L81A. The cat extinguishes the fire. .14.15.21.23.27.29.30.32.-.34.

The girl offended the cat (rarely: a dog, a rooster) and she, in revenge, adjusts so that the girl suffers misfortune (usually extinguishes the fire, after which the girl falls to the demon).

Kabiles, Arabs of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Spaniards, Italians, Bhutan, Marathi, Assamese, Sinhales, Bulgarians, Turks, Persians, Yagnobes, Turkmens, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Uighurs, Salars, Dungans, Mongors.

North Africa. Moroccan Arabs: Bushnaq 1987 [a mother must give birth; her seven sons are hunting; if she gives birth to a girl, let her hang a spindle over the door, if the boy is a sickle; then they will not return home; mother gave birth to a girl, but her mother's sister did not like her nephews and hung a sickle; the girl was named Wudei's, who kicked Subei's out of the house ("seven"); when she played with the other girls, they told her so; she went to look for brothers; a servant and maid were with her; the servant demanded that V.. get off the camel and give the maid a seat; V. called out to the mother, who told the servant not to try to take the camel away as V.; on the third since her mother does not hear; V. went on foot, her legs were covered in blood, she was not used to it; the maid smeared V. with resin; when they came to the brothers, the imaginary maid began to take out insects from the elder, a tear dripped on her arm, brother she was erased, white skin appeared under the black; V. told everything; the brother hacked the servant and the maid; V. washed; when leaving, the brothers tell me not to unlock the door and share any food with the cat; in room B. 6 wooden doors and the seventh iron; "if anything, the cat and the pigeon know where we hunt"; V. swept and found the bean, ate it; the cat: why didn't she give me half! went and extinguished the fire with urine; V. came to the ghoul for the fire; he gave a coal by the strip of skin from finger to chin; the raven followed V., covered drops of blood with earth; when V. entered the house, the raven flew up to the wall; V. was frightened and scolded him; the raven was offended and raked the ground off the drops of blood so that they could be seen; the ghoul comes on the trail and asks how V. saw him; she replies: on a golden bed, under with a silk blanket; the ghoul laughed, broke one wooden door and left; so six nights, only the iron door remained; V. sent a letter to the brothers with the dove; the brothers were in time before the gulya, dug a hole, filled with firewood, set on fire, closed from above; ghoul asks his question; V.: "the ghoul was under donkey skin, drank blood and sucked guts" (etc.); the ghoul broke in, the brothers greeted him, he sat down and fell into fire; the ghoul burned down, but the fingernail bounced and remained in the middle of the room; when V. swept, the fingernail pierced her and she lost consciousness; the brothers put the body on the camel and sent her to her parents; three the robbers stopped him on the way; one began to remove the ring from V.'s finger, accidentally pulled out his fingernail and V. came to life; returned to her brothers, and then they all returned to their parents]: 119-124; El Koudia 2003, No. 1 [ parents are dead, seven brothers take care of their younger sister Aisha, give her a Minoush cat; go on business with 7 doors in the house; A. eats a pea without sharing it with the cat; she urinates on the box matches; suggests that A. go to her neighbors for fire; she sees a light in the distance, comes, there is a ghoul, sits on a donkey's head, interferes with a donkey's foot in the cauldron, donkey intestines on her head; gives coals, as if accidentally scratching A.'s hand; she goes home, leaving a trail of blood; the ghoul walks over him, asks what appearance he was at home; A. replies that he was sitting on a golden chair, stirring the soup with a silver spoon, There is a silk turban on his head; he breaks only one door and leaves; like this every evening; brothers come on the seventh evening; they dig a hole in front of the door; this time A. answers the ghoul that he was sitting on a donkey's head, etc. .; the ghoul breaks in, falls into a hole, he is burned; he manages to say that A. will die at his hands; a few years later, the raven pulled the bone out of Gulya's grave, threw it at A., piercing it, she died; before that she died cat]: 1-6; kabila [the man has 7 daughters; one is smart (this is Dzidza), one is stupid, the others are so-so; he went on Hajj, leaving food, drink and fuel for a year; left a dog named Khudaya; next to him Gulya lives, she is afraid of dogs; every time Gulya comes and says that he will eat D., the dog replies that he is on guard and Gulya D. will not eat; after learning from the Stupid that supplies for a year, Gulya came when the girls began to leave the house; told the Stupid that she would bring food, but the dog was interfering; they killed her together; but the dog's blood was responsible for her; D. found blood, hid it in a hole in the wall; when the Stupid washed away blood from the floor, blood from the wall continues to answer; but the Stupid Gulya was also found there; after the dog did not answer, the gulya began to break through the door; D. ran away, asks the moon what the cannibal was doing now; she replies that she ate one sister; then another; and so on everyone; D. came to a house where seven hunters lived; they said that if a man came, he would be their friend, and if the woman was the wife of her will find; one of them was found by D.; when the hunters leave, they tell you not to eat the beans that the cat plays; otherwise she will write on the fire, it will go out, she will have to go for the fire to the ghoul; this happened when she looked at the ghoul and Grabbing the coals, D. saw that he was eating a mule, put his skin and guts on his head; in the evening, the ghoul came and asked what D. saw; she replied that the ghoul ate a fat camel, there was a caftan on his shoulders, and his head beautiful turban; ghoul is gone; so 4 evenings in a row; hunters returned on the fifth day; told Gul to tell Gul about the intestines on his head, he would break the doors and they would kill him; and so it happened; the hunter who found D. married her]: Grim 1983:22-32; Algerian Arabs: Belamri 1982 [7 brothers hunt, their sister stays at home with the cat, she plays with the bean; the girl crumbled the bean out of mischief; the cat demanded it back, refused to take another one; to punish the girl, she wrote to the fire, extinguishing it; the girl went to look for the fire, saw smoke in the distance, came to Gulya's house; at first he pretends not to understand what she was necessary; sits in a donkey skin cape, donkey intestines are wrapped around her head, roasts the donkey's carcass; gives fire, but hurts in the heel; on the way home, the girl leaves a bloody trail; the swallow falls asleep droplets of blood with the ground; near the house accidentally touches the wounded heel; the girl is hurt, she drives the swallow; out of resentment, she again reveals the bloody trail; the ghoul comes and asks what the girl saw; she replies that the ghoul was in silk, wearing a silk turban, fried a gazelle; ghoul is happy, leaves; so many days; the girl turns pale in fear, loses weight; brothers ask her, hide, tell her next time to answer the gulya that he was in donkey skin, etc.; a furious ghoul breaks into the house, falls into a dug hole, is filled with burning brushwood and burned]: 65-70; Filleul de Pétigny 1951 [the merchant has three daughters; the youngest Aisha is the most smart and not feminine valiant; when leaving, the merchant tells his daughters to share any food with the cat; the eldest daughters did not share, the cat put out the fire; A. went to get the fire, came to the gulya's hut; he sits on a donkey head, donkey head instead of a spoon; ghoul brought donkey meat, began to cook; A. calls Gulya a handsome young man, says that he cooks lamb and interferes with the soup with a golden spoon; ghoul gave fire, but scratched A.'s leg to find her way to her house by drops of blood; at home, A. told her sisters to remain silent if a ghoul appeared; when he came, she answered his questions as she liked: sitting on a golden chair, he stirred the lamb soup with a golden spoon; the ghoul left; so many times; Father A. returned; A. dug a hole, covered it with her skin, threw brushwood into the pit; when the ghoul came, A. said that she really saw; the ghoul fell into the hole, A. set fire to brushwood; ghoul: if there was even one bone left of me, she would take revenge; A. began to shovel the coals, the bone scratched it on the cheek; after that A. became even more prone men's activities; the Sultan's son came to her; she agreed to put her ring on his finger; when he went hunting, A. put on men's clothes and met the Sultan's son, who was not hers found out, won and took away the ring; a week later she asked about the ring; everything was clarified; the Sultan's son left in disgrace; A. went on a journey; in a coastal country, lions come out of the sea, devour people; A. put images of lions on the walls, the sea lions got scared and left; A. sailed to Seksar Island; the man said that cannibals live there, he ran away from them alone and hid, climbing on a tree; on the other side of the island, a local inhabitant jumped on the man's back and refused to get down; told him to wear it, and he picked fruit from the trees; the man ran, the branches began to hit the person sitting in the eye, a man threw him off and ran away; in Yemen, A. defeated a monster with a crooked saber, whose name was Horath; began to rule this country under the name Dzou Horath]: 24-38; Tunisia: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 15 [Once upon a time there was a father since 7 -by Aisha, a year old daughter. And one day he wanted to go on Hajj, but how would he leave his daughter alone? Aisha reassured him and said that he could go, but she would be alone and would not leave the house. He bought her everything she needed and left. Aisha lived with her cat. The cat asked her for a piece of meat every time, but Aisha could not give it to her because there was not much meat left, so the cat got angry and threw the boxes of matches into the well. Aisha climbed onto the roof and saw a neighbor lighting a fire. She asked him for fire and he said he would only give her if she let her cut her little finger. She agreed. Then he gave her a coal. The next night, a neighbor came to her and knocked on the door and asked her how she liked his house. She answered him courteously and got rid of him with her cunning. This went on for a while, then her father came back. Aisha told her father everything about her angry neighbor, and her father decided to teach him a lesson. He dug a big hole in front of the house and covered it with grass. When an angry neighbor came in at night and asked Aisha how he treated her, she replied that he had treated her very badly. Then the neighbor got angry and was about to open the door by force, but fell into a hole. The father called the police and his angry neighbor was taken away. This is the end of all evil], 82 [A man and his wife gathered for the Hajj, and they left their little daughter Aisha at home, told them not to leave the house or open it to anyone, and left for a year. Aisha swept the floor, found a bob, called her cat. She didn't come, so Aisha ate it herself. Then the cat came and asked why Aisha was calling her. She told her that then the cat began to demand this bean from her, otherwise she would throw the last pack of matches into the well. Then Aisha climbed onto the roof of the house and saw a house in the distance where the fire was burning. She took small stones and began to scatter them so as not to get lost on the way back. When she came to this house, she saw Ibique Belharis roasting donkey meat on fire and his children standing around. Aisha asked for coal. Gul asked her finger to be cut off in return. She was bleeding on her way home. Gul came to her every night and asked her what she saw when she looked inside the house. She replied that she saw him roasting lamb meat and his children around him like gazelles. When the ghoul left, Aisha would go up to the roof and ask the moon when her parents would come back. They came back, and she told them that the ghoul had cut off four fingers. My father dug a hole in front of the house, lit a fire in it and covered it. When the ghoul came in at night, she told him he was roasting donkey meat and donkey skin on it. Gul wanted to break the door, but he fell into a hole and cooked himself. Parents promised they would no longer leave Aisha alone] in Korovkina MS; the Arabs of Libya (Tripoli) [seven brothers ask their father's sister: if their mother now gives birth to a girl, hang a spindle on the fence and we will come back, and if the boy is a sickle and we leave home; a girl Udêa was born, but her aunt hung a sickle; 15 years later, W. once quarreled with her peers, they said that her 7 brothers were because of her left the house; her mother gave her a camel, a black maid named Barka, and her black husband; a day later, the maid demanded that W. get off the camel and let her sit down; W. called out to her mother, who told B. to go on foot; but on the third, the mother no longer heard her daughter's voice, B. forced her to change places; the caravans sent them to the brothers' house; before approaching, the maid put W. on a camel, but smeared them her resin; the black man threatened to kill her if she told her; her tear fell on her arm, her older brother erased the tar, W. admitted that he cut off the heads of a black man and a black woman; when leaving, the brothers always tell her sister give the cat what it eats by itself; once she found and ate a bean; the cat demanded half - this particular bean, not the other; but the bean was already eaten and then the cat put out the fire; W. came for fire to the cannibal; he covers himself with one lip, put the other under him; for the coal he demanded from W. a strip of skin from ear to thumb; W. went home, leaving a trail of blood; the raven flew behind and covered the drops of blood with earth; W. scolded him: he frightened her; then the raven removed the earth, revealing blood; the ogre came and asked what W. saw; she replied that she saw him sleeping on silk and silk closes; the ogre laughed and left, breaking one of the six wooden doors; so every time; when the seventh iron door was left, W. sent a letter to the brothers with a dove; the brothers rode until midnight, The cannibal has not yet come; they have dug a hole with hot coals in it; W. replies to the ogre that he covers himself with his own lip and sleeps on his lip; he broke the door, but fell into a hole, burned down; one nail bounced; stabbed W. in the arm and she lost consciousness; the brothers told the camel to take his mother's body home; three young men stopped him, found the body, one removed the ring from W.'s finger, the fingernail also fell out, W. woke up; I returned to my brothers, with her they returned to their parents; they stay with them]: Stumme 1898, No. 2:81-93.

Southern Europe. Spaniards [when daughter Mariquita is born, parents forget about their seven sons, they leave; M. gets lost, ends up in the brothers' house, secretly cleans it up; the brothers wait for her, recognize her sister by the ring ; M. forgets to feed the dog, he fills the fire with urine, M. follows the fire to the dragon; she gives a gun; the dragon comes after him, everyone sucks blood from M.'s finger; the brothers kill him, on his grave Parsley grows, whoever eats will become a black bull; M. forgets about it, puts it in soup, the brothers become bulls; the prince marries M., the bulls with her; leaves; the maid turns M. into a dove, sticking her in the head is a pin, takes its place, makes the bulls work; the dove flies to the prince, he accidentally takes out the pin, M. takes a human form; the brothers are spoiled with the same pin; the maid executed]: Malinovskaya 2002:210-214; Italians (Naples) [seven brothers announce to their mother that if she gives birth to a boy this time, and not a girl, they will leave; they are waiting on the hill for a symbol: if son, the mother must throw an inkwell and a pen through the window, and if the daughter, a spoon and a spindle; the mother made a mistake; the brothers went to the forest and began to live in the house of a blind orc; for this they alternately served as his guide; Chianna grew up and went looking for her brothers; found them and stayed with them; they warned them to give a share of any food to the cat; one day C. ate a bean without sharing it with the cat; she jumped on the fire, extinguishing it; C. went after with fire to the orc; he began to sharpen his fangs because he hated women; C. locked herself in her room; the brothers promised to take him to the woman through the back door, pushed him into a hole and buried him; told his sister not to tear the grass in the place where the orc is buried, otherwise they will turn into pigeons; one day a wanderer came in and was injured by a cone that fell from a tree; C. chewed rosemary growing on the site of the orc's grave, made a patch; brothers turned into pigeons; they said that only the Mother of Time knows how to restore their human appearance; the whale directs them to the upper reaches of the river and asks them to know what needs to be done to prevent it from hitting the rocks; mouse: how get rid of cats; ant: what should be done to make them ants live longer; old oak: how to regain honor (acorns used to be food for humans, but now only pigs); C. met an old man she had healed ; he carried Time rent from the field; he says that the Mother of Time sits on top of the mountain in the ruins of buildings; her eyelids are so heavy that she cannot lift them; you must tear out the watch weights; for if an old woman he will call his son, he will eat what has come, but if there are no weights in the watch, he will not be able to leave his seat; C. promises the mother of Time not to give her away; hides, and the old woman asks her son questions; under the roots of an oak tree treasure; a bell must be tied to the cat's paws; ants will live up to a hundred years if they give up the ability to fly; a whale (valena, j.r.) must prettier its face and make friends with the sea mouse (mr. some fish); pigeon brothers must build a nest at the top of the column of wealth; pigeons sat on the bull's horns, became young men (allusion to a cornucopia); the brothers dug a treasure from under the oak tree; they were attacked by robbers, they took the money and tied it to trees; but the mouse gnawed through the fetters, and the ant showed the dungeon where the robbers took the treasures; the whale took the brothers and C. to their parents]: Basile 2018:426-439.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Bhutan [Paydon and her brother lived in an abandoned village; when leaving, the brother warns: don't forget to feed the rooster; once P. forgot to feed him; the rooster put out the fire; P. went to look for fire, noticed in a forest of smoke; an old woman with a huge goiter is spinning by the fire; she fired, quietly attached a ball of yak wool to P.'s clothes; followed, winding the wool back into the ball; came to P.; she noticed that when the fire it flared up, the old woman's goiter became smaller, and when it went out, the goiter increased; P. realized that she could only escape if she kept a bright fire all night; if the fire almost went out, the goiter would burst, from it water would splash out, the old woman would eat P.; when the last log burned out, the rooster screamed and the old woman left; the next night P. prepared more firewood, the old woman had no chance; there was no more firewood left, but by Fortunately, the brother returned a day earlier than promised; the brother prepared hammers and pliers made of wood and iron, good and worn leather bags; an old woman came and offered to fight; the young man gave her tools from wood and a bad bag, but he took iron and a good one for himself; invited the old woman to put him in his bag and beat him with this hammer, grab it with ticks; the bag soon broke; now the guy put the old woman in his bag; beaten to death]: Choden 1994:115-119.

South Asia. Marathi [two eagles took a poor thrush baby girl; raised her in their huge nest, brought her outfits and jewelry, named Surya Bai ("sun maiden"); the cat tried to steal food, S. hit her, the cat put out the fire; S. came to Rakshasi in search of fire; she asked her to do various jobs, hoping that her Rakshasa son would come and eat her together; he lingered, the Rakshasi were given coals, asked to sprinkle grain on the way home; Rakshas tried to enter the nest, asked to unlock it, posing as an eagle, but S. did not open it; he broke his poisonous claw and left it in the wall; his claw pierced S. , she died; the eagles put a ring on her finger, flew away; the king saw S., took out his claw, she came to life, became his wife; the first wife is jealous, asked to try on her jewelry, pushed her into the pond; at this point a sunflower has grown; rani tells it to be burned, ash thrown away, mango grows in this place; the fruit falls into the vessel of that thrush, she brings it home, her husband and sons find a tiny woman in the vessel; she grows up, turns into S.; the Raja sees her, everything is explained, the eldest wife is imprisoned forever]: Frere 1868, No. 6:87-102; the Assames [the woman answered the cat that she would give her fish if she first she would bring it; the cat began to steal fish, bring it to the woman, she ate everything, gave the cat only bones; the cat ordered the woman to give birth to kittens and she herself to human children; gave birth and raised two girls; said that if the flower wilts and the milk turned black, she was dead; as it happened, the girls went on a journey; the youngest asked the eldest to bring water; the water in the river receded, demanded for the water was a ring; the girl gave it away; after drinking her sister, she went to return the ring, but the river carried her away; the merchant saw the younger sister and married her; the two older wives are jealous; when the new one gave birth, they threw the child into the river, the woman in labor was laid a flail; the second time a pumpkin; the older sister, who became the wife of the river god, raised the youngest's children; the merchant lodged his youngest wife in a hut for a pile of manure; sailed in a boat, the river god stopped the boat, let go for promising to gather people, throw a betel vessel and a wand into the river; the brothers come to the meeting, bringing these items, bringing their mother, to whom they told everything; the merchant ordered the elder wives to be expelled, having cut off his noses and ears, he stayed with his youngest and sons]: Borooah 1955:1-6; Sinhalese: Parker 1910, No. 12 [transfer to Volkonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 113:276-278; husband clears the plot, wife weaves the basket; On the current, the husband saw a wild melon vine (Cucumis callosus); ate the fruit; and when the wife came, there were many fruits; she began to eat and gave birth to a girl; husband: pick up the girl or the bag? wife: a bag; a pair of black storks carried the girl to her nest; she grew up; storks went to bring her bracelets, telling her not to let the fire go out and not let the Parrot, the Dog and the Cat in; but on the third day the girl let the cat in and it extinguished the fire; the girl sent the Parrot to find out where the fire was; smoke rises above the Rakshasa house; the girl came there, only Rakshasi at home; she gave 7 baskets of rice, 7 pots of water, 7 bundles of firewood and a leaky coconut shell, where she poured coals; an ash trail remains on the way back; Rakshas came to the girl's house; says he brought gold; Parrot: don't unlock; the next two once the same (Dog, then the Cat does not tell); Rakshas caught up and killed the dog and cat, and the parrot flew away; for the fourth time he does not order to unlock the Noringa pterygosperma tree; Rakshas knocked him down, cut him down; then the log speaks; the rakshas burned logs and branches - ash says; the rakshas poured ash into the river, but now the water is talking; the rakshas tried to drink it and burst; and just as the storks arrived, brought gold bracelets]: 120-124; Perera 1917 [the gamarala's wife does not know that the melons are ripe, the husband eats them secretly from her; finally, she notices a seed in her husband's beard; they go together, the wife gives birth; the couple decided to take the harvest first home, left the newborn alone; a couple of cranes took her away; they gave the girl a parrot, a dog and a cat, she calls them sisters; the cranes went to get pearls for her jewelry; told her not to leave caves and take care of animals; without getting enough food, the cat filled the fire with urine; the girl comes to Rakshasi cave, where her daughter is; she is stalling for time, hoping that Rakshasi herself will come: tells the girl bring water, chop wood and grind two pots of seeds; it all gets fire in a leaky coconut shell; rakshasi comes on an ash trail; says that cranes have come and brought pearls; the cat and dog are told not to open them; the Rakshasi killed them, left her nails on the doorstep; when she stepped on them, the girl lost consciousness; when her nails were pulled out, she recovered; the cranes put on her a beautiful outfit, and on top of the lousy skin, they told her to leave because she was already an adult; the girl was hired as a maid in the king's kitchen; one man saw her bathing, taking off her lousy skin; the king forced her to take it off forever, married on a girl]: 48-49.

The Balkans. Bulgarians [9 brothers go to the forest; their sister comes and stays; they warn her not to let the fire go out, but the fire goes out (the cat or dog wrote on it); a girl comes to a self-draw (dragon, bear) for fire; returning home, the girl leaves an ash trail (a ball of thread unwinds behind her); she follows the trail, leaves a tooth near the girl's house (a nail, a sharp bone), a girl steps on him, dies; her brothers bury her in a golden coffin; the one who finds her imperishable body (usually a prince) takes out a tooth (nail, etc.), the girl comes to life, the prince marries her] : Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 709A: 247-248.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Turks [seven brothers want a sister; a mother gives birth to a girl, a midwife deliberately hangs a black flag instead of a red flag; brothers think a boy has been born, they leave; the girl grows up, her friends tell her about brothers; the mother gives her a donkey out of ash, he brings her to her brothers; they do not understand who is cleaning the house; the younger one guards her, finds her sister; brothers warn her not to let the fire go out; the cat extinguishes the fire, a girl comes to an old woman, she gives a sieve of ash and coals, the ash mark now reaches the house; the brothers dig a trap hole, the old woman's dev-son falls into it, is killed; an old woman comes, the cat brings her the son's head, the old woman pulls out his tooth, pierces the girl's leg; the brothers bring his body to their mother; someone pulls out a tooth, the girl comes to life]: Stebleva 1986, No. 39:160-163.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Osmanov 1987 [seven brothers want a sister; a mother gives birth to a girl, mistakenly hangs a sling over the door, not a spindle; brothers leave; the girl grows up, finds a brothers' house on top of the mountain; secretly cooks and cleans; younger brother hides, catches it; brothers tell me not to eat kishmish berries if found on the floor; give it to the cat; the girl eats it, the cat extinguishes the fire, puts a red stone in the hearth so that the girl thinks that the fire is burning; the girl comes to the diva cave for the smut; the next day, the diva comes to her, tells her to stick her finger into the crack; the girl does not tell her brothers, she becomes weaker; Finally, he says, the younger brother breaks the diva's bottle of life, he dies; siblings return to their parents]: 235-238; Marzolph 1984, No. *451 (Khorasan, Azerbaijan) [signs changed, brothers they think that the mother gave birth to a boy again, not a girl, and they leave; the girl grows up, goes to look for brothers; hides, cooks and cleans for three days, then opens; brothers tell her sister not to give go out the fire; sister quarrels with the cat over the zest, the cat extinguishes the fire; the sister comes to the diva for fire; he gave fire and then began to come to suck blood from the girl's finger; the brothers killed the diva]: 92-93; Yagnobtsy: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 27 [the bear stole the princess, she sucked the thread, threw a ball out of the cave, the Grandfather Collector of Thorns found it, told the tsar, the princess was returned, she gave birth to a strongman; people they complain about him because he maims other children in games; he goes on a journey, his name is Hirs al-Din ("hirs" is a bear); meets, wins, companions Chanor-ed-Din (wears plane trees), Sang-ed-Din (wears plane trees), Sang-ed-Din ( rotates the millstones on her finger); they stole the girl, made her a maid, told her to always feed the cat, otherwise she would extinguish the fire; the cat was late for eating, filled the fire with urine, the girl saw smoke, came to the barzanga, that gave fire and a handful of grains; on the trail of the barzanga grains came, sucked the girl's blood; C., S. remained guarded, frightened, hid; H. cut off the barzanga's head, but his head disappeared into failure, promised to harm; H. goes down on a rope, there is a captured peri; she learns that the soul of every diva is in a locked room, in a pair of pigeons, in two worms; she gave the divas a drink, H. took the keys, H. unlocked the rooms, killed worms, the divas died; Peri warns that the companions will cut the rope; Peri agrees to marry the one who picks up the knife, gun and purse H., no one can; in the lower world, X. tells tigers not to touch the peasant's bulls, kills a fox , who strangled the old woman's chickens; the old woman advises killing a dragon that ate the Simurg bird's chicks; during flight, H. feeds Simurg with eggs given by the old woman, lambs given by the peasant; the last piece Simurg bites off H.'s leg, belches, puts it back; gives a white and black feather to become old or young; only H. picks up a knife, etc.; the brothers are tied to the tails of horses; a feast, the king awarded Grandfather- Thorn Collector], 31 [someone kidnaps foals; the elder, middle princes fall asleep, the youngest sees the dragon swallow the foal, tear off the foal's tail; the brothers go three roads; the youngest successively comes to three women, each wife of one of the three dragons; he fights everyone on the bridge, the woman throws Jugara under the dragon's feet, the young man wins, takes the women, cuts belts from dragon skins; finds and redeems broken brothers; they leave a sword at the door, throw their crippled younger brother; blind and armless comes to him; they stole the girl to cook; they tell him to give the cat is one of the two highlights that it will find on the floor, otherwise it will extinguish the fire; the girl eats both, the cat fills the fire with urine; the girl comes to the dragon for fire, she tells her to throw it on the way back barley grains; on this trail comes to suck blood; the blind, armless guard, but are afraid to stand up for the girl; the dragon is lame, tells everyone to be cured; the dragon consistently swallows and regurgitates everyone whole; the lame man does not burp, he warned what would be in his finger; the former blind and armless slash the dragon, the young man comes out of his finger; the king became blind during this time, but saw the light when the youngest son gave the handkerchief wipe his eyes; ordered the eldest sons to be tied to horses, gave their wives to the youngest son's companions], 43 [divas carry the foals of the royal mare; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest grabs the foal for the tail, the tail breaks off; the brothers go in search; at the fork there is a stone with the inscription, the upper and lower roads are safe, the middle roads are dangerous, the younger ones go medium; the elders become apprentices, the younger meets the wives of black, yellow, white divas, kills divas; White's wife teaches how to kill a herdsman, a young man takes a tailless foal and the whole herd; older brothers leave a sword at the door, the youngest is left without legs; blind and armless come, bring the girl to cook, tell her to share the zest with the cat; the cat lingers, extinguishes the fire, the girl follows the fire to the female diva, she gives a handful of barley, on the trail comes, sucks blood; blind, armless guard, fear; the young man defeats the diva, makes him swallow and belch whole; he himself is in his little finger; the king is blind in grief, the young man rubs his eyes with a handkerchief, he sees the light; older brothers are tied to horses; the prince returns his wife and foal, passes sisters off as former blind and armless]: 131-138, 157-163, 192-196; Turkmens [seven hunting brothers They tell a pregnant mother to hang a doll at the gate if a daughter is born; evil neighbors replace her with a bow and arrow; brothers do not return; born Ak-Pamyk does not know that she has brothers; neighbors tell her squeeze the mother's hand when she takes hot grains of wheat; the mother talks about the brothers, gives a rolling cake that shows the way; AP cleans up the brothers in the cave; the youngest does not fall asleep, grabs AP, that tells us who she is; eats the berry promised to the cat, he blows out the fire; AP comes to the diva for fire; he gives when he comes and kills his brothers; the old woman says that only the milk of the cannibal camel Ak- Maya; her camel helps AP, sucks, pours into a wineskin; AM chases AP, who splashes some of the milk, forms the Milky Way; AP revives the brothers, but the youngest does not have enough shoulder blades; the brothers are married , wives hate AP, pour lead into her ears, she is dumb and deaf; she is sent on a camel to look for a husband; she is married by the prince, and the vizier's son takes a camel; advises the prince to look for a second wife; son AP pushes, lead falls out of it; when he learns that his wife has recovered, the prince sent a new one back; Uncle Bayram meets AP's son; she sends bags of scorpions to the brothers' wives, they die]: Sokali et al. . 1955:69-81.

Volga - Perm. The 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"; an old man and an old woman go to visit and tell their four daughters not to extinguish fire and did not offend the cat; when the cat asks for porridge, the girls hit her on the head with a spoon; the fire immediately goes out; two older sisters go in search, come to the cave, ask the old woman for fire; she agrees 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 (the old woman was ubyr-ebi); the next day comes again, eats another sister; two surviving girls run away from home, taking a scallop, a mirror and a sharpener; the old woman goes in pursuit; the older sister throws the sharpener, grows up huge a mountain over which an old woman can hardly climb; a girl throws a scallop, a dense forest appears; an old woman makes her way through it; a girl throws a mirror, a large lake overflows; an old woman screams from the shores, asks how the girls swam; they say: tying stones to their necks; the old woman ties a stone and drowns; the youngest sister asks for water, the eldest warns that you should not 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 starts to get sick, the healer advises eating the goat's heart; the goat speaks sister to save her bones; the goat is eaten, the sister puts the seeds in a cloth, they turn into a bird; the bird sings at the bazaar, the merchant gives it 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 the bird singing, opens her mouth; the bird throws her needles, the woman dies]: 1989 , NO. 14:92-95.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [after the death of their parents, Kara-Uyrek and his two brothers separated; KU released three girls who were stabbed by their older brothers with a pin, killed these brothers; finds his own impoverished brothers; they envy KU as if he took the most beautiful girl; leave a sword in front of the entrance to the yurt, KU goes out, is left without legs; his wife hides food and weapons for him; comes blind, carries him, a speedboat comes to live with them; they kidnapped the girl Sarkyt to cook for them, was named sister; S. told the cat that she did not get her, ate the baursaks herself; the cat extinguished the fire in revenge; S. went to look for fire, he has seven-headed Malmouse-Kempir with one eye in his forehead; she sucks her blood through her toe, promises to eat it if she tells her brothers; gives ash, tells her on the way home says, "Become chingil"; a prickly chingil (Nalimodendron halodendron) grows on the sides, the fire lights up at home; every day JK comes to suck blood; the brothers dig a hole, cover them with a nightmare; JK fails, her they cut off 6 heads out of 7; they promise not to kill if she makes them healthy and beautiful; she swallows, regurgitates S., a blind man, a speedboat; KU does not belch; he is found by killing JK and crushing the little finger bone; S. returned to their parents, passed off as a blind former; KU and the speedboat come to the KU brothers unrecognized; offer to shoot; the arrows of the brothers themselves, KU and the speedboat fall on their heads, kill them; KU took his wife, became Khan, made a speedboat a vizier, married his wife's sister to him]: Tursunov 1983:80-86; Uighurs [the youngest wife of Kichik-hotun gives birth to a son, the eldest chon-hotun orders to throw the baby into the lake, replaces him with a puppy; next time he throws the girl away, replaces her with a kitten; Khan makes Kichik-hotun a maid; the servants left the babies on the shore, the bear raised them; these are Chin Tomyur and Makhtum-Sula; they leave the bear; C. hunts, tells M. not to drive the chicken, dog and cat away from him, not to extinguish the fire; she drives, the cat and the chicken extinguish the fire; M. sees smoke, comes to the seven-headed yalmauz; she tells her to look in her head, puts it in her head mouth a piece of burning dung, into the hands of grain; nettles and blackthorns grow out of the grains on the way, yalmauz follows the trail, sucks blood, threatens not to tell his brother; C. hides, cuts off six heads yalmauz, seventh remains, Yalmauz flies away; the king of Dzungaria finds two M. hairs in the river; Yalmauz sends him to her; the king takes M.; C. returns to his native country, his father finds out the truth, leaves cheon-hotun to the wolves, hands over the throne to C.; goes blind apart from his sister; M. gives birth to sons Akar and Chokar; runs across the river, asks her children to be thrown into the river (so that her blood does not remain in Dzungaria), M. finds C., he sees the light]: Kabirov 1963:227-247; salars [the horse gave birth to Atděn Qihkhn Masinbo; he set off; shot his bow at the rocks, from there Daxdən Qihkhn Daxdakhu appeared; they continued their journey together; AtQM shot wood salt, from there Aghxdn Qihkhn Monigu came in; all three fraternized; one day they returned home and saw that the food was cooked; the next day DQD stayed guard the house; saw that the food was being cooked by Sun Girl, Moon Girl and Star Girl; DQD turned into a stick and lay outside the door; girls used it as a poker; DQD talked about what happened brothers; AgQm remained on duty the next day; he turned into a bench and could not catch the girls either; AtQm remained guarding the house; he hid on the roof and frightened the girls with his scream; they agreed to become sister wives; AtQM stained DS's face with black paint; DQD and AgQM married DL and DZ; DS became AtQM's wife; when the brothers went hunting, the girls stayed at home and engaged with embroidery; the cat confused the threads and one of the girls beat her; the cat put out the fire; the girl went looking for him and came to the old woman; she shared the fire; began to come to the girls every day, and asking her to look in her head and drink their blood; the girls began to wither away; the husbands noticed it; DQD stayed to guard the house and turned into a saddle cover; the old woman sat on her and sucked the girls' blood; DQD could not stop this; AgQm remained on duty the next day, but also to no avail; AtQm hid on the roof and waited for the old woman to arrive; killed her by shooting her nine heads (which appeared one after another); when DS washed her hair, DQD and AgQM realized she was beautiful; told the girls to throw their combs into the well; the DL and DZ combs were wooden, and the DS comb was golden and therefore drowned; AtQM went down to the well rope and took out all three combs; then handed them to his brothers; they let go of the rope and AtQM fell down; met a man with a grindstone there and told him what had happened; the man promised to help and ordered to catch a hundred sparrows; atQM brought 99; the man turned into an eagle, told him to sit on his back and feed him sparrows while flying; sparrows ran out, AtQM cut off a piece of meat from his leg; when landed, the eagle saw that AtQM was limping, and when he found out what was going on, he belched a piece of his leg; atQM came to his wife, asked her to look in his head; the wife cried, said her husband had a similar mole; AtQM admitted he got out of the well; then went to his sister cities and killed them with one arrow]: Ma et al. 2001, No. 4.1:39-60; Dungans (Changji, Xinjiang) [the old lady only has a horse; once returned - she was wearing a boy, he was a Brother Horse; he went on a journey, broke a rock with an arrow, from there Brother Stone came out; then Brother Elm came out; they cultivate the land, hunt; someone in the house then cooks and cleans; they take turns guarding, two fall asleep; when it's Brother-Horse's turn, three white doves arrive and become girls; he asks them to marry him and his brothers, but first again become doves; invites brothers to choose; takes the rest for himself, the pigeons become girls; the cat came, stayed, mischievous; the women slapped him, for which he put out the fire and left; the women went to look coals; the shepherd says that the fire is owned by a nine-headed monster, let them go to him; the maids took them deep into the cave; the monster has a human body and 9 heads, all but the central one, are blind; he orders to give fire and a bag of beans; it has a hole, the beans woke up on the way back; the next day, the monster followed this trail, sucked women's blood; then the eyes on his other heads see; so many days; Brother horse notices that the wives are losing weight, they tell him everything; the Elm Brother is the first, then the Stone Brother, both are afraid; The horse brother hits the monster with an arrow in the eye, he runs; The horse brother lets the shepherd go, comes to a cave under his guise, taking sheep's tongue with him; the shepherd must lick the monster's damaged eye; the horse brother strokes him with sheep's tongue, the monster hurts; he says his tongue is rough because he has a cold; then kills the monster, cutting off all its heads; distributes the monster's property; his brothers want to take possession of everything themselves; lead the Horse Brother to look at the lotuses, push him off the cliff; he fell on the lotuses, alive, but unable get back; healed the swan's wing, he lifted it upstairs, the flight lasted three days and three nights; he returned home a year later; he was not recognized, his wife did not recognize him, he cries; he takes his bow; the brothers say that only Brother Horse, who fell off a cliff, could pull it; he shoots at the stone, Brother Stone disappears into the stone; shoots at the elm tree - Brother Elm returns to the tree; since then there are stone steps in the gate, and elm trunks cracked; Brother Horse's wife stayed with him, and two other women put on their pigeon clothes and flew away; people near Mount Bogotá have loved white pigeons ever since]: Shujang Li, Luckert 1994:111-118.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Mongors [in elderly childless spouses, a mare gives birth to a bale or lump, inside is a boy; he is given the name Black Horse; he grows up, goes wandering; under a stone, under a tree meets orphans, this is Stone, Tree, now they are his older brothers; brothers hunt; three heavenly maidens in the form of doves fly in, take off their feather clothes, cook one tea, another bread, and a third meat; The stone, the tree do not notice anything; when the Cheka guards, he grabs feather clothes; three brothers marry girls; brothers warn to always feed the cat, otherwise it will extinguish the fire; they forget the cat extinguishes; only the younger sister finds an old woman who has fire; she also gives her small seeds; a 9-headed demoness comes along the trail, sucks her younger sister's blood; Stone, Tree are guarded, nothing they notice; the Cheka cuts off three heads, the demoness runs away; the brothers follow a bloody trail, meet a shepherdess told by the demoness to lick her wounds; Cheka goes with him to the cave; strokes the demoness's wounds first cow tongue, then dog tongue; cuts off three heads; twins cut off two more, the last Cheka again; they all return to Cheka parents]: Stuart, Limusishiden 1994:80-84.