L73A. The darkness is behind, the light is ahead. .16.27.29.31.
The fugitives make it so that darkness spreads behind them, preventing the pursuer (and light is pouring in front)
Bretons, Germans (Mecklenburg), Moldovans, Hungarians, Nogais, Swedes, Danes.
Western Europe. The Bretons [the king will give his daughter to someone who will build a ship moving on land and sea; the widow's three sons decided to try it; the eldest met an old woman, refused to share bread with her; the same middle; the youngest gave her all his bread; she magically made him immediately build a ship; the young man meets, takes on the ship an eternally thirsty person; from hunger; easily catching up with hares; hitting a pea from afar with a sling stone; breathing from his nose to move the wings of mills; having a day in one pocket and night in the other; before giving his daughter, the king demands: 1) drink all the wine in the cellar overnight (thirsty drank); 2) slaughter and eat all oxen, cows, rams and pigs (starved); 3) bring water from a distant spring before the maid; the one who caught up with the hares ran there easily, but the maid offered to take a break, put him to sleep; the slinger hit him with a stone, the runner woke up and overtook the maid; 4) taking the princess, the young man went back; they stopped in the desert; the royal army is approaching; the blowing has scattered it like a hurricane; but the army catches up again; then the last satellite threw night behind and day ahead]: Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 513:283-289; Germans (Mecklenburg) [father wants to marry his daughter; she requires him to dress with silver; gold; with precious stones; he got everything; then a dress made of raven skins and a magic wand (Glücksruthe); after receiving them, she put on a crow's dress and ended up at the prince's palace with a wave of a wand; she was hired in the kitchen; she was hidden in oak; she was named Cinderella (Aschenp) üster); when everyone went to the wedding, she showed up in a silver dress; the prince danced with her; as she left, she got into the carriage and said: the darkness is over, the light is ahead (Hunter mir dunkel und vorne mir klar, /Daβ Niemand sehe wohin ich gahr); next time wearing a gold dress; prince asks where she lives; in Stiefelschmeiβ ("Where they throw boots"); for the third time, a gemstone dress; she is from Bü rstenschmeiβ ("Where they throw brushes"; {apparently, the episodes when the prince, seeing Cinderella as a maid in raven feathers, threw a boot at her and then with a brush}); the prince put a ring on her finger; she She did not have time to hide her dress, but only threw crow feathers over it; the next day she threw the ring into the food prepared for the prince; he ordered the cook to be brought in; he saw a dress under the crow's feathers with gems; wedding]: Bartsh 1879, No. 4:479-481.
The Balkans. Moldovans [when she dies, the mother tells her daughter to marry the one who fits the ring; the monster The peasant with the nail found out the size of the ring, forged a finger for her grandson in size; the girl complains about her mother's grave that must go for the Snake; she advises to demand a dress from the groom like sunset, noon, dawn; like morning; like night; the serpent brings three times; on the advice of the mother, after the wedding, the girl says, Light ahead, darkness backwards and disappears; spends the night in the forest; Snakes find her with dogs, cut off her hands, give her to dogs; the girl tries to cover the fallen chicks, the grateful bird turns her into a chick, raises her with others; chicks Green King's apples peck; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest is an armless beauty; the prince goes to fetch water from under the dragon rock; takes away boots to walk on the water, an invisible hat, a musical instrument (transfers to any place), for which three traits are fighting; at the spring, an invisible prince hits snakes, they think at each other, fight; the prince puts the last one in prison, brings him water for the girl, her hands grow; the prince is finished off by a snake, the girl manages to tear off her ring from his finger, the snake turns to dust]: Botezat 1981:200-210 (=Moldavian tales 1968:266-275); Hungarians [the Queen says that if God gives her a son with golden teeth, then his wife should be the Beauty of the World Sharkan Roja; the son was born, spoke immediately, mastered all sciences, and became incomparably strong; asked his mother what she had promised him before he was born; she said she did not remember; then he split the pole and clamped her hair in it; his mother remembered, he let her go; when he went in search of SR, he saw and pulled out a stuck wagon drawn by six white squirrels; it contains the Queen of Wonderland, whose daughter is SR; she says that the SR was stolen by the Dragon King; gives three hairs and a piece of linen; they have become a six-legged horse that eats fire and into a golden saddle; the horse will bring to a spring, bathing in which will increase strength, and next to it a magic sword; gave three bottles of strengthening water; on a copper bridge, a young man entered the dragon's kingdom, "The cloud is in front, the cloud is behind so that no one can see me"; SR brings the young man a goblet of strong water from the barrel from which the dragon drinks; he came and suggested fight; crushed a stone with his hand; the young man also crushed and squeezed water out of the stone; they hammer each other into the ground, and when the young man hit the dragon to the very nose, he could not stand up; agreed to give the SR, but how only the young man took her and went out of the castle, the dragon got out, drank strong water and decided to fight again; the young man won again; the SR turned the palace and treasures into an apple; they returned to the young man's parents; wedding]: Curtin 1914:79-90.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. The Nogais [a long time ago, when the goat was full, when the starling became kadiy, when the khan's daughter was a sorcerer, when the lark lived in the water... the khan's daughter was married by a young man; on the way home, the groom turned into a wolf, began to slaughter camels; tulpar Heavenly Hoof told the bride to jump on him and run, teaches him what to do; she throws the comb, says "Let the sunlight flow ahead, the fog spreads behind"; mirror (same, behind a bottomless lake); scissors (the same, there is a thorny bush behind them); tulpar says that they have arrived in the other world, gives hair to cause it, tells them to pretend man; the owner of the yurt calls the guest (i.e. the girl) to the top of the mound; attacked, but the girl threw him to the ground and he fell through the ground; she called a tulpara; he tells him to cut off his right leg, rip him open stomach and get inside; in the morning she is in a yurt, two boys next to her; her father comes with his people]: Kapaev 2012:366-359.
Baltoscandia. The Swedes [the giant kidnapped the princess, the king promised half the kingdom and the daughter's hand to the savior; six brothers each began to learn some art; 1) build a ship; 2) control it; 3) climb a glass mountain; 4) steal - could steal an egg from under his magpie; 5) create the night over, the day ahead; 6) shoot accurately; the brothers got the princess, the fifth blinded the stalker giant, Having created the night, the sixth killed him with an arrow; the king and the princess herself do not know who to choose; the brothers and then the princess took to heaven one by one, became the Pleiades]: Balzamo 2011, No. 16:26-31; the Danes [ parents go to the field, leaving the boy at home; when they return, the second one is the same; when they grew up, the healer taught them to find out who the real son is: the adopter brings the horses to the stall; he is told to leave; he leaves his brother a pot of blood: if it changes color, he is in trouble; when hunting, he spares a hare, a bear, a lion; each gives a pair of his cubs; a young man comes to a city where a sea monster ate all the women it's the princess's turn; she kills the dragon with her animals; marries a princess; on the shore she sees an old woman collecting dragon bones; she lures him to her ship and makes him say "Darkness ahead, the light is behind"; after that, he loses his orientation and finds himself on the island; the old woman with a whip turns the animals into stones, and puts the young man in shackles; seeing that the color of the blood has changed, the brother goes to search; the princess takes him for her husband, but he puts his sword on the bed; says "Light is ahead, darkness is behind", does not lose orientation; on the island, she makes an old woman give him a wand that revives animals; frees the brother and kills the old woman; they bring the old woman's treasures; the young man stays with his wife, and the brother brings the treasures to his parents]: Holbek 1987:558-559.