L65b1. Change sheep to dogs .15.16.28.31.
A person exchanges sheep (goats) for dogs. The exchange looks unequal, but dogs help him succeed.
Portuguese, Maltese, Italians (Piedmont, Emilia Romagna), French (Dauphine), Bretons, Alsatians, Russians (Voronezh), Finns.
Southern Europe. The Portuguese [the young man receives dogs (lions) that were born with him, either he received them in exchange for something else or because he spared animals; he also received a magic sword; the princess is given to the seven-headed dragon, the savior will receive her hand; the young man falls asleep with his head on the princess's knees, wakes up to her fallen tears; his dogs (lion, horse) help kill the dragon; the young man cuts off tongues, takes the princess's handkerchief or a piece of her dress; the deceiver shows dragon heads, prepares his wedding to the princess; sometimes a liar kills a young man, but his dogs revive him; a day weddings, the young man shows his tongues (ring, handkerchief, etc.]: Cardigos 2006, No. 300:54-56; Maltese [a young man herds three sheep and his sister is spinning at home; a rider suggested changing one of sheep for dog; the guy agreed, the sister is dissatisfied; the next day, the second, then the third; the sister smashed the spindle against his brother's head; he took the dogs, came to another country; there is mourning: the princess sent to be eaten by a seven-headed dragon; her savior will receive her hand; a young man lowers one of his dogs on the dragon; she consistently tears off one head after another; the young man cuts off and hides his tongues, leaves; the princess gave him her cape; the Turk picks up his heads, makes the princess call him the winner; on the wedding day, a young man; shows his tongues and a cape; the Turk is executed, the young man gets princess]: Stumme 1904, No. 34:88-90 (retelling this and other versions in Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 300 [options: dragon (sea serpent, etc.) requires a victim once a year, otherwise he will close the river; the young man falls asleep, his the princess's tear wakes up]: 27-32); Italians: Calvino 1985, No. 48 (Romagna) [when he died, the father left his son and daughter three sheep; a man exchanged one of them from his brother for Lomaiiron's dog; sister threatens to kill his brother for this; the next day, the second sheep on the dog Grzicepen; then the third, Crushishten; the brother was afraid to return to his sister; at night he came to the palace; destroying the wall, the iron door and the chain, dogs made their way in; everything is prepared for the young man and his dogs, including a horse and a hunting rifle; brother also brought his sister to the palace, but she continues to hate dogs; once she picked an orange from it a dragon jumped out; to save her life, the sister promised to give her brother to the dragon, and to do this, lock the dogs; she asked her brother to tie the dogs and pick an orange; the brother realized that his sister had betrayed him, called dogs; they broke the wall and broke the chain, broke the dragon; the young man came to the king, whose daughter should be given to another dragon; killed the dragon and got the princess; the sister reappeared, volunteered make a bed for her brother, put a saw under bed, cut the young man in half; the dogs brought the ointment and revived him; the sister was executed; and the dogs were gone; then three nobles sailed on three ships: they and there were those bewitched dogs; after a peasant (i.e. a young man) became king, the spell broke]: 145-152; Gubernatis 1872 (Piedmont) [Giacomo herds sheep; the hunter gives them three dogs: the Gnawing Iron, Fast as the Wind, Passing Everywhere; Father drives J. away, he leaves with his dogs, ends up in the sorcerer's castle, brings his sister there; to marry her, the sorcerer wants to get rid of J.; K. pretended to be sick, wants flour, the miller gives flour in exchange for the dog; the other two were also removed; the sorcerer tries to strangle J., but he whistles on the whistle, the dogs have come running, tore the sorcerer to pieces; J. comes to the city where the princess is going to be given to the seven-headed dragon; with the help of dogs, J. kills the dragon, the princess ties a flap of her shirt around the neck of the Iron Snatcher, promises to marry J. he leaves for a year because he is in mourning for his sister; the chimney sweep (black man, Saracen, Turk, gypsy, monster) claims that he has defeated the dragon; the princess asks for a year and a day's delay; J. returns, princess sees a bandage around the dog's neck; J. presented his dragon's tongues; wedding; chimney sweep burned]: 36-37.
Western Europe. The French (Dauphine) [when they die, parents leave their daughter's house, their son the herd; the brother sells it, keeping three sheep, exchanges them for three dogs; settles in an empty castle that he will own , who can spend the night in it; those who tried to do so before died; at night, the devil rushes at the young man, the dogs drive him into the closet, the young man becomes the owner of the castle; he also puts his sister there, forbiding open the closet; she opens, takes the devil as a lover; the dog All I know turns over the dish with the poison that her sister tried to feed her brother; the devil advises sending the young man to climb a tree to collect pears, he will knock down a tree; the young man calls the dogs, they drive the devil into the closet, the young man drives his sister there, the devil and the girl disappear into flames], 8.2 [a man ends up in the forest, flees from predators in a tree, calls his dogs Lomay-Iron, flies like the wind, passes by the Squash Mountains, they kill predators]: Joisten 1991, No. 8.1:95-96, 96; Bretons [the king has a daughter; a son Jean was born in old age; the king and queen are dead; Jean is raised by a peasant; his sister wants to kill him, but the peasant loves him; Jean grew up, left with his beloved white lamb; the man he met persuaded him to change her to two dogs - Tearing Iron and the Incomparable; Jean was hired as a hunter in the castle; others are jealous, they locked the dogs in the tower; Jean was surrounded by predatory animals, he called dogs, they ran, killed the animals; Jean left, came to another castle; there is food and bed, he sees a woman's hand; three devils smelled it, fried it and ate it, the girl revived it from the bone; says that there are still two nights left; the second he sees the girl's head, the devils played with it the ball was thrown against the wall, it was alive again; on the third night they cut it and ate it, the girl revived it from her fingernail; the spell fell asleep, the girl appeared, and with her people, servants; she became the wife's wife; his sister came, wants to lime him, pretended to be sick, sent him to the mill; the witch dug a hole, Jean fell into it, the dogs were pulled out; the witch advises sending Jean to the spring for water, where he will be attacked by 50 invisible knights; dogs saw them and drove them away; the witch confessed her helplessness; Jean and his wife came to Paris, the people greeted them; another witch offered to put razors in their bed; bodies the couple were cut to pieces, buried in the same coffin; the dogs were pulled out and revived; said that they were Jean's parents, who took the form of dogs to protect him from his sister; she should be thrown into the oven; then she will atone for his sins and end up in paradise with his parents; and so it happened]: Luzel 1879:23-38; the Alsatians [the father gave his son three lambs, he went on a journey; in exchange for lambs, the old man gave three dogs Break the Iron, Aim Good, Fast as the Wind and the Whistle to Call Them; the owner of the inn, having agreed with the robbers, locked the dog, and sent the young man to get a hare in the forest; the robbers surrounded him; he asked permission to climb a tree to say a prayer; the dogs heard the second time, broke three iron doors, tore the robbers apart; when he returned, the young man cut off the old woman's head; he comes to a city where mourning; every year a seven-headed monster is given a girl, it is the princess's turn; a young man cuts off the monster's heads, cuts off and hides its tongues; promises the princess to return in a year; one guy saw took his heads, told the princess to say that he saved her; the young man comes when the princess should be married to the deceiver; shows his tongues, the princess recognized the dogs; the deceiver was torn apart by four bulls]: Delarue 1957, No. 300:101-103
Central Europe Russians (Voronezh) [Brother and sister lived, they had a gun and a goat. My brother was going hunting and met an old man who offered him to exchange his three dogs for his goat. He told them to be Buffalo, Wind and Frost, share a loaf of white bread with bacon and summon them with a pipe wherever they were. My brother went hunting for two thousand kilometers, found an uninhabited house with ready-made meals on the table (which were also hunted ducks), began to live in it, sent the fastest dog, Vetra, for his sister, who came to see him. When a sister is alone in the house, a devil comes to marry her, threatening to give her to the devils if he refuses to break her up. The devil offers to get rid of her brother by putting him to sleep in the bed he specified. My brother came back, lay down on his bed and stabbed himself, but the dogs rescued him - they took him out into the yard, and he came to life again. Next time, the devil told my sister to stop sick and ask for fresh muffins. The brother goes to the mill near the house to buy a pound of flour, but the miller only agrees to exchange it for dogs, so his brother has to give them back. The devil locked the dogs on 35 cast-iron doors, and met his brother on the porch arm with his sister, threatening to summon devils to tear his brother apart. He asked for permission to play the pipe, but the hell wouldn't let him, but his sister persuaded him. Hearing the pipe, the dogs began to rush to their owner, Buffalo broke the cast-iron doors, and for the third time they found his brother and saved his life by breaking the line. The frost froze the devils. The brother drove his sister out of the house, went to the village, got married and began to have fun]: Pukhova 2006, No. 12.
Baltoscandia. The Finns [sister asks her brother to sell the sheep, he exchanged it for a dog; so with three sheep; dogs named Al, Tal, Everal; dogs caught an elk, a bear; when the robbers came, two dogs did not let them into the house, and the third took their money; the king must sacrifice his daughter to the dragon; dogs tremble the dragon three times, he promises not to come again; the man with the ax says that he saved the princess; during weddings, the guy showed up with dogs, the impostor was imprisoned; the guy married a princess, his sister was made a maid]: Concca 1993:45-50.