L81a1. A red bead in the hearth. 29.30.

Seeing a red bead (pebble) falling into the hearth, the character thinks that it is a coal and does not understand that the fire in the hearth has gone out.

Ossetians, Lezgins, Persians, Vakhans, Sarykoltsy.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians: Britaev, Kaloev 1969 [the sister of the three brothers goes to play with the seven daughters of the Sun; they detain her by throwing a bead into her hearth, she sparkles like a fire is burning; returning to the extinct in the hearth, the girl comes to the giant for fire; he pours coals into her sieve; the giant comes to the brothers on an ash trail; the brothers go to look for firewood, the giant goes to bed; the mouse gives the girl scissors, a comb, a mirror, tells her to run; abandoned objects turn into a mountain, a sea, a forest; the woman in the tower tells her to fill the tubs with tears (she fills), throws off a simple rope, she rises; the giant spits, demands a silk rope, the woman lowers a simple one, but cuts it with scissors, the giant breaks; the girl works diligently for the hostess; violates the ban on entering the seventh room; the women from the first room are petrified; in the seventh room, a whirlwind rose, 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]: 164-172; Lezgins [=Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 29:288-284; the padishah's seven sons leave home since they have no sister; the queen gives birth to a daughter, she grows up, learns about her brothers, tells her father to buy her iron shoes, goes looking for brothers; the shepherd teaches her how to find the brothers' house, the sister hides there, cooks; the older brother finds the sister in the chest; the brothers tell her not to let the fire go out; she takes the red bead for a coal , does not notice that the fire has gone out; comes to Azhdah's house for fire; he gives fire in a sieve; when the brothers are hunting, he comes on an ash trail to suck the girl's blood; the brothers dig a hole, Azhdaha falls into it, they They cover him with earth; they take his sister in a chest on a white camel, chase a hare, a merchant finds a girl, gets married; she gives birth to two sons, tells them to throw ash at the frog by the swamp, say who their mother is; brothers hear, find their sister, and return home with the merchant]: Khalilov 1965, No. 69:211-215 (=Kapiyeva 1974:54-60, but a woman gives birth to only one son; inaccurate translation?).

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [seven brothers want a sister; a mother gives birth to a girl, mistakenly hangs a sling over the door, not a spindle; brothers leave; a girl grows up, finds a brothers' house on top of a mountain; secretly cooks and cleans it up; the younger brother hides, catches it; the brothers tell you not to eat the kishmish berry if he finds it 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 thought that the fire was burning; the girl came 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 is weakening; finally says that the younger brother breaks the diva's bottle of life, he dies; brothers and sister return to their parents]: Osmanov 1987:235-238; Vakhans [the cat tells the sheep that today she will be slaughtered, and she her fat tail will eat her; the sheep asks the cat to bring a knife, cuts off her fat tail, the cat opened the door, the sheep went to Mount Kof, gave birth to a herd of sheep and a boy May-Zman ("son of a sheep"); tells him to go to people; Ministry of Health meets, wins, takes Chinorboz ("playing plane trees"), Kuboza ("playing with mountains"), Khdorgboz ("playing with millstones") as companions; companions come to an empty house, food is ready there; they queues remain guarded; a girl comes out of a crack in the pole, washes, paints the rest, puts a dish of food, turns into a needle, goes back; the rest stains her face with mud so that no one I noticed; when the Ministry of Health remains, he sprinkles salt on the cut, grabs the girl, the companions agree that he take her as his wife; the Ministry of Health tells his wife to watch the fire; she dropped a red bead, thought the coals were turning red, and they go out; sees smoke over a pile of stones, Barzangi comes there; tells them to sprinkle the road with fried lice, then the dung in the hearth will catch fire; on the trail he comes riding a goat, sticks needles into the bread, tells the girl dances at them, she hurts her legs, he drinks blood; the companions take turns guarding, everyone is afraid; the Ministry of Health hits them with a dagger, kills 5 Barzanga's heads, the sixth under a stone, the seventh ran away, returned with an army; the Ministry of Health burns the hairs of the mother sheep, which heals its wounds and the wounds of his companions; the Ministry of Health orders him to be lowered into the hole under the stone where the sixth head disappeared (the companions tried but could not); below is the Barzanga shepherd; the Ministry of Health asks him how to count the cattle (hit the tree, how many leaves have not crumbled, so many sheep are gone), how to cross the river (say, "chuck", the waters will part), where our grandfather's soul, i.e. Barzanga (in the staff, if you break it on the knee, he will die), grandmothers (in stones with which salt is crushed; hit each other, the wick will flash, blow it out), the shepherd himself (in the back of the head); the Ministry of Health suggests cleaning a shepherd in his head, presses a louse, "pulls on the demand that was on the shepherd's head"; under the guise of a shepherd, crosses the river; the grandmother asks to bring a sheep, a goat, he brings a ram, a goat; says that He mixed everything up in the sun; breaks the staff, blows out the wick; sends cattle upstairs to his companions; tells them to drag themselves, but does not tie themselves; they cut off the rope; Simurg grew out of a thorn that fell into the leg of a bird forest; the Ministry of Health frees Simurg; her children think that the man wants to kill her, she explains everything; she tries to raise the Ministry of Health to the ground, there are not enough supplies, he throws meat out of her hand, but she comes back; the next day - from the foot, they reach the ground, Simurg regurges, puts pieces of meat back to the Ministry of Health; gives two feathers - they turn them into an old man and a young man; under the guise of an old man, he comes to his companions, becomes young, kills them dagger; lives with his wife]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 12:153-163; Sarykoltsy [parents want to pass off three sons for three daughters; the youngest climbs a plane tree, hits heaven; with a needle he sticks into the house of three brothers, cooks in their absence; only the younger brother does not fall asleep, the brothers make the girl a sister; they tell her to watch the fire, the bead falls into the hearth, the girl takes her for a coal; comes to ask the old woman for fire, she gives her, tells her to bake cakes at home, comes on a goat, sticks a needle in the floor, tells her to dance, the girl stabs her legs, the old woman eats cakes, dipping them in blood; the brothers guard , only the youngest is killed by a witch, her corpse is burned]: Pakhalina 1966:103-106.