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L72A. Comb and thicket.

.13.-.17.20.21. (.24.) .27.-.39.41.-.46.50. (.52.60.65.72.)

Fleeing, the character throws a comb (brush) behind him, which turns into an obstacle on (almost always a thicket) the pursuer's path. (In South America, the motive is highly likely to be of European origin). See Andreev 1929, № 313.I.

Below, the list of traditions highlights in bold those that include both a comb and a whetstone among the abandoned items.

Cordofan, Egyptian Arabs, Spanish, Basques, Italians (north), Corsicans, Ladins [brush, scraper], French (Lorraine) [brush], French (Upper Brittany) [brush, scraper], Bretons [brush, scraper], Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Grimms, Austria) [+brush], Alsatians [brush, scraper], British, Palestinians, Tuvalu, Mustang [head brush], rai [ brush], Ngaju, Hungarians [+ brush, scraper], Moldovans, Greeks, Albanians, Croats [+ scraper], Macedonians, Bulgarians, Russians (Terek coast), Russians (Arkhangelsk), Russians (Olonetskaya), Russians (Pskov), Russians (Tverskaya), Russians (Ryazan) [+ brush], Russians (Voronezh), Belarusians [+ brush], Ukrainians (Transcarpathia), Ukrainians (Pokutye), Ukrainians (Chernigov), Ukrainians (Cherkasy) [+brush], Ukrainians ( Kherson) [+ brush], Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [+ brush], Poles [+brush], Kashubians, Slovaks [+ brush], Kabardian people, Nogais, Karachays, Ossetians, Ingush, Kumyks, Megrelians, Georgians, Armenians, Turks [+ brush], Kurds, Tajiks, Bukhara Arabs, Uzbeks, Eastern Sami, Western Sami, Ingrians, Veps [+brush], Karelians, Estonians [whetstone in another text], Lutsi [brush, whetstone, shawl], Setu, Latvians, Lithuanians, Komi [+ flax combing], Udmurts, Mari, Mordovians, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kyrgyz, Salars, Tuvans, Kumandins, Buryats, Darkhats, Khalkha Mongols, Mongols of Inner Mongolia, Mongors, Nenets, Ents, Mansi, Eastern Khanty, Northern Khanty, Northern and Southern Selkups, Kets, Dolgans, Central (?) , northeastern and northwestern Yakuts, Western Evenks, Baikal Evenks, Kamchatka Evens, Nivkhs, Udege, Nanais, Orochi, Ancient Japan, forest and tundra Yukaghirs, Itelmen, Tagish, Khaida, tsimshian, bellacula [+shilo], heiltsuk, uvikino, quakiutl, nootka, northern solto, western ojibwa, montagnier, blacklegs, arikara, tiva.

Sudan - East Africa. Kordofan (no language specified) [the king laments that he is childless; the sorcerer gives two lemons; let one be eaten by an Arab wife, she will give birth to a daughter, and the other a concubine, give birth to a son; when he grows up, he must come to the sorcerer; the boy's name is Shatr Mohammed (SHM); the sorcerer met him, told him to remind his father of the promise; he cries; the sorcerer became an eagle and took away the CMM; in his palace he gives the CMM the keys to all rooms, but forbids unlocking one of them; treasures are everywhere; in the forbidden room, the CMM is a beauty suspended by her hair; on one side there is a horse on chains, bloody meat in front of him; on the other, a lion, hay in front of him; floor strewn with the old and recently cut down heads of young men; the CMM freed the girl, swapped hay and meat, the horse and the lion broke their chains; the horse: put on armor, take the sword and the girl and jump; the lion is with them; the sorcerer catches up; the horse tells you to throw a comb (thick forest), a piece of glass (a field covered with glass fragments), soap (a river); the sorcerer swam, drowned; the horse tells you to take his hairs to summon him , and go to town; he hired a gardener; the youngest of the 7 princesses sees him swimming, summons a horse and puts on armor; she sends him food every day, but is picked up by a gardener; princesses are sent father 7 melons: it's time for them to marry; each throws a handkerchief to the one she has chosen as her husband; the youngest with CMM is settled in the slave quarter; the king is sick, they need gazelle milk; the CMM gives it to the older sons-in-law, who allow them to put they are stigmatized in the ass; the milk of their sons-in-law does not help, the milk brought by the younger princess has healed their father; enemies have attacked; sons-in-law are fleeing, the CMM smashes enemies on his horse; to celebrate the savior, the king inflicts on him with a sword, a slight wound on her arm and bandages him with her handkerchief; the wife recognizes her father's handkerchief, informs her mother; the king begs the CMM to return to the palace; the older sons-in-law have to show the stigma, now they are slaves to the CMM]: Frobenius 1923, No. 19:216-224.

North Africa. The Arabs of Egypt [the wife of a childless king promises to fill three wells with honey, oil and rose water if God sends her a child; Yousif is born, the king forgets the promise; God reminds in a dream the king prepares wells, calling people, the old woman comes when everything is dismantled, collects drops of honey on the walls of the well; Yu played ball, got into the old woman's vessels, the honey spilled; she wished him to fall in love with Louliyya , Morgan's daughter; the servant explains that L. is beautiful; Yu goes in search; the cannibal sends him to his brother, the latter to the other, the other to his sister; if she has red chickens and she is tidy up, You can't talk to her, and if her hair is green, her hair is in a mess, and your breasts are thrown over her back, then you can; Yu sees red chickens first, is silent, then green; the cannibal sister tells me to roll the ball, he leads to a palace in the desert; the cannibal asks L. to lower her hair, climbs it; Yu also asks; L. decides to run away with Yu; hides it, turning it into a pin; returning to its former appearance, tells things in the room responsible for her, throws a needle (field of thorns), a comb (bamboo fence), a mirror (lake); the cannibal and his dog drink, the cannibal bursts when he has time to throw pins at L., she turns into dog, Yu into a lark; they come to mother Yu's house; she finds pins in the dog's head, takes it out, L. takes its shape, takes the needles out of the lark's head, he turns into Yu; wedding]: Scheub 2000: 131-132.

Southern Europe. Spaniards: Malinovskaya 2002 [childless king and queen want a child, even if the Devil gets it in 20 years; the young man grows up, loses his soul to the Devil, goes to him; the old woman advises hide the clothes of Blancaflor, the youngest of the Devil's three bathing daughters, pigeon girls; the other old woman, the mistress of the birds, sends to her Moon Sister, she to the Sun Brother; only the Limp Eagle is summoned take her to the Castle Where There Is No Return, tells her to feed her meat on the way; the meat runs out, the Queen is ready to cut off from himself, but the Eagle still arrives; The devil tells 1) to process the plot in a day, bake it from harvest bread; 2) grow grapes; B. does everything; 3) bring the ring dropped by his grandmother into the sea; B. tells her to kill, collect blood in a jug, throw her body into the sea; the young man sheds a drop of blood; B. goes out from the sea, carrying a ring, she lacks the edge of her little finger; 4) recognize B. among the sisters; the girls put her little finger in the crack, B. has a scar; B. tells the Queen to take a bad horse, a rusty sword, to run; leaves responsible for saliva, puts two wineskins on the bed; the devil pierces them, thinks he has killed his daughter and son-in-law; the Queen has taken a good horse, a steel sword, the Devil catches up with them; B. throws a comb (forest) , salt (mountain); the horse becomes a chapel, B. a statue, the husband a hermit; the devil does not recognize them, at home the wife explains that they were fugitives; the Queen leaves B. at the spring, comes home, hugs him an old nanny, he forgets B.; prepares to marry another; B. is hired as a maid, asks for a stone of sorrow, a dagger of love; the devil sells them to the Queen; B. asks them if she helped the Queen; they confirm that the Queen remembers B.; the dagger tells B. to plunge it into her heart, the Queen stops him; the wedding]: 268-276; Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 313C (Salamanca) [young Lisardo plays cards and always loses; the demon offers a condition: he will always win, but in 5 years he will go to the castle Go Don't Come Back (PN); after 5 years he goes, asks the eagle for the way, that refers to another who is older, this brings her to the castle, tells the PN of the three bathing daughters of the PN, who is a saint, her name is Blancaflor, to hide the clothes; he hides and returns the clothes, the girl promises help; PN tells 1) scatter a bag of rice in the forest, bring it safe the next day (B. does everything); 2) arrange a field on the site of the forest, collect wheat, bake bread, all in a day (the same); 3) the same - vineyard, wine; 4) get the ring lost by his great-grandmother from the river; B. tells me to cut it, put it in a vessel without spilling a drop of blood, throw it into the river; in the evening he brings the ring, says that it has been spilled a drop, but from the little finger; 5) tame the horse; this is the PN himself, his wife and daughters, B. will be on the right side, not hit on the right side; 6) three daughters will stretch out their arms, and L. is blindfolded, you must choose the bride's hand; B. you can recognize by the missing phalanx of the little finger; B. tells you to leave the spits responsible for them, choose a skinny nag Thought, not a plump Wind; L. does the opposite; father chases, B. throws a comb (thicket) , shawl (lastral), garter (river); PN returns every time, his wife sends him again; B. turns the horse into a vegetable garden, L. into a peasant, himself into a lettuce bed; chapel, hermit, icon; PN wife decides not to chase herself, but to make L. forget B. if he kisses someone; B. warns, but some old woman kissed him from behind, L. forgot B.; she comes and stops under the guise of a prostitute; L. comes to her three times before the wedding, but every time she tells him to do something (like serve coffee), and he freezes until morning; at the wedding, she tells two dolls to pretend to be themselves and L., they everyone says, L. recalls marrying B.]: 85-95; Basques [the poor young man leaves home, gets hired by Tartaro; he tells one of the three pigeon girls who arrive to hide the feather clothes swim in the lake; return for the promise to help; the dove maiden tells you to go to hire her father; he demands 1) uproot the oak grove, sow, harvest, bake bread; the dove maiden tells her crest everything perform; 2) get the lost ring out of the river; the dove maiden tells her father to ask her father for a rusty sword, chop it into pieces, throw it into the river, comes out whole and with a ring; the young man has lost her little finger, she pretends that slammed his door; 3) tame a horse with three foals (this is the owner with three daughters, you have to beat them with a club, and you just have to pretend to be beaten); in the morning the owner and daughters look beaten; 4) choose a wife with with her eyes closed (she does not have a little finger and she will give her hand twice); the young man gets a wife, she tells her to run, leaves the spit to answer for himself; the father chases, the daughter throws the comb (fog, hail), throws again - the river, the father sinks; on the border of the land of Christians, the wife tells me to go get a priest to baptize her, not to kiss anyone, otherwise her husband will forget her; the old aunt kisses him; the wife creates an inn, the husband and two friends come in; she promises to spend the night with everyone; the first asks him to brush his hair first, otherwise he has powder in his hair since childhood, she does not like the smell; the guy combs his hair until the morning; speaks to his comrades, which was wonderful; the second wife asks to wash her feet first; the third is her husband, she tells him to turn off the lights and he tries to do it unsuccessfully until morning; her comb gives magical power to a woman; she opens to her husband; he brings a priest; all is well]: Webster 1879:120-130; Italians (Liguria: Genoa) [a woman laid eggs in a basket, a little shepherdess the size of a tick threw a stone at them , the woman told him to stay young until he found the beautiful Bargalina with three singing apples; he goes to look; at the bridge, a woman swings on a walnutshell swing, asks her eyelids to be raised ; when she sees a boy, she gives him a stone; at the other bridge, a woman bathing in an eggshell also asks her eyelids to be raised and gives her an ivory comb; a man collects fog in a bag and gives her a shepherdess; The miller fox teaches how to carry the witch's cage with singing apples; if her eyes are open, she sleeps, and if closed, she is awake; the boy sees that his eyes are closed and does not take the apple cage; the witch asks to comb her hair, falls asleep; then the boy takes the apples, but the bells in the cage rang, the witch woke up, sent after the horsemen - 100, then 200, then 300; boy throws a stone (rocky mountain), a crest (smooth mountain), fog (the chase has stopped); the boy is thirsty, cuts an apple, inside B.; she asks for a cake to eat; how as soon as the boy goes for the pie, the maid Ugly Slave came to get water, threw B. into the well; the shepherdess's mother came to get water, pulled the fish out of the well; they ate it, and a tree grew out of the seeds; the shepherdess cut him down, prepared firewood; his mother died; every time the house is tidy; he watches B. comes out from under the firewood; both grew up, wedding]: Calvino 1980, No. 8:23-26 (=Shustova 1994:236-239); Calvino 1980, No. 22 (Lombardy: Milan) [a brief retelling of the beginning in Crane 1885:72-76; a young man wins billiards against a man who calls himself the Sun King, the bet is his daughter; the young man goes in search; the old man says that the three daughters of the Sun King come to swim in the lake; the young man hides the clothes of one of them, promises to return him for promising to bring him to their father; the young fell in love with each other and the girl taught: when the father will demand to identify the bride with her eyes closed, you have to feel your hands: she will miss one finger; on the night after the wedding, the wife tells the young man that her father is going to kill him; they run, father-in-law sends soldiers in pursuit; the wife throws the comb; he turns into a forest where a man and a woman uproot stumps; when asked if they saw the fugitives, the workers say that as soon as they uproot full cart, they will go home; the Sun King tells the returnees that they were the fugitives; the next crest abandoned turns into a vegetable garden where a man and a woman dig radishes (the same); the third comb - church and two servants; {apparently there was a sequel; p. 720: The aborted ending is my own}]: 65-67; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 20 [see motif L72A; girl tells me to throw soap (smooth mountain, sorcerer comes back, says that there is only a mountain, the wife explains, tells me to chase again), a comb (thorny thickets; same, the wife chased herself); the girl {throwing a thread? she took it along with soap and comb} creates a river, turns herself into an eel, and the prince is on the other side], 102 [see motif L72A; girl throws a bottle of cologne (river), a comb (prickly thickets), soap ( slippery mountain), the pursuer cannot climb it]: 43-47, 227-233; ladins [while the father is at war, the son grew up and went for a journey; answered the gentleman in the green outfit that something was going on learn; he put him on his back, flew to a secluded house, told him to give barley to the bear and meat to the horse; the young man did the opposite; the horse said that the sorcerer had turned them into animals; we must take an ointment a broom, a brush, a scraper, run; a sorcerer in green pursues; a brush, then a scraper, turns into a dense forest; a broom into a rugged terrain with abysses and rocks, the sorcerer has stopped the persecution; the horse tells you to smear his head with ointment, the young man becomes handsome with golden hair; the horse tells you to kill the bear and put on his skin, hire him to the palace to watch the chickens, then ask him to be a gardener; the youngest of the three princesses sees a young man when he has taken off his skin; the princesses asked his father to give them a golden apple - whoever they throw at will marry; the youngest throws in Bear Skin, they are housed in a hut; the king tells his sons-in-law to go hunting; Bearskin takes his horse, puts on a luxurious outfit, has caught a lot of game; the older sons-in-law got nothing; Bear Skin gave them prey for apples received from princesses; next time for his horse to kick them in the ass, leaving a mark; enemies attacked, unrecognized as a hero, Bearskin smashes enemies twice; the second time the king scratches him with his sword (to see who this stranger is); at the feast, the young man shows golden apples and tells his older sons-in-law to show hoof marks; older princesses grieve that they are not went for Bearskin]: Uffer 1973, No. 8:19-25 (=Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 64:171-178).

Western Europe. The British [the king left, at which time the Queen gave birth to a boy, decided not to baptize, but to call Nix Nought Nothing; when the king went home, the giant offered to move him across the river, said that he only needed nothing or nothing in return; when he returned, the king found out about his son; decided to give the giant the son of a poultry house; the giant carried the boy, asks what time it is; he replies that at this time, his mother collects eggs for the queen for breakfast; the giant killed him; the next time he is the same (the gardener's son; mother is picking vegetables for lunch); when the queen is carried, he replies that at this time the father- the king sat down for dinner; the giant's daughter fell in love with NN, helps him; the giant demands: 1) clean the stable (animals and birds have done it); 2) drain the lake (the fish drank water); 3) get 7 eggs from the nest at the top a smoothbore tree 7 miles tall; the girl cut off her fingers and toes, made steps out of them; NN took out eggs, but one crashed; the girl tells me to run, the giant catches up, she tells me to throw a comb (thorny thickets), a dagger (fence), a bottle (wave, the giant drowned); leaving the bride, NN went to the castle alone; the poultry house bewitched him, he fell asleep, his parents did not know, the king orders marry someone who can wake him up; the giant's daughter climbed a tree, the gardener's daughter saw a reflection in the spring, decided that she was her own and that she should try to marry a sleeping young man; a poultry house taught him to spell for a while; the gardener also saw the giant's daughter, brought him to see his daughter's groom; he is sleeping, the giant's daughter is trying to wake him up; tells their story out loud, calling the young man NN; the king and the queen hear, forced the gardener's daughter to spell NN; the poultry house was executed]: Jacobs 1890, No. 7:33-39 (translated into Shereshevskaya 1957:102-107); French: Lopyreva 1959, No. 29 (Lorraine ) [=Cosquin 1886, No. 12:133-137; when leaving, the king gives his son the keys to the castle, forbiding him to enter the same room; the prince entered there, there is a pool, he dipped his finger in it, his finger is covered with indelible gilding; The king forgives his son; when he leaves again, the son takes a bath in the pool, asks the horses which one is faster; Bayard takes only 15 leagues in a step, but smarter than Moreau; the father chases Moreau on horseback; Bayard tells you to throw a sponge (forest), a scraper (river), a stone (a mountain covered with razors); Moreau hurts his legs, the king returns; the prince changes clothes with a farmhand, pulls a bubble over his head, is hired as a cook for the local king, his name is Sheludivy (Sh.); the king's three daughters must throw a golden apple at their chosen ones; the youngest saw that S. had golden hair, threw it at him; the elders they choose a humpback (G.) and a quiver (K.); the king will be healed by three jugs of water by the Queen of Hungary; S. rides his three-legged horse to the place where Bayar left, takes these three jugs there, sells older sons-in-law for the right to stab everyone in the ass a hundred times with an awl; enemies attack, S. wins everyone in true guise; buys golden apples thrown at G. and K. by their wives for two more jugs of Hungarian water queens; defeats enemies again; the king wounds him with an arrow to mark; Bayard says that after completing five services, he can regain his prince appearance, leaves; the king is looking for a wounded man in his thigh with an arrow; this is S.; older sons-in-law are driven away]: 106-111; Sébillot 1894, No. 32 (Haute-Brittany) [Jean's mother is sick; a big man (this devil) tells his father to give his wife a drink of seven-year-old meat broth child; Jean runs to the godmother; she takes him back to his parents, he sees his sister in the cauldron; runs into the forest, meets a giant (this is the devil again) who has a horse as tall as a dog and a doe; he brings Jean to her underground castle; tells him to watch the fire under the cauldron; in the cauldron sinners, including Jean's godmother, she tells him not to drown until the devil is gone; the skate tells Jean that he himself will turn into the same skate; the skate, following the doe, carries Jean away, the devil pursues; they throw a scraper (river), a crest (lattice), reach the holy land; in the forest, Jean, despite the horse's prohibition, picks up something shining; the horse tells him to work in the castle as a groom, promises to appear on demand; the pen illuminates the stable, the servants tell the king that Jean can bring the bird itself; on horseback and with a doe he comes to the spring, tells him to cut off his head, throw him into the water, the bird comes to peck carrion, Zhat grabs her, the horse is reborn; the servants persuade the king to tell Jean to bring the princess; he carries her on a ship, she throws a ring into the sea; she will marry only if the ring is returned; the horse tells him to cut off his head, throw him into the sea, the fish flop off, he pulls out the swallowed ring, revives; the princess tells the king kill Jean, revives his pen; now tells Jean to kill the king, does not revive him, marries Jean; the horse and doe turn into a prince and princess, marry; (ending)]: 275-277; Shustova 1994 [ parents keep the girl Blood and Milk (KM) locked up; every evening her mother calls her, the KM lowers her braid, the mother goes up to her; the Queen overhears, calls her mother in her voice, the KM lowers his braid; hides the young man in orange; mother says she smells like a human spirit, her daughter lets her eat another orange; the next evening a nut; KM offers to run, tells her to take a skinny horse (runs like care), the queen takes smooth (running like the wind); KM throws soap (soap mountain), comb (thicket); stalker father returns both times; mother says that these fugitives were a mountain of soap, chases herself; KM throws a thread - the river; the mother says that when the Queen hugs someone, he will forget the KM; the queen's house is hugged by his aunt, he forgets everything; KM works for a tailor; three fellows ask for a date, she tells one to close the door, the second to turn off the stove, the third to take out the garbage; the door not to close all night; the same with the other two fellows; the Queen tells me to sew a dress, KM sews the way he wears it for the first time I saw, he remembers, got married]: 300-306; Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 26 (Switzerland) [the poor have 9 children; they sent the eldest 9-year-old to look for food himself; he was picked up by a rich lady in a carriage; allowed all but one room to be unlocked; he unlocked it, the door slammed shut behind him; corpses were hanging in the room; the lady forgave for the first time; he came in again, there was also a horse, a mule and a donkey in the room; the horse says that they are bewitched people; tells you to take a log, a bucket and a brush with them; they jump away, throw a log (mountain), a bucket (sea), a brush (thicket); a young man {obviously he has grown up} is hired as a gardener to the king, who orders the garden to be put in order for the wedding of his eldest daughter; 10 minutes before the time runs out, the young man does the job "in the name of the hairs of my horse Bayar"; the same for the wedding of his middle daughter; the youngest married a young gardener; the king gives each a golden apple: the throne will be left to the son-in-law who makes more use of the gift; the sons-in-law go to war, the younger chooses the worst horse, then Bayar smashes enemies with the help of hairs; the older sons-in-law attribute victory to themselves; the king is sick, he will be cured by the meat of the biggest snake; the younger son-in-law gets everything again with Bayar's hairs; gives the elders for their golden apples; the king is sick again, they need the meat of the biggest eagle; likewise, he gives meat to his older sons-in-law, but for this he stigmatizes them; the king orders them to bring golden apples; the younger son-in-law brings all three, the elders are fakes; forced to show stamps; the younger son-in-law inherits the throne]: 73-79; Bretons: Luzel 1995 [the magician sees a doe, her udder is sucked by a boy and a girl; these are Arzyur and Azenor ; brings children to his wife; Azenor reads the sorceress's magic books; she seeks to lime Arzyura, her sister gives a magic wand, she does everything; 1) cut down an oak grove, 2) make spoons out of oaks, 3) build a bridge of feathers; brother and sister run, turn 1) into two golden frogs at the bottom of the reservoir, their horses into the water; 2) horses into trees, fugitives into birds on them; the wife talks to the sorcerer about it, but he forgets, does not recognize the fugitives; she chases them herself, her sister throws 1) a straw tourniquet (stacks of straw, the sorceress flies by like a hawk), 2) a brush (pond, sorceress cloud drinks it; option: in in the form of a bulldog drinks, bursts), 3) a scraper (city); the sorceress flies in a cloud, stops at the strait; the sister creates a rich castle; two princes fall into the swamp, Azenor pulls them out for promising the eldest to marry her, to give his sister for her brother; Arzyur, who fell into the swamp, loses his memory, at his sister's wedding he remembers everything when two golden frogs tell the whole story story]: 93-107; Orain 1904 [a poor father of a large family cannot find godparents for a newborn; a rich lady is called to be a godmother, tells the boy Jean to come to her palace, standing on four golden pillars when he is 7 years old; gives the keys to 7 cabinets, one of which forbids unlocking; Jean unlocks, wearing a silver ring that sits on his little finger cannot be removed; Jean tied little finger, but the godmother understood everything, this time she forgave; a year later he allows Jean to ride any of the six horses, but not to take the seventh; Jean violates the ban, the horse says that now the fairy will kill him and he must run; the fairy chases, the horse tells you to throw the scraper (forest), brush (mountain), they come to town; the horse tells me to sell her golden horseshoes, hire the king; it turns out that the same fairy marries the king; tells Jean to move her palace to the city; the horse teaches the servants to drink from the gold ones, they move the palace; the fairy asks the king to cut off Jean's head; the horse turns into the princess is the daughter of the same king who was bewitched by the fairy; the king orders the fairy to cut off the head, Jean marries the princess]: 76-89; Luzel 1887 (2), No. 1 [the king orders the execution of the first woman to give birth illegitimate child; the king's daughter is pregnant by her own brother, both flee to a deserted area, build a hut, a princess gives birth to a son named Mabic; he grew up; when his father is hunting, a black horse ran up and told him to sit on it, brought him to the giant, who killed him, throwing his head against the ice into the frozen pond; M. went in search, the black horse took him too; he saw his father's body; the giant said that over M. he had no power, but left him; M.'s mother also came; the giant said that he had no power over her either, but imprisoned her in a cage surrounded by edges, forbidding her son to complain; promised to marry her if she will ask M. to bring a rusty sword from hell; M. went there on a black skate; he does not recommend entering the glass castle of the giant's 12 brothers, but M. comes in; the giants ask them to come to them on the way back, when he gets a sword; there are 30 giants in the silver castle; there are 40 giants in gold; each time you hear a roar and scream from the castles, but it is quiet inside; 40 giants give a golden ball, it rolls, M. follows he goes to hell; the skate remains at the door, explains that the devil will offer to choose any treasures, but you only have to take a sword; the devil takes M. as a groom, tells you to feed one horse well, give only others thorns; forbids unlocking one room; M. unlocks, there is an exhausted, thin horse; she is a Spanish princess, teaches you to find the devil's magic book and spell it; then explains where the saber hangs, teaches you to plug the bell that warns the devil of danger with straw, fill your pockets with gold and diamonds, take a scraper and a bag of straw with you; they ride away on a black skate; the bell still rang the devil rushes to catch up; seeing a storm cloud approaching, the princess orders to pour out straw, a wooded mountain appears; next time, a scraper, a chapel appears, M. is a priest, the princess and the horse are two saints; the devil did not understand this, stopped chasing; the princess returned to Spain, and M., going to the giants, cut off their heads with a sword; kills an old woman, the mother of giants; the other an old woman gives a bouton {i.e. a button?} to call her for help; at home, his mother steals her sword while M. was sleeping; the giant cut off his hands, placed him on his shoulders in an ice pond, tied to a pole; M. touched the button with a stump of his hand, and an old woman appeared, returned her hands, freed him, M. went to the sleeping giant, cut off his head with a sword, cut off the head of his traitor mother; the black horse explains that he is the spirit of his father, who will now go to heaven; indicates where are the papers confirming that M. is the king's grandson; the king is happy to have an heir; died soon, M. reigned]: 3-19; Germans: Grimm, Grimm 1987 [brother and sister fell into a well, undine forced the girl to spin hard linen, the boy to cut the tree with a blunt ax, fed it hard dumplings; when undine went to church, the children ran away; the girl threw the brush (a mountain of brushes), a boy to a comb (a mountain of combs), a girl a mirror (a mirror mountain; Ondine went for an ax, the children ran away during this time)]: 223; Müllenhoff 1845:422 to Jochelson (Schleswig) -Holstein) [the hero throws a whip, bag and blanket (fence, mountain, lake) behind him]: 157; Pancritius 1913 [in German fairy tales, fugitives throw a brush, a comb, mirror (mountain, forest, lake), whip, bag, blanket (fence, mountains, water), scraper, buckshot, rags (barbed fence, forest, lake)]: 854; Alsatians [the little boy is constantly crying; the sorcerer has come, offered to take him to study; they go down to the underground castle; the student must give hay to the donkey and the horse with horseshoe nails; you can't swim in the spring, look in the mirror; here's the key, but you can't have a door open; the young man looked in the mirror, saw that it was dirty, washed it with water from the spring; when he looked again, he saw that he had golden hair; opened the room, there were skulls, a piece of resin on the table, he made cover his hair with his hat; the horse tells him to give him food, the donkey with nails, take a sword, brush, bridle, scraper, they jump away; the sorcerer chases, the horse tells him to throw a bridle ( water area), a scraper (many walls); the horse tells him to cut off his head with a sword to spell; a dove will fly out, drop his feather and gold clothes, he must pick it up; having done everything, the young man came to castle, hired by a gardener; enemies go to war; the young man summons a white horse with a feather, removes resin from his golden hair, smashes enemies, returns, taking the form of a gardener again; again, soldiers They deliberately wounded him in the leg to recognize him by the scar; the king's sick daughter looked at everything, told her father; he identified the young man by his scar, gave his daughter and throne]: Lefftz 2006, No. 28:267-274; Germans (Tyrol) [ fugitives throw a comb, scissors, mirror (hedge, thorns, sea) behind them]: Pancritius 1913:854.

Western Asia. Palestinians [the king promises that if his son grows up safely, he will fill one watercourse with honey and the other with ghee; every day the boy meets an old woman, she tells him to remind his parents about the promise, otherwise he threatens to kill him; he forgets, she puts pebbles in his pocket, his mother finds it, he remembers, the king builds watercourses, fills him with honey and oil; the old woman comes when almost everything has been dismantled; takes the last drops, the boy throws a pebble, breaking her vessel, she tells him to fall in love with Lolabe, Lolabe's daughter; he goes looking for L., she lowers her hair out of the window, he climbs it; when her the witch mother gets up, the daughter turns the young man into a pin, she senses the human spirit, tells her to give her the pin to take out the splinter, the daughter gives another, turns the young man into a melon, the mother tells her to give the melon, the daughter hides one a seed, revives the young man from it, tells him to run, spraying all objects with henna except a mortar and a pestle; everyone replies to the mother that the daughter is here, a mortar and a pestle give her away; the witch pursues the fugitives, with her a dog; the daughter throws a comb (the forest, the witch and the dog chew), the brazier (the fire, the witch and the dog extinguish with urine), the mirror (the lake, the witch and the dog drink, burst); at the house, the young man tells L. to wait until he will prepare everything for the wedding; L. climbs a tree, the maid takes her reflection in the well for her own, throws a jug (such a beauty should not serve); L. laughs, the maid asks her to go down, stabs her pins, turning her into a dove, puts on her clothes, explains to the groom that she cried while waiting for her, so she changed; the dove cries in the palace kitchen, tears turn into pearls, corals, their cook picks up, every day the food burns, the prince calls him, finds out about the dove, catches him, takes out his pins; the maid from behind now stabs them into him, turning them into a pigeon; the third time L. catches him, takes out his pins ; wedding; maid gets burned]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 18:159-166.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Tuvalu (Niutao) [5 girls went to pick flowers from a tree owned by Ulimatata, the daughter of the spirit; the spirit hid, grabbed them, made them say their names; the girls returned home; their mother told them throw a comb behind if you have to run, and let only two climb the tree and the other three stay below; the spirit came, the girls ran, the girls who came down from the tree lagged behind; abandoned the comb, the forest grew out Pisonia grandis (typical for atolls); the spirit ran after the ax; another girl threw the comb, a forest grew out of Ficus tinctoria; the third was a forest from Cordia subcordata Lam; the fourth is Calophyllum inophyllum; then they threw coconut oil, a lake appeared, the spirit returned, the girls ran home]: Koch 1966:67-68.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Mustang [a demoness and her daughter live in the upper reaches of the valley, a woman and her daughter live in the lower reaches; the woman went to look for the missing cow, the demoness invited her into the house, killed her; the daughter went, the demoness did her maid; ordered the cow to be herded, the dead mother turned into her, gives her daughter sweets; the demoness hears the girl chewing something at night, walking with the cow herself, she stains her clothes with manure, the demoness decides slaughter her; a cow tells the girl to hide her head, hooves and skin behind the door; a demoness and her daughter go to a party, telling the girl to separate peas, beans, barley and wheat; a reborn mother performs work, the remains of a cow turned into a luxurious attire, the girl came to the party, lost her slipper on the way back; the servant brought it to the king; he tells all women between 16 and 40 to try it on; demoness with They go to the screenings as a daughter, the mother remains to pick up the grain, sends her daughter to the palace, tells her to be the last to come; she becomes the king's wife; when the demoness and daughter return home, everything is contaminated with chicken litter; the demoness sends her daughter to hire a poultry house, tells the queen to stick a pin in the back of her head, she will be speechless, change clothes with her, take her place, and the Queen will be a poultry house; but the mother is before This gave her daughter three cowries; she was sent to herd cows; she took a cowrie, a young man appeared to herd cows, and three girls who began to spin the yarn given to the girl; pulled out a pin, Queen speechless, told the king everything, who ordered the liar to be beheaded, her body was burned, her head was hidden under sweets and meat; the Queen, disguised as the daughter of the demoness, brought her a gift; she found her head daughters, rushed in pursuit; the queen ran, threw a piece of coal (darkness), a head brush (thorny forest), a mirror (ice field); on the ice, the demoness slipped, fell on a stone, crashed to death; everything is fine]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 39:218-223; Rai [the mother of the boy and girl took the eagle; the old woman gave the children a ball, he led them to the eagle's nest; the mother lowered the rope, fed them, hid them from eagle, told me to come back, walk along a smooth road, not a bumpy road; at my sister's insistence, we went on a bumpy one, came to the cannibal; at night she ate the girl; the next night the boy put in his place pumpkin; the ogre felt bitter; in the morning he said that the boar had poisoned the peas; invited the old woman's husband to shoot at the wild boar, shot the old woman's husband himself; splashed hot resin in her face, ran away; the old woman chases, the boy asked for an egg (bamboo grove), a brush (a cook and a brush) - thickets again; threw the egg forward - the bridge over the river; the boy crossed, the water carried away the bridge, the boy replied that we must put the sarong and belt on the water; the water took the old woman away, the boy returned home]: Lahoussois 2002:299-314

Malaysia - Indonesia. Ngaju [Patih Teteh and his wife Akah Ihang Iho comes to live a young tiger, becomes their son; PT did not recognize him in the woods, accidentally killed him; his wife killed her husband at night by hitting him in the face with a club; when burned the corpse, she felt sorry for her husband, she went to the village of the dead for smoke; on the way, the spirits say every time that the PT had just passed, asked for help in the field, the wife helps; in the spirit village, her deceased Grandma teaches you how to put a net on a sleeping AI; he will promise to turn into a tiger, a snake, a rhino bird (turns off her eyes), she must say that she is not afraid, she wants to die herself; he turns into an egg she wraps him in a handkerchief, runs away, the grandmother gives him a comb, teaches him what to do; the woman drops an egg into the river, the stalker spirits dive after it, the bird advises the woman to look for the sixth, she finds it, runs on, throws a comb, it turns into a wall; at home, a woman carves three wooden figures, puts her husband in clothes; perfume makes a hole in the wall, rushes at the figures, takes it away, they find that they made a mistake; a woman sprinkles live water on an egg, her husband comes to life]: Schärer 1966:151-158.

The Balkans. Hungarians: Gidash 1953:138-143 [stepmother promises to give stepdaughter Violet only for fulfilling her conditions; young Rosan comes to marry; 1) tear down the mountain overnight, plant grapes, make wine (F. tells me to go to bed, everything is ready in the morning); 2) plow the field in the forest, bake bread (the same); 3) ride around three horses (father, stepmother, F. herself, stepmother must be whipped); F. and R. run away, leaving drops blood to answer for himself; throw a comb (forest), a comb (jets of water), the old man stops chasing; stepmother chases, F. turns R. into a lake, herself into a duck; stepmother guesses, stops chasing , but makes R. forget F.; his father marries him, at the wedding F. tells the gypsies to shout "as he forgot about F. "; R. recalls marrying F.], 147-156 [the younger queen and his brothers go to get a sun-moon stallion; the neighboring king promised to give his daughter for the stallion who brought the stallion; the old woman gives the Queen a brush, the second - scraper; uncle says that this is the stallion of the youngest son of the Ironnosed Hag; at the hag house, the queen throws his brush, turns into a cat, eavesdrops when the sons of the hag return; waits for those bridge, kills one by one with the help of a crow that drops water on him; in the form of a cat, he overhears the conversation of the wives of the killed, promising to turn into a poisonous apple tree, pear, water; cuts an apple tree, a pear, water - blood flows; the hag pursues, the queen throws a scraper, dirt appears on the way; a horseshoe pierces the hag's legs with spikes; the blacksmith hides his brothers behind an iron gate; brothers drill the gate, the hag sticks his tongue, pull it out with hot mites; she leaves; the brothers meet, take Frost as companions, Beat without a miss, One-eyed (sees everything), Obedala, Drink the sea, Runner; the king promises his daughter if 1) sit in a hot oven (Frost is sitting); 2) eat and drink a lot (Oat, Drink the sea); 3) bring clothes from the end of the world (One-eyed sees, Fast-footed pulls out, falls asleep; Bey wakes him up without a miss); wedding]; Hungarians [the king placed his daughter in a tower to isolate her from men; one of the two wanderers raised a stem up to the window, and his smell made him a girl became pregnant; her father put her in a barrel, threw her into the sea; the barrel was nailed to the island, the girl got out, gave birth to a son, he grew up, began swimming across the strait to the mainland, bringing apples to his mother from there; the mother herself christened him in the name of his father of the sun, his godfather of the month, and his star cousins; his name is Beautiful Szérus; a hussar costume and sword fell from the tree to him; on a tree trunk he transported across mother strait; to meet the giant, S. hacked him down; brought his mother to the castle of giants; the king of giants met with mother S., they decided to get rid of S.; the mother pretended to be sick: we must bring the bear cub and eat his heart; the bear gave a bear cub; when he saw him, his mother said that she had already recovered; the same with the wolf cub; the lion cub; the mother suggests that S. jokingly tie his thumbs - whether she will be able to break it; not maybe; the giant agrees to fulfill his last wish; S. asks to put three whistles in his mouth, given by a bear, a she-wolf and a lioness; the lion grabbed the giant, the wolf, the woman, the bear broke his fetters; S. cut the giant, cut pieces of meat into the trough, the second, water, the mother left them between the troughs; left with her animals; a bride is needed; the bear advises you to ask the sun - Father S.; the lion brought them all to heaven; the sun does not know about brides, advises you to turn to the month; the month to the stars, or rather the Morning Star; neither star knows, let the winds ask, they blow everywhere; they replied that its the betrothed sleeps in a golden cradle at the bottom of hell, she is rocked by 42 features; S. and the animals returned to earth; the count himself tried to get this girl, promised to help; S. grabbed the girl, the devils in pursuit; the lion threw a brush (forest), a handkerchief (sea); the bear threw three pins (three mountains to the sky); the devils could not overcome them; the count took the girl; she would marry only someone who could milk three golden mares; the animals milked; she would marry someone who buys in their milk, heated to a boil; the animals cooled it, S. swam, became handsome; the count also wanted to swim, the animals heated the milk, the count cooked; the girl was about to marry S., he went out into the garden, fell asleep, the count's younger brother cut off his head; the animals saw a snake, whose snake was cut in half with a scythe, carrying healing grass; the lion stepped on the snake's head , the animals took the grass, the snake hit the lion with its tail, ripping off its hair, leaving only its mane; first their head was attached backwards, had to be redone; at this time, the count's brother is preparing the wedding; the lion and the wolf tore him apart; the wedding; S. dug up his mother, who ate the giant's meat, took a sharp bone, put her son in bed, she pierced his heart; the animals revived him with that elixir taken from the snake, tore him his mother; a son was born; when he is 7 years, 7 months, days, hours and minutes, 3 stones must be sprinkled with blood; S. did this, his three animals became princes again, the castle of the giants is their castle; S.'s son did not die , they just took blood from him; they're all alive if they didn't die]: Dégh 1965, No. 8:109-126; Moldovans: Botezatu 1981 [the king lost his seal; if he had a son, he would go to the next world and take off the ring with a seal from her grandfather's hand; daughter Tudor wears men's clothes, goes instead of her son; a deer is stuck with horns in the snake's mouth; a snake asks to cut off the deer's antlers, a deer asks to kill a snake; T. kills a snake; a deer leads to the castle where your grandfather's ring lies; if you step on the threshold, you'll stay there forever; T. stumbled over the threshold, the devils took the ring and led him to the main thing; he promises to let T. go if he brings the white horse The Red King; the deer warns not to take bridles; she takes it, is caught, the king orders Ilyana Kosynzyan to be brought; on the way, T. and deer come to St. Serede (gives a box), St. Friday (brush), St. Saturday (handkerchief); IK is the nut that the witch rolls in the castle, it must be replaced; other witches come back, tell the nut to open, it does not open, they chase; the deer tells us to throw comb (forest), box (mountain), scarf (river); witches: if you are a woman, become a man, and if a man is a woman; Tudora became Tudor; the Red King's deer chipped in IK, T. got a horse, and a deer returned; the same at the main feature; T. took away his ring; T. returns home on horseback with a seal and with a bride]: 246-257; Moldavian tales 1968 [the childless queen conceived from the tears of an icon; her son Fat-Frumos ("From tears born"); he puts up with his father's enemy; that witch Lesova pays tribute, every tenth baby; FF defeats her, she runs away shackled; he follows her daughter Ilyana tells her to change the kegs of water and by force; FF kills her, takes her daughter as his wife; the king asks him to defeat Lute, bring him his daughter; FF takes her away; L. asks his horse if he should hurry to chase, the horse says not so good; first once L. takes her daughter, the second incinerates FF; St. Peter asks God to revive him; daughter L. turns FF into a flower, hides it, asks L. how to get a double-hearted horse; FF hears, comes to an old woman tasked to herd her herd, helps the mosquito along the way, cancer; mosquitoes drive scattered horses, crayfish drive them out of the water; the maid replaces the old woman's sleepy food with good food; the old woman puts the hearts of the mares in a skinny three-year-old, FF chooses him; jumps go away with the maid; she tells him to throw the brush (forest), the whetstone (rock), the handkerchief (the lake), the witch drowns at midnight; the maid disappears, FF takes L.'s daughter on a seven-hearted horse; two-hearted throws L. into heaven; the king marries daughter L., FF to I.]: 139-157; the Serbs [father and son mowed the meadow; after salted cheese, the boy went for a drink; the spring was under the apple tree; when he leaned down to the water, an apple fell on his head; second; on an apple tree an old woman on a goat; invites her; the guy went, he was tired of mowing the meadow; when leaving, the old woman leaves the keys to 7 rooms; in the first - a child's finger; a guy recognized the fingers of the missing brother; the second rooster with his legs tied; in the last one, a pitchfork in shackles and a horse; the pitchfork offers to run, otherwise he will be eaten as brothers; let him take meat on the road, a comb, a mirror, scraper; a young man carries a pitchfork on his back, an old woman chases a goat; a pitchfork tells him to throw a comb (thorny thickets), a scraper (thicket), a mirror (ice surface); the goat slipped and broke his leg; a pitchfork took the boy to the royal palace, and flew to her friends; the king has 5 sons and a daughter; someone steals millet at night; the princes take turns guarding, but when they see that old woman on a goat, they run away in horror; the king promises a daughter to the one who will kill the monster; the boy began to guard, cut off the old woman's head, put on her clothes and came to the king on her goat; he was frightened at first; gave his daughter; the boy's father found him and his son and wife came to live with him; if they died, it's good, but alive, it's even better]: Eschker 1992, No. 5:41-45; Gagauz people [the master has three daughters, he is looking for someone to herd his horses; the eldest daughter is coming, the father turned to bear, went out to meet, the girl ran home; the same middle one; the youngest goes to the old woman for advice; she tells the horses to give hot coals, take the one that will eat them; the skinny mare began to eat, girl sat on her, was going to shoot a bear; her father blessed her to herd horses for three years; the sun fell in love with her, but does not understand whether it is a girl or a man; the mother of the Sun advises her to watch her urinate and what things she buys at the bazaar; the girl urinates like a man, takes only things for men at the bazaar; after three years she shows the Sun her chest and braid; the mother of the Sun advises to put a gold swing; the girl on her sat down, the Sun raised her; incense advised the girl to remain silent for seven years; then the Sun took another bride; she told her to be the first to bring a sieve from Mother Sunday; Sunday sends by Friday, she sends to Friday, she to Wednesday, Wednesday says that the sieve took the hobur; the hobur tells you to play the violin, goes after the sieve, but in fact sharpen his teeth; the mouse volunteered to jump on the strings, run; the hobur killed the mouse, follows; the girl threw a canvas (river; hobur put one lip to the ground, the other to the sky, drank water), a brush (forest), a stone (a rocky place, a hobur cannot cross); the girl brought a sieve; the second bride: to her you, dumb, bring a pot; girl: to take away your tongue; The sun slaughtered the ram, heard it, rushed to the girl, her hands were covered in blood; the girl became a swallow, the second bride was a goat, both went through the pipe, the Sun still hasn't married]: Moshkov 1904, No. 30:42-44; Croats: Schütz 1960, No. 16 [7 brothers went to look for wives to be 7 sisters; the youngest took a thin skate, but this horse was magical; the old woman said that she has 7 daughters; the horse warned her younger brother that she is a witch, that she hides her eighth daughter with golden hair; at night the youngest does not sleep, changed the brothers' hats and the old woman's daughters, put the bridles of horses against the old woman's mares; at night, the old woman mistakenly cut off the heads of her daughters and mares; the youngest tells the brothers to run; when he returned, he shouted to the old woman that she had killed her own daughters; the old woman turned the grip into a horse, rushed in pursuit, did not catch up; at the crossroads, the youngest broke up with the elders, who did not like him; the younger horse tells him not to pay attention to the fact that he will see or hear; but the youngest saw and picked up 3 golden hair, three golden feathers, a golden horseshoe; the young man was hired by a groom for the king, works best; other grooms were jealous, noticed golden things, they said to the king; he ordered to bring a girl with golden hair; this is the daughter of that witch; the horse taught: he will pretend to get stuck in the swamp, the witch will come running, at which time it is necessary to pick up the girl; the young man brought her king; he wants to give her for his son; girl: first get three ducks whose golden feathers; the king sent the young man to pick up ducks; they spent the night with the witch again, stole ducks; the witch is chasing, the horse tells you to throw the scraper, a dense forest has appeared; now the girl demands to get a horse whose golden horseshoe is; the horse tells you to put 8 buffalo skins on it; the sea stallion has ripped them off, but is tired, there is a blue flame from his mouth, and the young man's horse has a red flame; the horse is followed by sea mares; the girl tells them to milk, the milk is boiling, they have filled the vat; let the groom redeem; the horse has cooled the milk, the young man has become handsome ; the queen also threw himself into the milk, but it began to boil, he died; the king adopted a young man instead of the deceased, gave him a gold-haired woman]: 126-133; Wratislaw 1890, No. 53 [the woman was going home when childbirth began, gave birth under a bridge; three Royenitzes came up {Women in labor?} ; one proposed to immediately take the baby's life, the second to kill him when he grows up, and the third to kill him if he does not marry the daughter of King Vilas; the blacksmith told the young man to go to the mother of the month, gave three pairs of iron shoes; after wearing out the first pair, the young man came to the mother of the month, who hid it, but the month did no harm and directed it to the sun; on the way, the young man wore out the second pair of shoes; the sun directed to the mare to the wind (third pair); the young man managed to stay on the mare's back, she brought a pitchfork to the castle; after the feast, the young man hides three times with the mare (in the tail, under the hoof), in the morning tells the king that he is drunk somewhere fell asleep; the third time the young man brought two eggs, the mare held them in his mouth, cockerels hatched from them, they sang in the morning, the demons who were looking for the young man disappeared; the mare orders to grab the king's daughter, they gallop away; the king pursues, the burden throws chips (forest), crest (mountains), glass of water (pond); the king struggles to overcome obstacles; however, the mare passes through the steps (not entirely clear), and the king does not maybe; he throws his daughter a wish-fulfilling belt; wedding]: 278-283; Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska 1994, № 313h* [brother and sister (boy; girls) run away from the pursuer, throw them behind them objects (comb, soap, razor, clay, water vessel) that turn into obstacles (mountain, mountain range, sharp stones, mud, river or sea, etc.)]: 112; Karaliychev, Valchev 1963 [y girls are younger brother; she overheard a mother negotiate with her father to kill them; children run away, father and stepmother chase; brother throw soap (slippery), sister comb (many combs) block the way), {apparently, they pour something out), then they throw a razor, the pursuers cut their legs; in the forest, the sister does not tell her brother to follow the bear (become a bear), the wolf (the wolf), he steps in a deer trail becomes a deer; a sister climbs a tree; the prince sees its reflection, then notices it herself; the servants cut down the tree, go to rest, the deer licks the trunk, the felling overgrows; to lure a girl, an old woman harnesses a cat and a rooster into the wagon; the girl goes down to explain that this cannot be done, she is grabbed; a deer runs away the wall of the house where she is being held; his horns are gilded, his sister went out marry a prince]: 281-283; Mladenova 2006 [brother and sister flee from cannibal parents or from an evil stepmother; flee from the chase (magical escape); contrary to the sister's warning, the brother drinks from the trail deer leg, becomes a deer; sister climbs a tree (poplar); the prince notices her, but she refuses to go down; the old woman lures her out, starting to produce something ridiculous in front of her eyes any homework (the girl goes down to show how to do it); the royal son marries the girl, the deer brother stays with her, a) takes on a human form, 2) is killed, and from his collected by his sister bones grow an apple tree or cypress tree or into wonderful objects; a gypsy, a maid, a stepmother's daughter pushes the girl into a well, where she is swallowed by fish or turned into fish; takes her place; wants to kill a deer who knows the truth; a deer complains to his sister at the well; this is noticed, the fish is caught, the sister (with her baby born) takes her place next to the prince]: 56-57; Macedonians: Martin 1955:7-14 [All daughters are dead, Kostadin's son is left; mother is stuck in the swamp; the wolf pulled her out for promising to give him his future child if a girl is born; Tentelina is born, grew up, the wolf meets , asks her mother to remind her mother of the promise; she first really forgets, then her mother told her to answer again that she forgot; under threat of being eaten, T. goes to the wolf; he put her on a tall poplar; when in the evening she comes, calls, she hangs her hair, he climbs it; K. tells his mother to reveal the truth, goes after T.; the old woman teaches what to do; T. is afraid that 12 elves tell the wolf about the escape; the old woman tells everyone to give a piece of bread; they forgot about the wolf sitting in the boot; the wolf brings other wolves to eat T.; they chase children; they throw a lump of clay (swamp), a comb (prickly thickets), soap (mountain); other wolves angrily ate kidnapper T.; the children returned to their mother], 18-31 [the young man came to his house in the mountains; he promises to adopt him if the young man can stand it three blows with a truncheon; he puts a bag of straw in his place; the old man gives the keys to 10 rooms (treasures in them), but does not give two; the young man came to three fairies who stole the old man's eyes; they will dance if the young man plays the flute; if he gets tired before them, they will take his eyes away; his fingers tremble; he replies that he remembered looking for an old man in his head; they ask them to look for them; he ties them for hair, hangs on a tree; they say that the old man's eyes are in two golden apples; the young man frees the fairies, gives the old man one apple; the second gives after he has allowed the last two rooms to be unlocked; in one is a winged horse and a gold spring, the other is a winged mule and a silver spring; the young man becomes gold above the waist, silver becomes lower; runs away on horseback, the old man chases a mule; the young man throws the comb ( thorny thickets), salt (mountain), oil (river); the old man does not cross the river, he advises him to hide his appearance from people; the young man dresses as if he is a beggar, pulls a bubble over his face like a leper, is hired as a gardener ; the youngest of the king's three daughters sees him in his true guise; princesses must throw an apple at whoever they want to marry; the youngest throws him three times at an imaginary leper; the father, in anger, drives them away to live in chicken coop; the king is blind, he needs fairy milk; the imaginary leper pretends to be stuck in the swamp; in true form, he brings fairy milk and wild pig milk on a winged horse; gives pork under the guise of fairy milk elder sons-in-law, stamps them on their hips; pork milk makes the king even worse; the youngest daughter gives fairy milk, the king sees the light; the imaginary leper in his true form smashes enemies, the king bandages him the wound with his handkerchief; then sees the leper's handkerchief; the young man opens, shows the stamps on the body of his older sons-in-law; the king puts the youngest next to him, the elders under the table]; Albanians [younger brother ate the inheritance and hired the elder as a farmhand; every day he went to the forest to cut firewood, brought it to dinner; one day he forgot to bring it and came back; in the forest a woman cuts firewood; a woman says she is Ora (~spirit- guardian) of her older brother, and Ora the younger is in chains in the seventh room of the evil spirits that stole her; Ora the elder teaches what to do; the youngest comes to those spirits, is hired as an employee, gains trust, frees her Ora and runs with her; she takes a comb, a mirror, soap with her; when Ora of the brotherly spirits screams and the spirits chase, Ora Younger tells her to throw the comb (forest), mirror (sea), soap (smooth slippery surface, pursuers stopped chasing); Ora leads the young man to another world; gives a crooked foal, then promising to give a wonderful horse, puts it on him rags and half a pumpkin on the head instead of a hat; the king tells you to break three pumpkins and guess what each means; only Half Pumpkins (i.e. a young man) can do it; three pumpkins are three daughters of the king to varying degrees ready for marriage (the youngest is just right); everyone must pass by the princesses, the youngest throws an apple at Poltykvy; the enemy attacked, Poltykvy turned into a mighty rider on a beautiful horse, defeated enemies; gave his elder sons-in-law the right to be considered winners, for which he carved signs on their backs; but he told the king everything, his older sons-in-law were shamed, Poltykvs received the throne]: Lambertz 1952:83-91; Albanians [The sorcerer promises the childless king of children if he gives his first child to him; when the second son was born, he took the first one; treated him well, taught him; allowed him to enter all rooms except the last 99- oh; the sorcerer sleeps for 24 hours, awake for 24 hours; once a young man unlocked that room: a sorcerer sleeps in it, and there are various animals around that screamed; but the sorcerer did not wake up; in front of the mare's bone, in front of the dog hay - the young man shifted; the sorcerer woke up and rushed to kill the young man; but the mare tells him to take a basin and a jug for bathing, salt, a comb and ride it away; the sorcerer is chasing, the young man threw salt (mountain), a comb ( thick forest), pelvis and jug (sea); sorcerer stopped pursuing]: Meyer 1994, No. 5:108-110; Greeks: Jochelson 1913 [prince and princess run away from the monster; princess throws some hair behind, they turn into a lake, the persecution stops]: 159; Megas 1970, No. 22 [the old woman cannot cook lentil soup for a long time; when she cooked it, she put it in the river; the prince's horse does not drink, he is angry turns the pot over; the old woman wants him to fall in love with the gold-haired Anthousa; he comes to the house without entering; hides, sees the dragon mother tell A. to lower her golden hair, climbs it ; the same brother A.; when they leave, the young man calls A. in the same words; A. hides him; runs away with him, tying his mouth to all objects; forgot about the mortar; she tells the mother's dragon that her daughter ran away with the prince ; mother chases a bear; A. throws a thin, then thick comb (a thicket of thin, then thick trunks), a handkerchief (sea); at the shore, the mother teaches that A. should make two birds out of dough, when the prince leaves her in the tree, goes to his mother, she will kiss him, he will forget everything; at the prince's wedding, the female bird tells the story of A., and the male always replies that he does not remember; the prince remembers everything, marries A.]: 42-46; Pancritius 1913 [in one fairy tale, an abandoned comb turns into a forest; in another, a demon in the form of a cloud pursues a young man; he throws a bowl of salt (fire and smoke), soap (river); the pursuer turns into a wild boar, the young man throws a comb, a swamp appears, the boar gets stuck]: 854.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Voronezh, Tverskaya); Russians (Tersky Bereg) [the shadr wolf devoured everyone, brother and sister left: Ivan Tsarevich and Marfa Tsarevna; the bull invites him to sit on his back , takes the children away; they throw a comb (the forest, the wolf gnawed), the flint (the mountains, the same), the "raft" is a river of fire; the wolf remains on the other side; the bull tells him to slaughter; the first blood will jump out the dog is heavy, from the second - Easy; make a hut out of bones; I. goes hunting, M. at home; the wolf seduces her from the other side, turning into a man; tells her to throw a bull bone, it turned out to be a boat, he he swam across it; M. pretended to be sick, sent her brother for the wolf's milk; she gave milk and gave a wolf cub; then the bear (gave the bear cub); the lioness (the lion cub); the wolf to Marfa: he was not with the animals take; M. brother: send animals far away to the kingdom of far away; there is a lake, a duck on it, an egg in the duck - let them bring it; I. sent dogs and animals; a wolf came out; I.: let them evaporate in the bath, meat it will be softer; the wolf allowed; the bird to Ivan; quieter the swamp, your dogs are still running there; just ran; they just started running back; not far away; near; animals tore the wolf to pieces; I. found a queen , and M. became a seamstress; hid a wolf tooth in the feathers of Ivan's pillow; I.'s tooth entered I.'s head, he died and was buried; the animals escaped from the barn, dug up the grave; he began to rub heavily against I.'s head, the tooth entered T., he died, and I. came to life; He began to rub easily against T., L. died, and T. came to life; then the wolf cub; the bear cub; the lion cub; they began to rub against the ground: and the lion cub came to life; Marfa was burned at the stake, shot with ashes from a cannon]: Balashov 1970, No. 64:217-220; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Ust-Tsylma, Lower Pechora, 1907) [when entering the house, the tsar asks three girls what they can do; one embroider with silk, the other bake and cook, and the third will give birth to two sons, one elbow deep in gold, knee-deep in silver, a month on the back of the head, stars are frequent on the pigtails, the sun is in forehead; the other is elbow deep in gold, knee-deep in silver; the king married her; he left for business; the messenger was not told to enter the house where the queen's sisters were, but he did; those girls changed the letter: the queen gave birth to a female and a dog; the same on the way back: to get rid of his wife and children; the boys were named Fedor and Ivan; F. and his mother in a barrel were lowered into the sea, I. was sent far away to the terrible king, a fiery spear; the tsar returned, executed the messenger and married the sister who embroidered with silk; the barrel threw it on Buyan Island; F. made a bow, shot game, made a tent out of their skins; merchants arrived, surprised; sailed to the king, F. unnoticed with them on the ship; new queen: this is not a miracle, there is something else: a squirrel walks on a pine tree, sings songs, tells fairy tales; F. returned to his mother, then went to get a pine tree and a squirrel; merchants talk about a squirrel; queen: the terrible king has a servant, elbow-deep in gold (etc.); mother Fedor: this is your brother; F. went to the terrible king; two are fighting over a girl and a flying carpet; F. shot: whoever brings the arrow first will get everything; flew away with the girl on a flying carpet; went to old woman, asks for help to take her brother away; I. ran to slurp porridge; brothers greet each other; grandmother gave a brush, flint and flint; brothers and girl are flying on a flying carpet, scary the king followed; the brush (forest), flint (stone wall), flint (river of fire); the terrible king was afraid, returned; now the king father of the brothers came himself; took his wife and sons, F. married that girl; new the queen was shot at the gate]: Onchukov 2008, No. 5:90-96 (=Azadovsky 1934, No. 2:104-121); Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [Well done can't find a better bride than his sister. She agrees, but her backyard grandmother gives her four spindles, puts her in four corners, and orders the girl to wait four nights before getting married. The first night she hears the voices of the spindles: "ku-ku", the second night: "Where are you?" , third: "brother marries sister", third: "sank" and the girl sags through the ground. It turns out at the big house, he comes in A girl meets her, warns that Baba Yaga will appear and eat her, wraps Katya in a needle and sticks her collar, Yaga does not see her, but smells her. The girl covers the throat of Baba Yaga's son, he has seven. The girls run away, take a brush, flint and flint with them, and the son licked one throat, the mother calls. She arrives when her son licks all seven, chases girls. They throw the brush - the thicket, the flint - the river of fire, the flint - the mountain. The girls run to the hole through which Katya sank and go out into the white light. Katya marries a girl to her brother, and she brings her brother to Katya, because she also wanted to marry him, which she sank to]: Onchukov 2008, No. 71:213-214; Russians (Olonetskaya, Zaonezhye) [ the king bent over the well, someone grabbed him; let him go, gave water for promising to give what he did not know at home; the king did not know that a daughter was born; the water man promised to come for a gift in 12 years; when the daughter is 12 years old, the king put her in a cart, harnessed her, and he took her to another country; from an oncoming wagon {is there a sorcerer?} they ask the goat what he is lucky; he replies that brushes and pins; {it's not entirely clear, but they are running away from the chase}; the girl asks the goat what she can hear, he each time replies that the chase is on his heels ; girl throws a comb (ice floe from east to west, from earth to sky), brush (bone mountain); pursuers drilled, cut through; towel - fiery the river, the chase stopped; the girl locked herself in the house, but had to open it to the king, he married her; Yaga-baba pushed the queen into the water, replaced her daughter; the king is surprised that his wife is thin; she asks to slaughter a goat; he comes to the sea: sister Natasyushka, I will be stabbed tomorrow; N.: a white stone presses my neck, the sands fall asleep, water floods my eyes; the king overheard, N. took it out, on the fourth day she she came to life, told everything; Yagu-Baba and her daughter were tied to 12 stallions and let them into the open field; "Where her head fell, there was a slit {rocky ridge}, where the corpse was a swamp, where her legs were hooks, where her hands were there rake"]: Karnaukhova 2009, No. 64:176-180; Russians (Olonetskaya, Velikogubskaya Vol., Kosmozero, Zap. I.V. Karnaukhova) [the wife is childless; sent for fresh perch; the wife and the worker ate, both gave birth to a boy; the elder brother {the hostess's son} went, three growths: to the right - you will be rich, to the left - wife, middle - killed; went to the left; in the young lady's house; put him to bed, he fell into the underground; his younger brother went, chose the path where he would kill; a hut on chicken legs - turn the porch here; Baba Yaga fed, gave a comb, sent it to her older sister; she gave a bar, sent it to the oldest; there was fog over the city, in the house of Baba Yaga (apparently the oldest sister) to the girls fairy tales says; the guy took apples and live water, raped the girl, rode away; the girl: he drank tea, but did not cover the teapot, sent a chase; the guy threw a comb (forest), a bar (gorges), a towel (a river of fire) ); the guy got to Rosstani and drove along the road where to marry; also failed; broke the wall, everyone went out; the brothers envied him, killed him; the horse broke a bottle of live water, revived him; he returned home; messenger from the girl Krasa from the golden kingdom: let the betrothed come; she already has a child; her older brother has gone; she put on velvet, the guy got off his horse, went around, she drove him away; the youngest drove on velvet - Here is my betrothed; they began to live happily ever after]: Vlasova 2011, No. 15:45-46; Russians (Olonetskaya) [the tsar and the queen hid their son and daughter in a hole from Tsar Samoyed; he found them and promised to return; the lioness gave a comb and flint; they threw a crest (forest), flint (river of fire); began to live across the river; until his brother's flint, S. could not cross the river; S. did a great job, persuaded his sister to steal flint; once with his sister, he suggested that she start playing cards with her brother, the loser would be tied; S. ate the bound; then the girl disgraced S. and he became a Russian man, they began to make good money]: Vlasova 2011, No. 19:50-51; Russians (Pskov, Pushkinogorsky districts) [grandfather and woman have a mill with 12 gates; she herself took flour, grinded, closed and opened by the hour; she was hysterical, the man is looking for a help; the naked promises to do everything, but tells them to give it back, which the man does not know at home; the wife gave birth to twins: Nastya and Vanya; the father gave them a needle without ears and told them to run; said naked that they had run to him; N. threw her comb (the forest, naked came back for the ax, cut through the course); N. waved her handkerchief, they flew across the lake; they came to the hut: turn back there, here in front; an old man came with a gun and a dog; told them to serve I. and died; N. came to the river, naked with an accordion on the other side, offered to marry, told them to wave her handkerchief; she waved, he flew over to her; advises I. to ask I. to get hare's milk; the hare fed up and gave the bunny; N. poured out milk; the same with the fox, the she-wolf, the bear, the lioness; naked: let him go to your father's mill, his animals will remain locked; while he walked, the naked with N. weaved three ropes: silk, hemp, hair; N. suggests I. to tear them; hair I. could not tear; asks permission to heat the bath before death; the raven flies, reports how many doors the animals gnawed ; the animals came running, tore her naked, N. tied two naked teeth in a handkerchief; I. chained her to an oak tree, put two barrels; let her cry for tears in one naked, and the other for it; not far from the lake he went out an underdog with seven heads; he was just convicted of the Tsareva's daughter; (hereinafter in square brackets: I. saves her, marries her; his wife feels sorry for N., asks to be forged; N. throws a tooth in their heads - they die; animals they revive with living and dead water; N. was torn, tied to the tails of horses)]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 43:86-89; Russians (Tverskaya) [the merchant began to drink from the river, he was grabbed by Chudo-Yudo the Lawless, orders him to give it back, that she does not know at home; while the merchant was away, the wife gave birth to a son; he grew up and went to Chu; baba yaga gives a ball, he rolls to her sister, she gives another to Chu's daughter, her ball is rolling CHU; there are 77 ducks on the sea, followed by a fence with heads on poles; the girl tells you to take three steps back, the young man ends up in Chu's house; he gives tasks 1) to put a barn overnight, 2) to grow wheat in the barn; Vasilisa the Wise all performs; 3) recognize VP among his 77 daughters (waving a handkerchief, shifting a ring); wedding; young people are running, VP leaves 4 dolls responsible for themselves; throws a comb (forest), soap (mountain), ubrus ( sea); VP warns her husband not to kiss the child when he comes in; he kisses, forgets her, is going to marry another; VP makes a pie, a pigeon with a dove comes out of it at a feast, the dove asks the pigeon not forget it, as Ivan VP forgot; Ivan recalls]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 225:205-208; Russians (Moscow, Bronnitsky y.) [Trofim is a bad man; his aunt Malania persuaded a young widow to marry him; she has sons Ivan and Gregory; T. beats his wife, tells him to get rid of the children; the brothers have left, they went from the fork along different roads ; some rider, he is the Spirit, took I. into his service; when leaving, he tells him not to feed one horse, to beat him; the horse asks I. to give him grain, but to beat the camel standing next to him; take 3 bowls of water, 3 combs; I. he combed his hair with them, his hair became copper from one, silver from the other, gold from the third; the horse told me to take a brush, soap, flint, flint, combat harness; remove his shackles; they galloped away; the spirit flew in, the camel told him everything, the Spirit rides him in pursuit; the horse asks what I. sees: I.: There is a cloud on the left; the horse is a spirit, throw the comb (forest); the spirit returned for the magic hatchet, cut the way ; soap (soap mountain; returned after the spade); flint and flint (the flame, it devoured the stalker's thunderstorm); the Spirit fell at the horse's feet, promised not to meet him again; the horse tells to be hired by a king whose army was beaten by another king and wanted to marry his youngest daughter; I. works for a gardener; while sleeping, the princess noticed his golden hair; on her horse and in his real form, I. smashes enemies; older sons-in-law said it was them; now the queen demands a 9-headed serpent; I. defeated him; defeated the enemy again, wounded in the arm; the king identified him, gave his daughter; the horse said goodbye and rode away; wedding; at this time G. went into a dense forest; there is a tower, an old man; he must serve him for 12 years; he tells him to groom 12 horses and beat a chained camel; the camel says that he is a magician himself, and the horse who helped I. He was also here; he teaches him to take a worthless sword, only it will cut the chains; they jump, the old man chases, G. hacked him with that sword; the camel leads to his father for a reward; there is a heroic horse in the dungeon; G. drank strong water, became a hero; the Queen easily defeated 12 heroes, and G. defeated her himself; other heroes were going to her; N. won everyone, recognized them among his defeated brother; married the queen]: Chudinsky 1864, No. 3:7-41; Russians (Ryazan) [the man has three daughters; in the village they cast lots on who to recruit, this person was chosen; the eldest daughter offered to replace her father; dressed a man, took a gun; to meet a hare - she got scared and returned; the same middle daughter (towards the wolf); the youngest to meet the bear; she shot his finger and moved on; served for many years without calling friends' suspicions; the owner of the room, which the imaginary young man shared with his friend, suspected that it was a girl; let a friend put hay under the mattress; under the woman, the hay would turn black, and under the man would remain green; the girl got up early and replaced the blackened hay with fresh hay; hostess: go to the bathhouse together; girl: oh, we forgot the soap; while a friend went to get soap, the girl had already washed herself; the service was over and the girl returned home; and her friend became a cat and began to meow outside the window; the girl's father: honey, let the cat in; the cat grabbed the girl and carried her away by the Oka; becoming human again, the guy married the girl; mother-in-law tells her to bring gray sheep out of the forest; husband: they are wolves; the girl climbed onto the spruce tree, told the wolves to pack up and fill the birch bark box with their wool; then she went down, took the box and brought the wolves to her mother-in-law; she gives a windowsill and tells them to milk dark brown cows; they are bears; her daughter-in-law tells them to milk, brings them milk; mother-in-law: go to my sister and bring a yarn comber (Weberkamm); husband: this is Baba Yaga; give oil to the cat, he will bring a scratcher; Baba Yaga's hut on a chicken leg, on a spindle leg; Baba Yaga kindly let him in, and went to sharpen her teeth; daughter-in-law gave the cat oil, he told him to spit on the threshold, saliva will answer; taking the scratcher, the daughter-in-law ran away; Baba Yaga sat down in an iron stupa, took an iron pestle and set off in pursuit; her daughter-in-law threw her brush, a thick reed grew; the comb was a birch tree; the stone is a river; Baba Yaga tried to drink it and burst; now the mother-in-law sent her daughter-in-law and son to fish; they caught a ring that the girl threw into the river when the boy was carrying her to the other side; she said at the same time]: Khudyakov, 2, No. 60:81-85 in Löwis of Menar 1921, No. 31:176-181 (in Uther 2004 (1), No. 514:301-302, for some reason, the fairy tale is called Belarusian); Russians (Voronezh, Bobrovsky district) [ the king leaned to the well to drink water, the king bear grabbed him by the beard, let him go for promising to give what he did not know in the house; while the queen gave birth to twins: Ivan Tsarevich and Mary Tsarevna; children hid it in an underground ward; his parents died, the king bear came, the palace was empty, a chisel was stuck in the wall; replies that he should be thrown: wherever he sticks, dig; the king bear found I. and M., took him to his place ; children ask for a drink; when the king bear went to get water, the eagle picked up the children and carried them, but the king bear scorched his wings; next time the children want to eat, the eagle carried; the third time the children are carried by a goby- dristunok; defecates three times in the face of a catching bear; then gives I. comb and towel; the abandoned comb turned into a forest, the bear gnawed; I. waved a towel - lake of fire; the bear stopped chasing; the goby brought him to his house in a clearing; tells him slaughter and burn, scatter the ashes in three ridges, a horse, a dog and an apple tree will grow; I. took a horse and a dog, brought a wolf cub and a bear cub from hunting; once did not take the dog with him; the six-headed snake flew in, became handsome, asked M. to throw a bridge over the lake, took her away, and locked the dog and threw the key into the lake; I. went to look; in the open field, a hut on chicken loaps, on dog heels; I.: turn to the forest backwards, in front of me; in a baba yaga hut, a bone leg from corner to corner, nose to the ceiling; baba yaga tells me to break three twigs from that apple tree, hit the castle, he will open, you can pick up the dog and go to snake; dog, wolf and bear tore the snake, I. returned M.]: Afanasiev 1958, No. 201:90-93; Russians (Tverskaya) [the merchant began to drink from the river, he was grabbed by Chudo-Yudo the Lawless, tells him to give that he is not at home knows; while the merchant is away, the wife gave birth to a son; he grew up, went to Chu; Baba Yaga gives a ball, he rolls to her sister, she gives another to Chu's daughter, her ball is rolling CHU; there are 77 ducks on the sea, followed by a fence with heads on poles; the girl tells you to take three steps back, the young man ends up in Chu's house; he gives tasks 1) to put a barn overnight, 2) to grow wheat in the barn; Vasilisa Premudraya does everything; 3) recognize VP among his 77 daughters (waving a handkerchief, shifting a ring); wedding; young people are running, VP leaves 4 dolls responsible for themselves; throws a comb (forest), soap (mountain), ubrus (sea); VP warns her husband not to kiss the child when he comes in; he kisses, forgets her, is going to marry another; VP makes a cake, a pigeon and a dove come out of it at a feast, the dove asks the pigeon not to forget her, as Ivan VP forgot; Ivan recalls]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 225:205-208; Russians (Kursk) [a witch gives a woman a ring for her son; the son grows up, the ring fits only his sister, he wants to she marries; she leaves four dolls responsible for herself, goes to the ground, comes to the witch, shoves her into the oven, runs away with her daughter; the witch gets out, pursues, the girls throw brush (cane), comb (forest), towel (sea of fire, witch dies); they come to their brother, he does not know which of the two is his sister; he hides a bag of blood under his clothes, tells the servant to stab with his knife; his sister cries, pretending to be; her brother gives her to a good man, marries her friend]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 14:187-190; Belarusians: Dobrovolsky 1903, No. 10 [throws a brush (swamp), then crest (thicket)]: 455-467; Belarusians [the king's most beautiful ship sank; he promises half the kingdom to whoever returns the ship; evil spirits: half a kingdom is not needed, give back what you don't know at home; it turned out that the wife gave birth to a son and daughter at home; they grew up, a serpent flew to pick them up, brought them to the forest; the boy talks about barrels, the girl talks about watermelons; the snake realized that they were not princes children; had to give them away; once a serpent told the boy to separate the poppy from the ash, and the girl to embroider a towel; the barn took them under his wings, carried them from the snake; he caught up, took them away; the next day the ox tells the girl take a brush and a comb, and a bar and a handkerchief to the boy, sit in his left and right ear; the serpent catches up, they throw a brush (forest), a comb (an earthen mountain), a bar ( stone mountain); waving a handkerchief by the sea is a bridge, on the other side there is no bridge; the ox tells to cut it into 12 parts, they turned into 12 dogs; they began to live; brother does not know that snakes have begun to fly to his sister; sister asks for bear milk; the bear gave milk and the bear cub; the same with the she-wolf; the dogs were left outside 12 doors; the sister tells the brother to warm the water; the raven: take your time, the dogs gnawed nine doors; the brother asks allow death to blow the trumpet; the dogs heard the snake tore; the sister took the snake's tooth; the brother and sister began to live with their parents; the sister put the tooth in the brother's bed; he died, the sister's body in the barrel and at sea; the wolf took out a barrel, the bear knocked out the bottom, found a tooth, took it out; began to live happily ever after]: Romanov 1887, No. 7:63-65; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [the poor man has many children, he sold his son's shuffles; He feeds nuts to eat; the horse offers to take him away, the shuffling caught up, forgave me ("my mother forgave me the first time, beat me with a rod, the third time you can eat it"); the same second horse; the third is thin , tells you to take a comb, a towel and a cup (or a goblet); the boy throws a comb (thicket), a cup (ice), a towel (a bridge over the water; they crossed and removed the bridge); the horse orders to cut it into three parts, dogs appeared Far, Dalekovid, Iron Head; one day a guy saw a girl on the other side; she asked to throw in the towel to create a bridge and lock the dogs; this girl was shuffled from the boy's parents, but she came in her place; the boy asked for permission to climb a tree before his death and whistle (that horse gave it); the dog with an iron head broke the door, the dogs came running, they broke the shuffle, the boy returned to his parents]: Day 1981:69-73; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [grandfather brought his stepmother; went to work; stepmother tells his stepdaughter to go to her sister for a needle and thread - she will sew a new dress for the girl; the girl sees a toad fighting with the mouse, pressing it down; drove the toad away; a grateful mouse gives a piece of meat, bread, butter, a red ribbon; from a witch who will put her at the spinning wheel , you should throw the meat to the cat, bread to the dog, grease the gate with oil, tie the ribbon to the birch tree; they will not rush, they will miss it; then the girl drove away the snake that crushed the lizard; she gives a towel and a comb; the witch constantly asks if the girl is spinning, and preparing to buy and slaughter her; the cat, who received the meat, spins for the girl, tells her to run; the cat, the dogs, the gate, the birch say that they are not a witch She did not do good once, but the girl did it; threw the comb (forest), the towel (the river); the witch returned for a broom to fly across the river, but the girl ran home; the father was just right returned; drove his stepmother away]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:407-412; Ukrainians (Galicia) [the man walked looking for a bride; the sorcerer ordered to look for gold-haired Yalena; came to the Sun - it does not know, gave gold ball; The month is the same, gave a brush; Wind: I hold 30 women with iron tongues; tells me to hire a sorcerer who will give a flying horse; gave a broom; the vorodey tells the mare to herd; by night the noise, the mare has disappeared; there is a hen on eggs in the crown; the foxes pulled out the eggs, a mare with three foals jumped out of them; the sorcerer gave one; I am in the jug, you have to take the jug, but do not open it on the way; the women are sleeping, the man took the jug; women woke up and caught up; he threw his brush (forest; gnawed), ball (mountain; gnawed); hit the sea with a broom, it parted; when he passed, hit again, the sea came together, the women drowned; the king rode from the same sorcerer, they began to fight; the horses consulted, the tsar's horse threw him off, he was killed; the man brought Y. home]: Pankeev 1992:61-63; Ukrainians (Pokutye) [pan bent over to the well to drink water; the underground king grabbed his beard: give him what you do not know at home; when the pan returned, it turned out that his wife had given birth to a son; he grew up, went to the forest at the age of 15; voice out of the fire: remind father of his promise; boy went to look for the underground king; there were 12 white shirts by the river and 12 ducks in the water; he hid one shirt; the ducks went ashore and became girls; the one whose clothes he hid says they are 12 daughters of the underground king; stomped, a passage to the lower world opened; teaches her father to kneel; he gives 3 tasks; 1) build a castle overnight; the girl tells me to go to bed, the castle is ready in the morning; 2) identify the youngest daughter among 12 , otherwise it will be given to live pigs to eat; girl: my ear will be spinning; 3) sew boots; the girl can't, they are running, her spit is responsible for the young man; chase; the girl has turned herself into a field, a young man at a sower; a lake and a fisherman; a tavern and a tavern; now the girl throws a comb - a dense forest; they are almost there; the young man goes forward, the girl tells him not to kiss the child, otherwise she will forget her; he kissed; a wedding with a girl is being prepared; the girl has hired a cook, baked a loaf and two doves; a dove and a dove exchange phrases about how the young man forgot everything; Mr. is glad that his son is back , and with the bride; the cook became a dove, flew for the young man; {it is unclear whether he still married the daughter of an underground king or an earthly girl}]: Zinchuk 2005b, No. 88:392-401; northern Ukrainians ( Chernigovskaya, Nezhinsky u.) [The king, queen and one daughter died, leaving the second daughter and son; when the father died, he buried them to hide them from the snake; the serpent flew in, asking the pomelo, pokers, hooks, axes, shelves where the king is hid the children; everyone replies that the king or queen was kind to them; he will drown (bury the heat, take the pots out of the oven, chop them, etc.) and put them (put them), so I stand (lie); but the snake insists that the chisel shows signs of work (wrinkles); it agrees and tells you to go out, throw it behind you and dig it where it falls; the snake dug up the children and carried them into its hole; on the way, Olenka invites you to look for the snake lice; the snake fell asleep, Ivan cries; the bumblebee puts the children on his back, carries him away, but the snake caught up and returned; next time the goby offers to help; carries children, the snake catches up; the goby tells I. to climb into him his right ear, get out of his left ear, he has a scallop and a handkerchief in his head; I. waved his scallop - a thicket, a handkerchief - the sea parted and the goby ran dry; the serpent was afraid, built a house for himself and stayed to live in it; brother and sister came to another house; the goby tells him to slaughter him, hang his legs in different places; in the morning they were the dogs Protyus and Nedvyus, a sword and a gun; the sister went out to the river to wash, the serpent from the other side asks to take out a handkerchief and wave to cross it; O. told I. that she wanted to wash the handkerchief, waved, the sea parted, the snake passed; O. agreed to pretend to be sick, ask animal milk; when I. comes up, the snake turned into a needle, telling O. to stick it into the wall, otherwise the dogs would tear it; the dogs caught up with the hare, she let him milk, gave a bunny; the same with the fox, the she-wolf, a bear, a lioness, a tigress; the serpent offered to send I. to the mill so that the animals would remain locked behind 12 doors; when I. left the mill, the doors closed; I.'s houses asked permission before death climb the ash tree; magpie: don't go down, the dog's three doors have already gnawed; dogs have come running, tore O. and the snake]: Malinka 1902, No. 16:277-282; Ukrainians (Kherson) [after the death of his parents, the boy and the girl lives with an old woman; she sent them to Baba Yaga; BYU tells them to carry bath water with a sieve; the cat advises to cover the holes with clay; then: heat the bath without straw; cat: brushwood under the shelf; BYA steamed and left; the children gave bacon to the cat, bread to the dog, smeared the gate, they opened; the cat gave a brush and a handkerchief; on the way there was a prickly pine tree, the children tied her needles with a ribbon, she missed; cat, dog, gate, pine BYA answers that she did not care about them, and the children took care of them, so they missed them; the children threw their handkerchief - the river; the brush - the thicket; the BYA stopped chasing]: Yastrebov 1894, No. 19. 1:154-156; Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [The Tsar makes a "zalizny" wolf for children - Ivan and Oleksandra. He comes to life, parents hide their children in the oven, the wolf eats the king and queen. The wolf asks at the pot, then at the bowl, the grip, where the children are hiding, they do not know. The chisel says that the owner hit him on the cheeks and head, promises to point out that if the wolf throws him over his head, it ends up in the oven. The children ask the wolf not to eat them, promise to consider them their elder brother, he takes them to the graves, and goes for the prey himself. Cranes ask the royal children if they are sitting of their own free will, they answer, the birds carry the children away. The wolf discovers the loss, goes in pursuit, the crane asks Ivan Tsarevich if the wolf is far away, he replies - "the axis is far away", the wolf blows on the wings of birds and pear them, the cranes fall, the children promise again listen to the wolf, ask them not to eat them. He leaves them on the graves, a bull appears, takes the royal children, asks them to take with him a comb, a handkerchief, a spoon, and a brush. When a bull asks Ivan if the wolf pursuer is far away, he replies that he is close and throws his brush - the forest grows as thick as a brush, then the comb grows a forest that is thick like a comb, then a spoon - a mountain grows, a handkerchief - the sea. A wolf cannot cross the sea]: Kharkov collection 1898, No. 3:127-128; Ukrainians (Cherkasskaya: Chigirin) [the youngest son goes to sow, the grain ripened on the same day; the father became rich, married the elder son on a peasant woman, middle on a popin, youngest on a general's daughter; the youngest son is seven years motionless; the old woman tells him to be taken to the forest, tied to an oak tree with an iron rope, and leave without looking back (if only looked around, the Seven Year old would break off the whole forest); after 7 days, the Seven Year old woke up, comes to the old woman, takes the name Superfub; her two snake sons take him as brothers, give him the keys, tell him not to look into the stable; he opens, there are two horses, one eats gold, his head and hand also turn golden; the old woman tells him to run, otherwise they will eat it; gives a brush, a comb, a handkerchief; the Serpent chases, the Superfumb throws comb (forest), brush (mound), handkerchief (sea, the Serpent drinks, bursts); hires the master to herd pigs, leads them to the land of the Snake, frees three heroes from under the rock; marries master's daughters; The Serpent demands her to be eaten; the Superoak kills the Snake]: Pankeev 1992:202-216; Poles: Krzyżanowski 1947, No. 327A [poor man leaves children in the forest; twice they return the signs left, they did not find the way for the third time; they come to the gingerbread house, there is a witch; she feeds them, they show a bone or stick instead of a finger; they push the witch's daughter or cook into the oven or change hats with the witch's children and at night she kills her children; children run away, throwing magic objects, a mountain, a forest, a river appear; a cannibal tries to drink the river and bursts; the children have returned home]: 35 -36; Poles (Mazury) [the young king's sister went to find him a bride; there is a hut in the woods, a beautiful girl weaves by the window; they liked each other; the girl is the daughter of a witch; when she returns mother, she turns the princess into a coal; into a pea; on the third day she takes a comb, brush, egg and they run; the witch's daughter throws the brush (thicket, the witch comes back for the ax); then runs back with him, because the bird sings: I know where you hid it and I'll take it; the comb (mountains and rocks); the same thing comes back for a shovel; egg: a lake covered with smooth ice; the witch slipped, broke her neck and leg; when they reached at home the princess, the witch's daughter turned herself and her into two pigeons in a millet field; the king's servant hears the dove singing that she is the king's sister and got him a bride; the king caught the doves, they became girls, but indistinguishable from each other; the woman advises to put pig blood in a bubble, hide it on your chest, and then stab yourself; from fear, the girls' faces have become different - as they used to be; wedding]: Toeppen 1867:145-147; Poles [the enchanted princess languishes in a mountain castle, a witch watches her; her lover, the prince, walks in vain under the castle walls; the visionary took pity on him; She flew to the princess as a dove, told her to take a comb, brush, apple, sheet with her and run; when the witch flew on a shovel to Bald Mountain on Thursday, the princess ran away; sees a witch on a rooster; throws a comb (the river, the witch swam across), the brush (the forest), the apple (the mountain), the sheet (the sea); the princess has reached her father's castle; the prince is already there, the wedding; the witch swam and drowned; the sea has disappeared and the witch's corpse found himself in the middle of the field; they tried to bury him, but the land rejected him; then the wind carried him to her castle]: Woycicki 1920:79-81; Kashubas [the childless owner of Cieczkow Castle is finally born twins; the boy was named Morning, the girl Vesnyanka; once the owner of the castle met a witch, who promises to send an iron wolf for the children in six months; the father is building a stone fortress for the children, surrounded by a moat; the wolf comes, says that he should not be afraid, jumps into the fortress, takes the children; while sleeping, the elk offers the children to save them: their father once let him go for his children; the wolf caught up , swallowed an elk; next time, a wild horse, whom the father of the children let go; gives them a comb, a brush, a handkerchief; the wolf catches up, the horse tells them to throw the comb (the mountain, the wolf gnaws through the passage), the brush (the forest, the wolf broke the passage), the handkerchief (the lake); the wolf stops chasing, the children are returning home; since then this lake has been called Good]: Puu 1991:17-23; Luzhitans [fugitives throw behind them comb, oil, scissors]: Ehrenreich 1905:89 (quoted in Jochelson 1913:163); Slovaks [the peasant has 12 sons, 11 despise the younger Janko; hired the king, a year later they each received one ox; next time for a cow; then on a horse; I am afraid to choose a strong horse; a thin horse advises him to choose one; brothers galloped off; horse: will we jump like the sun or like the wind? I.: so as not to suffer; a brass horse and a copper horseman, I. ends up in the inn before the brothers, who say they saw the bronze horseman; next time he saw the bronze horseman; the next time he was silver; gold; the brothers ask their father to marry them; he sees an old witch plowing on 6 horses; she says that she has 12 daughters; whips horses, they turn into 12 girls; before the wedding, I teach the horse: I do not sit in in the middle, say that he is the youngest, must watch the horses; do not drink wine, eat soup, roast, pour them out unnoticed; wine will become a piece of glass, soup with a brush, roast with a comb, hide them under clothes; let the brothers lie in the place of the witch's daughters at night, and they in the place of the brothers; at night, the witch cut off the heads of her daughters, thinking she is killing young men; the horse tells them to jump away, pick nothing up along the way; the witch throws a golden horseshoe, Y. asks if to pick it up; horse: pick it up, it will be bad, you won't pick it up, even worse; I picked it up; the horse tells you to throw the comb (a mountain covered with dense forest); then same: the witch throws the golden pen, I. throws the brush (prickly thickets); golden hair throws glass (the sea, the witch stops chasing); reconciled with the brothers, the skate tells me to be hired to serve the king; others the grooms (in some versions the Y. brothers) burn candles, but I. did not; the grooms saw that Y. illuminated the witch's golden horseshoe stable; the king demands a horse whose horseshoe; they rode to the witch and so far she I was sleeping, I stole the keys from under the pillow, took the horse away, hid my sword; shouted about it to the witch, she chased, but she could not cross the sea; the grooms reported that Y.'s stable was bright again, light from the pen; the king demands bird; I took off the keys from the sleeping witch's belt, broke her sword, took the cage with the duck laying the golden eggs; the third time, golden hair, the king demands a girl; the sleeping witch holds the keys in her teeth, I. them carefully took it out, broke the witch's sword, unlocked the third room, took the golden girl away; from across the sea he shouted to the witch that he would not return to her again; she turned into tar out of anger; the girl only wanted me, king I was going to execute him; the horse told me to boil the pot of milk, absorbed the heat, I. swam, became gold; the king also decided to swim, the skate returned the heat, the king cooked; I became king]: Dobšinský 1970, NO. 8:36-46.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kabardian residents: Aliyeva, Kardangushev 1977 [when he dies, the father tells three sons to guard a mare whose foals are kidnapped once a year; the elder brother falls asleep, the middle brother does not dare to fight the seven-headed with snow; younger Zaur repulsed a foal, cut off one head; on a hunted horse he follows the trail of a frost; the old woman says that the other kidnapped her daughter, gives scissors, a mirror, a comb; Z. takes the girl, throws comb (barbed fence), scissors (seven fortresses), mirror (the ground is covered with ice); the hoarder fell, Z. cut off his heads; married the girl]: 98-99; Kardanov 1961 [mother died, remained girl Gulez and boy Inal; the witch stepmother decided to eat them; they ran away, the witch is chasing, the children threw the comb (forest), the scissors (7 iron walls), the mirror (the sea); the witch asks for information ford, the children point a deep place, the waves carried away the witch; I. is thirsty; G. does not allow drinking from the trail of a camel's hoof, cowhide; he drinks from sheep, became a lamb; the prince saw G., took it to him, married; the witch's daughter pushed G. into the sea, put on her clothes, took her place; asks the prince to slaughter the lamb; a lamb by the sea calls his sister, says that they sharpen knives, heat the water to cook his meat; G.: not I can help, I'm in a whale's stomach; people told the prince, they caught the whale, g, returned it, the lamb became human, the witch's daughter was kicked out]: 63-68; Nogais: Kapaev 2012 [the old man has three daughters; they all refused There is a lot of work to do to treat his lower back; the old woman agreed to help; when the old man undressed, apples fell out of his bosom, his daughters were picked up; he told them that tomorrow he would take them to pick apples; tells his wife to give daughters have bags of holes; two sticks are hanging on a tree in the forest, they are knocking in the wind, daughters think that the father is cutting wood, but he is long gone; night has come, the girls have come to the house of four elmauys; the youngest girl I also noticed a girl with golden claws; climbed into the attic and lit the wick to make the light fall into the house; estyrnak and elmauyz are helpless in the light; in the morning the elmauyzes say that they will go to the wedding; let the girls they will slaughter and cook one of them, feed their estyrnyk daughter; the girls killed and cooked the daughter of the Elmauyz, attached her head to the doll, ran away; finding golden claws in the cauldron, the Elmauyz rushed in pursuit; the girls they throw a comb, a thorny bush appeared; the Elmauyz ask how they moved; stripped naked, climbed; they climbed; the girls threw the mirror, a lake appeared, the Elmauys drowned; the girls returned home and listened to their parents]: 165-168; Nogai 1979, No. 25 [the old man picked and brought five apples; three daughters refuse to untie his belt, only his wife untied; the offended old man leads daughters pick apples, tells the dung to be responsible for themselves, leaves; the girls come to the house where four elmavyz; they sharpen knives; the youngest is called to spend the night on the roof, burns lamb lard, the elmavyz think that it rains (they are afraid of rain), do not dare to slaughter the girls; in the morning, when leaving, they tell the two older sisters to cook the youngest; the sisters cooked their daughter elma challenge, put her golden nails on the bottom of the boiler, made her a doll, told to be responsible for her; after eating her daughter's meat, the elmavyz chase the girls; the eldest throws the comb (forest), the middle one throws a mirror (turns into a gorge, the elmavyz stop chasing); girls return to parents]: 129-132; Ossetians: Britayev, Kaloev 1959:59-63 [The wolf lets the boy go, but promises to come for him when he marries; comes for him, the young man runs away, the women in the towers they consistently give him a comb (thicket), two loaves (two dogs), hair (bridge over the lake); the young man goes to bed by the mound, from there a fanged woman comes out; he calls her mother, she does not He eats him; he hunts for her; the wolf becomes a young man across the river, promises to marry a woman if she gives him that hair; the wolf crosses, they dig a hole for the young man to fall into her; dogs find her; a woman sends a young man for a dancing fur coat; the path between the crushing mountains; on the way back, the young man slipped, the dog is gone; they ran around, tore the Wolf when he attacked the young man; the young man returns to wife], 164-172 [the sister of the three brothers goes to play with the seven daughters of the Sun; they detain her, throwing a bead into her hearth, she sparkles like a fire is burning; returning to the extinct hearth, the girl comes for fire to the giant; he pours coal into her sieve; the giant comes to the brothers on an ash trail; the brothers go, supposedly, to look for firewood, the giant goes to bed; the mouse gives the girl scissors, a comb , mirror, tells her to run; abandoned objects turn into mountain, sea, forest; the woman in the tower tells her to fill her tubs with tears (she fills), throws her simple rope, she rises; the giant fills it with spits, demands a silk rope, a woman lowers a simple one, but cuts it with scissors, the giant breaks; the girl works hard for the hostess; violates the ban on entering the seventh room; women petrified from the first room; a whirlwind rose to the seventh, took away the shirt hanging there; Aldar's son finds her, comes for the girl; the petrified come to life, the hostess passes the girl off as Aldar's son]; Byazyrov 1960, No. 56 [Sanet runs away from the Waig, throwing a crest and pebbles, they turn into mountains, into a forest; she gets to a woman on the mountain, dies, is buried; Kulbadgus brings her home, pretends to be Aldar's son; at night she comes to life (a stuck wedding ring falls out of his throat)]: 826; Libedinsky 1978 [Exiled with a Gumsky young man steal the cattle of three brothers; they ask Uastyrji for help; he throws a comb from the sky ( forest), stones (mountains); hijackers and pursuers reconcile]: 136-137; Miller 1882 [seven brothers mowed, at which time their mother gave birth to a fanged girl; she immediately followed her mother to her brothers; younger saw that she ate half a horse, left; met a girl in the tower, began to live with her; went to visit her family; the wife brings with her a comb, coal, whetstone; sister greets brother, gives a fandyr (string instrument), goes to sharpen his fangs; the mouse tells me to run through the back window, runs along the strings of the fandyr; the sister comes back, swallows the mouse many times, it jumps out from behind her; brother throws objects, they turn into bushes, forests, mountains; sister gnaws through the road; brother runs to the tower, wife gives him a hand and sister grabs from below; women agree that everyone should own young men two weeks old; it became the Month; when in her sister's hands, she gradually eats him and his wife feeds him again]: 297-299; Karachays: Dzhurtubayev 2007:367-370 [born after eight sons daughter; the youngest son demands to kill her, when refused, leaves; grazes the cattle of the elderly, defeats and kills the five-headed emegen, then the emegensha, having received from her the eyes of his parents previously stored in mercury; she goes to visit her relatives; there is only a sister in the village, she goes out to sharpen her teeth, her brother runs, throws a whetstone (a rock, her sister gnaws), a knife (an iron rock, gnaws), an awl (an ironwood); the young man hides at the top; the crows refuse to convey the message to his adoptive parents, the pigeons pass on; dogs come running, the sister takes off, the dogs behind her; the yellowmouth girl causes eclipses of the moon and the sun (dogs protect the luminaries)], 370-371 [the son, seeing his newborn sister, tells her to be killed, the parents refuse, he leaves; helps the female leopard to be born, she gives him one cub, he takes the second himself; they leave him a hair by a thread; he comes to his native village, where the blacksmith says that the young man's sister ate everyone; the sister consistently eats the horse's legs, each time asking how many legs the horse had; the brother confirms that three, two, one; the sister tells me to knock on the pelvis, she goes to sharpen her teeth; the mouse takes to knock, gives an awl, a comb, a mirror, tells me to run; objects turn into a bone castle, iron fence; sister catches up; brother burns hairs, leopards come running, cling to her jaws; girl rises to the sky, pounces on the sun and moon, leopards prevent her from swallowing them]; Rumyantseva 1981 [the hunter kidnapped the boy, left him to take care of the pig and the horse: give the pig oats, the horse with iron sawdust; the horse asks to do the opposite, he is gaining strength, the pig is losing weight; the hunter is dissatisfied; the horse tells get a mirror, razor and comb from the corner of the cave, run; the hunter rides a pig after; the boy throws a comb (a fence made of sharp stakes, a pig blew up), a mirror (sea, pig swam across), a razor (an iron wall to the sky, the pig could not blow up); after giving his 4 hair, the horse leaves the boy to the old man in the village; the khan will give his daughter to the one who jumps over his palace on horseback; the boy called the horse jumped over, got the youngest princess, they were placed in a chicken coop, and the eldest daughters married the sons of the khans; a herd was stolen from the khan, his younger son-in-law returned him, the elders tied the young man to a tree, said that They returned the herd; the young man's horse freed him; they stole the cows in the same way; the horse pulled the young man out of the water; the khan fell ill, they needed reindeer milk; the horse took it out; said that he himself was a man, he was bewitched by that hunter, now he is disgraced; his elder sons-in-law gave the khan cow's milk, they had black spots on their backs; the youngest daughter gave his father milk, throwing chicken manure at him; the khan moved them to the stable; the horse manure; moved into the house; the old man (former horse) tells the khan everything; he expelled his older sons-in-law, made the youngest heir]: 81-90; Ingush: Malsagov 1983, No. 44 [the children went for berries, one the girl was tied by the braids, the berries were taken away; the sparrow, the owl refuse, the dove frees her; she comes to the din (witch); puts her daughter in her place, the din kills and cooks her daughter; the girl runs, throws flax (forest), comb (thorny thickets), oil (towers with people); people pick up the girl; when they pick up the din, they throw the rope, she breaks; the girl returns to her parents], 45 [ after her husband's death, a woman gives birth to a toothy girl; she eats cattle; her mother refuses to kill her; her brother takes her to the forest; later comes to visit; she looks like a scary cat; she eats up consistently the horse's legs, the brother agrees that he came in a three-legged, etc., legless, half; the cat gives a comb, a jug of oil, three needles; the brother runs, throws objects, thickets appear, the sea oil, three cast-iron poles; when the din gnaws on the third pillar, the mother releases her son's hounds, they kill the din], 138 [the family has seven sons; everyone wants a girl; after the girl is born, apples disappear; the thief is wounded in finger; everyone is checked, the girl's finger is injured, the mother asks her not to kill; then the younger brother leaves; after returning many years later, he finds an empty village; the ant says that the girl ate everyone, tells not agree to eat, ask her to bring a sieve of water; the sister eats her brother's horse's legs one by one, each time asking how many legs the horse had; the brother replies that three, two, one, that the horse had crawled; what he came on foot without a horse; while his sister carries water, an ant tells him to take a comb, vitriol, coal; his brother runs; the crest turns into a forest, vitriol into a vitriol field, coal into a black mist; the brother asks the Month to save him; the Month raises him, the witch manages to tear off one leg of the horse; the month and the brother are now together]: 179-181, 181-183, 297-299; Nogais [the old man picked and brought five apples; three daughters refuse to untie his belt, only his wife untied it; an offended old man leads his daughters to pick apples, tells the dung to answer for himself, leaves; the girls come to a house where four elmavyz; they sharpen knives; the youngest is called to spend the night on the roof, burns lamb fat, the elmavyz think that it is raining (they are afraid of rain), do not dare to slaughter the girls; in the morning, when they leave, they tell the two older sisters to cook the youngest; the sisters cooked her daughter elma challenge, put her golden nails on the bottom of the cauldron, made her a doll, told her to be responsible for her; after eating her daughter's meat, the elmavyz are chasing the girls; the eldest throws the comb ( forest), the middle one is a mirror (it turns into a gorge, the Elmavyz stop chasing); the girls return to their parents]: Nogai 1979, No. 25:129-132; Kumyks [the snake crawls into the old man's shoe, demands to give daughter; only the youngest agrees; the father sends her to the snake in the barn; the snake sheds her skin, becomes handsome, the barn becomes a palace; the sisters ask the youngest, out of envy put a knife in the crack from where the serpent comes from crawls out; he is wounded, returns to the lower world; his wife goes looking for him, puts a ring in the jug of the maid who has come for water; the snake husband recognizes the ring; his mother and aunt are ajdaha, their aunt's daughter wants it marry; the mother tells the girl to sweep the way to her sister's house, the Serpent arranges everything himself; tells her to bring yeast from her house; the Serpent tells her to praise black thorns, pin them to her chest; drink from rivers of blood and pus, praise them; close the slanting gate; take the bone from the horse, give the dog, the hay from the dog to the horse; the girl takes yeast, runs away; the dog, the gate, etc. refuse to detain her, because the mistress- Azhdakha treated them badly, but the girl treated them well; The snake brought to the bride, he cuts her to pieces, runs with the girl, both azhdaha chase; The serpent throws a comb (thorny forest), salt (salt swamps), needles (turn into two trees); The serpent and the girl climb on them, Azhdaha next, the Serpent throws two spinners, they turn into millstones, crush the ajdaha; the boy and the girl have achieved their desires]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 11:175-179; Megrelia [devi demands to give the princess, otherwise she threatens to destroy everyone; the thin foal asks to take him; 30 armed satellites, five in a row, go for the devi; each time, when the girl looks around, he swallows one row; the foal says it's time to run; spews a comb (forest) out of his nostrils, tells him to throw a bunch of his mane (mountain), throw a bunch of his hair (sea) ); the girl stops the persecution; the foal gives a man's dress; the prince meets the imaginary young man, finds out that the woman is getting married; after leaving, he orders to send a hawk if a son is born, a falcon if a daughter is born; a son was born; the girl catches a hawk, replaces the letter - the wife gave birth to puppies; replaces the prince's letter: burn the queen with offspring in tandoor ("thorne"); he comes under the guise of a messenger; before execution, a foal pushes the devi into the tandoor, takes the queen and her son; orders him to cut it into small pieces and scatter it, a palace and people appear; the prince burned down his palace, went begging; came to his wife without recognizing her; everything explained]: Lominadze 1894:40-44; Georgians: Chikovani 1954, No. 60 (Pshaviya) [=Chikovani 1986:279-284; stepmother pretends to be sick, she will be cured by her stepson's liver heart; father sharpens a knife; Koasnukh bull tells the boy to sit on it, take a sharpener, a comb, a bottle of water; the father chases a pig; the boy pours water from a bottle (a pig swims across the sea), a comb (a pig gnaws through the forest), sharpener (the pig falls down the mountain, breaks); the bull leaves the boy on a high poplar, gives two flutes; he plays the joyful, the butterflies dance; the shepherd, then the king want a pipe for himself; if trouble, let him play on the painful, the bull will come to the rescue; to lure the boy off the tree, they send an old woman; she leads a goat to the poplar and begins to stab her with an awl - supposedly, does not know how to slaughter; boy went down to show him, he was grabbed and locked; he asks a crow, a crow, an eagle, a bird to bring his flutes from the poplar; everyone refuses, for the boy did not leave them prey, caught them in a snare; a swallow brings; the boy plays the joyful flute, Rubella comes running, breaks eight doors, breaks the horn; the mouse takes root the horn for the promise to eat it with carrion; the bull breaks the ninth door, brings the boy to poplar; one day he played the joyful flute, but the bull did not appear; the boy went down and found his corpse pecked by birds; after that he never played his flutes again]: 299-303; Armenians : Nazinyan 2014 [the old man brought firewood from the forest, which contained a snake; demanded that the royal daughter be married to him; the king demands to build a palace overnight, then a garden, a carpet from the palace to the palace, and invisible musicians; every time the snake tells the old man to go to the forest, shout into the hole "Big Khatun, Little Khatun, Habrmani wants this and that"; after the snakes marry, he becomes man H. at night, tells his wife not to let it slip; incognito participates in the races; in response to the ridicule of the sisters, the wife says, H. falls, tells him to trample iron bast shoes and a steel staff in 7 years, then she will find it; disappears; H. is in power witch, she wants to marry him off her daughter; the wife, having passed the earthen, glass, copper fortress, reaches the gold fortress, her bast shoes and staff are worn out; she throws her ring into the maid's jug, H. finds him; the witch asks her to stroke her feet and fall asleep in her legs; H. tells her to put a deck in her place, at night the witch gives her foot; the witch tells her to bring fluff for the pillows, H. advises to ask the birds throw off the fluff; H. and his wife run away, the witch's daughter is chasing, they turn into a mill and a miller; a vegetable garden with a gardener; for the third time the witch runs by herself, H. tells his wife to throw the comb, Forests appear; H. turns his wife into a twig, herself into a snake wrapped around a branch; the witch found them, but took pity and let them go; H. and the princess celebrate a new wedding in a new palace]: 106-116; Wingate 1912, No. 9 [when dying, the husband tells his pregnant wife not to go to Black Rock; the young man grows up, goes, kills a demon; takes the treasures of his castle, marries 40 gurias captured by the demon; mother revives the demon, pretends to be sick, asks her son to get 1) the melon of immortality; the old woman tells 40 demons to fall to the mother's chest first; she hides him, demons recognize him as a relative; only a lame demon knows how to get the melon of immortality; tells you to take a jug, comb, razor with them; running away with a melon, they throw a jug (lake), a comb (thicket), a razor (glass fragments); demons pursuers they did not catch up, the young man sleeps with the old woman, she replaces the melon, the son brings a false mother, she recovers; 2) lion's milk; the old woman teaches to cut an abscess on the lioness's paw, she gives milk, as well as her lion cubs; the old woman replaces goat milk, but the young man's mother says that she has recovered; 3) living water; at the spring the young man falls asleep, but his lions kill the snake, scorpion, beast that has come; the old woman will change the water again ; the mother pulls out three hairs for her sleeping son, he dies, the demon cuts the body into pieces; the lions bring the remains to the old woman, who revives the young man with living water; the lions tear the mother and the demon apart]: 94-102; Turks: Aganin et al. 1960 [the hunter has a second wife; stepmother tyrannites stepdaughter and stepson; the partridge caught by the hunter disappeared; the wife is terrified; cut off one breast, cooked; the hunter liked the meat; when she found out What's the matter, he decided to eat a man; the wife offered to fatten the children and eat it in 40 days; the girl hears, counts the days, laying stones; tells her brother to run; the father chases; the old woman gives a mirror, comb and clay; sister threw clay (swamp); comb (thorny bush); father almost caught up, the mirror fell - the sea, the father stayed on the other side; the brother was thirsty; the rider pointed three spring; when you drink from the first, you will become a fish, from the second a lamb, the third is safe; the brother has become a lamb; the son of the padishah drove up and saw a girl in a tree, decided to marry; galloped home to to return; an arapka came up, said that the padishah's son sent her, pushed the girl to the first source, put on her clothes; the padishah's son is surprised that the bride has fool; after the wedding, the arapka fell ill, asks lamb meat; the padishah's son is watching him; he comes to the source: you were swallowed by a fish, and an arapka wants to eat me, butchers are sharpening knives; the fishermen pulled the fish, took the girl out of her womb; the arapka was torn four mules; three apples fell from the sky; the lamb ate one, became a boy, his sister put the other on his chest, she woke up; the third will find a child who will read a fairy tale]: 122-130 Stebleva 1988, No. 27 [The younger sister's horse secretly turns into a young man from others; she does not marry, meets an imaginary horse at night; burns his skin; he flies away as a pigeon, says that she will find it when she wears it out iron shoes and a staff; at the spring, the maid says she is collecting water for Chamber-Tiar; the wife, disguised as a beggar, throws her ring into the jug; Thu recognizes him, comes for her; the devas want to eat it, THU's mother gives tasks; 1) sweep - do not sweep the room (collect garbage in the middle); 2) go to a neighbor behind bars (give meat lying in front of the horse, give grass from the dog to the horse, venerate the one thrown behind the horse the back of the neighbor's chest); 3) fill the cauldron with tears (add salt to the water); 4) fill the bag with fluff (the birds gave); during the wedding, THU tied the daughter of the devas to the pole instead of the padishah's daughter, runs with his wife; she throws a comb (thorns), soap (slippery), a jug (water); Thu became a gardener, his wife became a garden; a tree and a snake wrapping him around him (the devas broke the net - they tore off their little finger); into flowers at the feet of the padishah; he gave them to the devas, they are grains, the chickens are pecking, two grains remain, turn into a boy and a girl, they are having a wedding], 33 [stepmother wants to throw the children into the oven; boy and sister go to the mother's grave; voice tells them to take a comb, a brush, and soap; the stepmother sent soldiers in pursuit; the abandoned comb became thickets of thorns, the brush with snakes covered the ground, the soap became the sea; the children go across the steppe, the boy is thirsty; his sister does not tell me to drink from a deer's hoof, he drinks, turns into a deer; a girl climbs a poplar, shahzade sees its reflection; tells her to cut; felling overgrows overnight; an old woman begins to bake bread with the pan upside down; the girl goes down to help her, shahzade picks her up and the deer, gets married; while bathing, the arapka pushes her deep, puts on her clothes, says that turned black, waiting for her husband to return; asks to slaughter a deer; a deer brother tells his sister how knives are sharpened to slaughter him; the sister replies that it is in the stomach of a fish, her son is at her chest; people hear shahzade overhears, takes out the sultan and her child, tie the arapka to the tails of 40 mules]: 105-109, 131-134; Kurds: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 4 [padishah and vizier check whether everyone extinguishes the fire at night, how the padishah ordered; the lights are on for three girls; if the padishah marries her, the older sister promises to cook, the middle sister will weave the carpet, the youngest will give birth to a golden-haired boy and girl; the padishah takes everyone , loves the youngest; while he is at war, the sisters told the midwife to replace the children with puppies, throw the children in a box into the sea; the padishah tells his wife to be placed in a kennel on a chain, beat him with a truncheon; the box was washed ashore, the gazelle fed the children, their names are Hesain and Gulizar; while hunting, the padishah sees his son, admires him, does not recognize him; the midwife persuades Gulizar to ask his brother for a magic tablecloth; she is from the witch , throwing her breasts by the shoulders; the old man teaches her to fall to her right chest, take her soap, comb and bowl, steal a tablecloth; the old woman chases G., who throws soap (slippery rock) comb (prickly thicket), bowl (sea); G. brings a tablecloth; the padishah sees him again; the midwife advises Gulizar that his brother marry Sharikhubar; she turns everyone who calls her into stones; sister comes, S. answers her, Honey, petrified come to life; brother takes S. as his wife; when the midwife comes, S. kills her with a sling; the padishah and the courtiers come to visit, S. tells the story, mother G . and G. are released, evil sisters are torn apart by horses]: 71-80; Rudenko 1970, No. 50 [the padishah hears the conversation of three sisters; the first, if she becomes the wife of a padishah, promises to fly like a bird, the second to cook deliciously, the third is to give birth to a gold-haired son and daughter; when the youngest gives birth, the sisters tell the old woman to throw her children in a box into the sea, replace her with two puppies; the padishah orders to tie his wife with the puppies at the entrance to the palace, beat, feed with scraps and bones; the fisherman picks up a box, the boy is called Mirza-Mamur, the girl is Golizar; when he dies, the fisherman gives a magic stick; she creates a palace; helps to catch up with the doe on foot, which persecuted the padishah; the sisters send the old woman to G., who persuades her to ask her brother to get Zardukhubar; the old man tells M. to approach the old woman in the garden, venerate her right breast; she gives Z.; Z. tells run, taking a comb, soap, a vessel of water; the old woman chases, the abandoned comb turns into a forest, soap into an icy mountain, water in the sea; the old woman drowns; the sister sends the old woman again persuade Hezaran-Bolbol to get; Z. kills the old woman with an arrow; the old man explains that the caller HB is stony, G. must come and spell; when G. calls HB for the third time, the stones will become human again; M. and G. and HB return, the old adviser becomes a young man; HB tells the padishah the truth, the evil wives were torn apart by camels, mother M. and G. were returned]: 147-155.

Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks (Samarkand district) [the padishah has three sons, his wife is dead, the new one has given birth to a daughter; someone steals apples from an apple tree; the eldest son guards and falls asleep; the same middle son; the youngest Kenjaby sprinkles salt to cut, shoots at a winged demon, he flies to his stepmother's chamber, K. finds a peel next to the cradle; the padishah does not believe, he kicked him out; he left, got married, and his sister ate all the people and animals in him country; K. takes care of two lions; wants to visit parents; gives his wife a jug of milk; if the milk is redder, let her lower the lions; K. came to his sister; she eats up the horse's legs and consistently asks was the horse three-legged, two-legged, legless; K. replies what it was; mouse: leave your boots to make it seem like you are sitting, take three needles, salt, a mirror, a comb; and she will hit the strings of the vestibule; sister chases, K. threw the comb (forest); sister: how he went; K. raise the hem; the same with other obstacles: mirror (river), salt (salt mountain); K. plunged three needles, they turned into three boxwood trees; the sister pulled out her tooth, began to saw the trunk with it; K. jumped to the second tree; to the third tree; the milk turned red, the wife lowered the lions, they tore the diva, K. returned to his wife]: Amonov 1961:376-381; Tajiks: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1957 [=Amonov 196:365-372; the old man has three daughters but no son; he is blind; the eldest daughter dresses up as a man, visits an old woman, she says that many brave men have died, looking for a cure, the girl returns; the same middle daughter; the youngest is not afraid; the old woman sends her to the healer; he will ask for the medicine the seed of the tree that the three-headed diva has; in the monastery, the diva must do good to everyone; the old woman gives a mirror, a comb, a bar; the girl cleans and adjusts the gates of the fortress, shifts hay to horses and bones to dogs; sewed sleeves for baking bread, gave them to girls who toned tortillas with their bare hands; the diva sleeps with her eyes open; the girl pulled a bag from under his head and ran away; maids, dogs, horses, gates refused to grab her; she threw a mirror (river), a bar (mountain), a crest (forest); the divas stops chasing; the healer gives seeds; his friend says that the hero is a girl; chrysanthemums are placed at her head (if woman, then wither); the girl got up at dawn and tore off the fresh ones; but the healer's son saw it and went with her; the father saw the light, the young man married his daughter]: 77-83; 1960 [=Ulug-zade 1967:149-159; old man sees fresh sheep liver on the road; touches her, an old woman jumps out, threatens to kill her if he does not give her son Haydar-Kokul; tells him to cut firewood continuously; a horse, a bull, comes to HC, they cannot run away from the old woman, she throws her torn tooth under their feet; the calf takes HC to the fortress where the girl is alive; on the way he picks up two puppies, they turn into powerful dogs, the girl hides them; divas reluctantly promises not to kill HC; the girl gives HC a comb, a mirror, three arrows, tells them to run; objects turn into a forest, a river, three poplars; when the divas knocks down the last, dogs come running , push him into the river, fight him under water, kill him; HC and his wife return to their parents]: 164-171; Bukhara Arabs [the youngest son tells the king to slaughter his sister, she will become a witch; he does not believe; three sons take turns guarding the horses; the eldest, the middle one falls asleep, the witch eats the horse; the father does not believe; the youngest does not sleep, he sees, the king still does not believe; the youngest leaves, marries; after 20 years he tells his wife release him two lions if the milk turns red, yogurt black; comes to his sister, she hugs him, weans his ears; she has already eaten everyone; tells him to beat the drum, goes to the horse, eats his leg; brother replies that the horse had three legs; the sister goes out to eat the horse again; someone from under the wall tells him to run, taking a comb, a mirror, salt, a spindle; abandoned objects turn into prickly a bush, a river, a swamp, two trees; a brother climbs a tree, a sister takes out her tooth, cuts down a tree with it like an ax; begins to cut down the second; the wife releases lions; the witch rushes into the river; lions say that If blood rises to the surface, they win; if blood and hair are dead; they rush into the water for a witch; hair first floats up, but then blood; lions bring a piece of skin from their sister's head to the owner; the drovers promise to give the camels if the lion owner guesses what their load is; a piece of leather suggests that almonds; a person receives camels; distributes them in his father's city, he is elected king]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 58:324-326; Uzbeks: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1) [=Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:166-178; chasing a pheasant, the youngest of the old man's three sons enters a cave and spends 40 days there with a pen; when the young man returns home, Peri tells him to ask his father to build a house for him, build a yurt; when he comes to his son, the old man sees only a cat next to him; secretly peeks, sees a beautiful woman; before the wedding The old man tells his daughters-in-law to sew dresses and bake cakes; other peri do everything on the orders of the young man's wife; Peri replies to the other daughters-in-law that he will make clothes out of paper; they also make paper dresses Peri sends rain, dresses get wet; the old man asks his son where he keeps the cat's skin; when he finds out, he throws it into the fire; peri flies away, telling her husband to wear his iron boots and staff; the young man comes to Almauz's house Kempir (AK), his wife and boy there; the young man asks the boy for water, he does not give it, the water in the jug turns into blood for the first time, into pus; peri tells the boy to give water to a stranger; the young man throws a ring into the jug, peri recognizes it, goes to her husband; when AK is at home, turns it into a flower, hides it in his hair; then passes her husband off as his younger brother; AK tells her to look in her hair, sucks the young man's blood; peri tells her husband to give the dog meat, the camel hay (AK did the opposite); when the AK falls asleep, tie her hair to a pole, take a comb, scissors, a mirror, run; doors, the camel and the dog refuse to detain the fugitives; they throw the comb, answer AK that they need to pull out two teeth, make axes out of them, cut through the road; the same is scissors; the AK has only four teeth; they throw a mirror, it turns into a river; the fugitives reply to tie stones to the neck and put stones in their sleeves, walk along the bottom; AK is drowning; the young man and the peri live in their home]: 415-425; Ostroumov 1990, No. 3 (Tashkent) [ after the birth of his third son, the king drove his wife away, took a young one; someone kidnaps foals from his beloved mare; the eldest, middle prince falls asleep, Yalmauz-Kampir takes a foal every time; the youngest shot her little finger on her hand; that same evening the young queen gave birth to a daughter and disappeared; the prince noticed that she did not have a little finger; the father did not listen to him, drove him away; he stays with the old woman, she has a daughter for marriage; he goes to look for her mother, the old woman gives a comb, a razor and a whetstone; gives a merry stick to go there with a blade; he found his mother, bought it out of slavery; she died; he went to visit the house; sees in slit her sister in the guise of Yalmauz-Kampir, she goes through the heads of her eaten parents and brothers; the fox tells her to run, remains to beat the drum for him while the YAK leaves for poison; the prince runs away, throws comb (thicket), razor (mountain), bar (sea; YAK swam, but the fish dragged it to the bottom, and then transported the prince ashore; ordered the merry wand to be protected; the young king finds a daughter that old woman, marries her; when she sails across the sea over the place where the monster-fish crushed the YAK, the storm sinks the ship, but they sail out on fish; feast]: 13-20.

Baltoscandia. Eastern Sami [loved one disappears; a girl rejects other suitors, says she will marry a man with a golden nose; Ravk comes, she has to fulfill her promise; he leaves her keys, does not tell you to open one door; there is a weak elk; she feeds him, three days later they run away; they throw a comb (forest), a mirror (lake), a shard (mountain), a match (fire); an elk brings the girl to his mother, turns her into a sliver underground, puts the pine tree with its roots up, runs away; Ravk did not find a chip, could not pull out the pine tree; The elk shows the girl a pine tree, she recognizes the betrothed, Moose turns into a boyfriend, takes a girl as a wife]: Czarnoluski 1972:80-83; Western Sami: Klaus 1995:39-46 [the Swedish king has lost three daughters, the man volunteered to find them; along the way consistently meets two more; each one cooks in turn; the Legless Handless (BB) comes, presses down the cook's hair with a log, eats everything; when the hero stays, he offers BB food, he promises to help; everything three want to move the stone, at the call of the hero, BB shifts, under the stone the turn, the hero descends; the kidnapped queen orders to change barrels of strong and weak water; hell comes, the hero defeats him; the same with the second royal (two-headed feature), with the third (three-headed); the hero sends the queens upstairs; gets up, sees that the companions are arguing about which one; seeing the hero, they cut off the rope, he again ends up underground; hired as an employee, the owner does not tell you to go into the same room; the hero comes in, there's Thunder, he tells you to take an iron chair, flint flint, a comb with him; they run away, hell pursues, the abandoned crest turns into a forest, the devil returns for the ax; the flint is the mountain, behind the drill; the chair is a river of fire; Thunder brought the hero to where the companions quarreled, took the most beautiful queen, others are arguing who to get who, so far], 55-63 [the giant {probably Stallo in the original} has a lion to whom he gives hay and a horse to whom he gives meat; worker S. changes food in some places; says he cut down the poles to poke out S.'s eyes; they carry a tree home, S. is afraid to look back, does not see that the worker is not carrying the tree, but is sitting on it; the worker pretends to throw the ax C . to a cloud that can break his boat and oars, he brings an ax, rows himself; offers to pierce trees with his head; the worker makes holes in the trees in advance, S. gets stuck with his head; the worker answers who sleeps soundly when he looks like a bag, like a stone, puts a bag, a stone on his bed instead of himself, S. hits them at night; replies that he is fast asleep when frogs jump out of his nose; worker cuts off S.'s head; the horse tells him to run, taking a comb, a flint, a wet rag; S. (obviously alive) catches up, abandoned objects turn into a thicket, mountain, lake; S. returns for an ax, for a drill, then loses time carrying them back, as the sparrow threatens to pick them up; S. tries drink the lake, tells the maid to close his ass so that the water does not pour out; the fox tells him to hold it tight, the maid laughs, S. bursts; the young man washes his hair, it turns silver; he hides it under his hat, but the princess notices, takes him as her husband; the horse tells him to cut off his head, he also becomes a young man, he was bewitched before]; Poestion 1886, No. 21 [the guy was hired as an employee for a giant; chose the biggest tree; the giant climbed to the top, the guy sat on the butt; replies that he is not tired at all; bringing the tree, the giant tells the guy to go into the barn, but not to the stable; horse: tomorrow you will be asked to launch boat; say that if you venerate it, the boat will fall to pieces; the giant lowered it himself; asks to take the oars; guy: if I take it, they will break; the same goes on (all fishing gear will tear); when They came back, the horse tells us to go into the barn, slaughter the cow, cut the heart in half; the cow is the life of a giant; if not dead, cut it into small pieces; then they will gallop away with the box (Bühse) a sword, a piece of sulfur, a flint, a comb; when they gallop, the horse asks if the guy hears and sees anything behind him; as if the wind is whistling; horse: this giant has come to life; throw sulfur: water area; giant I ran home for a ladle, drank water with the help of a ladle; wanted to leave it to pick it up on the way back, but the bird: if you leave it, I'll take it; I had to run home again; the flint is a mountain; a giant runs after the storm (again about the bird); the comb is the forest, ran after the ax (bird); the guy on horseback rode to a world where the giant does not go; there is a copper forest ahead, you can't break branches; guy broke the last one, a giant in copper clothes appeared, the horse defeated him; the same with the silver forest and the giant; with the gold one; now the horse told the young man to hire the king; he always wears a copper hat so as not to be visible gold (Goldhut); told the king that he had scab; became a gardener, the youngest of the three princesses saw him take off his copper hat; she asked her father to pass it off as a young gardener; her sisters chose noble young men; the youngest son-in-law called a horse, shot a lot of birds, gave them to the elders, and brought them only an owl; wedding; horse to a young man: you forgot about me, cut off my head; he cut off, the horse itself turned into Prince Charming {the end without the details common in one-story fairy tales}]: 84-92; Ingrians (Izhorans) (V. Porkka, 1881-1883) [there was no sun or moon, they sowed by candlelight, reaped with a ray; wise the blacksmith's daughter went to look for the sun and the month; comes to the village of Iittovan, Hiitoin's huts in the distance; she throws a sleepy ball, men and women fall asleep; attaches a month over her eyebrows, the sun is on the crown, runs home; she is chased, she throws flint (rock), a crest (forest), a jug (river); a birch tree outside the house raised the sun and a month on the branches; at the request of the poor, daughter the blacksmith made the lights shine for everyone, rich and poor]: Kiuru 1990, No. 1:34-36; Finns [Kanteletar Part 3 Song 2; Estonian sorcerers stole the sun, German wizards stole the sun, German wizards a month; it became it's dark; Turo, Jumala's son, went in search; after dropping honey and beer on a tree trunk lying across the road, split it; he also crossed the hill and lake, reached the country of Hiisi; in the barn, three girls polish the sun and month; T. threw a ball of sleep there, they fell asleep, T. took the lights away; chasing him, he throws a pebble (mountain), a crest (forest), reached home; hung the sun on the top of a pine tree, a month on top of a birch tree , they began to shine rich, but not poor; hung them on the lower branches - only the poor; then the middle ones shine for everyone]: Billson 1895:342-344; Veps [after the death of his wife, the old man decided to marry his daughter; took her into the forest; her grandmother tells her to take a comb, a brush, a ball with her; the daughter says she will go to pee, run away; threw a brush (forest), a comb (a slippery mountain), a ball (a river) ); the father cut off his eggs, threw them at her daughter, they stuck to her shoulders and repeat everything she says; the girl returned home, is silent; the man married, the wife gave birth, the man killed the child, the wife still is silent; the man marries the daughter of Baba Yaga, the first wife is told to cook jelly; she tried it and says: the jelly is sweet; the teasers repeat; she is to them: once sweet, then jump into it; she slammed the pot with jelly on the corner of the house; mother-in-law: what is it? daughter-in-law: the firewood in the stove is cracking; mother-in-law is glad that the daughter-in-law spoke; the daughter-in-law came up to the new wife, there is a dirty pot in her hands; she: if you hadn't stained your dress with soot, I'd better give it to me; daughter-in-law: I'm three years old fear of your father-in-law and mother-in-law was silent, and you spoke the very first night; the husband tied Baba Yaga's daughter to the stallion's tail and let her go along the bumpy road; began to live with his former wife]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 24: 116-118; Karelians: Cox 1893, No. 199 (Varpakylä) [the man wants to marry his daughter; she asks for permission to go to her mother's grave; the mother advises to ask for the sauna to be melted before the wedding wash, and when he goes to the bathhouse, run; going to church, take dresses, brush, comb, mirror, sword; father chases, daughter throws the brush (wall; father runs for with a sword, cuts a hole, the bird screams that the daughter will see where the sword is hidden, the father runs home again to carry the sword), the comb (the wall of bones (the same); the mirror (the glass wall; the same); reaching the royal a pigsty, a girl puts on a pig skin, hides in the prince's pigsty; in the morning she secretly puts the farm in order; the prince goes to church, asks his sister for soap, a pig brings it, the prince throws soap at pig; in church, the beauty replies that she is from the palace, where they throw soap; next time she is a basin of water; a shirt; the first time the girl loses her hat; then the prince orders to smear the door with resin, the second once the glove is stuck; the third time, a shoe; the prince tells everyone to try on, promises to marry; sees a pig in a hat, with a glove and a shoe; on the way to church, the heroine takes off her pigskin; wedding]: 392-394; Onegin 2010, No. 32 (Kalevalsky district) [his wife has a blue finger; when she dies, she tells her husband to marry again only a blue-eyed one; her daughter still has a blue finger; she requires her father to wear a star-embroidered outfit (father bought); embroidered for months (same); suns (same); daughter takes dresses, brush, sulfur, goes to the bathhouse; runs away, leaving spits responsible for herself; discovering deception, the old man rushes after him; daughter throws a broom (a mountain covered with birch forest, the old man returns for an ax and hoe, cuts through the road, wants to hide the ax and hoe under the birch tree, the tit says he will tell, the women will steal; the old man takes them home, runs again); girl throws a comb (resin mountain; the old man runs again for an ax and hoe; the same); throws a bar (stream of fire; the old man can't cross, he threw daughters have their eggs around her neck, let them mimic her); the girl was hired as a pigsty to the king; she is silent, because the eggs will mimic her; the ball is being prepared, the maids send the dumb to carry water to the king, that with her bucket forehead; the late mother gives a staff to hit the stone crosswise, the horse will come out; the girl came to the ball in a sunny dress; replies that she came from where the forehead was beaten with a bucket; the prince followed the girl, threw the pigsty's clothes into the fire; but the girl is afraid to say a word; the prince married her, she gave birth to a son, he was stabbed to death on her lap, her eyes were gouged out and driven away if she did not want to speak; pigsty cooks food again, soup is cooked in a pot; pigsty: delicious soup; eggs: delicious; the pigsty hangs the ladle around the neck below the eggs, invites them to try the soup; the eggs flopped into the ladle, she is in them a boiling pot; the pigsty brought soup to the guests; the new bride: look, the hem is carrying soup; the pigsty: you spoke early, I was silent, even when my baby was slaughtered; the new bride was driven away, a pigsty was dressed in a sunny dress]: 300-304; Estonians (Ambla) [12 poor man's sons went to seek service; the king promised everyone a horse if they worked for him for a year; a year later, 11 brothers chose for themselves good horses, and the youngest a thin skate; if no one sees, the horse turns into a heroic horse; when they return to their father, the brothers left again to look for brides so that everyone is sisters; the old woman has 12 daughters; the younger brother goes to bed with the youngest for the night; she reports that she was kidnapped as a child, and the rest of the girls are the old woman's daughters; his strong point is her bewitched brother, they are royal children; at night the old woman will cut off the heads of those who came; the youngest told the brothers to switch places with the old woman's daughters and ride away; the old woman cut off the heads of her own daughters; the old woman chases on the back, the horse tells the youngest throw a broom (dense forest), brush (thicket), rosehip flower (rosehip thickets); the fugitives rode home where the witch has no power; the skate turned to the prince; the younger brother married saved princess]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 55:142-145; Lutsie (West 1893) [Jaan Kuningapoeg (i.e. Ivan Tsarevich, I.), he has three sisters, parents are dead; goes with his older sister to see the world , the crows attacked the end; when the carriage was opened, the raven took his older sister; the same from the middle (the wind took away) and the youngest (the thunder took away); I. went to look for sisters and find a wife; a hut on a chicken leg with lamb horns; come up in front of me, let the road man inside; there is an older sister inside; the raven sends to the middle; the wind to the younger one; the thunder teaches me to approach the castle, there is a three-legged horse at the castle; when the ploughman will move away from him and leave the girl to guard, then she must be stolen; I. put the girl on a horse, took her; Must (must - "black", est.) returned, asks the horse if we will catch up; horse: even if we plow, we'll sow (etc. - all the field work), bake pies, eat, get enough sleep, and then we'll have time; I. came to the thunder on foot: the girl and the horse were taken away; thunder: go through the 9 kingdoms to the 10th, there try to herd the mare from the king with 12 foals; if you can, you will get a horse that you will not catch up; gave three hairs to call your sons-in-law, they will help you herd; other sons-in-law gave the same; in the castle, the cat asks him not to forget; when I. opens the doors of the stable , let him stand outside the door, otherwise the horses will trample; the foals ran above the forest, below the clouds; but the crows, the wind and thunder brought the foals back; the next day the cat tells them to hide in the corner of the stable; horses again They came back, Must beats them again for it; cat: daughters were horses for two days, and tomorrow their mother will go; you have to hide from her behind the stable; raven, wind and thunder and she was brought; offers to choose a horse; cat: take nondescript; I. took the girl away again, the three-legged horse tells me to chase immediately; I. threw his brush (dense forest), whetstone (mountain), handkerchief (sea of fire); Must: I have the last stake stayed for your head, but you were saved; wedding]: Annom et al. 2018:114-122; Lutsie (West 1893) [the king kept his son behind 10 castles; but he is strong, escaped; in the woods an old man in a house; teaches him and feeds him, forbids entering a room with a bast door; a young man enters, there is a horse, meat in front of him, and a lion, hay in front of him; the young man has shifted places; the old man is angry; after a while the young man is again enters that room; horse: hold me in the face; shakes his face, the young man falls; horse: take a sip of water from a bottle; same; more; this time there is so much strength that he can hold on; take a brush and a whetstone; horse flies, the old man is chasing, his mouth is open; the young man throws his brush (forest and mountain), whetstone (mountain); the old man makes his way; the horse tells him to wave his right rein - the bridge over the river of fire; they galloped along it; left: the old man was on the bridge at that time, the bridge collapsed, the old man burned down; the horse went to graze, the young man arranged a house and a garden near the royal palace, containing silver and gold apples; his younger princess I noticed; the grooms have arrived; the king: whoever is brought a cup will be a husband; the elders brought it to the visitors, the youngest to the gardener; the elder grooms do not want such a son-in-law, they came with an army; the young man called the horse, everyone defeated, disappeared again into his house; a new fiancé came to the youngest, the young man defeated his army; then he led the terrible horse out of a high mountain, and an old man was on it; a difficult battle; the young man was wounded in the arm, asks the king of blessing (the king does not understand that this is his younger son-in-law), then killed the old man and the groom was walled up; the young man falls asleep for 12 days, the king recognizes his bandage; 12 days later the young man wakes up healthy; at a feast, the horse tells you not to drink the first cup; the young man sipped, the horse burst, the bowl fell, broke; the horse tells you to take the queen's handkerchief and wipe the lips of the young man and himself; turns into a young man's brother, which has long been disappeared; I drank and ate there, it flowed down my lips, didn't get into my mouth]: Annom et al. 2018:135-139; seto [mother died, father married a witch (vanapatu), she has two sons; one of them wants to wear it get married; she goes to dress in a barn, the witch's sons leave dogs at the exit so that she does not leave; the mouse asks for bread, the girl gives her, the Mouse gnaws a hole in the wall, tells her to take a whetstone, a brush and cat; girl runs, cat listens, reports chase; girl throws brushes (forest, devils run after axes; then they hide axes, the bird says they see, they take the axes home, again rush to catch up), whetstone (stone wall; same, they run for crowbars and hammers), handkerchief (sea, devils drink, burst)]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 35:148-152; Latvians [three owners the shepherdess is driven away without paying; the fourth leaves for three days, tells them to burn the fire under the cauldrons, not to curse the well; those three owners are in the cauldrons; the shepherd put his hand in the well, his finger is covered with blood, do not wipe it off; the owner beats a shepherd who has violated the ban, next time does not tell him to enter the room; there is a horse, oats behind him, candles in front of him, the young man gives oats to the horse, he tells him to run, take a comb, a scarf, a bottle; they turn into a forest, into rocks, into a sea; the devil stops chasing; the horse tells you to call silver, gold, diamond, black horses if necessary; the young man is hired to the king by a water truck; consistently calls horses, goes to smash enemies; the servant claims that he saved the kingdom; the king finds a fragment of his spear in the leg of the water carrier; the water carrier marries the princess, the servant was tied to the tail of a black horse; the horse tells him to cut off his head, turns into a prince bewitched by the devil]: Aris 1971:167-175; Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 42 [12 brothers have a sister; the eldest was looking for a wife, found no one more beautiful than his sister, was preparing a wedding with her; the sister says that she forgot her ring in the cage, asks God for help, falls into the ground, finds herself on the path, comes to the hut, there's a girl like her; she smeared her with sourdough and covered her with sauerkraut ("deja"); the witch flew in, the hostess said that the human spirit was because that human leg was stuck in her teeth, picked it up with a poker; the witch flew away in a mortar, the girls ran; threw the brush (forest; the witch cut it with an ax, ran to carry the axe back so as not to disappear), a towel (sea; witch she began to drink, told the mortar to drink, burst); the girls reached the cage, but the floors were already there, they began to scream; brother dismantled the floors; sister: here's your bride; brother married that girl], 44 [the old people have two daughters ( only one beautiful) and two sons; the younger brother decided to marry a beautiful sister; in winter she went out to rinse her scarves and the door was locked; she consistently addresses all members of the family; everyone answers the same: if you call it not mother, but mother-in-law (not father, but father-in-law, not sister, but sister-in-law, not older brother, but brother-in-law, not younger brother, but sweet), I will open it; she has to call her brother sweet; when you enter his room, she asks the earth to open, one hair remains in her brother's hand; in the hut, two daughters of a witch sew, hide the girl under a needle (more often they turn her into a needle); the witch arrives, believes that the smell of a person because of the hand or leg left between her teeth; the witch returns, finds the girl under her beds; the girl asks to show how to sit on a shovel, pushes the witch into the stove, the witch's daughters give she has a brush, a whetstone, a towel; the witch gets out of the stove, chases, the girl throws objects, they turn into a forest (the witch tells the blacksmith to tie an ax, cuts through the path) mountain (shovel), water (the witch drinks, bursts); the girl hired to work on the estate, married a panych], 49 [an iron wolf (not just an ogre wolf) in 10 versions; the father has two children; he gave them a gift a toy - an iron wolf; the father died, and the wolf came to life; brother and sister rode off on horseback, the wolf caught up, tore the horse, returned the children; flew away on the voron, the wolf caught up again and returned; the goby put the children on back, ordered to take a ball (mountain, wolf gnawed), brush (forest; wolf ran away for an ax; the crow screams that he would take the ax, the wolf had to cut the path and carry the axe back) and a sharpener (the sea in front; the goby created a bridge that disappeared behind, the iron wolf drowned); the goby ordered it to be cut in half, two dogs appeared; brother and sister came to the robbers' house, killed those who came with a sword as they entered; 16 versions below the plot of the insidious sister]: 97-99, 102-107, 113-116; Lebite 1965 [same or very similar text in Kerbelite 2014, No. 43:100-101; after death The Queen wants to marry her parents; the messengers say that his sister is the most beautiful; he tells her to prepare for the wedding; she replies that she puts on her shoes, wears a dress, a wreath, and at this time she falls into earth, ends up in the lower world; comes to the daughter of the Sun, that witch captive, pierces a needle into the wall, because of which the witch does not see the queen; both girls run, throw a ball behind (mountains, witch digs with a shovel), a brush (the forest, cuts with an ax), a towel (the lake, the witch drinks, tells the mortar to drink, she does not drink, the witch bursts); the girls come to the queen, the same; he puts a bubble under his clothes with blood, pretends to kill himself; the sister cries more bitterly, the queen marries the daughter of the Sun, the brother of the daughter of the Sun to the queen)]: 154-158.

Volga - Perm. Komi [(=Doronin 2004:47-51); old people have a daughter as tall as a spindle; yoma asks to give her for her son as tall as a finger; tells the young man to cut her sheep; the aunt says they are wolves, teaches that tell them to cut themselves; the same goes to cow bears; the aunt gives a flax comb, a basket of resin, a bar; the girl lubricates the door hinges with oil, feeds the birds, they let her out of the house; yoma chases her in a birch bark basket pulled into a stupa; the girl threw her flax, became a forest, a bar was a mountain, a basket of resin; confused the words, the resin river in front, she and yoma were both covered in tar; the girl asks the crow, then to call her parents with crowbar and fire; the crows do not hear those words, they hear them; the old man killed yoma, saved his daughter]: Novikov 1938, No. 34:121-124; the Udmurts [the evil widow of Egypt tries to lime Anna, the wife of her adopted son Ivan; tells them to shear sheep; I.: bears and wolves; I. tells them to climb an oak tree, knock on it with scissors; the animals are trying to get A. their hair has climbed out, A. brought it; E. sends A. to bring birdeau from his sister; I. tells them to take various products and items with them; A. gives meat to dogs, oats to geese, silk birch belt, oils door hinges, tailor needles, roll to the cat; sister E. goes to boil the resin to throw A. at it, the cat tells her to run; is responsible for A.; A. runs away from sister E., throws a brush, a forest grows, a walnut is a river; the stalker asks how to cross; "Spread your handkerchief and swim"; she drowned; A. called E., says that her sister is drowning, drowned her in the same way method]: Klabukov 1948, No. 32:92-98 (=Kralina 1960, No. 45:124-129); Udmurts [{link to Fuchs No. 88; apparently, this is Fokos-Fuchs 1952}; before death, the father tells his sons to find their own brides; the eldest leaves, does not return; the same average; the youngest fool meets the wolf, rides it, the wolf advises to pick up objects lying on the road: a sharpener, a mirror, a comb; with the help of these items, the guy clears his way; threw the sharpener - the mountain is gone , the crest - the forest is gone, the mirror - the sea is gone; so he gets to the possession of snakes, kills three-, six- and nine-headed serpent, frees brothers and brides for all three]: Yashin 1965:54-55; Marie (meadow): Tudorovskaya, Eman 1945:19-23 [husband went to the forest, wife at home; Viver-Kuva came, asking to unlock, go out to see how the squirrel, the marten play; the woman answers every time that she is busy (she rolls bread, puts it in the oven); left the örta (ört - spirit, soul) to answer for herself, got out of the chimney, ran to her parents; V. climbed through the pipe, chased the ört, then ran after the woman; she threw shondash (a brush for combing the tow), a thicket appeared; a stone (mountain), red handkerchief (fire); the woman ran to her parents' house, but they did not unlock it ("we do not have a daughter who would walk at night"); the same was her brother ("no sister"); the woman hid in the barn, V. found her, only left guts; in the morning the father thinks that the wolf ate the sheep; made harp strings out of his intestines, began to play; the harps sing: "Oh, my father, don't play, you'll cut my heart off"; the same mother, brother; brother threw the harp into the fire, from there a living daughter jumped out], 23-27 [=Sabitova 1992:153-158; seven orphan sisters went out of fire; sent the eldest to Wever Kuva (them: V.-Kuva); the girl invites V. to their house; V. gives fire, says that the sisters angry dog, asks to hit her leg; going to the sisters, sings that her tow is like a calf, a spindle is like a rolling pin, a spinning rod is like a millstone; the dog barks, V. is afraid, leaves; so with all the sisters in turn ( break every next leg of the dog, burn it, scatter the ashes); at the invitation of his younger sister, V. comes, lies down on the stove, with her six sisters, except the youngest; at night, skulls fall to the floor one after another eaten; V. each time replies that a spinner, spindle, etc., has fallen; in the morning, the youngest offers V. to open her mouth to jump into it; throws boots full of hot coals into V.'s mouth; runs, taking comb, bar, canvas; an abandoned comb turns into a forest; The hare is called to cut, throws an ax into the lake; V. drinks it; the bar is a mountain; the same, the Fox supposedly cuts; canvas - river, V. drinks; girl climbs birch, V. cuts; girl asks her older sister to lower her spindle from the sky; she replies that she sows, then pulls hemp, etc.; at the last moment she descends, the girl goes up to heaven; her sister hides her from her husband; he promises not to eat who has come; the girl stays with her sister]; Mordovians: (Erzya) [the old man is three years old in the forest, bent down to drink, Vedyava grabbed her beard ; refuses a stallion, a barn, a mill, demands to give what he does not know at home; an old man comes home to meet a three-year-old daughter; she has grown up, she has one silver tooth; she waxed it, went to Vedyava; to meet the old people, teeth like splints, eyes like buckets, did not recognize the girl; then ugly old women, the girl laughed at them, the wax fell off, the old men and old women ran after the girl ; she threw a maple scallop (maple forest), a bar (mountain), a brush; a tree grew out of the brush, the girl climbed on it, old men and old women began to gnaw; the girl asks her sister in the sky to pull the thread down; she replies that she will first plow the field, sow hemp; remove hemp; wet the hemp; she will hide; she will lower the thread, the sister climbed, the tree has collapsed; old men and old women began to chew on each other; the sister's husband in the sky was a bear, she hid the girl under a pile of garbage; the bear began to eat garbage, did not finish eating, did not find the girl; the sister turned the girl into a fever, hid in coals; the bear began to eat coals, did not finish eating; hid it in the chest, the bear wants to eat the chest, the sister tells me to take the chest to her parents; on the way, the bear wants to open it, the girl from the chest: I see, I see; the bear left the chest in the yard, the daughter returned to her parents]: Evseviev 1964, No. 18:150-154 (=Samorodov 1972:262-268, =Pomerantseva 1973:69-75); Kazan Tatars: Gilyazutdinov 2015, No. 272 [many people die, a horseman goes for living water; a prisoner in the palace of the king of divas shows him a source of water, gives him a mirror and a bar; a diva chases after him, a horseman throws a mirror, it becomes a sea, a bar with mountains; divas and horseman fight, a diva breaks a vessel with a sword, living water pours onto the roots of fir trees, since then conifers are always green]: 266-267; Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 71 [12 brothers they work as lumberjacks, and the 13th is at the court of the padishah; 12 are jealous, they say that Thirteen can bring a stallion a diva; the old woman gives a comb and a mirror; 13 disturbs the stallion and hides in the hay; the diva stops pay attention to the laughing; 13 jumps away, throws a comb (forest), a mirror (river); brothers: 13 promised to bring a blanket to a diva; the old woman teaches to throw a diva of ants; he scolds his wife for not shook out the blanket, threw it into the canopy, took it away Thirteen; brothers: he can bring the diva himself; the old woman teaches the young man to pretend that 13 is dead, and he is preparing a coffin for him; asks the diva to try it on, bobs up the lid; on the way, a one-eyed aunt is a diva; Thirteen promises to insert her second eye, burns the first one; clings to the goat from below; the blind looks for the offender, throws the goat over the fence; Thirteen diva threatens to release, padishah has to give her daughter]: 376-390; 2008b, No. 24 [stepmother tells her husband to take three stepdaughters to the forest; father tied a beater to a birch tree, she knocks in the wind, the girls think he still cutting wood; came to Mustan the Witch; the eldest replies that she slept to her mother's right, the middle one to the left, the youngest to the stove; throws salt into the chimney, the fire goes out, M. cannot make a fire cook the girls; they drowned M.'s daughter, ran away; throw a sharpener (mountain), comb (thicket), mirror (sea); told M. that they swam with a stone tied to their pants; M. drowned; son the padishah married the youngest, two viziers to the eldest and middle; the eldest promises to dress the whole city, the middle one promises to feed everyone with the meat of one bull, the youngest to give birth to a child with silk hair and pearl teeth , with a silver ass; the elders did not fulfill their promise; replaced the baby with a puppy, gave the child to the fisherman {it is further clear that there were two children}; the husband ordered his wife to be blinded, his arms and legs broken, seated under the door, I don't care about her; the husband talked to the fisherman, found out the truth; he gave a tree leaf to heal the crippled; the sisters and their husbands were hanged], 37 [the son of the poor went to seek happiness; overheard the padishah's daughter talking to with a horseman; came instead of him; they ran away; in the morning the girl saw a change, but decided that the new fiancé was no worse; her father was chasing; she threw a comb (thicket), a mirror (sea), a ring ( wooded gat, padishah stopped pursuing); the husband hired a padishah; he wants to destroy him, take possession of his wife; sends him for good to the ship, where a diva, a young man, killed a diva; orders to bring a gold-haired Altynchech; the wife gives a letter to the old woman, she sends it to another; the young man spares the bear, the crane, the fish, they promise to help; the divas give tasks: herd three horses (scattered, the bear brought), cows (the same, cranes brought), geese (the fish drove them out of the sea); A. tells us to throw half an apple into the diva's mouth, he fell asleep, they ran away; the young man brought A. to his wife, they turned out to be sisters; the young man was made a padishah]: 203-207, 301-308; Yarmukhametov 1957:14-31 [Akhmet is told that he is more cheerful and courageous than his brothers; his mother is forced to say that his 10 brothers are gone and are missing; A. visits his mother 10 genies and promises her sons to get them for them 11 daughters of the padishah, which is prevented by 10 warriors; they turn out to be brothers A.; A. enters the girls' room, tells the genies to go up there one by one, cuts off everyone's head, takes them off from sleeping girls personalized rings, he keeps one for himself, gives 10 to his brothers; 5 batyrs claim that they defeated the genies; the padishah gives them daughters, but during the wedding, the warriors cannot raise the heads of the genies, and A. this it is easy to do; the daughters of the padishah recognize their rings, marry brothers; the father of the genies wants to get the daughter of the padishah of the Sun, and he will give her only for the horse of Padishah Almazov; the father of the genies kidnapped A., ordered get that horse; the old man tells you to take the horse away, but not touch the bridle; A. grabs it, the bells are ringing, he is captured, Padishah Almazov demands the nightingale of the Padishah of the Month; the old man tells not to take the cage, A. did not take it, gave the nightingale in exchange for the horse, but the nightingale returned to him; gave the horse in exchange for the daughter of the Sun, the horse also returned; the old man told me to go from the fork to the right, A. forgot and went to the left; A. fell asleep, woke up - there is no girl, no horse, no nightingale; the old man gives a handkerchief, a comb and a mirror; putting his handkerchief on the water, A. crosses the river, takes the girl, the horse, the nightingale out of the diva's palace; he chases, A. threw the comb (forest), mirror (sea); diva swam, drowned; A. gives the girl to the padishah genies, remains an employee, tells you to find out what the genie's soul is; genie: in a broom (girl decorates a broom); four eggs under a duck in a nest on an island under the protection of four wild boars; A. fights wild boars, the main boar wants to eat a reed sprout, A. a roast lamb; the shepherd gave him a lamb, he killed wild boars, brought eggs, two broke it, the genie agreed to take him home with his girlfriend, where A. broke the rest of the eggs; 11 brothers with wives, nightingale and horse return to their parents], 130-144 [(=Zamaletdinov 1992:150-162; =2008b, No. 8:77- 91; the poor horseman came to the valley, where the house and garden are; three pigeons flew in, became horsemen, surprised who touched the dishes, found the young man, left him as a cook, told him not to open the seventh barn; he opened the girl who is there repeats "My Kalfak" (Kalfak is a hat); pigeon horsemen say that without this kalfak she cannot be born, and Kalfak from a diva; the young man goes for the Kalfak, having learned magic and having received a comb, a whetstone, a mirror; a diva arrives at the palace, becomes a nightingale; another padishah's daughter, kidnapped by a diva, catches him and leaves him in her room; he takes on a human form, finds a kalfak, flies away; throws a comb (forest), a whetstone (mountains), a mirror (sea); hides at the bottom of a bucket carried by a girl; a diva tells to pour out water, the young man turns into grains, divas in a rooster, the last grain in a hawk, kills a rooster; gives young pigeons a kalfak, their girlfriend recovers; advises the hero to ask for a thin horse, a rusty sword and an old whip as a reward; leaving, sticks a knife - if it rusts, he is in trouble; the young man returns to his mother, tells her to marry the padishah's daughter, he orders to create a palace, a golden bridge, a garden; at the wave of a whip, the devils do everything; the padishah is ready gives her daughter, but she has just been kidnapped by a diva; a girl with a kalfak, who became the wife of her older pigeon brother, tells her to fly to the island, returns with her, stops drinking wine on the way, falls asleep; two batyrs they chopped him to pieces, and she was taken by ship to her father, said that they saved his daughter; the pigeon brothers revived the victim, took her home; he comes to the wedding of the padishah's daughter, she recognizes him in her own way ring; deceiving batyrs were executed]; Bashkirs ["A long time ago, when a goat was a colonel and a ram was an officer, they say an old man and an old woman lived"; the old man and the old woman go to visit, tell their own four daughters so that they do not put out the fire and offend the cat; when the cat asks for porridge, the girls hit her on the head with a spoon; the fire goes out immediately; two older sisters go in search, come to the cave, they ask the old woman for fire; she agrees to give it, tells them to collect ash in the hem and sprinkle it on the road - she will come to them for the night; in the evening she comes to their house, eats her younger sister at night (old woman) was ubir-ebi); the next day she comes again, eats another sister; two surviving girls run away from home with a scallop, a mirror and a sharpener; old woman goes in pursuit; the older sister throws the sharpener, a huge mountain grows up, over which the old woman can hardly climb; the girl throws her scallop, a dense forest appears; the old woman makes her way through it ; the girl throws a mirror, a large lake overflows; the old woman screams from the shore, asks how the girls swam; they say: tying stones to their necks; the old woman ties a stone and drowns; the youngest of the sisters asks for water, the eldest warns that you can't drink here; the youngest drinks water from a hole from a goat's hoof, turns into a goat; her sister goes on with her, marries a merchant; his older wife it starts to hurt, the healer advises to eat the goat's heart; the goat tells her sister to save her bones; the goat is eaten, the sister puts the bones in a cloth, they turn into a bird; the bird sings at the bazaar, the merchant gives her a piece of butter; she flies up to her sister, puts oil in her mouth; the bird flies up to the needle merchant, sings again; he gives her a pack of needles; the merchant's elder wife hears singing birds, opens her mouth; a bird throws her needles, a woman dies]: 1989, No. 14:92-95.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [childless bai refuses to give Khan a roan horse, because he protects cattle from wolves and robbers; khan invites only those who have children to a feast; buy and his wife still come, none of them did not meet; dreams that a roan should be slaughtered; he stabbed, his wife became pregnant; the girl speaks from the womb, is born without the help of a midwife after her father promises that she will have power over herself; Dudar calls herself, no one should know her name; she will be married by whoever guesses him; no one guesses; once a slave called her by name; the groom came and called her by name; a two-year-old explains that this is a werewolf, he dug the corpse from the grave and ate it, heard the name; we must take with him a slave on a black camel, a bow and arrows; a savras turns into a six-year-old horse; the werewolf has gone forward, returned as a wolf, swallowed a camel with a slave; the horse tells not to allow the eldest wife of the werewolf (she is also a she-wolf) to take him as an excuse; takes D., flying through the air; D. in men's clothes, took him in sister to a young man named Er Tostik; knocks a coin off the top of the poplar, gets the khan's daughter, gives it to ET, opens it to him herself, now he has two wives; he went on a campaign on Savras, ordered to name his son Altinkhan; when he was born, one-legged Kuayak-Kempir invited a messenger, replaced letters, supposedly ET ordered his wife and child to be burned; Savras rushed, although he was in fetters, Kuayak-Kempir is chasing; D. throws a comb (forest), a mirror (lake); but the savras himself found himself in the water; killed KK by kicking it, but it ripped open his belly; on the shore he tells him to throw his legs in four directions - herds of horses; the brisket is a yurt; A. hunts, sees a lame man, takes his skullcap; D. says it's an ET skullcap; ET tells how he walked without a horse; recovered; they returned to ET village, A. became hero]: Tursunov 1983:43-50; Kyrgyz [three naughty girls went to the forest; the father gave the eldest comb, the middle needle, the younger mirror; they ended up in the witch's house, where she used to be a kidnapped little girl; they took her and ran; the abandoned comb became a forest (the witch made an ax and saw out of her two teeth), the needle became a mountain, the mirror became a lake; how did you get there? - With a stone around her neck; the witch drowned, the girls returned home]: Brudny, Eshmambetov 193:193-195 (=1981:61-62; 1989:66-68) {perhaps this text is briefly retelling Johelson 1913:160 with reference to Radloff 1870}; Karakalpaks [elderly spouses are childless; the beggar promises the old woman that she will have three sons, but she will have to give one to him; in 10 years he takes the youngest; in the garden, the skull asks bury him, promises to help; the sorcerer falls asleep for 40 days, tells him not to open the fortieth room, feed the piebald horse, beat the black horse; the young man opens, where the girls argue who is fatter (the sorcerer will eat that one); the skull tells you to feed a black horse, beat a piegogo, take a jug of water, a comb, salt with him; a young man rides a black horse, a comb becomes a forest, salt becomes salt springs, a jug of water - by the sea; the sorcerer drowns; the young man disguises himself as a shepherd, takes a piece of horse hair; is hired by a blacksmith, lives with an old woman; the khan's daughters choose their suitors; the young man wears a lamb's stomach, the youngest still throws an apple into it; the other two son-in-law are defeated, the young man burns the horse's hair, he appears, they smash enemies; the khan moves his younger son-in-law and daughter from the hut to the palace]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:14-20; Kyrgyz [an old man and an old woman have seven goats and three daughters; the old man is angry with his daughters: they drank all the milk from the goats, he and the old woman did not get it; tells the old woman to get rid of his daughters; finds currant bushes, brings home a few twigs with berries; daughters eat, want more; the old man suggests going with him for berries, tells the old woman to make three leather buckets without a bottom; takes his daughters to currant bushes, suggests filling the buckets with berries as long as the brushwood is chopped; adjusts the ratchet like an ax sounds, leaves, migrates with the old woman and goats; one of the girls discovers the buckets are bottomless, they patch up with branches and grass, the buckets fill up; the girls sound of an ax, find a ratchet, hurry home; in search of parents, they search the neighborhood, stumble upon a house in which an exhausted girl; he explains that the old cannibal woman ate everyone and keeps her to drink blood; the girls run to the station, find their father's whetstone there, throw it, the whetstone becomes a rock; the cannibal chases, overcomes the rock for a long time; the girls find a comb at the station, which turns into a forest; then the mirror turns into a lake; the cannibal asks how they ended up on that side, girls; swam across, tying trousers on her ankles and filling them with sand; the cannibal follows the advice and drowns; the girls are found by a childless khan with 40 wives, asks what their skills are; the eldest: can feed many people with a handful of oatmeal; medium: sew clothes from one sheepskin and dress many people; youngest: give birth to her husband a boy and a girl with golden heads and silver tasks; Khan the youngest, marries the youngest; when his wife is going to give birth, the khan goes hunting, demands to send him a messenger with news; 40 wives hire a witch, who throws her children in a box into the river, replaces them with puppies; to the khan two messengers arrive, the first speaks of the birth of children, the second is puppies; the khan orders his wife and puppies to be sealed in a bucket and hung in a tree; the girls' parents live on the bank of this river; the old woman discovers that goats come with empty udders, accuses the old man: he killed his daughters and now drinks all the milk; the old man watches the goats, they take turns falling to a drawer, children suck goats in the drawer; old people they bring children, they slaughter one goat in joy; children grow up, the old man plants barley for them, life is getting better, they are setting up a golden pillar in the yard; the old khan, hunting, stumbles upon old people with children, complains that even lonely old people have children, but he does not; he is sad at home; 40 wives suspect that this is not without reason, accuse the witch, demand that she deal with the children; a witch comes to the children tells the young man that it would be good to tie a golden horse to a golden pole; the sister dissuades his brother, who is stubborn, then the sister teaches how to master the horse; the brother gets it; the khan meets again children; the witch also advises finding a Sapan-Tash stone that makes wishes come true; then you can get subjects, form a khanate and make the young man's old father a khan; the sister again dissuades , then he teaches his brother; he takes possession of the stone and the girl he marries; with the help of the stone, the twins have subjects, the khanate is created, the old cosopaz becomes khan, and across the river into the Khan's possession a golden bridge is being built with 40 wives; brother and sister visit Khan, bring him a cart of gold, ask for a bucket hanging from a tree in exchange; Khan, who has already forgotten what is in it, gives it to his twins; half dead in the bucket mother of twins, she is brought to life; the khan comes to visit, intending to ask the young man for permission to adopt his sister, recognizes his wife, he is told everything; the khan tied 40 wives to the immense horses, and executes a witch; a young man with a golden head and a silver ass becomes the khan of two khanates]: Ruslan Doutaliev, personal message. May 17, 2020: retelling the audio recording of the fairy tale "Zheti Echkilu Abyshka Jean Kempir" (An Old Man and an Old Woman with Seven Goats) performed by J. Alymbayeva, Department of Manuscripts and Publications of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR, date of recording September 10, 1984, inventory No. 1a (2), recording time 31 minutes); Kyrgyz [the old man sent three naughty daughters for berries, giving buckets of holes; the girls missed all day, and when they returned, it turned out that their father had migrated; the girls came to the yurt, there was a girl in it; said that her mother was baba yaga {apparently jalmouth- kempir}; baba yaga was delighted and in the morning told her older sister to fry her younger sister for lunch; the sisters cooked Baba Yaga's daughter, ran away; when she saw what her daughter had eaten, Baba Yaga set off in pursuit; the older sister quit comb (forest); Baba Yaga pulled out two teeth, made an ax out of one and a ketmen out of the other, cut the road; the second sister threw a needle (mountain); baba yaga cut the road; the third sister mirror (lake); baba yaga: how they swam; girls: tied stones to her neck; the old woman did so and drowned; the sisters returned to their father and never parted]: Muchnik 1944:70-71; salars [old a woman was returning with her daughter from the market; she met an old woman whose face turned into a wolf's face; she ate a woman and took her daughter with her; the girl was forced to work for this old woman; When he went to buy firewood, he saw a calf and told him everything; he promised to come pick her up and told her to take with her a comb, a bizi {no translation} and a sharpener; at midnight he picked it up from the old woman's house; the old woman rushed in pursuit; the girl threw the comb, it turned into a forest; the old woman gnawed at it and broke it; the girl threw bizi, bamboo thickets appeared; the old woman gnawed at them too; the girl threw the sharpener, the mountain grew; the old woman climbed over her; the calf told the girl to kill him in order to escape; the girl disagreed; the calf turned into a lion and ate an old woman]: Ma et al. 2001, No. 3.3:29-32.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Kumandins [the old man and the old woman went to work, their three daughters stayed at home; Djellbegen came; they boiled water, went up to the roof; D. began to search, looked into the chimney, they poured it on him boiling water; they ran to their father, D. then, they threw flint (stone rock), flint (iron rock), crest (forest); each time forty following D. indicates where the girls ran; they reached the river, D. fell into the water (and drowned?)] : Baskakov 1972:129-130; Tuvans: Vatagin 1971, No. 11 (Dzun-Khemchik District) [the boy raised two golden eagles, received two dogs from his father's friend, began to understand their language; when he returned, he did not find a yurt; where his mother was sleeping, he found a needle and a fragment of a crest, where his father was a whetstone; a six-headed mangys Kalchaa-Mergen came out from under the ash; cut off the boy's horse's legs; the boy threw a whetstone, a comb, a needle, they became a rock, a thicket, an iron poplar; K. climbed the rock, made his way through the thicket, began to cut the poplar; the young man sat on top; the axe flew to the side, K. fell asleep, the Frog threw her axe into the lake; K. drank the lake, began to cut further; the fox offered to cut for it, beat the axe with the blunt side, threw it into the lake; K. drank the lake again, sharpened his axe; the boy asked for crows call his golden eagles, who carried the boy on their wings to his father; he gave him the name Deer-Møge (Heavenly Strongman); Cher-Aldy Khan gives his daughter to the one who wins archery, horse racing, wrestling; D. wins, kills K. in a duel, marries]: 112-117; Potanin 1883, No. 84 (Buren-Gol river) [old man Tyumendey saw felt floating along the river; he turned into Dzhelbag, grabbed let the old man go by the beard; let him go when he promised his three daughters; the old man and the old woman gave their daughters buckets without a bottom, sent them to pick berries, migrated; after filling holes in the buckets, the girls picked berries; in the yurt saw a stranger, realized that it was J.; went out into the yard, ran away; threw a comb (turned into a forest), a bar (into a rock); J. cut the road with an ax; Beaver by the river asks girls, what are his tail, ribs, teeth; they praise him, he carries them; J. says they are worms; Beaver tells him to collect stones, drops in the middle of the river, J. drowned; Beaver told his sisters to climb three ate; three fellows passed by, took them as wives; older sisters promise their husbands to sew clothes and covers; the youngest to give birth to a boy with a golden head and a silver neck; the older ones throw the boy into the lake, they replace him with a mole; he bites his returning husband; the husband breaks his wife's arms and legs, gouges out her eyes; she is left alone; she consistently maims three rats that treat their paws and eyes with grass; a woman is treated with the same herb, recovers; cannot lure his son out of the lake; catches for the third time, leaving a bow and arrow on the shore; gives his milk, tears drips into his eyes, he recognizes her as his mother; his the name is Yer-Saru; seven geese are flying; when they scream, the mother cuts off her ear, nose, lip; E. shoots, the arrow returns with a human finger; E. meets a khan's shepherd named Buzakai Tarakai , he refuses to marry his daughter for E.; E. kills him, takes his form; the khan orders to catch a calf, E. cannot, the khan beats him; tells him to finish the cows, the cow is not given, E. says, "Get milk" the milk milks by itself; the khan orders to lick the soles of his boots, went to bed; E. smeared them with sour cream, the dogs licked them; gives seven daughters to Jety-Tas (Seven Bald), but the youngest marries the imaginary B. (i.e. E.); she is more beautiful, only there is no index finger; E. 1) brings a mountain goat's father-in-law, whose outer meat is bitter, the inner meat is sweet (and the second time vice versa); 2) brings three horses Tengri Khan (follows them into the sky along the rainbow); 3) Khan orders to bring a foal, which Khan Garida steals from him every year; E. knocks off the tails of the foal with an arrow and Khan-Garide hides; The Jetytas tell the Khan that they have knocked off their tails; Khan Garide asks E. not to kill him, gives the entire herd of foals and carries his fluff as a sign that he has been killed; the Jetytas are digging a hole, E. falls into it; his horse brings Mengu-kyz, who makes a rope out of her braids, pulls E. out; he returns to Khan in his true heroic appearance, shows his hidden tails; whose an arrow fired into the sky will kill the shooter, falling, that liar; the Jetytas are killed with their arrows; E. and his wife visit their mother; the horse kicked her and killed her; she was buried]: 341-348; Buryats (Unginsky, Nukut District) [uliger episode: Altan Sharga's horse tells the girl Khan Sagta Abhay that Aturi Black Mangadhai will arrive soon; tells her to pack up faster, take her father's hammer, her mother's gold comb and scissors; Khan Sagta Abhay, taking all this, leaves home; mangadhai sets off in pursuit; Altai Sharga tells the hostess to throw a comb with a spell to turn it into a thicket; she does so; mangadhai, taking out her front tooth, makes an ax out of it and cuts the way; Altai Sharga advises the hostess to throw the scissors; they turn into the sea; the mangadhai takes out the other tooth and does it is an ax, cuts trees for a raft, then swims across the sea; Altai Sharga advises the hostess to throw a hammer; it grows into a steep mountain; mangadhai, making an ax out of a tooth, cuts a rock; Khan Sagta abhay hides in an impassable thicket, builds a palace and lives hunting animals]: Burchina 2007, No. II.3:110-111; darkhats: Neklyudov et al. 1906 (Somon Khujirt, Uburkhangai aimag): Zap. 22.08.2006, № WS 30011 [beautiful Khatan-Chingis's husband was a wonderful fellow Hargaldai Mergen; he left home with a caravan; a broad-shouldered black mangas appeared (?) to grab HC; her mother gave her daughter a black horse, a sharpener, a comb, a broom, told her to run, throw a broom, telling her to become a dark black thicket; the mangas mowed the thicket, HC threw the sharpener , it became a black rock, the mangas punched a hole in it; the black horse said, "My black horse, become a mountain that a black mangas can't climb!" ; the black rock grew; Hansha's husband Hargaldai-Mergen followed the khansha and cut off all the heads of the fifteen-headed black bald mangas; they had a beautiful son], Western 24.08.2006, No. WS 30020 [y Khan's daughter Hanchin Geseg, the riding horse was a foal standing on two legs, flying through the air; the girl wanted to be picked up by the lama mangas; the foal orders to take the comb of mother H., the dogs Khasar and Basar; the abandoned comb became a thicket, the lama mangas got lost in it; the girl flew into the old woman's gray yurt, tells her not to say that she is a woman, dressed as a man, hunted and fed the old woman; became pregnant, gave birth to a child; her gray flying horse grew old, told her to climb with her child to the meat ball he would become; the lama mangas began to hit the meat ball against the sword and climb it; The fox offered to cut instead of mangas, threw her sword into the sea; the mangas gnawed pieces of meat with her mouth, reached the top of the obo; the dogs Khasar and Basar ran, the lama mangas threw them into the sea, but they returned; the lama threw himself into the sea; Hasar and Basar said that if the sea turned red-brown, then the lama-mangas had defeated them, and if it did not change color, they defeated it; Hasar and Basar for a long time fought underwater, grabbed one leg and the other hand, tore the mangas lama]; Sanzheev 1931, No. 7 [the young man Tseiben forgot his two gold-silver ankles at the former camp, returned for them in his own eight-legged horse, there he saw a mangyska, grabbed his ankles; the mangysk pursuer consistently cuts off the horse's 8 legs, its back, front, head, C. climbed the golden aspen; Fox twice suggests cutting aspen instead of mangysky, seals her eyes; C. runs away on a goby, he splashes droppings into the eyes of the mangysk; C. finds a fragment of his father's sharpener, a comb, mother's needle; throws behind, a forest, a mountain, a river appear; C. replies to the mangysk that he crossed the river, tying stones to his feet, the mangyska drowns; the goby tells him to stab him, C. refuses; tells him to kill there is a red louse on it, dies immediately; in the morning there is a yurt, a woman and herds at this place]: 96-98; the Khalha Mongols [the mare gave birth to a foal three times as large as herself; he tells the owner's daughter that he wants to steal it mangas; tells you to take a sharpener and a comb; the girl throws the comb not behind, but in front of her, it becomes a boiling sea; the horse jumps over it; the girl throws the sharpener, it turns into hurricane with a shower; marries the khan's son; the husband violates the ban not to shake the horse, leaves; the khan sends a letter to his son that his wife gave birth; he is intercepted by the mangas; the horse takes the mistress, dies, tells him to snatch four golden hairs from his bangs, say, Let the horse's legs become gold, silver, pearl, coral trees, and the body of the sea; the woman finds herself on a golden tree on the island; mangas gnaws on it, she moves to silver, etc.; gnaws through two hair, two dogs kill mangas, mother and son find themselves in the steppe; gnawed through the fourth, her husband came on her horse, brought her home]: Mikhailov 1967:107-111 (=1962:92-95); the Mongols of Inner Mongolia (Chahars, Khoshun Shand) [the rich man watered his herd of horses from the well and saw something like a liver in the watering deck; he took it out and began to rock; she turned into a humpback old man who was a mangus-a monster with twelve heads; the mangus said, "Will you give me your herd of eight hundred heads, or would you prefer to give it to me your son? If you do not comply with my request, I will swallow you"; the rich man decided to give his son and replied: "My son likes to play ram dice. It has one gold bone and one silver bone. Before I migrate, I will try to forget his two talus bones and leave them in the place of his nomadic. The son in the new place will want to play with his bones and will look for them, and they are forgotten in the old place. I'll make him go there to pick them up. That's when you'll grab him"; the rich man's family migrated to a new place; the boy asked his father where the bones were; the rich man replied that they were left on an old nomad, told his son to go pick them up on horseback about eight legs ; the horse told the boy to take with him a comb, a mirror, a bar, a bag of lice and a bag of nits; the boy listened, set off; arrived in the nomadic and saw a humpback old man sitting near the bones; the boy guessed it was a mango, grabbed the bones and rushed away; the mangus chased him; threw a stick at the horse and tore off one leg; the horse told the boy to drop his bag with lice; the boy did it, the mangus fell behind, busy collecting and destroying lice; after the mangus continued to pursue, threw the stick and tore off the horse's other leg; the boy threw the bag with nits, the mangus stayed a little late, busy collecting and destroying nits; then continued his pursuit, threw a stick and tore off the horse's other leg; the horse told the boy to throw the bar; the boy he did this, a rock appeared in front of the mangus; he overcame it, continued to pursue it; once again took out his horse with a stick and tore off his leg; the horse told the boy that he had thrown the comb; the boy I did this, a dense forest grew in front of the mangus; when the mangus crossed it, the boy threw the mirror; it turned into an ocean, the mangus drowned in it; the horse said: "Your parents are rich people, but they are bigger they care for and love their livestock than their children. When you get home, you call your father "Wolf's Heart," your mother, "Wet Eyes," and your sister, "Between Two Fires (Letters. in ticks)"; the boy returned home, began to call his parents and sister as the horse ordered]: Todayeva 1981:102-104; the Mongors [Black Khan and White Khan agree that if both wives give birth boys who will go to school together; Bely has a daughter, but he replies that a son; the daughter is raised with the son of Black Khan; it is increasingly difficult for her to hide her gender; the mother sews clothes with lots of buttons so that others can swim while the imaginary boy unzips them; Black Khan realizes the deception, comes with his son to pick up Bely's daughter, takes her away; as the chase approaches, the girl consistently throws a comb, a whetstone, a piece of iron; they turn into a wooded, stone, iron mountain; the people of the White Khan overcome obstacles; the girl orders to stretch the wicker the net, the road disappears, the White Khan stops chasing; families reconcile, live together]: Todayeva 1973, No. 9:277-282.

Western Siberia. The Nenets [two women live together, one has two daughters; the childless woman asked the other to go to tear the grass on the insoles, stabbed her, fried it, ate it, left her head until another time; she told the daughters of the victim that the mother is tearing the grass and returning, went to bed at the exit from the house herself; the eldest girl found her mother's head; realized that the childless would eat them too; leaves two birds in the plague, and ran with her sister; after 7 For days, the cannibal woke up, set off in pursuit; the eldest throws a whetstone, a river with high mountains appears on both banks; after 7 days the river has dried up, the cannibal chases again; the eldest girl threw her chair (mountain for 7 days); the comb (dense forest for 7 days); the girls run to the freaky, there are 7 crows; the eldest politely asks about the way to people; the crow sends to blue sea, there you have to ask 7 seagulls; the eldest is polite and with seagulls, the seagull sends her to the strait where the old woman has; the old woman asks what her face, arms, legs, etc. are; the girl praises her (her face is like the sun, arms and legs are thick and shiny, etc.); the old woman screams, the beaver comes, transports the girls across the strait; the cannibal comes running, scolds the old woman, crows and seagulls (the old woman's face is like an animal's ass, crows and seagulls pecked carrion, etc.); an old woman calls a beluga, a cannibal sits on her sharp back, a beluga drowns her; the girls ask the old woman how to get to people; she teaches her how to find a copper boat near the shore, she herself will bring it; but let the younger sister not pick up knives, axes and drills, of which there are many at the bottom of the boat, otherwise she will die and the boat stops; when you reach the goal, you must tell the boat to return; after crossing the seas, the boat swam up the river; in one place two larches close branches above the water; the younger sister took an ax to cut down the branch, but fell dead and the boat stopped; the older sister sent the boat back, became beat the tambourine and ask the youngest where to bury her; she tells me not to leave her on the fir - people will go, I'll be frightened; in the birch tree - the same; in the spruce tree - the children will break branches; the eldest is tired of carrying the youngest's body, left in a wolf's lair under a birch tree; she goes on, sees colorful and white deer grazing; two men came, the eldest with a white deer put the girl on his sledge, brought her to the camp, married her; one day I went to look for the missing deer; at the wolf's lair I heard the howling of cubs and the girl crying; told his wife, who realized that it was her sister; they killed the cubs, brought their sister, put them by the fire, and she woke up; married a younger man who had a colorful deer]: Castrén 1857, No. 2:164-169; Enz: Sorokina, Bolina 2005, No. 12 [husband hunting, giant guy enters the plague, calls the hunter's wife together tear the grass; suggests looking for each other in each other's heads; witch lice are beetles and other crawling insects; Parnay tells them to eat, the woman slowly throws them to the ground; when she puts her head on Parnay's lap, she stabs an awl into her ear; carries her body home, wrapped in grass; the eldest daughter of the victim notices her mother's hair; Parne takes the corpse into his plague, cooks, eats; the eldest girl takes a knife, scraper, comb, awl, runs away from sister; Parnay chases, the girl throws a scraper (mountain), a comb (forest), asks the old man to transport them across the river; says that his back is like lake ice, his head is like white grass, legs fast; he carries the girls on his back; Parnay says that the old man's back is crooked like the handle of a scraper, his legs like rotten knots, his head is like a shaggy bump; the old man throws her into the river, the current carries her away ; the old man warns the older sister not to give the younger sister an awl; she gives it, the girl puts it in her ear, dies; the eldest wants to bury her with trees, she asks not to do so (people will harvest the forest, her head hurts from the sound of axes); the sister leaves the corpse in the den; rests by the stump, a witch jumps out from there, goes with the girl; sits on the sledge of a man with white deer, a girl - on the sledge of a man with black deer; a witch eats her husband and many other people; the old father of these brothers makes a fire, throws a kleinitsa into the fire, calls the daughters-in-law to extinguish; people push the witch into the fire, her wool flashes, ashes will turn into mosquitoes and other insects, bursting eyes in wasps], 13 [The couple and the woman live in the same plague, the woman has two girls; Parne calls to go to tear the grass, suggests looking for head; pierces an awl into a woman's ear, she dies; she carries it wrapped in grass, cooks, eats; the eldest daughter notices her mother's hair; the girls leave their glasses in bed instead of themselves, the eldest takes a thimble, a comb, a scraper; they run away, an abandoned scraper turns into a mountain, a comb into a forest, a thimble into an iron hill; the eldest tells the old man that his head is white as ripe grass, his face is like the sun, his back is like the ice of a lake; the old man sent them; Parnay says his head is like tangled bars, his face is like the place where the stone was taken out, his back was like stone and clay; he throws off Parne into the river, she drowned; sending the girls, the old man tells me not to take anything at the end of the island; the youngest asks for a toy, grabs a spike, her eye leaked out, she died; tells her not to leave her on the edge; on the cape; on the hill; agrees to stay in the den; the eldest stops at the stump, Parnay emerges from it; they go together; Parnay sits on the sledge of a man with white deer, a girl with black deer; father The brothers ask her daughters-in-law to visit their relatives; an Aenets woman goes to the den, from there two bear cubs and a living younger sister come out; the Bear sends two bear-drawn sledges of gifts; a black man sends bears away by kissing them; Parne brings mice, these are her deer, an old man kills them with a kick; an Aenets woman gives birth to a bright boy, Parne is a witch; makes them leave the Enets a woman at an abandoned camp is given to her by a witch; the boy is taken away, thrown into the water; the witch has grown up to help the woman; she wonders why he has been walking on the water for so long; he says that from the water her hand sticks out; the woman comes up, the boy asks to catch him, calls him his mother; the plague floods the water, it is the water father who comes for the boy; the Aenets woman gives him a witch, the water goes away; the father comes for his wife and son; the brothers' father makes a fire, asks Parnay to cast a bell through the fire, pushes her into the fire; her ashes turn into mosquitoes], 14 [hunter Moreo has a wife, daughter and son; Parnay comes , calls his wife to tear up the grass; the girl takes a mother's scraper, an iron braid, a comb, a thimble; the witch brings a bundle of grass, the girl notices her mother's hair in it; runs away, throws objects (a braid is a mountain, the crest is a forest); asks the old man to cross the river, says that his back is smooth like a lake, his legs are beautiful like a sledge; Parnay says that his back is humpback, his legs are oblique; the old man transports a girl, drowns Parnay], 83 (Madu dialect) [Damn (Çuse), becoming a bear, killed old man Amulk's son; the shaman tells us who did it, Damn hears, kills, lowers him into the ice-hole old man and old woman; their children ask the Devil where the mother is; he tells them to guess the riddle (not given), they guess; Damn sleeps in their plague, they run away, throw a comb (lake), ring (forest) ; Damn drinks water from the lake, bursts {the ring and comb are clearly confused}]: 65-76, 82-88, 94-95, 297-298; Eastern Khanty (Vakh River) [Lisa and Zaychikha live together, both have children; The fox offers to ride down the mountain on a sled, goes first against desire, Lisa runs over, breaks her back; Zaychikha's son and daughter see how the Fox feeds meat to their mother's children, offers to eat the children Bunnies; run, throw a comb, whetstone, flint, they turn into a thicket, a mountain, a fire; the fox lags behind; while the sister eats cloudberries, the brother falls into the ground; (hereinafter sister called the woman Moses); hits the stump, from there the Por woman jumps out, offers to swim; puts on rich fur clothes M., gives M. her measles; in the city of M. manages to pick up the arrow of the son of an Urban Village Old Man, P. has to take the arrow of Tonton-Old Man's son (Tonton-Oika is a poor man, servant, or cunning); respectively, they marry; P. weaves a rope that it was enough to wrap half the city, M. - the whole city three times; M. comes to the place where his brother disappeared; there is a house, a bear enters, takes off his skin - this is his brother; sends a herd of deer to his sister]: Lukina 1990, No. 28:101-104; Northern Khanty: Aksyanova et al. 2005, No. 1 (b. Son) [Porne has a daughter, Moshne has a daughter and a son; P. calls M. to roll down the mountain, puts a knife on the mountain, carries the corpse home, eats; promises her daughter that she will eat M.'s children; M.'s children run away, throw a firestone (fire to sky), comb (forest), sharpener (river); P. cannot cross it; contrary to the ban, the brother drinks from a puddle, sinks into the ground, his sister has time to grab only his eye; touches rotten birch stump, a new P. comes out from under it; offers to swim, puts on the girl's clothes, gives her hers; both come to the house, P. marries Voshan-Kurtan's son, an old man, young M. for her son Tonton- old man; daughters-in-law go home; where his brother is gone, M. sees a house, there is a woman; a brother comes, M. gives him his eye; sending his sister home, his brother tells him not to look back; she looked back when her eyes fell, those deer are gone, the rest are following her; argish P. is not carried by deer, but by fish, she lets them go into the lake; at night P. puts a nail in her husband's ear, he dies; M. hears P. singing about it, says; nail they extract, the man comes to life, P. was torn apart by deer]: 236-239; Steinitz 2014, No. 28 (Sherkal dialect) [husband and wife bought their son and daughter a toy - an iron horse; the horse destroyed the city and killed spouses; the children are hiding under the floor; the horse asks where they are; the comb, the flint, the skin scraper do not answer, it breaks them; leaves; the cow tells me to sit on it, takes it to the sea, tells her to slaughter it there, wrap her guts, get into her stomach; the horse chases, the sister throws flint (fire), the crest (forest), the whetstone (the mountain), the flint again (the horse burned down); brother with a cow was killed by a sister, woke up in the house, there is a lot of food; they live on an island; a dog jumps out of a ball of foam; tells his brother that his sister will send him for fox milk; sister sends him from milk will recover; the fox gave milk: if my sister does not drink, give it to my cub; my sister did not drink, the fox drank; the same with the blue fox; the dog to the young man: the sister hid the iron horse under your bed lie down on the side; next time, milk and baby wolverine, you have to lie back to bed, and under the bunk beds there will be an iron horse; then a wolf; a bear; a horse under the threshold; in front of the threshold; sister sends to the house is behind sevenfold locks; there the old man lets the animals in, closes the door; the young man returns alone; the sister tells him to wash in the bathhouse, and then the iron horse will kill him; the bird reports three times that the animals are digging underground passage; animals came, killed an iron horse; brother nailed his sister's hands to the floor, vessels near his eyes: if necessary, a brother must fill his vessel with tears, and if an iron horse, then hers; brother married on the king's daughter; took his sister to her; she put the tooth of an iron horse in his bed, his brother died; he was buried in an iron coffin; the animals dug, broke it; the dog found a crow's nest: bring the grass of life, otherwise I'll eat eggs; the crow brought, the dog crushed one egg, restored it with grass; revived the young man; he let the animals go, left only the dog; tied his sister to two sledges, tore it with horses; threw one leg into the forest, from which a marsh willow grew, the other grew up a hill, a forest tree grew; brother lives well (with his wife)]: 169-185; Nikolaeva 1999, No. 1 (Obdorsk) [Mos woman and Por woman live together, each has a daughter and a son ; in the spring, P. leads M. to drink water, drowns in the river, gets fresh, brings meat home; daughter M. tells her younger brother that their mother has been eaten; hears P. promises his children that they will get young fat, not old; daughter M. takes an iron flint, whetstone, comb, brother, runs away, leaving two birds under the canopy so that P. thinks that the children are there; P. chases children; daughter M. throws a comb ( thicket) , whetstone (rock), flint (wall of fire, P. stops persecution); magpie, crow tells children not to spend the night in the forest; brother feels bad, sister is preparing for the night, brother is dead; sister buried his daughter P. jumped out of the larch stump; they went together, saw a white and black sleigh, a white and black man; a white arrow fell next to M.'s daughter, a black arrow fell next to his daughter M. daughter P.; daughter P. wants to become a white wife, promises to give birth to golden children, but black did not let her in; both gave birth to a son; daughter P. says that M.'s son has eyes and ears on the back of his head; white looks - there is golden child; they took daughter P. to the forest, threw her into the fire; daughter M. went to the tree where she buried her brother; there is a beautiful house, the brother went out to meet her in fur clothes; everything is fine]: 133-137; South Mansi (Kondinsky District) [Mos-ne has a boy and a girl, and Por-ne too; both go to tear grass for insoles, P. offers to roll down the mountain, kills M. by riding it with iron skis; M.'s children see guts mothers; run to her sister; P. does not tell another Por-ne to kill M.'s children, she will kill herself when she returns; she accidentally kills P.'s children, thinks they are M.'s children, and M.'s children are hiding; they run, throw a comb (forest), a bar (stone mountain), matches (fire); three P. jumped out from under the stump, one of them became friends with M.'s children; M.'s son pricked his finger with an awl, he was buried; girl P. leaned down to drink, the girl M. began to drown her, she had to give her sable clothes; P. sits in a sledge drawn by black ones, went beyond the mayor (Usyn-Oyr-Oika), M. went into a sledge with white deer, went beyond Tonton-Oika; went to remember her brother, found him alive with his wife, they gave a lot of deer; P. hid the sun, the Hare promises that the sun will appear, it has returned]: Kuzakova 1994:110-112); northern Mansi: Kupriyanova 1960 [Mos-ne and Por-ne live together, both have two children - a girl and a boy; P. calls M. for grass for insoles, offers a ride down the mountain; kills M. with iron skis; M.'s children find their mother's intestines in the grass, run to her sister; P. tells another Por-ne to kill M.'s children, but she kills P.'s children; M.'s children run, throw the comb, whetstone, matches, thickets, mountain, fire appear; M.'s children sit on the bed, it falls apart, three times appear; one makes friends with them, moves on with them; the boy pricked his finger awl, died; P. sat in a sledge with whites (this is the Ushing-Oyr-Oiki sledge), and M. with black deer (Tonton-Oiki sledge), come to town; M. finds his brother, he kisses his wife; leaves with him, does not wait for P.; she hides the sun; the Hare says it will appear again; grandfather tells P. to let go of the sun, it's light again]: 109-112 (=Lukina 1990, No. 128:334-336); Rombandeeva 2005, No. 41 (Khoshlog village, Zap. by the author from her mother) [Mosne and Porne live, each has a daughter and son; P. calls to collect firewood, invites M. to be the first to ride wooden skis, presses her with her iron skis; daughter M. looks in, sees how the children P . ask them to eat M.'s eyes, P. promises them the eyes and ears of M.'s children; daughter M. puts her brother in the back, runs, throws a comb (thicket) behind them, flint (flame to the sky), whetstone ( mountain); P. could not climb the mountain; daughter M. eats cloudberries, does not pay attention to her brother, who falls into the ground at that time; daughter M. comes to the lake, where daughter P. invites her to swim, picks her up her clothes, gives her her measles; daughter M. asks to return her bag, his clothes are better than before; Toyton-Toyka's son and son Usyn-Otyr-Toika shoot at the arrow, P.'s daughter mistakenly grabs TT's arrow, goes beyond him, daughter M., for the son of the WOT; daughter M. goes to a wake for her brother, where she left him; there is a house, a barn; the woman tells the dogs to lick ice and snow from their man; daughter M. sees her brother, he married Misne; when she tried to pick it out of the ground, she poked it in the eye, now one eye is gone; M.'s daughter was given a wagon of deer; she arrives where she left her daughter P.; daughter M. replies that she was given an iron chain to encircle the city by her father-in-law, a copper cauldron, white deer; daughter P. says that she was given a bast rope, half a clay pot, a magpie, harnessed the crucian carp, clothes were given from the bark; asks her husband to make an ice-hole, otherwise magpie, crucian carp will die; they went into the ice-hole, the sledges got up; the bast rope breaks; you can't fall far on half the pot; M.'s little son says that his uncle's arrow in the house bounces off with a ringing sound, grandfather with a knock; daughter M.'s husband's father is offended, he is at war against her brother; daughter P. advises to remove the sun and moon from the sky; daughter M. takes it off, attaches it to the sledge, it turns dark, the father-in-law cannot go to war; says what he joked, daughter M. returns the stars to heaven]: 289-301; Southern Selkups: Pelikh 1972 [the widow has two daughters, the Magi marries one for her son, the woman does not give; dies, leaving the eldest crest , the youngest ring, teaches what to do; sisters run, throw a comb, a mountain with rose hips appears; an old woman carries sisters across the river; the Magi and her son are transported on a log; they turned over, drowned; see motive J25]: 351-352; Tuchkova, Wagner-Nagy 2015, No. 34 (Ivankino, Ob, 1967) [mother tells Ida to go where she passed; Walking he carried fish, first walked, then tired, sat down; Pönehessa brought it for himself ; living with P., Idya found the keys to seven barns; in one skin, meat in the other, a girl in the seventh; offers to run; P. is chasing, she threw a comb (became a stone bone mountain), a stone chair (stone mountain), iron chair (iron mountain); Going home, he spat into the fire from above; Aldiga to her husband: because of you the fire went out; they started fighting; Going in with the girl, everything is fine]: 143-145; northern Selkups [the crest, flint and flint thrown by a hero running away from the devil turn into mountains]: Tuchkova 2004:286; chum salmon: Nikolaev 1985 [1) as Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov; seven brothers; When he learns that a person cries when he sees brothers on earth, the Sun gives him a comb, a whetstone and a horse; when he catches up with a man, the devil tears off the horse's leg; 2) the Sun takes his brother to heaven, the sister is eaten by Hosyadam; the boy misses his sister, the Sun gives him a comb, a whetstone, a horse; H. takes the form of a sister, treats his brother with the foot of his horse; he puts the horse's leg, runs away; then about the persecution and the two halves person]: 44; Nikolaeva 2006:123-126 [brother and sister are orphans, brother wants to see the world; the Sunwoman raises him to the sky with her hands and rays; he wants to visit his sister, the Sun gives him a whetstone and a comb, sends on a winged horse; Hosyadam ate her sister, took her form; she is outwardly friendly to her brother, but he sees her cooking his horse's back leg; he snatches out his leg, hastily attaches the horse, jumps away; throws a whetstone, it turns into a mountain, X. gnaws at it with his teeth; the crest is the forest, X. makes its way; the Sun and X. grab a person by the different legs, tear it apart; the Sun got it half without a heart; a person will live a week, die again; the Sun says they will see each other once a year on the longest day; throws a man into the dark half of the sky, this is the Month], 126-127 [for a grandson learned to swim in cold water, a girl tells him how a boy decided to take Hosyaam away from people; the sun gave him a dewdrop, a whetstone, a comb; H. chased, he threw these objects one by one, a river was formed (the boy himself swam across it), a mountain, a forest; H. got bogged down in the thicket]; Sangi 1989 (Prokofieva's recording; quail. Alekseenko 2001, No. 5:58-60) [brother goes further away from the plague where his sister lives; the Sunwoman takes him to heaven; a week later he asks him to let him go; she gives him a whetstone and a comb, sends him down on a winged horse; during this time Hosyadam ate his sister, took her form; he realizes this when he sees her cooking the leg she has ripped off his horse; he sticks his leg back, rides his horse away, throws a whetstone , a crest, they turn into a mountain, a forest; X. overcomes obstacles; the Sun grabs him by one leg, X. after the other, breaks him in half; the Sun gets a part without a heart, she puts coal instead of her heart, revives a person, but he dies again and again; she sends it to the other side of the sky, turns it into a Month, sees him once a year, they see each other's eyes; The month is cold because without a heart]: 142-144.

Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [to have children, the old woman turns to ayyi, the old man turns to Abaasa; ayyy gives a boy and a girl, the abaasa threatens to swallow the old man, makes him give up what she does not know at home; spouses they hide children under the hearth; the abaas eat their spouses, do not find children; they grow up, a horse descends from the sky, takes them away, gives them flint, flint, an ax, they must be thrown at the Abaas pursuer; they turn into fire, mountains, sea; abaas remain overseas; the horse tells him to kill by crushing a louse on his head; parts of his body give rise to a city, buildings, property; his kidneys turn into a dog bear and a dog wolf; in the absence of a brother, the abaas come, the sister agrees to become his wife, lures his brother's handkerchief, gives it to her husband; the brother hurries, the crushing rocks crush his dogs - the bear and wolf; the horse brings his brother to the old woman, she gives a bow; the hawk fights the yokshokyu bird; the brother shoots the yokshokyu in the wing; for promising to cure him, he helps open the mountain, freeing the bear and the wolf; those Abaas are killed; the brother hangs his sister by the legs, puts two plates under his eyes; during the night, the left one fills with tears, which means that the sister cries for her husband, not for his brother; he leaves, leaving the bear and the wolf; one-eyed, one-armed and one-legged abaasa fights with another over a woman; Er-Sogotoh (brother's name is given for the first time) frees the woman, takes her away; the abaas pursues them, E. throws the comb , a forest grows; E. kills abaas, marries a rescued woman]: Popov 1937:208-237 (quail. Efremov 2000, No. 2:79-135); northwestern Yakuts (Olenek, Sukhansky Nasleg) [the old man and the old woman caught only four fish; decided to eat the fish themselves, take their two daughters into the forest and leave them; the father went with them to pick berries, hung his fur coat on a stump, left himself; the children ate berries, began to play with a stone instead of a doll; then left the doll and dishes, began to pick berries again; when they returned, the dishes are filled with cooked fish; the sisters hid and saw that the doll was working; ran away; suddenly there was fire behind them; the eldest threw the comb, it became a stone mountain; the fire stopped; a strong wind began, the youngest threw a thread, an impenetrable forest formed; suddenly a man ran after them, but the girls had already reached the old woman Dalah Bridge; she threw her leg across the river, and they came over to her; when the pursuer ran down her leg, the old woman removed her leg and he drowned; the girls stayed with the old woman]: Gurvich 1977:174; Northeastern Yakuts: Ergis 1964, No. 54 (Ustya-Yanskiye , p. Cossack Mouth of Yansky Ulus) [a whirlwind flew in, the guy lost his deer; came to an old woman, became an employee; her son The Whirlwind Boy does not tell you to open the silver coffin; he opens, there is a kidnapped girl; the old woman gives a comb and beads; when he hears the chase, the guy throws the comb, it turns into a stone, the whirlwind stops; by the sea he throws beads - the bridge; when the pursuer is in the middle of the bridge, the bridge disappears, the Whirlwind sinks; the guy lives with an old woman, she gives him a horse; finds a girl he saved in the city; she tells the king to release him; (=Sivtsev, Omoloon 1976:151-154)]: 183-184; central (?) Yakuts (place of recording is not specified, link to the archive; central ones?) : Ergis 1967b, No. 127 [the old man cuts an ice-hole, a half-bear, a half-wolf jumps out, demands that his son and daughter be given; the old man sends them to the ice-hole, takes them away; the bull, the horse are trying to save, the abaas catch up, returns them; they are carried away by a deer; when the Abaas girl catches up, they throw a comb (forest), an igloo (an iron wall), a handkerchief (a river); they move to the other side, run away; the deer dies, tells throw his ribs, they turn into a house, a barn; his head is a stove, his lungs are a guard dog, his heart and liver are wolves; while his brother is hunting, his sister hides the abaas, digs a hole under his brother's bed; his brother kills sister, leaves; meets three companions; each cooks in turn, a man in Doha squirrel does not let me cook dinner; a young man defeats him, descends to the lower world, takes wealth and women, gives them away brothers; comes to an old man and an old woman, tells everyone to stick to bed; sticks them off as a promise to marry him; marries, lives richly], 213 (summary summary of several texts, including archival ones ) [parents take their girls to the forest to leave them there; sisters find the Iron Child (a doll, a stone) in the forest; when they learn that it is an abaasa child, they decide to kill him, but Iron Child himself chases them; sisters manage to escape by throwing a comb, scissors, needles that turn into a mountain, forest, etc.; on the way they meet a river, they cross it with the help of a lynx ( old women); walk along the forbidden road, get to Baba Yaga; the eldest dies in prison, the youngest, using a spell, escapes; comes to a man married to a frog, marries him; the eldest sister came to life and married the son of thunder, from him she receives wealth, and the frog-wife brings water insects and dies]: 190, 217; Western Evenks: Pinegina et al. 1952 (Cyrene) [two sisters they find a cradle with the baby, bring them home; they see that when left alone, the baby turns into a giant Manga, catches fish, then returns to the cradle; the sisters knock over a boiling pot on him, they run away; he chases them; one throws a comb, the other a bag, they turn into a forest, into a rock, they can't stop M.; old woman Achekai stretches her legs for them across the river like bridge; when M. walks, removes his legs; M. shouts to make ladles from his hands, a bucket from his head, paint from his head, a shuttle from his spine; at the fork, the sisters drove along the left path, get to the old woman; she hides them, turning them into a needle and a thimble; two cannibals come; the older thimble girl laughs, cannibals eat her; the younger old woman gives a bird's wing, she flies away on it, meets a guy, goes out married]: 58-61; Suvorov 1956 (Podkamennaya Tunguska) [while the sisters were going to buy berries, the goblin swallowed one of them's child in the plague, lay down in his place; the sisters realized that the baby was screaming differently; threw the child into hot resin, ran away; the goblin is chasing with a cauldron stuck behind his back; the sisters threw a comb (thicket), a scraper (mountains); ask the old woman to transport her across the river; old woman: say "You have eyes that bird cherry is dry, and the back is like a humpback scraper"; sisters: "The eyes are like bird cherry ripe, the back is flat like a raft"; immediately the raft stretched from shore to shore, the sisters ran across, the raft disappeared; the goblin speaks of dry bird cherry, humpback scraper; a tooth scraper spread across the river, the goblin fell and drowned; ordered his teeth to become flints, blood red clay, bones pitfalls]: 21-22; Osharov 1936a ( Podkamennaya Tunguska, Western 1928; =1936b, No. 15:280-281) [two sisters dug sarana, picked up a baby; when they return, they see a cauldron on fire in the plague, two whitefish are cooking in it; watched how a person turns two of their worms into whitefish; filled the baby with molten tin, ran; they were chased by the giant Mani in a tin belt; the eldest threw a suede scraper (mountains, M. made saddles in them) whetstone (cliff, M. split), serrated chuchun, i.e. round suede scraper (forest, M. threw off his tin belt, crawled), comb (stones, mountains, forest), M. was lost in them ant]: 19-21; Baikal Evenks: Voskoboynikov 1967, No. 13 (Baikal region) [two sisters find a cradle with a child, bring it home; left alone, the child comes out of the cradle and becomes a monster; then he returns to the cradle; the sisters throw him into the boiling pot, run away; he chases them; they throw the handkerchief (the sea), the comb (thicket); the stalker screams, Mother, where is the ladle, drinks the sea, cuts down the forest; they throw the file, but it falls in front of them; the youngest becomes hair, the eldest becomes an ant, they climb into a crack in the rock; the monster pulls the youngest, the eldest holds it, the youngest torn in half; the monster eats the back, the elder sister carries the front with her; tries to leave her on a tree stump, but the sister cries; when she leaves her on a hummock, she laughs; the frog takes her as his wife ]: 43-45; Titov 1936, No. 9 and 10 (p. Karama, Irkutsk Region) [(No. 9:179-180); two girls went to pick berries, returned - a baby in a shaky baby; sings that if a good woman took him, he would become her good husband, if her husband took him, he would be kind to him woman; the girls agreed to say out loud that the child is beautiful, pass him through a boiling pot of porridge, put him in the cauldron; ran away; the monster is catching up; the eldest threw a handkerchief - the sea (the monster ran away for the boat , swam across); the crest is a thicket (the monster ran for a sword, cut through); a bar, it fell in front (mountain); the youngest became a fur, crawled into the hole, the eldest became an ant, her the ass was stuck; the youngest began to pull, but the monster ate the ass, the youngest returned home alone; (hereinafter No. 10:180-181, from another informant); the youngest dragged the eldest, left; she cries; dragged again, left , she laughs; she went alone, the frill untied, she stood on a stick to tie her foot, the Frog jumped out, told her to go to her yurt, fed her, hid it; ordered her to sew a pullover (?) for his husband; the husband was surprised, she never sewed; the next day the Frog tells me to sew a pouch; the husband hid, found the girl, began to live with her; told the frog to pour blood into the skin, wrap himself; that first it was warm, but at night she froze to death; they killed frog deer; the younger sister went to where she left her elder; there was a hut, where her sister was backless, gave the youngest a lot of deer, she brought them to her husband]: 179-181 ; Voskoboynikov 1973, No. 17 (bount) [a man is looking for a missing horse; on the way, one girl gives a comb, a second stone; the third explains that the kidnapper is a three-headed man, tells him to ask him box; carrying a box back, a person hears the noise of a chase, throws a comb (thicket), a stone (mountain); in the box is a wife, the daughter of a three-headed; a person divides people (the origin of peoples); his father-in-law calls him to the bones, his wife gives him filings; the man is soldered, the filings are taken, sewn into the skin of a bull, thrown into the water; his daughters find him, he lives with his wife again]: 75-80; Baikal Evenks (North of Transbaikalia, p. Chapo-Ologo, 1948) [two orphans went for berries, found an iron cradle with the baby; the youngest told me not to touch it, the eldest brought the child to the plague; when they returned, there were a lot of fish in the plague; the next day they hid and spy; the child got out of the shaky, became a giant, sat down, a bunch of fish appeared {i.e. he threw it out of himself}; when the girls entered the plague, there was again the child shaky; they knocked over the cauldron on him boiling fish soup, rode on deer; Mangi catches up, a cauldron on her head instead of a hat; one of the sisters threw a comb (thicket), Mangi made his way; threw her bag (the rock is the same); on the other side, old woman Acekai, the girls ask her to stretch out her legs, crossed them to the other side, the old woman removed her legs; when Manga asked her to stretch her legs, the old woman removed them in the middle of the river; Manga screams: make ladles out of my hands, a bucket from the back, paint from the blood, a shuttle from the spine; then drowned; at this time the girls reached the fork; one tells me to follow the left path, the other on the right; turned to the left, came to plague, it has an old woman without arms and legs; turned one into a needle, the other into a thimble; cannibals came, saying that it smells like gifts; the older sister laughed, she was eaten; when the cannibals left, the youngest asks , are there any toys; the old woman gave a bird's wing; the girl flew to the top of the plague, then to the tree, then flew away; reached the river, sat on a stump, found an old bone in her pocket, began to gnaw; in the morning the deer run , they are driven by a handsome guy, he married her]: Pinegina 2019:87-91; Evens of Kamchatka [two sisters and a needlewoman live; decided to migrate; the pupil took a handbag with a needle in it, thread, comb; old lady invites you to the yurt; younger sister {pupil?} does not sleep, sees how the old woman took an ax to hack the girls; grabbed her purse, rushed into the tundra, threw the comb (the forest, the old woman cut through with an ax), threads (rocks, the old woman smeared them with larch resin, climbed upstairs); the giant hid the girl in his pocket, replies to the old woman that he ate her, the old woman rushed at him, he overcame her, threw her into the thickets; took the girl out, told her to go to the yurt and wait for him there; she cooked food there, the giant came and ate; the wind blew out, a herd of deer appeared; one deer became a young man, the giant invited him into the house; the giant himself became handsome guy, they got married]: Kasten, Avak 2014:13-23.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nivkhi: Singers 2010, No. 14 [7 sisters live alone, find a baby under the snow; the youngest suddenly came in, saw the baby stand up with the cradle and lapping a boiling brew; the sisters run away, milk is chasing, the eldest throws ash (fog), comb (forest), sharpener (rock); milk gnawed on the rock, the sisters did not gnaw through the old woman's house, she consistently fights with her sisters, Kills six, the youngest runs away, comes to a single man; she is pregnant, tells her husband not to come for 7 days; he came a little earlier, the children are already playing, but the youngest child is humpback; sons hear the mother cries, she told them about her sisters; brothers come to the old woman, the youngest drowns her in a barrel; a barrel of water and the old woman drags her to the tree; sable hunters came to the tree; the youngest says he wants small, out of great need; the female broke off, the barrel fell, crushed all those hunters]: 74-82; Sangi 1974 [beauty rejects suitors; leaves her parents to live alone; one day, collecting cloudberries, she sees a woman, then a man; then finds a baby; gives a breast, he bites her; she spies on him, sees him get out of the cradle, devour yukola, he has long teeth; the girl runs, the baby follows her, Mother screams, give me a breast! She throws a comb, then a whetstone, they turn into a forest, a mountain; by the river, a girl climbs a poplar; a baby gnaws on it; she asks a tree to fall on top of her head on the other shore; crosses the river, the current carries away the poplar; her father tells her that she was punished for her pride]: 46-49; Orochi: Aurora, Lebedeva 1966, No. 56 [six sisters live in heaven, the seventh eldest in the house; sisters come to her, the youngest smears her ass with charcoal, camlates; the eldest laughs, others see a man on her teeth; they run away on skis; the eldest does not have skis, she tells her younger sister to break her ties on skis, eats it; so with five sisters; the sixth throws a comb, then a stone, they turn into a thicket, into a cliff; the girl asks the old woman to transport her across the river; she stretches her leg like a bridge; then But with the stalker, but the old woman dumps her into the water; she wants her head to become a marsh hummock, her hair to marsh grass, her bones to a river blockage, her eyes to beads, her blood to be a red stone, pus - with a blue stone, all her ashes in a gnat; the old woman hides the girl from her seven wolf sons; the girl searches in her head, puts her to sleep, turns into a kuksha, flies away; lets the man catch herself, accepts her true appearance, marries, gives birth to a son; warns her husband that seven wolves will come; he does not believe, goes hunting; wolves eat a child, a woman hides in a tree; wolves knock him down, she moves to another; sends a crow after her husband; the same with the second and third trees; on the third, a woman sends an eagle for her husband, and a crow from the fourth; the husband kills wolves with arrows; the mother of wolves comes, she is given her children's meat under the guise of elk meat; when she comes home and notices that she has brought her sons' heads, she choked]: 204-206; Bereznitsky 1999, No. 19 [(=2002, No. 2:106; 2003, No. 23:448; 2005, No. 50:477-478); father dies; the mother tells her six daughters to run away before her death, because the seventh, the eldest, is a cannibal; the sisters dance to make her laugh; the seventh dances naked, the eldest laughs, they see her human veins on their teeth; they run away on skis; five have mounts made of rags, ropes, moose leather, wire, iron plates; they tear, the cannibal eats them; the sixth, the youngest, has an iron chain attachment; she throws a comb, a mirror; a forest, a lake appear; the eldest gnaws through the forest, drowns in the lake; the youngest comes to a young man, gets married]: 151; Udege people: Lebedeva et al. 1998, No. 32 [younger brother goes to look for his wife, his sister gives half a crest and a whetstone; turns into a hare, hides in a tree by the road; old man Kandá rides on sledges pulled respectively by wild boars, pigs, piglets , his wife, their eldest daughter Emende; the youngest Belé Chiha drags sledges with human bones herself; the man marries C., each time she teaches what to do; 1) K. will hit his feet with a spear ( a person puts a dead owl there in advance, a spear covered in blood); with a hot spear (puts a dead hare in its place); 3) will give poisoned food (a person quietly puts it in an angelica, e. ate it, died); 4) K. and the old woman shamanate, preparing to kill a man; he puts seven funny idols around the fire, K. and his wife laugh, his son-in-law and C. run away; throw half a crest (thicket), a whetstone (mountains); K. s his wife could not overcome the mountains, the man with C. returned to his sister]: 235-241; Podmaskin 1991, No. 26 [=Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010:105-107; two sisters are getting married; the eldest Ohoni is afraid that the youngest Adiga is more beautiful, makes her follow the left road; A. comes to the cannibal spirits, runs away, turning into a needle, huchen, mosquito; throws a comb, a thicket appears; comes to Nyent's hunter's house; he drives away the spirits with smut; goes away for seven years, returns after killing spirits; tests A.'s loyalty by trying to hit A. with a spear; it bounces; he marries A.]: 136-140; Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010 [an evil spirit enters the mouth of Ege, the eldest of seven sisters; the sisters create figures that jump and grieve; when E. laughs, the sisters see a man on her teeth; the sisters run away, E. tells the ski belts to break, catches up, swallows the sisters; the youngest escapes, she had fasteners with an iron chain; throws a sharpener (mountain), a comb (thicket), ash (fog) ; it takes E. a year to overcome every obstacle); the old woman allows the girl to cross the river across the bridge, hides the bridge; E. demands it, the old woman puts it, in the middle he collapsed, E. fell into the rapids; says that her hair would become mud, her teeth would become boulders, her bones would be tree creases, her blood would become mosquitoes and midges]: 156-157; Nanai [Yangoki's girlfriend went into the barn for yucola, dropped the jug hanging under the roof, he crashed, an old man like a balloon jumped out; said that he promised to thank whoever would release it for the first 20 years and eat it for the next 20 years; but he could only eat it after sunrise; I let me go until morning; she made a straw scarecrow, dressed it in her clothes, left it in the house, took a chair, a comb, a sharpener, ran; crossed the river on the ice, melted it with her tears; BM rolled to the upper reaches, went around the source and returned; Y. threw the comb (thicket, BM gnawed), the chair (the fire, the BM flooded), the sharpener (a huge mountain, I hid inside, you can still hear her singing from the crevice)]: Medvedev 1992:244-247.

Japan. Ancient Japan: Kojiki [Izanagi and Izanami marry, have children; giving birth to the fire god, I-mi burns his bosom, dies; I-gi comes for her in Root Country (Land of Yellow Waters, Land of Darkness); I-mi says she has already eaten local food; tells me not to look at it until she goes to consult local deities; I-gi gets tired of waiting, enters her chambers; sees worms and eight Thunders in her body; I-gi runs, I-mi chases furies (The Ugly Women of the Underworld ─ hags of Yomi); I-gi throws a headband, then a comb; they turn into wild grapes, into bamboo shoots; the furies stop collecting and eating them; I-gi sends Thunder and demons underground countries; I-gi drives them away by throwing a peach at them; I-mi chases herself; I-gi blocks the passage to the underland with a rock; I-mi and I-gi divorce; I-mi promises to kill 1,000 people a day on earth; I-gi promises 1,500 newborns a day] 1994, ch. 8:47-49; Nihon Shoki 1997, scroll 1 [Izanaki no mikoto following Izanami no Mikoto has reached the country of Yomotukuni; I-mi says she has already touched the hearth where the food is being cooked, asking her not to look at it; but I-gi took out the forbidden comb and broke off the extreme tooth of the Male Pillar, I looked closely, holding it like a torch, and saw that I-mi was covered with purulent boils and worms; so people avoid lighting only one lamp at night and throwing away the comb; I-ki ran, and I-mi sent eight witches from Yo's country for him; I-ki threw his black ivy headdress, which turned into grapes, the witches began to collect it, then rushed in pursuit; I-ki threw the comb, it turned into bamboo sprouts, the witches began to eat them; when they chased again, I-ki had already reached the slope of Yomo-tu-pirasaka; one book says that I-ki started a stream, it turned into a river while the witches across they crossed it, it reached the slope of Yomo-tu-Pirasaka]: 124-125.

SV Asia. Tundra Yukaghirs: Bogoras 1918, No. 1 [when a virgin sings, her deer always come to her; one day she sees an evil spirit approaching, his upper lip touches the sky, his lower lip touches the ground; the girl runs, throws a comb behind, then a red handkerchief, they turn into forest, fire; the spirit devours the forest, drinks the river, floods the fire; she hits the ground with her iron staff with a tip, turns into a fox, then into a wolverine, a she-wolf, a bear, but the spirit catches up with her; she runs into the Evenk plague, loses consciousness; when she wakes up, she sees three young men; the eldest was a spirit- stalker; she marries him], 9 (Russified, probably tundra) [three sisters are wandering, the eldest wants a baby, finds a stone one by the cliff; at night the youngest rocks him, hides; he speaks in a male voice, Chumo, Chumo, get big, grows up, eats all the supplies in the house, becomes small again; the same episode with the other sisters; they throw C. into the boiling pot, run away; he they are chased, they throw a comb, then flint, they turn into mountains, C. gnaws at them; the eldest throws iron from the chair, it becomes a river of fire, C. burns down, promises that his his mother will avenge him; the sisters run to the river, persuade an old woman on the other side to transport them; she stretches her leg like a bridge, they cross the river; when they learn that they have killed her son, the old woman promises to punish them; the fox saves the sisters by leaving behind bags of branches and ash that the old woman swallows]: 9-10, 61-64; forest yukaghirs (b. Corcodon) [the old man looks into the ice-hole where he put the net; the Mythical Old Man (MS) grabs his beard, lets him go for promising to give his son and daughter; the old man lowers them into the ice-hole; the MC puts them on his raft, tells him to clean his pants from lice, falls asleep; Falcon takes the children to the roof of the house; MS throws up his lower jaw, she falls on horseback, the children are immediately back on the raft, the MS hits them; the same with Eagle; for the third time, the Cow (Russian borrowing) puts them on her back, carries them to the top of the mountain; MS throws her jaw down and up the river to the sky; each time it falls with its upper end down; throws them to the shore, she falls right; he leaves the raft, almost catches up with the Cow; she tells the children to throw the scraper that scrapes her neck, a mountain appears; MS returns to the raft for a drill, drills a hole through the mountain; children throw the comb with which the Cow was scratched, the forest grows; MS returns for the ax, cuts the forest; children throw silver women's jewelry from the Cow's chest, a lake appears; MS sinks; children returning home]: Jochelson 1926:304-305 (=Jochelson 1900, No. 19:42-45); itelmen [Kuth wants a tolkusha, Mitty calls daughter Sinanevt to make it out of old meat, S. died from the smell; the wolf dragged her up the mountain to eat, she rolled down the mountain, came to life; the wolf brought her to the wolf's house to marry her; her brother Ememkut put on wolfskin, demanded S. To himself; at night he explained that he was her brother; they run away from the wolves; E. throws flint, spits, S. throws a comb, thereby creating fire, a river, a forest; they run home]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 182:541- 543;.

Subarctic. Atna [returning from a walk, two sisters found the house empty; put a necklace on a Canadian jay (her neck has been white since then) and she showed the way to go: at the fork, take a narrow path ; but the older sister insisted on walking wide; the man sits and cooking the eyes of birds and animals in the pot; heated the iron pond and killed his older sister with it; the youngest asked for time off out of need; that man tied a rope to her; the old woman advised to tie it to the stump, gave a comb and other objects; while running away, she threw a comb (thicket), other objects (hills and mountains); the spider hid the girl in cocoon and killed the pursuer; ordered to tie a rope out of the web and move the stone away; under it there is a hole, you can see the ground, there are parents; until you go down, you can't open your eyes, otherwise the rope rises back; it happened; but the second time the girl went down to her parents]: Smelcer 1997:65-68; tagish [the girl went for berries, she was taken away by the Bears; her aunt, who had long been kidnapped by the Bears, tells her run, otherwise she will turn into a bear; she gave a whetstone, a comb, explained what to do; the girl runs away, throws a comb (thicket), a vessel of water (lake; twice), a whetstone (rock); bears cannot climb, fall into the water; a girl approaches salt water, offers herself to a fisherman if he saves her from bears; directs her stick at the bears, they die; explains that his monstrous wife (or mother) kills real ones; you can't look at her; the girl spies on her swallowing a seal, it gets stuck in a monstrous woman's throat, she pulls the girl out eyes; the husband kills the monster with a spear, cuts it apart, throws it into the water, the pieces turn into crabs; he puts the girl's eyes in her eye sockets; she wants to go home, her husband brings her to her parents, visits her every year]: McClelland 2007, #58:302-309

NW Coast. Hyda (Skidgate) [the chief's daughter picks berries, steps into bear droppings, swears; bears take her away; in a bear house, a woman half turned to stone warns her not to eat food bears, bury their excrement; instead of them, the kidnapped woman leaves brass bracelets; the grizzly believe that her excrement is copper, forgive her swearing; the stone woman gives her a comb, her hair, oil, whetstone; the kidnapped flees from her grizzly husband, abandoned objects turn into a windbreak, a thicket, a lake, a cliff; she promises copper to a man in the boat; the boat bites off the heads of her pursuers - wolves and bears; the new husband tells him to look in his head; there are frogs, the woman bites her nails instead; at home, the husband tells me to look at his first wife when she eats; the woman sees her swallowing a whole cat; a piece gets stuck in her throat, she dies; the husband cuts and powders the body, revives his wife; the new wife gives birth to a son; see the M21 motive]: Swanton 1905a (Skidgate): 336-338; Tsimshian: Boas 1902 [Sky is annoyed by the noise of children playing; he lowers his feathers; one boy puts them on his head, begins to rise into the air; others grab him, stick, all the people of the village disappear into the sky; a menstruating girl and her grandmother remain; a girl puts three wedges of different tree species, a grain grater, a knife on her stomach; four days later she gives birth to sons and (from a knife) a daughter; when they start go up, the Grater turns into a mountain; when the mountain begins to tremble, the sister cuts off the feathers with a knife; they remain forever on the older brother's head; now his name is Rotten Feathers; bones fall from the sky; GP runs feathers over them, reviving the dead; {here p. 100 ends the first part}; the brothers go up the river; the Great Goose old woman warns them of dangers; the old woman Knife-hand cuts off their heads daughter's grooms; GP crosses a fragile bridge with magic feathers on the way to her; changes her hairstyle to his wife's at night; the old woman mistakenly cuts off her daughter's head; GP leaves, changes her name to Labretka; marries Sna's daughter, runs with her; the night pot warns the owner, who does not react; then a wooden hammer hits him, Sleep wakes up, catches up with the fugitives in his fast boat, creates a mountain in front of them, then throws a comb, which turns into a forest; Labretka makes a passage both times with her magic pen; Sleep stops chasing; his mask is used in rituals]: Boas 1902:94-100, 234-235; bellacula: Boas 1898 [a woman picked berries, got lost, Stump took her to her place, married her; a woman who grew into the floor of his house gives her an awl, tells her to pick her up they have toads, which Stump has in their hair instead of lice, bite their nails, pretending to bite through toads; says that Stump's night pot is his watchman; gives a urine bubble, a comb, a whetstone ; the woman drills holes under the whisk; when the pot screams, its voice is weak, but the Stump still hears, rushes in pursuit; the woman throws objects, they turn into a lake, thicket, mountain; woman runs to heaven to the Sun, he burns the pursuer; a woman gives birth to the Sun an ugly son; wants to go home; mother and son go down the eyelashes, the rays of the Sun; children laugh at the boy; he shoots, does a chain of arrows, goes up to his father, asks for permission to perform his duties; lights all the torches at once; the earth is burning, the rocks are cracking, people are dying, only his mother's house is cool; the sun sheds son on the ground, makes him a mink]: 100-103; McIlwraith 1948 (2): 489-494 [at night, the brother comes to his sister's hut for ritual solitude; she stains him with paint, identifies him in the morning, leaves; gets to the Stump, that takes her as his wife; a legless old woman in his house tells her what to do, gives her the necessary items; the wife must take out the lice from Stump and bite them; these are toads; the girl kills them with a knife, snapping her teeth as if bites through; the vessel that guards her holes; he is silent, does not raise an alarm; throws oil, a comb, a needle, a whetstone behind; they turn into a lake, a thicket, many sharp needles, a mountain; comes running to the Sun, which burns the pursuer with its heat], 495-498 [four sisters leave home, go to the Sun; want to return; the Sun and his wife bring them down to earth in a basket, they give a whetstone, a comb, eagle down; explain which path leads to the house and which path leads to the ogre; the younger sister follows the cannibal's path, the rest have to follow her; the cannibal pursues them; abandoned objects turn into mountain, thicket, fog; cannibal stops pursuing]; Heiltzuk: Boas 1928b [three options; white, black, rainbow, bloody smoke rises respectively above Gorny's house Ram, Black Bear, Grizzly, Ogre; four brothers come to the Ogre; his son greedily licks the blood from one of the brothers's leg; the Ogre pursues the brothers; they throw whetstone, butter for hair, wool, comb, it turns into a mountain, a lake, a fog, a thicket (var: a grain grater turns into a mountain, urine into a lake, broken arrows into a windbreak); brothers and their father dig a hole in themselves in the house, they make a fire at the bottom, push the Ogre, his wife and son there; pieces of flesh or ashes of the Ogre turn into mosquitoes and biting flies]: 49-65; 2002, No. XXI.8 [Noakaua's two sons ("wise") they hunted mountain sheep; they saw a house with beautiful smoke rising from it; there was a woman with a child, she told her to wait for her husband to come; one of the brothers had blood dripped from a cut, the child became hers lick; the brothers decided to run; the woman called out to her husband, he chased after him; the brothers threw a stone (mountain) behind, broken arrows (thicket), a crest (bush), poured water (lake); father opened the door, dug a hole, covered it with a board; the cannibal sat on it, failed, his father and sons threw hot stones at him, burned it, the ashes turned into mosquitoes]: 494-495; uvikino [the sons said Father, who would go up the river to hunt mountain goats, went to look for the missing chief 'Paasalath; the father's name is Nuúwaqaqa; he does not tell me to go where there is bloody smoke, Bàxvbakvala lives there ; usiwa, who ate most of the villagers (Boas has a similar name for cannibal spirit in Quakiutl); if the smoke is brown, there is a brown bear, if black, a black bear; the father tells you to take it with you comb, hair oil, whetstone and palem (a ball of wool or cotton wool); the brothers came to the place where the bloody smoke went into the dugout; B.'s youngest son notices blood on the scratched leg the youngest son N.; he lubricates a stick with blood, B.'s son licks it; the elder brother shoots arrows, each time telling one of B.'s children to run after another arrow; they ran away, but B.'s wife called him; the brothers run, B. pursues, the younger throws behind 1) a whetstone (mountain), 2) a comb (thicket), 3) a lump of fibers (fog), 4) oil (lake); while B. goes around the lake, the brothers run home, the father hides them; says B . that killed and cooked them, let B. call his ena and children; N. and his sons dug a hole; when the cannibals came, N. put them to sleep, telling the story of the flood, pushed them into a hole, filled them with boiling water; they turned into mosquitoes]: Hilton, Rath 1982:47-68; Quakiutl: Boas 1895, No. XVIII.4 (tlatlasicoala neveti) [Kutena sent Lelekoista to bring fire from Natlibikaq (possibly from the word "wolverine"); he grabbed coal , but N. hit him in the face, the coal fell out; then Ambassador Deer; he runs, throws fat, he turns into a lake on the path of the pursuer; hair is a forest; stones are mountains; The deer gave fire to K.; N. asks for return at least half of the fire to him, but K. gave fire to people]: 187; 1910, No. 29 [The Ogre at the North End of the World has his body covered with mouths; the smoke above his house is multicolored; the grandmother of the Wise gives Full the Fool ( the eldest of her four grandchildren) a comb, a bottle of oil, cedar sticks, a stone; brothers find a missing sister in the Ogre's house; her child licks blood from the wound of one of her uncles; a woman who has grown into the ground by roots, telling the brothers to flee; their sister calls her husband to catch meat; a fool throws objects, they turn into bushes, a mountain, a lake, a thick cedar; brothers run into their house; their father calls The ogre comes with his wife and child to eat his sons; they prepare a hole with hot stones; pretend to be dead, the father covers their bodies with dog giblets; puts guests to sleep with a story; they are pushed into a hole, ash turns into mosquitoes and gadflies; in the Ogre's house, the Wisest and his sons find a box with masks (Cannibal Head, Cannibal Head, Cannibal Head, Cannibal Head, Cannibal Head; also whistles, jewelry from Cedar bark); the Ogre's wife teaches her husband's songs and customs; Full Fool becomes the Ogre's first impersonator at the winter festival]: 385-401; Nootka: Sapir, Swadesh 1939, No. 4 [Quatyat kills Wolf; the tribe of the victim is wondering who the killer is; Quatyat confesses to what he did, runs away; the abandoned crest turns into a mountain; the spilled fat into the lake; Kvatyat swims away to boat]: 33-34; Boas 1895, No. 2 [Kwotiath went ashore to collect fish; someone collects it before him; he sees the Wolf, calls him into his house, comes running earlier, kills him with a spear, buries him under the floor pretends to be sick; the other two Wolves are looking for a friend, K. replies that he has been ill for a long time; takes a comb and a bubble of fish oil, dances, shouts that he killed Chief Volkov, runs away; sticks a comb, he turns into a mountain; spills fat - the sea; so four times, the Wolves stopped pursuing]: 98-99; 1916, No. 3 [Woodpecker, leader of the Wolves, owns fire; another leader sends a Deer to steal it; gives him oil in a bottle, a comb, a stone; ties a bast to his elbows; a deer comes to dance at the Wolves' house, sets fire to a bast, jumps out a smoke hole, runs, throws objects; a stone turns into a mountain, a comb into a thicket, oil into a lake; hides the fire in the sink; Wolves ask the Shell where the Deer has run; he is silent because there is fire in his mouth; Wolves lose track, fire is spreading worldwide]: 894-896.

The coast is the Plateau. Quileut [The wolf falls asleep at Trickster, who kills him; other wolves chase the murderer; he throws oil, the comb that turns into rivers, into hills; the wolves stop chasing]: Andrade 1931 [Trickster promises wolves to discover a killer in a shamanic trance; runs away], No. 17 [trickster - Raven], 32 [trickster - Quety; the origin of rocks and rivers]: 49-51, 95-99; Farrand, Mayer 1919 [ Kwity creates hills by piercing her comb into the shore; makes a river out of hair oil; lake. Osetta emerges from his urine]: 253-254; Reagan, Walters 1933 [Trickster Quatee; throws one crest after another, creating hills]: 305-306.

The Midwest. Northern Solto [see motif L5; the hunter watches his wife; she knocks an ax on a tree, a man comes out of the trunk, copulates with her; the hunter calls him with the same signal; kills him, mixes him blood and deer blood, gives food to his wife; cuts off her head, leaves; the head chases sons; the elder throws a needle, a comb; the head stays at the needle, the comb turns into a mountain; The swan transports his brothers across the river, warns him not to sit on his neck, there is an ulcer; his head promises Swan to be his sexual partner if he takes her; she grabs his neck, he throws it into the water; she sinks, turns into sturgeon]: Skinner 1911:168-169; Western Ojibwa [returning from hunting, the husband finds the children abandoned, the wife is just starting to cook; the eldest son says that the mother dresses up and leaves in the morning; her husband watches her, sees her copulating with snakes; puts the cradle with her youngest son on the elder's back, tells her to run west; pierces his wife with an arrow, throws her into the fire; when she falls silent, he runs east; the children run successively to two old women; the first gives an awl and a comb, the second gives flint and tinder; thrown behind, they turn into a mountain of shilli, a mountain ridges, flint ridge, fire from end to end of the world; Toadstool carries children across the river; tells the stalker not to step on him while sitting on his back; she steps, drops, goes to the bottom]: Jones 1916, No. 33:379-380.

Northeast. Montagnier [Ayasheo (apparently from the word crow; note 17:74) takes his son named Ayashish to the island to collect bird eggs; swims away, leaving him there; a horned serpent carries him to the metric; tells you to take a stone with you, say if a cloud appears; at the sight of a cloud, A. hits it with a stone on the horns, he swims faster, reaches the shore, now he is an adult; to overcome the obstacles set by his father, his grandmother gives him her white Fox as his companion; the comb turns into a forest, A. passes through it; the fox makes a hole through the thrown resin; the bone pest has become a rock; he walked around it; met a mother; she says that his father throws hot coals at her; A. enters his father, shoots up and down; the ground lights up; he advises his father to hide in the prepared fat; c mother goes up; father dies in boiling fat; all animals come to the lake of fat, drink; sea lion dived, became fat; beaver crawled; caribou only drank, fat in his stomach; partridge rubbed her wings and back; the hare got its paws wet and touched his shoulders]: Savard 1979, No. 2:12-14.

Plains. Blacklegs [see motif L1; a girl takes a bear as a lover; her father and brothers kill him; she turns into a bear; kills people; her siblings and younger sister run away from her, splash behind her water themselves (lake), throw a comb (thicket); the bird tells the Bear to shoot in the head; she is killed by an arrow; six brothers and younger sister turn into the Pleiades, the younger brother into (Polyarnaya?) Star]: Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. 7:68-70; Arikara [the older girl reluctantly agrees to play bear; tells her younger sister to hide; turns into a Bear, kills everyone; sister secretly meets their four brothers returning from the war; reports that the Bear has vulnerable little fingers on her legs; the brothers let her scatter thorns in front of the house, they lure the Bear, shouting that they are coming enemies; the bear dies, the brothers burn her; a drop of blood falls on the ground, the Bear is reborn, pursues her sister and brothers; the older brother throws an awl, it turns into a thorny forest; the second is a knife, he cuts through gorges; the third is a crest, turns into thickets of cacti; the fourth is a whetstone, turns into a high rock (Devil's Tower in Wyoming), raising fugitives to the sky; they turn into the Pleiades, the Bear goes west]: Parks 1996, No. 7:146-152.

The Great Southwest. Tiwa (Taos) [contrary to her younger sister's warning, the Apache woman says that the bison's skull was handsome, she would marry it; the Bison takes her away; the Opossum gives her husband magic remedies warns that the Bisons sleep with their eyes open; the husband finds his wife in the herd, takes him away, they climb a tree; she urinates, she is noticed by a calf; when her husband kills the Bison Chief with an arrow, the woman cries; he He also kills her; bakes her head; tells her son and daughter to go eat meat; the head hisses; the children are hungry, they eat meat; the head pursues them; the tribe migrates; the dog (actually a witch doctor) hides fire for them, gets them food; the old possumic woman reports that their father married Coyoticha; gives them good luck, an awl, a brush, a mirror; the children come to the old woman; she has a swollen leg to press down a sleeping girl; a boy asks them to spare them; the crow says that the old woman needs to bring rotten water, wet firewood; the brother pretends that the sister needs to pee, runs away, carrying her on the back; throws an awl, the old woman accepts he is grabbed for the boy, her arms and legs are glued (resin doll motif); she can hardly free herself; the thrown brush turns into a thicket, a mirror into ice; the old woman falls on ice, crashes to death; children come to people, they are starving; children refuse to stay with them]: Parsons 1940a, No. 23:64-70.

(Wed. Mesoamerica {European borrowing for a set of abandoned items?}. Nahuatl Veracruza; Zapotecs; Chinantecs).

(Wed. Ecuador. European borrowing. Cañar).

(Wed. The Central Andes. European borrowing? Quechua in northern, central and southern Peru).

(Wed. Chaco. European borrowing. Matako).