance, BG defeated Snake; son: Don't feel sorry for me either; BG killed Snake and his son with him]: Ivanov 1977:52.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [=Rosenfeld 1956:13-22; the merchant's property burns down, he lives in a vacant lot, his wife gives birth to a daughter, four peri gave her: roses from her mouth when she laughs, tears are pearls, sleeps - gold under her head , steps - gold and silver are under her feet; shahzade takes her as his wife; the merchant's sister (i.e. the bride's aunt) gives her a potion, the girl is thirsty, she gives her eyes for water, her aunt throws her into the hole, replaces her her daughter; she takes roses and gold in stock, they run out soon; the gardener pulls out the girl, sells roses and pearls to her aunt in exchange for her eyes torn out; shahzade finds a true wife, an impostor asks if she wants a horse or a sword; she replies that Shahzadeh ties a horse by her hair to a horse's tail]: Osmanov 1987:124-131; mountain Tajiks [when Shah Baghdad's daughter laughs, from her mouth Roses fall when she cries, pearls fall out of her eye; she is sent to marry Shaha Misra; on the way, the old woman says that she brought her sister, asks her to undress, puts her daughter in her dress, pulls out the princess eyes; a poor old man in Misra sheltered her; got rich selling roses and pearls; the girl sent him to buy two old eyes, saw the light; Shah Misra married her, the old woman and daughter were torn apart by horses]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 26:112-113; Tajiks [stepmother torments stepdaughter with work, tells the cotton to strain; the cow eats it, releases yarn from her mouth; the wind carries cotton into the old woman's cave; she tells comb her hair, clean her house; promises that roses will fall from the mouth of a laughing girl, tears will turn into pearls, gold will fall from her right foot, and silver from her left foot bricks; the stepmother's daughter goes to herd the cow; carelessly combs the old woman, sweeps badly; takes gold from the pantry; she has a lump on her forehead, gold turns into stones; the stepmother tells the cow to be slaughtered, the cow tells the girl to bury her bones in a hole; the stepmother and stepdaughter go to the wedding, tell them to separate the rice from the wheat; the chicken does this, in place of the cow bones - a luxurious dress, a horse; at the wedding, the stepmother does it does not recognize the stepdaughter; she loses her kaush (boot), the padishah's son is looking for him, finds the girl in good shape, where her stepmother hid her; on the way, the stepmother lets the bride eat salty, she is thirsty, the stepmother gives water to exchange for torn eyes; throws his stepdaughter into a well, replaces her with his daughter; a poor old man finds beauty and pearls; saves her, collects roses; changes them for the eyes of his stepmother's daughter, the current wife padishah; now pearls fall from her eyes, roses from her mouth; stepmother sends a witch to suck the girl's blood; the girl orders to bury herself in a crypt of gold and silver bricks; the stepmother takes her heart away gives a bag with it to her daughter; when she takes it off her neck for the night, the stepdaughter comes to life; the padishah's son finds her, comes at night; she has a son and daughter; the boy has grown up, pulls out a bag with her heart ; stepmother and daughter are tied to horses, beautiful woman and son are brought to the palace]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1960:175-182; Uzbeks: Afzalov et al. 1972 (2) [shepherd's new wife torments unbearable stepdaughter work; a gust of wind carries her yarn into the cave; the old woman tells her to feed the yarn to the cow, pull the threads out of the udder; the stepmother tells her to slaughter the cow; the old woman tells her to bury the bones and skin; the stepmother and daughter go to a feast, a rooster and a chicken are separated from rice from peas instead of a stepdaughter; in the hole where the remains of a cow were buried, the girl finds beautiful clothes; four peri, the old woman's daughters, take her to a feast, she returns before her stepmother , having lost his boot; the shah tells everyone to try it on, fits only the stepdaughter; the stepmother kills the rooster and the chicken that indicated where she hid her stepdaughter; gouges out that eye, throws her into the swamp, brings the Shah his ugly daughter; the weaver finds a girl, her tears are pearls, laughter is roses; the sorceress teaches to sell roses in a pair of eyes; the shah meets the girl, expels her stepmother and false wife]: 114-121; Sheverdin 1984 [ After cutting down a tree, the woodcutter frees the genie in it; he gives him an apple to eat in half with his wife; a daughter is born, whose tears are pearls, when she laughs, roses fall from her mouth, where he steps, golden sand remains; the old man is rich, asks for his daughter too big dowry; the evil genie tells me to give it to him; the batyr kills the genie, gets a beautiful woman; the old woman and daughter say that they came from a batyr pick up the bride; take her to the desert; the old woman gives her water for her eyes torn out; throws her daughter into a well, dresses her daughter in her clothes; the people are surprised that roses do not fall, there is no gold in the bride's footsteps; the poor man pulls the blind man out of the well, builds a pearl palace; when a rose smiles, the poor man sells her daughter to an old woman by the two eyes blind; a good genie dove inserts his eyes, the girl sees the light; an evil genie tells an old woman to catch a goldfish with an earring in it, where the soul is beautiful; at night, the imaginary wife takes out her earring, at which time the girl comes to life; after chasing a dove, the batyr finds the true bride, returns the earring; the old woman and her daughter are tied to horses]: 82-89.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians [a childless queen adopts a girl; one day she plays with a beggar's daughter, the queen wants to drive her away; a girl says her mother has strength; a beggar tells the queen twice pour water under the bed after an evening wash; two flowers will grow, beautiful and ugly, you must eat a beautiful one; the queen eats both; gives birth to an ugly girl with a wooden spoon in her hands riding a goat and beautiful; at Christmas, a freak leaves the palace to drive away the trolls, tells her to keep the doors closed; her sister opens the door slightly, the witch takes her head away, replaces her veal; the freak sails on the ship in the land of trolls, takes his sister's head, fights off his pursuers with a wooden spoon, the goat kicks them; returns his head to his sister; the king wants to marry a beautiful woman, the freak stipulates that the king's son marries her, a freak; during a wedding procession, a goat turns into a horse, a spoon into a silver rod, a freak into a beautiful woman; everyone is happy]: Dasent 1970:345-353; Latvians [A witch kidnaps eyes. A boy herds old goats on witch silver grass, across golden dew. A witch comes running, pulling out the eyes of old people. The boy herds the goats again, the witch wants to snatch his eyes out too, but the shepherdess asks her to allow him to play the pipe. The witch also wants to blow. The boy tells her to stick her horn into the hollow of an oak tree, pinches it, makes the witch confess where the old man's eyes are hidden, and then kills her. At home, he puts his eyes in old people]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 321:276; Lithuanians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 321:206-207.

Western Siberia. The Nenets [of the three sons of an old Khant are the youngest fool; father, mother, older brothers dream of wild deer coming from the north and south; a fool sees two argish, deer in one dark, in the other is colorful; in anger, his father breaks his arm and leg, throws him out of the plague; he gets to the plague of the eyeless old man and old woman; boiled meat is lowered from the hole above them; the old man ripped his arm and leg with a knife young men, he is well; the meat stops coming down, the young man climbs the pole through the hole into heaven to the old man's son; he is sick, the young man gives his sister a bandage from his bakers, tells him to tie a plague to the pole, the son of the elderly recovers, the meat descends again; in the plague of old people, the young man pushes the iron leaf under the hearth, descends to the lower world, takes the eyes of the old people from the sihirt, gives it to the old people, they see the light; Two argish with dark and colorful deer appear next to the plague; a young man gets an old man's daughter, rides home with her on deer, puts his mother, brothers on a filthy sledge]: Labanauskas 2001:209-214; southern Khanty (b. Konda, S. Patkanov, 1888) [A childless old man set fire to his barns so that smoke could rise to Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother-why doesn't he have children? Heavenly Father sent a son, who gave three seeds, let the old man let his wife eat; she gave birth to a boy, he grew up quickly, came to one of the ends of the earth, the bear and the wolf let him see the old woman, who gave him a name Like Aspen Leaf, the Agile Husband (VM); he returned home, only one foal from his father's herd did not bend at his arm, he took it; tells his father to marry him one of the three royal daughters; the father was beaten, expelled; the priest's youngest daughter was given without dowry; his wife refuses to look in his head - she did not even look aside where the Merchant, the Wanderer (KS); his flying horse brought him to the old woman; she says that no one returned from the city of CS; gave a bundle of 60 silver rings; the next old woman gave a ball of thread, the third gave a white towel; teaches how to avoid a mountain of human bones, throw rings to 60 warriors, cross the bridge across the sea; the warriors shot, only pulled three hairs out of the horse's tail; the CS's mother turned the VM into a needle, hid it from her son; he orders to show the person who came, became his brother, ordered his wife to be beaten, when she arrives magpie and gets out of her magpie skin, with three silver bars; the wife is forty again and flew away; the COP does not tell me to open the seventh room; in others - frogs and lizards, in the seventh - the girl is CS's sister; the VM married her; goes to fight the seven-headed menqua, tells his wife not to leave the house at that time; cuts down the menqua warriors, but there are more and more of them; then he cut her husband, who carved warriors out of flint like sparks, destroyed warriors, hit something with a sword; at home I found out that the COP had left the house - he hit him, why did they release him? they found the body, put it in the coffin; wife: mother-in-law wants to kill you; he entered his mother-in-law's house, fell into the lower world; there the old man and old woman adopted him; they do not tell him to herd cattle in the menqua estate, he stole their eyes; but grass is better on the other side, the VM drives cattle there; hacked one-, two-, etc. -headed menkvas; the seven-headed man cannot cut down his head, he drove him into the ground, the menkv asks him to take his white towel, wrap around his neck, then cut; then VM cut off his head; came to the Menkwa mother, fights with her, changed buckets of strong and weak water; the old woman's daughter shows that the old woman needs stab her chin; VM did so, killed an old woman; daughter tells her to burn her, sweep away frogs and lizards that will crawl out of her into the fire; VM tells the girl to jump over the fire - if she used to live with a man , she would fall into the fire; she fell, there were lizards too, he burned them; he took the eyes of the old people, restored their sight; they told them to prepare meat, put firebirds on their backs; she brought the last two pieces to the ground he cut off his legs from the calves; the firebird belched them and put them back; the wife is lying between two men; the VM wanted to hack them, the wife: these are your sons; the VM cut the youngest son, sprinkled blood on his body CS, that came to life; revived his son with live water; his wife's brother (i.e. CS) set up a copper playground for games, the VM arranged a silver one; everyone lets a block of stone on his court; the VM takes flint, sparks turn into husbands ; when he throws his stone, he breaks the arms and legs of the CS people, tears them apart; the COP lets the VM and his wife (i.e. his sister) go home to the VM - he cannot live with a hero who is stronger than him; on the way they come To those three old women, his wife turns them young; at home, the VM climbed onto the roof, looks into the house, where his parents are quarreling over a spark; he poured water or snowed to put out their fire; they swear; he opened daughter-in-law turned them young; VM throws chips brought from another world, they turn into a populated city; abundance around]: Lukina 1990, No. 88:220-237; Kets (Imbatsky) [ old man Erohot brings up a chanterelle; she steals fish from the Inita (Ingeta) storage shed, brings Erohot; Casket lived with the Inites; I. tells him to see what is outside, K. says that there is no one; I. finds a trail chanterelles; the chanterelle became a three-legged horse, Init turned to Casketa; K. sat on a horse, came to a shaman tree with a cradle; began to swing in the cradle; at the top there was an eagle's nest, with three eagles in it, the tree became shake, eagles squeaked; K. eagle: give me a flint bag; eagle: I'll give you my claw from the ruff; K. (aka chanterelle) went, became Tylget sitting on larch; the eagle wanted to catch him, and he snatched one eye from him; he became K. again, came to the sea; fish (shark, whale? storyteller's translation) stuck her nose out; said that the eagle wanted to grab her, she had her claw; but the fish's horns froze to the ice; would give her claw if K. brought horns; K. saw devils in the sand, smeared as if the devil himself was also soot, he did not drink, but poured it aside; when the devils got drunk, he took away the horns {that the devils had horns, it is not directly said, but it is clear}; brought the horns to the fish, she gave the eagle's claw; went, became again T. and larch; a whetstone at the butt, he took it; the sea rose, T. left the whetstone, the sea took it; an eagle flew in, K. gave him an eye, but not an eagle's claw; the eagle brought K. to the eagle, K. gave her a claw, got a flint; said he would go down to old man Erohot]: Dulzon 1969, No. 57:184-186.

The Arctic. Chugach [A bear bites off a person's hand, hangs a smoke hole at home; a man suffers; a raven steals a hand, brings it back, heals the victim]: Birket-Smith 1953:165-166 [The raven asks The bear takes advantage of this to put smoky bark into the fire; since the arm is bent, people now bend their arms], 170 [(=Johnson 1984:71-73); The Raven teaches the Bears how to bite off a person's hand when people lure bears during the salmon run; tells them to hang them in the chimney to cause more suffering; people ask the Raven for help; he tells the Bear that if you tie your hand with grass , rather than tree roots, the owner's pain will increase; takes his hand; putting it back, asks people to keep their eyes closed; one person opened their eyes, so people's arms bend; see motive K52 further] .

Subarctic. Upper pieces [Wolves and Bears come from the upper reaches to play with people from the lower reaches; they tear off Kunitsa's hand, carry them away; people ask the Raven for help; he agrees, having received a well-fed baked dog; his nephew Owl swims with him; having relieved himself of fir branches, the Raven turns them into clothes for himself and for the woman; he is mistaken for a rich man, given a woman; he goes to bed where above him a severed hand hangs; pokes his hand, an alarm sounds, but those who come running every time do not notice anything suspicious; one day he flies away with his hand; the owl pushes the boat into the river, they sail away; The raven puts a hand on Marten; she doesn't move well enough, so martens have asymmetric marks]: Ruppert, Bernet 2001:285-287; tanana [Bears tear off the Marten Girl's hand, make it out of it a rattle; the Raven comes to the Bears disguised as a poor old man; dances; takes his hand at night; sails away in a boat with his nephew Owl, returns his hand to Kunitsa]: De Laguna, Dearmond 1995, No. 16:163-167; kuchin [playing, the Fox family disturbs the sleeping Bear; he tears off the Fox's hand; the Fox asks the Raven for help; the Raven comes to the Bear, tells stories, the Bear begins to doze, the Raven grabs the Fox's hand from- under his head, brings the Fox; the wound mark is still visible on the fox's fur]: McKennan 1965:96; Chipewayan [Black Bear is White's nephew; White pulls out the Fox's shoulder, hangs it in his house; Fox asks the Raven for help; the shoulder hangs along with a bunch of claws, they ring when touched; the Raven seems to accidentally touch several times; the Polar Bear falls asleep, the Raven grabs his shoulder, returns the Fox; White The bear chases Black Bear away for telling everyone what happened; hides the sun; it turns dark; the Polar Bear's daughter swallows something dark with water; a boy born requires the sun to play; turns into a crow, takes it away; polar bears have been ferocious ever since]: Bell 1903, No. 2:79.

NW Coast. Hyda (Skidgate) [the chief's son has a stronger hand than everyone else; a small pale hand sticks into the smoke hole; the chief's son grabs it, she tears off his hand; the raven flies into someone else's village; an old man he meets says that his hand is kept behind a partition in the house of the local chief; the raven puts on the old man's skin, steals his hand in the morning; touches the partition, it sounds like a tambourine; the raven carries hand, it grows to the young man]: Swanton 1905a: 136-137.

The coast is the Plateau. Comox [in his father's absence, the boy cooks fish, the Grizzly steals the fish; the father comes back, shoots the Grizzly, but he rips off his hand and takes him away; the raven comes to the Grizzly, feeds him, he falls asleep, The gate takes the hand hanging above the fire, brings it to the person, the snail helps to attach it back to the body]: Boas 1916:821; tillamook [the owner's dog comes home alone; the wife finds his husband in the boat severed genitals; a woman and a dog both give birth to sons; a woman tells them that an enemy from heaven killed their father; brothers go up to heaven, making a chain of arrows; kill two enemy wives, stretch their skin; heavenly people hit the father of young men in the head like a drum; brothers kill the enemy and his people, except for wise Ice; take the father's head; the spider lowers them to the ground; the dog's son revives his father]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 8:25-28; alsea: Frachtenberg 1920, No. 10 [when a man makes a boat, enemies from heaven cut off his head; his two sons, born to his dog, climb into heaven, making a chain of arrows; they ask the murderer's two wives about their customs, kill them, put on their skins; the husband is surprised that the youngest wife hits the water while jumping into a boat; brothers hole boats, carry their father's head to the ground and the head of his murderer (their "husband") cut off by them; they try to resurrect their father; his head falls four times, grows on the fifth; they turn him into a woodpecker, themselves into dogs], 11 [=No. 10; one son from a woman, the other from a dog]: 125-137; cous: Jacobs 1940, No. 8 [the heavenly leader decapitated the Hawk; the two sons of the murdered man make a chain of arrows, go up to heaven; on the way they ask the chief's two wives, put them on clothes, wives promise to go to the ground with them; they come to the chief under their guise; they forgot that food should not be given to two old people (Cranes?) ; they screamed, but did not hear them; jumping into the boat, one of the "wives" slipped and said that she had a heavy luggage; the chief's younger brother notices his daughter-in-law's testicles, they did not believe him; they took their father's head, the head of the "husband" was cut off; when blood is shed, the husband's brother says that the daughter-in-law wet herself; the brothers take their wives, go down to the ground; the father's head is dry, they put the head of the murdered leader on the body; therefore hawk small head]: 235-238; Saint Clair 1909a, No. 6 [the older brother was making a boat, his dog next to him; a man appeared, cut off his head, disappeared; the youngest found the body, the dog barks, pointing upwards; the younger shoots into the sky, makes a chain of arrows, comes to people dancing with her older brother's head; finds out where the murderer's wife is; asks her about her behavior, kills, puts on her skin; stumbles, jumping in her husband's boat, he is surprised; gives edible rhizomes to the old man and his wife; they are surprised, they say that this woman is from the ground; fortunately they have not been heard; she cries when she sees her brother's head on the roof, says that she burned her hands about a hot pot and smoke eats his eyes; the boy notices that the woman looks like a man; the younger brother holes all the boats except one; at night he cuts off her husband's head; his mother raises the alarm, for she blood flows; the youngest carries the elder's head, descends to the ground; the head grows on the fifth attempt, the eldest turns into a woodpecker, his head is red with blood]: 32-34; upper coquil [Puma is married to Olenikha, with them his younger brother Wild Cat; returning from an unsuccessful hunt, Puma sees his wife fill the basket with excrement, puts camas tubers on top, bakes the contents; offers excrement to her husband, tubers to his brother; Puma tells Wild Cat that he ate someone's crap; Deer puts his hand in his ass, pulls out his pancreas, runs away to the Deer, who play with iron like a ball; Puma is sick, Wild Cat he must hunt himself, he hunts for deer three times, but two men take the prey; the Puma goes to check, these people are Triton (water dog) and Black Fly, the Puma makes them return the meat; the Wild Cat finds good luck penetrates the Deer, grabs the pancreas, returns the Puma; they also get the "common heart" of the Deer; owning it, it is enough to call them, the deer come running themselves; the Puma and the Wild Cat kill so much as much as they need; left alone, the Coyote calls the Deer himself; they come running, taking the "heart", fleeing to the sea; skins, dried meat, bones also disappear; the Coyote in his hearts wants his crap and guts too gone, bursts, crap and guts disappear; Puma chases deer, grabs the last one before he jumps into the sea, buries wool from his skin, and new deer grow out of fur]: Jacobs 2007:102 -130; takelma [The puma killed so many deer that he almost destroyed them; the deer sent him his Deer Wife; after that he could no longer get deer; his wife brings mossy firewood from the forest, and by morning they without moss; cuts meat off her feet, cooks, eats, feeds it Puma; early in the morning Puma spies, sees her eating moss and cutting the meat off her leg; he shot but missed; his wife snatches it the pancreas, runs away, gives the Deer gathered together, now they play it like a shinney-ball in the morning; no one could return this trophy to Puma; the Wild Cat covered himself with moss, crept up, grabbed his pancreas, ran, climbed a tree, the Deer surrounded him, knocked him down, but he told the tree to fall towards the house, jumped softly, ran on; the next time the deer around fell asleep, he went down, gently stepping on the feet of the sleepers, the last one woke up, but the Wild Cat ran; at home he threw her through the ribs of the dying Puma; he ran to the steam room, where the Coyote was; the Deer came running; the Wild Cat and The coyotes shot to kill deer, Puma killed adult males; the deer returned to the ground and could be hunted]: Sapir 1909:50-54.

The Midwest. Steppe Cree [see motive F73; Visakedjak meets Wolves, makes the wolf cub his nephew; tells him not to approach the lake; he comes up, disappears; the Sun tells V. that he was dragged away underwater Lynx; V. turns into a stump, then into a tree on the shore, awaits the Lynx; the Sun tells him to shoot in the shadow of the White Lynx; the wounded Lynx hides in the lake; the old toad goes to heal her; V. kills her, wears her skin, comes to heal Lynx; instead kills her, runs away, carrying her nephew's skin, revives him; later the flood begins; V. asks Fish on the raft, then Beaver to get the land; they cannot ; The muskrat brings the earth from the bottom, pops up dead; V. revives it, blows to the ground, it grows; Deer and other animals run around; Wolf is sent fourth; goes so far north that it becomes too old to return; the earth is big; V. sends his nephew to the Sun]: Skinner 1916, No. 1 (1): 341-346; menominee: Bloomfield 1928, No. 108 [the boy's grandfather lies forever on the floor, overgrown with moss; young man finds a brother, whose bottom is wooden; the brother says that his grandfather did this, that he also wants to kill him, warns of dangers; the grandfather sends the young man to bring his wives; he gives tobacco to the Cranes, Cougars, they are his they let him in; he goes to two women, runs back, the Cranes, the Cougars do not detain him, the women kill them for it; he, after him, the women run into the house, he takes them as wives; the grandfather shoots at him, he dodges; he shoots, kills his grandfather; turns into a feather, flies (to heaven?) , cuts off the bottom of his brother's body, the bottom falls, the brother becomes whole again; the young man goes to look for the Stupid Girl; on the way, the old man stops him, they smoke, the old man lengthens the day, the young man falls asleep, the old man changes from in his guise, takes his ear jewelry - live hummingbirds; the impostor throws a young man into the water; marries the Stupid Girl; her younger sister picks up the abandoned man, takes him in husbands; impostor says it's his dog; kills lynxes and young man turns decks into bears; spits, turkeys appear; impostor spits, bugs appear; Stupid Girl steals one a bear, he becomes a deck again; the young man climbs into an empty log, regains his appearance; gives the impostor his appearance, turns his head into a hawk; returns to two wives, gives a new one to his brother]: 469- 483; Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II.5 [the young man's grandfather lies in a teepee like a moss deck, wakes up every four years; the young man finds the upper body of his older brother attached to the stump; he explains that their evil grandfather will do the same to him, teach him how to win; the grandfather tells him to kill the polar bear; the young man runs without looking back, at the entrance to the house the bear falls dead; the grandfather takes the pot out of his side to cook meat; the young man gives the bear the head of two old women, they disappear; these old women cut their older brother; now hostile creatures play ball in the sky with the lower half, hang it in the chimney; the young man goes up to heaven, cuts off the rope, the lower half falls to the ground, joins the upper half; cranes, horned snakes guard the house of two dangerous sisters; the young man scares off the guards, takes sisters as wives; the old man breaks the sleeping young man's back, changes from with his clothes, pushes him into the thickets, marries his eldest wife; the youngest finds a young man, takes care of him; he turns sticks into bear carcasses, grass into beavers and turkeys; when the deceiver steals carcasses, they turn back into sticks, dung beetles; the young man climbs into the deck, regains his former appearance, turns the deceiver into a hawk; gives his eldest wife to his brother]: 317-327; ojibwa [after father's death, the three brothers decided each to get the animal he was superior to the others in hunting; the youngest killed the bear, although it was not his beast; a red swan appeared; shooting all the arrows, the youngest decided to take his father's three sacred arrows; the third pierced the swan's neck, but he flew west; after a long pursuit, the young man came to the camp; the chief called him son-in-law and ordered him to sit next to his daughter; After spending the night with her, the young man goes west again; the next night in the house of a sorcerer, who has an inexhaustible supply of food in his pot; the sorcerer warns that those who chased the swan did not return; another sorcerer did not return The next stop reports that the red swan is the daughter of a sorcerer who has a wampum instead of a scalp; for his daughter to recover, he had to take it off and his head is bleeding; the scalp is kidnapped by the warriors, they are with him they dance, he must be returned; the young man came to the place where the scalp is on a pole and people around him are dancing a military dance; the young man turned into a hummingbird and then into a feather, carried his scalp; became a hawk whose scream is a signal to the sorcerer that the scalp had been obtained; when the young man put it on the head of the old sorcerer, he himself turned into a beautiful young man; he gave the savior a wampum and married his sister Red Swan; on the contrary ways the young man leaves gifts to those sorcerers who helped him; the latter tells his daughter, with whom the young man once spent the night, to go with him; elsewhere he received another girl; at home he gave wife to each of the brothers; he found them smeared with soot; the middle brother was a silly trickster; the brothers told the youngest to bring back his father's arrows to send him away and take possession of his wife; he went down to an underworld where spirits gave him arrows; on one side there is light where there are good people, on the other side there is darkness where evil people are; when he returns, brothers argue about who will take his wife; he shot them with the arrows they brought and lived with the Red Swan for a long time]: Schoolcraft 1999:125-139; Winnebago [the girl was lying in the sun, became pregnant, gave birth to twins; their hands are covered with flint liners like her mother's brother, who is angry the spirit cut off their heads; they played with a living decapitated body; they came to their father the Sun, sat down in the midst of a collection of spirits; a spirit came that cut off their uncle's head, they managed to decapitate him, restore his uncle's head]: Radin 1954:75-80 in Lankford 2007:96.

Plains. Teton: Neuhardt, Brown 1997 (oglala) [two girls look at stars, one wants her husband bright, the other dim; two men appear, girls agree to marry them; there is a bright star in the sky turns out to be an old chief; asks a pregnant wife not to press the digger hard to get roots; she presses, falls through the sky, crashes, the child remains alive; birds argue who will become Raising the Shooting Star (PZ), this honor goes to Lark; the young man grows up, goes to the camp, where Vaziya (the source of snow) takes all the prey from people; the PZ cuts off his head kills his relatives, one child hides; so there is winter; the White Raven scares away the buffalo, people are starving; the PZ turns into a dead bison, the Raven goes down to peck at him, the PZ grabs him, smokes him in the chimney; The raven turns black, flies away after losing its strength; the PZ turns into a boy, lives with an old woman; The Thunders take the leader's hand, he promises a daughter to the one who returns his hand; in the form of the PZ king arrives in teepi, where the hand hangs; overturns the cauldron on Iktomi (Spider) and others, takes his hand, returns to the chief, marries]: 496-513; Goodman 1992:219 in Miller 1997:236, in Lankford 2007 [annual disappearance from The Hand sky (part of Orion) means that the earth is losing its fertility; the Thunders tore off the hand of a leader who refused to make a sacrifice; the Shooting Star young man returned his hand and received a daughter as a reward chief, became a new chief, he had a son; his hand reappears every time in winter, reminding people to act according to the course of things]: 234; iowa [Khashuga and his brother is hunters; brother disappears when he goes to get water; Woodpecker tells H. how Horned Water Pumas killed him, his skin was hung in the doorway; all animals, fish and birds ate meat; he, Woodpecker, got only a nail; for The message X. paints a woodpecker; turns into a stump on the shore; Chief Pum and his wife go ashore to warm up; H. wounds them with arrows; remaining unrecognized, meets Bobrikha, Otter, Toad, Squirrels, Shells; everyone says how animals will kill X.; he kills them himself; now their tails, etc. are used in the witch doctor's ritual; Vulture goes to heal Pum; H. kills him, wears his skin; does not heal, but kills him The cougar, pierced with sharp sticks; other Cougars send the Snake to find out if X. is the doctor; H. feeds her with the meat of the dead; runs away, carrying her brother's skin; revives him by shooting up over the skin; brother turns into an eagle; X . rises to heaven]: Skinner 1925, No. 10:468-472; (cf. Omaha, Ponca: Dorsey 1888b: 204-205 [Haxige warned his younger brother not to hunt on the ice of the river; he chased otters, ended up in the lair of water monsters, was dismembered, his skin hung in the doorway; H. went to look for his brother, cried, the current rivers arose from his tears; becoming a leaf, he got to the two Ducks who were discussing the murder of his brother, grabbed them by the throat, tore the angry one, spared them kind; tried to penetrate the lair of monsters in the form of an eagle, leaf, black-headed kite, exposed every time; in the form of a grass snake got close; becoming human, shot at both monsters, ran away; sees, hunting, that someone has crossed his trail; so for four days, this is Ictinike in the form of Vulture, goes to heal monsters; H. asked him to tell him how he would shamanize, killed, took his rattle and so on; when he came in, he recognized his brother's skin, whispered to her, the servants suspect something, others claim that he was a real shaman; H. kills monsters (Vulture ordered to quickly insert them into wounds and remove hot ones iron sticks, apparently, H. plunged them deeply), cuts them into pieces, cooks; the grass snake looked in, H. filled her mouth with monster meat; ran away, taking his brother's skin, turned into stone in a boiling spring on at the bottom; taking the meat out of the snakes's mouth, the monsters rushed in pursuit, could not pull the stone out of the bottom, returned; H. revives his brother four times in the steam room, but he became spirit again; H. says what people mean they will die; the old beaver makes a boat, warns of a flood, because water monsters want revenge; if they cannot drown H., they will let snakes on the ground; H. says that he is not afraid, kills Bobrikha; Trying once again to revive his brother, turns him into a wolf, himself into a deer], 205-206 [two water monsters killed Haxige's younger brother, hung their skin in the doorway; invited all the animals to the party, giving everyone the meat of the victim; looking for her brother, H. got to two Ducks in the form of a leaf; one says she was given only a little finger, so she would tell H. everything; talks to him about the Vulture Shaman healing monsters; H. rewards this Duck, giving (hitting her on the head) a tuft, making white feathers near his eyes; H.'s tears formed rivers; H. asked Vulture to sing his shamanic song, killed him, took his rattle, an iron rod, a bag; two of the four servants, carrying H. in buffalo skin, suspect deception; further as on pp. 204-205; Bobrikha, without recognizing H., explains that the gods (i.e. water monsters) took her to help them fight X. the flood, and she will gnaw through the bottom of his boat; then they will send darkness and snakes; H. says who he is, breaks her skull; on the fourth day in the steam room he is convinced that his brother cannot be revived; tells him to become a young deer, himself becomes a wolf]; 1890 [=1888b]: 238-253).

California. Tubatulabal [during the battle, Coyote says that Lapapille's heart is in his head; L. is killed; Coyote comes to children playing with the eyes and head of the victim; kills children, divides himself into parts , taking the form of children; Coyote's anus tells him he's moving too fast; he slows down; grabs L.'s skin, runs away]: Voegelin 1935, No. 5:201-203; kawaiisa [four options; Coyote - the younger brother, a bad hunter, stays at home to cook; the Puma (or the Wolf) is the older brother; the Coyote pees in the water brought, the Puma takes the water himself from the spring; the brothers make a trap pit, the Bear falls into it, dies; the cougar tells you not to throw a single organ for no reason; the Coyote ejects the gallbladder or pancreas; she comes to life, resorts to the Bears (soldiers), reports what happened; they go to kill Puma; Puma sticks a flute through the wall of the house, he and Coyote hope to escape through it; Puma does not tell Coyote to look around; he looks around, the Puma is killed, crushed, his enemies take his eyes; Coyote revives his brother from a small part; tries to insert the eyes of different animals in him, they do not fit; he comes to an old woman, asks how she will dance with the Puma's eyes in her hands, kills her, puts on her skin, comes to her granddaughters, kills them; at the festival she dances with the Puma's eyes, runs away, returns her brother's eyes; brothers go to the end of the world, turn into stones, cause death]: Zigmond 1980, No. 16:69-78; serrano [Coyote and Wolf live together; Coyote suspects that Wolf is married; finds a woman who flies away as a bird; Coyote lies as if she ran away when enemies attacked; Wolf warns the Coyote not to look at him when enemies come; passes two groups of enemies; the Coyote watches, the third group kills the Wolf; the Coyote meets a woman collecting firewood; she says they have there will be a holiday, there will be a Wolf's skull on the pole; the Coyote kills a woman, puts on her clothes, comes to the party, carries her skull; cannot revive the Wolf because enemies have crushed his bones]: Benedict 1926, No. 10:12- 13.

The Big Pool. If not otherwise: enemies arise from the remains of a monstrous bear; Coyote envies his brother's valor, wants an enemy arrow to hit him; going to enemies, he takes the form of an old woman whose skin he took off paths. Northern Payutes: Powell 1971 [Coyote (i-TSA) tells his brother Wolf (i-SHA) that he wants to be a warrior; the wolf invites him to jump over a rock, he can't; enemies are approaching, the Wolf does not tell The coyote touch his arrows, watch him fight; the Coyote touches, watches, the Wolf is killed, scalped; the Coyote eats his corpse; in the guise of an old woman and a baby (this is a stick) comes to enemies, says that nearby, enemies, women and children are sent to a separate camp; at night, the imaginary old woman takes her true form, finds the Wolf's scalp in a pile of scalps, carries it away; on the way she buries seven times, waters her water, The wolf is reborn; because Coyote ate his corpse, changes its appearance (apparently turning it into a coyote)]: 221-223; Lowie 1924, No. 2 [like Western Shoshones; Wolf asks; in an enemy camp, Coyote kills everyone women, his men kill all men]: 212-213; Western shoshones: Steward 1943a [Coyote kills his bear aunt's two daughters; she rips his back with her claws; his brother Wolf heals him; Coyote kills the Bear; the Wolf tells you to pick up all the giblets; the Coyote forgets a piece of gut; the gut turns back into the Bear, brings enemies from the north; they kill the Wolf; the Coyote kills the old woman, puts on her skin comes to enemies, takes the Wolf's skin, revives him]: 294-296; Smith 1993 [brother asks not to look at him during battle; Coyote looks]: 91-94 and 132-135 [brother - Wolf], 110-113 [brother - Bear]; northern shoshone: Lowie 1909b, No. 2b [Wolf is Coyote's older brother; brings food from their aunt Bear; Coyote sees her genitals, tries to copulate, she tears his groin; Wolf kills her, tells Coyote to bring her meat, nothing to lose from his internal organs; the Coyote loses one part; the enemies attack, the Coyote envies his brother's beautiful clothes, wants him dead; the enemies kill the Wolf, take the scalp; the Coyote meets the old woman kills, puts on her skin; tries to have sex with girls (her daughters?) ; comes to the place where they dance with the Wolf's scalp, takes him away, revives his brother], 2c [enemies attack; the Wolf does not tell Coyote to peek; he watches, the Wolf is immediately killed; as in (b)]: 239-243, 243; goshiute [Coyote puts two women's skin on himself and his penis]: Smith 1993:25-29 [Coyote kills European spouses, soldiers kill Wolf], 45 [like Western Shoshones]; Southern Payutes: Lowie 1924, No. 1 (Shivvitz) [Coyote and Wolf's aunt - Bear; Coyote spies on her masturbating with an artificial phallus; offering her services; hugging the Coyote, the Bear ripped off his back; the Wolf cured him, attaching the deer's muscles; sent the Coyote to kill the Bear, giving her a wineskin of blood with cream inside; he gave her a drink to the Bear's sons, they died; when the Bear asked her sons to give her phallus, Coyote said that they were sleeping, offered to drink blood; the bear died; the wolf ordered to collect all the remains, but Coyote forgot the bag of blood; asks the tip of his tail why the Wolf tells him to uproot the bush; tail: to make arrows, the Bear's blood will try to kill you; lightning is approaching from the south, the Wolf shoots; killed when Coyote draws attention to the Wolf's beautiful armor; Wolf's property has become stones; a Coyote comes to two women, asks about their customs, kills them, puts the skin of one on himself, the other on his penis; their sons wonder why old women eat so fast; Coyote sees lying girls, they were taken care of by his secret penis, he himself killed the sons of old women; while dancing, Coyote jumped out of the old woman's skin, grabbed the clothes of the killed Wolf, ran; turned into a year old coyote droppings ago; then into the pen; each time the pursuers guess, shoot, but the Coyote runs away; the pursuers caused snow, the Coyote the wind, hid in an acorn on an oak tree, rolled with an acorn through the snow to their cave; put tracing paper and bones in Wolf's clothes; when he woke up, he wasn't; Coyote found Wolf sleeping with a woman; broke his bow to come back; tried to rape a woman who climbed into an oak tree, Coyote's penis stuck; Wolf cut off his penis, Coyote asked him to be called "short penis"; Wolf killed him; found Coyote cock in his wife's vagina; he stayed there forever (cause of genital odor)], 3 (Moapa) [bird brother shoots better than Coyote]: 93-101, 161-163.

The Great Southwest. Havasupai [Wolf gives Coyote a belt made of the bones of the monstrous Bear; warns not to show it to others; Coyote shows]: Smithson, Euler 1994:112-114; valapai [Wolf asks for a Coyote don't look at the battle; from the enemy camp, the Coyote carries the Wolf's scalp]: Kroeber 1935:260-262; yavapai [The puma anticipates that the Bears will kill him (with no motive for emerging from the remains); Coyote does not believe; takes his brother's scalp like a Valapai]: Gifford 1933a: 369-371; pima [Coyote, Puma, Vulture, Raven, Wild Cat live together; Coyote foolishly calls the Bear, promising meat for her children; jealous Bear comes after him, kills Coyote, Puma, Vulture and Raven; the Cat becomes a stone, the Bear breaks its claws against him, he tears the Bear's throat; revives his comrades; Coyote is sent to invite guests to celebrate the victory; he calls the Bears; they find the bear's paw, scalp the Puma, take it away; the Coyote meets an old woman going to a party where they will show the Puma's scalp; learns her song, takes away her clothes, comes under her guise to sing a victory song; getting a scalp, takes it away, returns it to Puma; the cougar has since had a stripe around the circumference of her head]: Shaw 1968:56-62; maricopa [Coyote kills and eats a dangerous woman (Bear?) , decorates her headdress with his claws; calls four tribes to a feast; those who come recognize their claws, try to kill the Coyote, he runs away, they kill his two Pum Brothers, take their scalps away; Coyote meets an old woman carrying these scalps; he asks her about her customs, kills her, puts her skin on, comes scalping to dance, twitches her skin, throws it to others, runs away; scalping back, revives brothers]: Spier 1933:360-363.