L81B. The hero's severed legs. .27.-.30.32.-.34.

The hero's rivals throw him off, cutting off his legs (usually leaving his sword in front of his tent and when the hero hurries outside, the blade hurts him).

Moldovans, Romanians, Russians (Vologda), Kalmyks, Abazins, Ossetians, Ingush, Chechens, Nogais, Avars, Armenians, Turkmens, Uzbeks, Yagnobs, Khufs, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs , Karakalpaks, South Altai Tuvans.

The Balkans. Moldovans [three fellows kidnapped three princesses; the king promises a reward to whoever finds his daughters; Calin the fool and his two older brothers go in search; K. guards at night, kills three-, four-, eight-headed dragons; the last blood filled the fire; K. goes to the light, met, bound Evening, Midnight, Dawn, so that the day does not come until he returns; 12 dragons and them sleep around the fire mother; K. takes coal, but also meat; dragons wake up, tell them to bring the daughter of the Red King (they themselves cannot, because they are afraid of a puppy with a rooster); K. leads dragons with them, kills one at a time when they climb over the city wall; K. took off the ring from the princess's finger; cut off the dragons's tongues; killed one dragon in their lair, and the other ran away; fed and let go of the bound Evening, Midnight, Dawn; passing through a golden, silver, copper forest, she meets three kidnapped princesses, each preparing food for her dragon; kills two dragons; when fighting a third, both call a crow, but K. calls him blessed king, the raven pours water on the dragon's flame, he dies; when K. falls asleep, his brothers cut off his legs; he was found by an armless one; K. grabbed the runaway dragon, she showed the lake; when K. they plunged as brothers, their legs and arms grew; they killed the dragon; the princess is given to a gypsy who allegedly killed dragons; K. sends his ring, recognized, showed his tongues; a gypsy with a bag of nuts was tied to the horse's tail; where the nut fell, a piece of body fell off; K. gave the princess to his former betrothed; K. came home, his wife was made a maid; he offered to throw the core up; when it fell, it crushed his brothers ]: Moldavian tales 1968:158-168; Romanians [the king is building a luxurious church, but it is constantly collapsing; he dreams that the church will be completed if he gets a magic bird that will nest at the top of the tower; the eldest son goes in search; the old fox asks him to share bread and wine, he refuses, the fox turned him into stone; the same with his middle brother; the younger one shared; the fox turned into a young man; he was bewitched until someone was friendly to him; they got a bird and a girl from the dragons; she turned her kingdom into an apple and took it with her; the dragon pursuers the young man turned them into stone; they saw two statues, these are older brothers; a former fox: if you revive them, you will repent, and if you don't, you will also repent; the younger brother asked to revive them; the elders brought him to to the spring, they cut off the legs, took the bird and the girl; the legless met a blind man, who was also maimed by his brothers; they killed a three-headed scorpion, washed themselves with blood, the blind saw the light, the crippled's legs grew; while the older brothers began to argue about who would take the girl; she refused to be their wife, they made her a maid; they brought a bird, she sat on the tower, but was silent; the youngest, disguised as a wanderer, enters the church, the bird sang; he tells the king his story, he recognizes his son; the girl unfolded the apple, the palace appeared; the brothers were tested: throw up a heavy stone; the elders fell on the head, the youngest is over; the wedding; the king handed over the throne to the younger]: Nortines 1935:7-25.

Central Europe. Russians (Vologodskaya) [when Ivan Tsarevich was 20 years old, he kicked his backyard grandmother, who huddled up to her shoulders through the window; his grandmother says that when I. cried as an infant, the tsar promised to marry him on Mary Beauty, a black braid, three queens to his daughter; I. goes to look for M., comes to an old woman, she gives letters to her sisters; the other two also give notes, the latter teaches how to find M.; they came together; when fell asleep on the bed, two raspberries were walking by; I.'s legs were cut off, threw them into the bushes, lay down on the bed; M. clicked them with heroic palms, they were wet; gave birth to twins; they grew up, she sends them find a father; I. hears a bird saying that dew will restore sight to the blind, his legs to the legless; he regains his legs; I. with M. and sons will return to his father]: Smirnov 1917, No. 26:152-158.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks: Badmayev 1899:23-33 [a mare gives birth to a boy, an umbilical cord is cut off by a stone that has fallen from the sky; Haradai-Mergen and Uladai-Mergen become his brothers; a boy kills three women's husbands; they are daughters of the sun, moon, stars; he marries the daughters of the sun himself, brothers to the other two; they envy the youngest, for his wife's face glows (first he stained him with ash); they leave a dagger at the kibitka, the youngest cuts off his legs; blind and armless come to him, help each other; they kidnap the girl, make him his sister; they tell him not to put out the fire; the fire goes out, she comes to the old woman for fire; an old woman sprinkles ash and coals in her hem, pierces a hole in her hem; on an ash trail comes to the girl, spoils her; cripples catch a witch, she makes them and the girl healthy, swallowing and spewing everyone; when swallows a legless man, does not spew it; others slaughter it, the sparrow screams, the little finger, the brothers find a healthy brother in the witch's little finger; the horse's son comes to the hole where his brothers are sitting; their wives kidnapped a 15-headed mousse; brothers let the horse's son down on a rope, he kills Musa, brothers pick up women, cut off the rope; he falls, is maimed; the mouse sucks his wounds, he breaks her leg, she eats leaves, He recovers; he also eats and recovers; on the one hand, people cry (snakes will eat them today), on the other hand they have fun (tomorrow); the serpent crawls to the side of three eagles in the nest; his horse's son they kill, eagles explain to their mother who their savior is; for getting rid of the snake, people give him food for the eagle; he flies on an eagle, feeds it, finally cuts off a piece of his flesh; he limps; the eagle swallows it, belches healthy; he comes to his brothers; they decide to fire arrows up; whoever is sinful, the arrow will nail him; older brothers die, the horse's son owns everything], 34-43 [Arsalang, the youngest of three brothers, guards, sees thieves, returns stolen herds, kills thieves, brings their widows, marries the most beautiful woman with mud on her face, gives the other two brothers; they notice that A.'s wife is beautiful , the elder decides to kill A.; leaves the sword, A. cut off his legs; women quietly leave meat and vodka for him; he is joined by the blind and armless; they kidnap the khan's daughter, do sister; her fire goes out, she comes to the witch for it, she sprinkles ash into her hem, punctures it; comes on the trail, eats all the food; her brothers find her, beat her, she swallows everyone, regurgitating healthy; A. - does not belch; brothers find him in her little finger (the sparrow told me to look there); A. comes to the brothers' camp, the son recognizes him; the elder digs a hole, covers him with a nightmare, makes poisoned tea; the son warns A.; he throws his older brother and his wife into the pit, forgives the middle brother]; Vatagin 1964:106-115 [a mare of three brothers gets screwed three times a day, but someone always kidnaps a foal born in the morning; younger, Bë Rgin Tsagan cuts off a foal's pearl tail and coral mane with an arrow when it is carried away by a whirlwind; consistently kills three mangas, takes everyone's wife; they are the daughters of the sun, moon and night sky, whom the mangas were grabbed when they arrived in the guise of swans to swim; the older brothers envy that the youngest's wife is more beautiful, leave their sword at the entrance; the blind and armless come to the legless ; they kidnap the khan's daughter, make her sister; her fire goes out, she comes to the old woman for him, she puts the coals in the hem, finds a house on an ash trail, drinks the girl's blood with her copper beak; the brothers guard, beat an old woman, forced to swallow and belch everyone, they recover; B. is not regurgitated, the sparrow screams that he is in the old woman's finger; under the guise of Gelyunga, B. comes to his brothers, his wife recognizes him; they play cards on his younger brother's wife; B. cuts off their heads]; Jimbinov 1962 [an old man and an old woman want to slaughter their mare three times a day; each time a dog burns a string, a mare breaks out; runs away altogether; finds and feeds three newborn boys; flies away in the cloud, telling the youngest that his name is Kokode Wise; the brothers go to look for wives; K. meets an old woman and a girl, that gives him three cakes; K. gives them to the dog 15-headed Musa, who caresses him, he kills Musa; the same episode has 25- and 35-headed muses; the 35-headed one voice sounds in the sky, the other on the ground, one fang plows the sky, another earth; K. kills three old women - the mothers of Musa, takes everyone's wife, gives the elders to his brothers; they see the light coming from the youngest, they are jealous; they leave braids at the doorstep, K. cuts off their legs; Blind and armless come to him; the daughter of a celestial is kidnapped, she is at home with them; enters a house where an old woman with only an eye on the back of her head asks to look in her head, gives ash and coals, punctures hem; on an ash trail comes to the house, sucks blood; friends watch, tell the old woman to cure everyone; she swallows everyone, regurgitates healthy; K. does not belch, the sparrow tells her to cut her finger, he is there; K. came to the brothers disguised as a gypsy; they made his wife a shepherdess; K. tells his brothers to shoot up, arrows fall on them, kill them; daughter-in-law ties hundreds of horses to their tails]: 31-45; Abaza [at night in Horses disappear in the village; the khan sends his eldest son, who hides in horror when he sees a terrible rider; the same youngest son; young servant Murat guards three nights, kills horsemen on white, bay, raven horses, hides horses; Khan is dissatisfied that the servant, not sons, defeated enemies; adopts M., but sends sons with him to return the kidnapped horses and kill M.; all three on broken horses come to the village kidnappers, they marry their widows; when leaving, M.'s wife tells them not to look through one window; he looks at the room and golden shoes outside the window; when he returns, the wife explains that they were left by the heavenly maiden, who to catch Her first husband tried unsuccessfully; a black horse teaches M. not to stop in a hot village, to stop where the frost is, to grab the hair that causes flies to fight, exchange it for fly wings, in in the form of a fly to the sky, bite that girl, promise to return her shoes; M. brings the heavenly girl, making a second wife; the brothers are jealous, they cut off M.'s legs in the forest, his wives are turned into maids; M. meets a blind, armless man, they were also maimed by their brothers; all three bring the girl to cook and wash; her fire goes out, she sees smoke, comes to the old woman; the old woman walks on the ash on the trail, sucks the girl's blood; the brothers guard, grab the old woman, force the girl to swallow and regurgitate, making her healthy; the same with cripples; M. does not regurgitate; the bird tells the old woman to be burned, found in ash finger, M. in it; brothers return the girl to her parents; unrecognized M. comes to Khan, where a feast and an archery competition; kills brothers with arrows, Khan dies of fear, M. becomes khan]: Tugov 1985, No. 29:54-66; Ossetians: Miller 1902, No. 3 (Digors) [Bestaser-Sila died, left three sons; younger Zanbolat breaks the witch's tub three times with an arrow; she tells him to look for the kidnapper better the horse left by the father; D. asks his mother to fry the corn kernels, clamps them in her hand, she admits that there is a horse that gives birth to a stallion every day; the brothers are frightened, D. takes the foal from the one who comes out from the land of a seven-headed giant; K. forges a sword and a mace for D.; D. goes underground, kills the seven-headed giant and his wife, two more giants, frees three girls; they tell them to throw millet black birds (they are happy, they were not even given bran), two iron wolves two rams, oil the door hinges (they did not lubricate the door hinges before); they let D. pass; he kills an iron horse, a felt man, steals underground cattle; brothers put a sword in front of D.'s bed, scream, he jumps up, is left without legs; brothers take cattle and girls; D. comes armless and blind, with them brothers did the same; all three kidnap a girl, make her sister; a witch sucks blood from her heels; D. and his companions found a witch, they and the girl climbed into her womb, got out healthy; killed a witch, the girl was released; D. hired a swineherd; came to his wake; killed both brothers with one split arrow, tied their wives to horses; awarded a swineherd]: 78-98; Ingush: Malsagov 1983, No. 8 [ when he dies, the old man tells his sons to guard the grave; the elder and middle brother ask his younger brother Ovdilg ("fool") to go instead of them; in three nights he catches three horses, each giving him his hairs; the prince gives away three daughters, the youngest is Harsen Nars with a golden head and silver hands; O. jumps to three towers on three horses, takes and hides three girls; gives the elders to his brothers, XN takes for himself; Biydolg Bare kidnaps her; O. comes successively to the son of the Sun, the son of the Month, the son of the Star; BB has a three-legged guling horse; BB asks him twice if we will catch up before lunch; he replies that we will catch up with everything; BB crushes O. with a free club, takes HN, the son of the Sun, the son of the Month, the son of the Month resurrects O.; the son of the Star tells him to go to the mountain where the mother of the gulings fights; tear the muscle off her hand, feed the wolf, otherwise he will wean the guling's leg; now O. has a four-legged guling, and BB has a three-legged; BB can't catch up with O., guling goes to the ground, BB dies; wives drive O.'s brothers out to look for him; O. kills three Enjal monsters; brothers put in at the door a sword, O. cuts off her legs, the brothers take the guling; blind and armless come to live with O.; while three cripples hunt, the fire in XN goes out; she comes to the yeshapyats; they give a sieve of ash, on top of the coals; on the ash trail, the yeshap mother finds a house, drinks HN blood; for promising not to kill her, yeshapikha gives O. a bar, he cures the cripple; O. kills yeshapiha; O. kills and revives brothers, drives them away] : 55-71; Tankieva 2003 [(about the same as Malsagov's)]: 228-232; Chechens [eight brothers guard the herds, notice nothing; the ninth Khan Gammalt (only 10 years old) kills two sledges- robbers, marries their hero sister; envious brothers leave a sword in front of HG sleeping, he jumps up, remains without legs; he is joined by a blind and armless man; they kidnap girl, they tell her not to throw cookies into the fire; she throws, the fire goes out, she comes to the yeshap for fire; yeshap children give her coal and ash in the sieve; on the ash trail, yeshap comes to the girl to drink her blood; HG hides, cuts down 8 heads; she asks not to cut the ninth, swallows and regurgitates the handless and blind man healthy; HG does not belch, the tit screams that he is in the little finger; the severed little finger runs, but is captured, HG is inside; he marries a beautiful woman]: Bagriy 1930 (2), No. 45:159-166 (Quail in Dalgat 1972:350-364); Nogais [from A.E. Gren's report, Lopatinsky's materials); the dying man tells his sons bring three bags of salt to his grave; the eldest, middle sons are sleeping, the youngest sees the horse, he gives him hairs; if burned, he will appear; the khan will give his daughters to the winner of the competition (knock down the needles at a gallop in mound); the youngest gets all three daughters; the elders tie a sword at the entrance, the youngest cuts off his legs; the bear allows his legs to be put in his mouth, the young man recovers; returns to wife and son (he has a star in his forehead); they poisoned the brothers]: Bagriy 1930 (2): 62-64; Avars [Khan's mare gives birth to golden-tailed and golden-maned foals, but someone immediately steals them; the eldest, middle son fall asleep, younger Muin sprinkles salt on the wound, tries to snatch the foal from the kidnapper, tears off his leg; the brothers go in search, the elders stay in the cave, the youngest hides under the bridge three times, each time defeats a sledge jumping on a stolen foal; every time the horse stops in front of the bridge, but the sledge says that M. is not here, and if he does, he will kill him; the last sledge is on a three-legged foal, fight the hardest with him; M. takes the wife of that sledge for himself, gives the other two wives to his brothers; the brothers leave their sword at the entrance to the cave, M. cut both legs to the knee, the brothers take the good and women away; Blind and Bald come to live with M.; they kidnap the khan's daughter to cook for them; the fire went out, she came to Hart for fire, she gave it, but began to come to suck blood from her head; Bald, Blind remain guard, afraid of hart, do not say anything to Muin; M. grabs hart, makes him swallow the Bald and the Blind, regurgitate healthy; warns that she will not burp him, because he killed her sledge sons; it is necessary will cut each of her organs; Blind and Bald find M. in the little finger of Hart's legs, his legs are healthy; M. comes to the brothers' wedding, only the youngest girl obtained from the sledges recognizes him; no one can pull on a bow, pulls only M., asks Pleshivy whether to shoot a chicken or a rooster, he replies that the chicken has nothing to do with it, M. kills the brothers with an arrow; M. marries a sleigh girl and a kidnapped cook, M.'s friends - on two other sledge girls]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 32:311-316; Armenians (recorded in Baku in Arabic alphabet; all names are Turkic, but the author of the record is Armenian) [dying, the king orders three sons guard his grave for three nights and give three sisters to be the first to marry; the eldest do not go to guard, the youngest kills horsemen on red, black, white horses; gives the sisters for a heron ( Leilek Padishah), a dove (Gogerchin Padishah) and an eagle (Karakush-padishah); according to his father's covenant, the brothers built a mosque; pigeons: it is flawed - the seven-fin nightingale (Eddi-Tukli), belonging to Köse, does not sing; younger The prince goes from one son-in-law to another, everyone teaches what to do; you have to go in to the princess, tie her with her own hair, make her swear to follow him with the bird; Kösa pursues, kills prince, takes the girl and the bird; Karakush revived, this time the girl sat on a plain foal, K. could not catch up; the brothers left daggers at the door of the room where the younger one was, that fell on them, the brothers brought the bird themselves, are preparing a wedding with the princess; the youngest has recovered, hired a tailor, pulls out the magic flying dresses that the princess asks for from three nuts; arrives unrecognized and beats brothers, then disappears; opens; wedding; brothers tied to horse tails]: Bogoyavlensky 1892b, No. 10:116-126.

Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens [the padishah has three sons, each mare gives birth to a foal, the foals are kidnapped; the brothers walk along three roads, the youngest Karadzha is a batyr on the one you will not return from; suggests Deva throws stones up; dev throws himself on his head, dies; K. comes to the three kidnapped peri, kills three devas; when he fights the youngest, the peri pour millet under his feet, and K. mash, dev, slides, falls; K. brings three peri to his brothers; they hang a diamond sword at the entrance to the yurt, K. cuts off their legs; he is visited by the armless Amet, the rumor, and the blind Fast-footed Veli, also crippled by their brothers; brothers bring themselves a young woman, she cooks pilaf; an old man from the top, a beard with two ties the young woman with hair from her beard, eats pilaf; the young woman tells her returning brothers that she has forgotten cook; the same when the first, then the second sister remains; K. himself ties the old man; lets go when he returns his legs, arms, eyes to the crippled; K. pretends to be an old man, comes to his wife; she says that her missing husband told her to marry the one who would pull his bow; he comes with a horseman, kills his brothers, tells his story, returns his wife]: Stebleva 1969, No. 22:54-66; Uzbeks [mare Lali gives birth to the Golden Foal, then the Silver Foal, both disappear on the very first night; his grandfather has a grandson Badal; when he should be born a Raven, his grandfather tells him to guard, the shadow takes the foal away, but B. cuts off the claw The size of a plane tree, it was the Black Diva; B. goes in search with his older brothers; at the crossroads it says, "If you go, you'll come back," "Either you stay alive or not," "You won't come back at all"; B. rides the third on the road, brothers first; B. comes to the palace, where the captive Okkyz; first, the White Diva (frost) enters the bridge on the Silver Horse, the horse stops, B. kills the diva; the same with the Yellow Diva (heat, on Golden Horse); kills the Black Diva, who is on the Black Horse, the darkness clears, the sun is shining; B. misses home, finds impoverished brothers in the bazaar, puts them on the Golden and Silver horses; brothers they put their sword at the door, shout that enemies, the sword cuts off B.'s legs; an armless runner comes, the khan cut off his hands; they find the blind man, the khan blinded him, took the bride; they brought her back, she cooks, the fire went out, she saw smoke in the distance, came to Admauz Kampyr for the fire, she poured grains into her hem, came on the trail, sucks her blood, threatens to swallow it if she tells the men; the first guard blind, but AK locked the door; B. grabs AK, makes everyone heal; for this purpose, AK swallows and regurgitates a blind, armless man; does not belch B.; her sister brothers chop her apart, the sparrow shouts "little finger", in which B.; AK's head tries to roll, but it is cut to pieces; the wedding of a blind man with a girl; B. comes to O.'s wedding with his older brother B.; his grandfather chased out treacherous brothers]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 282-291 (= Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:109-119, about the same in Ostroumov 1890, No. 11:50-65); Yagnobtsy: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 31 [someone kidnaps foals; the elder, middle princes fall asleep, the youngest sees how a dragon swallows a foal, tears off the foal's tail; brothers go along three roads; the youngest comes successively to three women, each wife of one of the three dragons; he fights each on on the bridge, a woman throws a jugara under the dragon's feet, a young man wins, takes women, cuts belts out of dragon skin; finds and redeems broken brothers; they leave a sword at the door, throw crippled younger brother; blind and armless comes to him; they stole the girl to cook; they tell the cat to give one of the two highlights they find on the floor, otherwise she will put out the fire; girl eats both, the cat fills the fire with urine; the girl comes to the dragon for fire, who tells her to scatter barley grains on the way back; on this trail comes to suck blood; the blind, armless guard, but afraid to stand up for the girl; the lame grabs the dragon, tells everyone to be cured; the dragon consistently swallows everyone and regurgitates whole; the lame man does not belch, he warned what will be in the finger; the former are blind and the dragon is cut down armless, the young man comes out of his finger; the king went blind during this time, but saw the light when the youngest son gave the handkerchief to wipe his eyes; ordered the eldest sons to be tied to horses, and gave their wives to their companions youngest son], 43 [divas carries the foals of the royal mare; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest grabs the foal by the tail, the tail breaks off; the brothers go in search; at the fork there is a stone with the inscription, the upper and the lower roads are safe, the middle road is dangerous, the youngest rides medium; the elders become apprentices, the youngest meets the wives of black, yellow, white divas, kills divas; White's wife teaches how to kill a herdsman, the young man takes the tailless foal and the whole herd; the older brothers leave a sword at the door, the youngest is left without a leg; they come blind and armless, bring the girl to cook, tell her to share a highlight with a cat; the cat lingers, extinguishes the fire, the girl goes for fire to the female diva, she gives a handful of barley, comes on the trail, sucks blood; blind, armless guard, afraid; the young man wins 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; the older brothers are tied to horses; the prince returns his wife and foal, sisters pass off as former blind and armless]: 157-163, 192-196; Khufs [as soon as the king's mare is screwed, the foal is stolen by divas; the king consistently sends four sons to guard; each the elders fall asleep; the younger Arpamishk cuts his little finger and sprinkles salt on the wound; fights with the diva, who carries the stallion, but one hoof remains in A.'s hand; he goes in search; asks his wife to pour the diva under him millet legs if a diva prevails in a battle on the bridge; a black diva on a black horse with black dogs; slipped on a millet, A. threw him into the water, took his horse - this is that foal with his hoof off ; married a diva widow, brought her home; a similar episode with white, red, gray divas; A. leaves each of the widows of divas to one of the brothers; the brothers are envious that A. has a better wife and horse; they stick knives, they shout to A. that enemies have attacked; he stumbles upon knives, maims his legs; they come to live blind and armless; they kidnap the girl as a wife for A.; she is at home, the fire goes out, she comes to the witch for fire, she cooks a man; the witch gives fire and asks where the girl lives; comes, asks her to look for lice, sucks blood; A. sees that her wife is losing weight; teaches her to quietly tie the witch's hair to nails; the witch swallows the girl; A. makes the handless man and the girl spew, swallow and spew the blind man, they become healthy; she is told to swallow A., then spew; spews after she is burned with fire; A. becomes a healthy handsome man; they killed a witch, separated, A. brought his wife to his parents' house]: Sokolova 1959, No. 20:73-83.

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 40 [Yarmukhametov 1957:39-61; =Bulatov, Sharipova 2000:49-89; three daughters of the padishah are carried away by a whirlwind; Kich-Batyr brothers (kitsch - evening), Ten Batyr ( night), Tan-batyr (morning: younger) play; the old man advises them to look for the padishah's daughters; they come to the cave where the divas have disappeared; only Tan-B. pushes the stone away; the elders do not reach the bottom of the cave, Tan-b. cuts the rope, jumps; mice undermine the walls of the well, send Tan-B. across the passage to the copper palace; Tan-B. kills the diva, frees the eldest daughter of the padishah; the same with silver, gold palaces, middle and eldest daughters, two other divas; during a fight with the last diva, T. replaces barrels of strong and weak water, the divas weakens, is killed; the younger sister puts the palaces in copper, silver, golden eggs, gives Tan-b; brothers pull out the girls, cut off the rope, lifting Tan-B; The mouse man tells you to sit on a white goat, not a black goat; Tan-B. sits on a white goat, carried to the upper world; brothers tie There is a sword in front of the tent, Tan-batyru cuts off her legs; blind and armless come to him; they kidnap the daughter of the padishah, make her sister; her fire goes out, she comes to the witch Ubirly Karcik; she tells her to fall for ash so that she can come to visit; when she comes, she tells her to look for the girl's blood in her hair; three brothers take turns guarding, Tan-B. binds the witch, beats; she swallows everyone, regurgitates everyone healthy; Tan-B. does not belch; others chop her, see a fleeing finger, finding Tan-b in it; at home he hires a shoemaker; for the wedding of the youngest daughter of the padishah, he creates eggs on request boots, dresses, palaces; opens, marries; drives away brothers; passes off his wife's sisters as his brothers], 42 [the padishah has Aigali's youngest son; herds disappear, two older brothers go in search; A. plays, threw the golden ball, he pierced the bottom of the woman's bucket; she advises you to better look for his father's cattle; A. chose a shaggy horse, the wind; comes to the old woman, she sends to another, the other to the third; she tells to cut down two heads to the diva, and she would come to cut down the third with her sword; a fox brought a sword for the third head, A. killed the diva; drove herds home, met the brothers; they tied a sword to the legs of sleeping A.; he jumped up, was left without legs; an armless man came to him - his brothers cut off his hands out of envy; then came blind (blinded by relatives); he stole the daughter of the padishah, she began to cook for the cripples; fire went out, she came to the witch for the fire; when she went back, ash fell out of the sieve; the old woman follows the trail, sucks the girl's blood from her finger; the blind and armless guard, afraid to say A.; A. grabbed the old woman, forced them to swallow and belch, everyone became healthy; the old woman did not regurgitate A., she was chopped, A. was found in her little finger; at home A. showed his father his ring, squeezed water out of the stone; forgave the brothers], 61 [dying, the father tells three sons to come to his grave for three days; only the youngest goes, gets the feather of a black, white (swan), red bird; if you take it in your mouth and hang down, a black horse and black clothes will appear; white; red; the padishah will give three daughters for the one whose arrow flies through the ring at the top of a high pole; an unrecognized younger brother on a black, white, red horse wins each time, gets all three princesses; each lives in a separate palace, they think that each has its own husband; he brings impoverished brothers, gives them black and white clothes; they come to the older princesses instead of him, he stays with the youngest; the older brothers are jealous, leave a diamond sword in front of the door, he cuts off the youngest's legs, they take his wives and wealth; the handless and blind came to the legless; they kidnap the daughter of the padishah so that washed and cooked; Zhalmavyz began to come to suck the girl's blood; the legless grabbed her; she swallowed and regurgitated, made everyone healthy; she did not regurgitate the legless; he was found in her thumb; he takes with a girl, exposes her brothers (tells them to shoot in the ring, their arrows do not hit), lives with four wives]: 103-127, 139-148, 287-298; Bashkirs [the mare gives birth, but foals disappear every time; the eldest, middle son goes to guard, falls asleep; the youngest Kyran-Batyr rips his hair off his head with a sword, does not sleep, cuts the cloud that takes the foal; follows the bloody trail to copper, silver, golden houses ; each has one of the kidnapped foals and a woman; K. consistently fights three devas, kills them; tames a piebald mare; tries to get a golden sword from the bottom of the lake; the mare explains what is in the water the reflection of the sword, he himself pierced into a pine tree trunk that split the sky and went further up; K. climbs a pine tree, squeezes to the other side of the sky (after that, a pile of stars remains in the sky), brings a sword, He rolls three houses into three eggs, gives two wives to his brothers; they are jealous, hang their sword in front of the tent, shout that enemies have attacked, K. runs out, the sword cuts off his legs; he sees a deer carrying the sun on his horns, a man runs after him; says that he sees only when he is near the sun; the blind man puts legless K. on his back, walks, K. sees an armless man chasing the same deer; he explains that the deer promised to bring it to people the sun, but did not bring it, people froze, the handless man's hands froze; three companions decide to get a female cook, kidnap the khan's daughter, and tell them not to let the fire go out; the fire goes out, the girl comes to the old woman for fire; she gives coals, finds a girl on an ash trail, asks her to look in her hair, sucks her bone marrow; the girl turns yellow, the companions take turns they guard, only K. hits her so that she can not withstand the blows; K. makes her swallow and belch the girl, blind, armless; regurgitated are healed; swallowing K., does not want to belch him; exes blind and armless cut her into pieces; the sparrow screams "little finger", the companions cut his little finger, K. comes out, he has legs again; returns his daughter to Khan; K. marries a woman from the golden house, gives the other two companions, brothers makes them servants]: Barag 1988, No. 38:252-267.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Tursunov 1983:80-86 [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 impoverished brothers; they envy KU as if he took the most beautiful girl; leave his sword in front of the yurt, KU goes out, is left without legs; the wife hides food for him and weapons; a blind man comes, carries it, a speedboat comes to live with them; they kidnapped the girl Sarkyt to cook for them, to be named sister; S. told the cat that she did not get to her, ate the baursaks herself; the cat extinguished the fire in revenge; S. went to look for fire, he has the seven-headed Malmouse-Kempir with one eye in her forehead; she sucks her blood through her toe, promises to eat it if she tells her brothers; gives ash He says "Become Gengil" on the way home; a prickly chingil (Nalimodendron halodendron) grows on the sides, the fire lights up at home; every day JK comes to suck blood; brothers dig a hole, cover nightmare; JK fails, she is cut off 6 heads out of 7; they promise not to kill if she makes them healthy and beautiful; she swallows, belches S., blind, speedboat; KU does not belch; he is found by killing JK and having crushed the bone of the little finger; S. was returned to their parents, passed off as a former blind man; KU and the speedboat come to the KU brothers unrecognized; offer to shoot; the arrows of the brothers themselves, KU and speedboat fall on their heads, they kill; KU took a wife, became a khan, made a speedboat a vizier, married his wife's sister to him], 189-191 [Asan is superior to his brothers in everything, receives wives from the khan for himself and for them; the brothers are jealous; the wife says that A.'s soul is not in his body, but far away; the brothers leave the sword at the doorstep, shout that enemies have attacked, the sword cuts off A.'s legs; he comes to live armless; brings a cooking girl; the fire went out, the girl came to the old woman Mystan for the fire, who began to come every day to suck her blood; A. followed, grabbed the old woman, let him go when she returned his legs and the armless hand; A. returned to wife and son, who were tyranted by his brothers; forgave his brothers]; Karakalpaks (Takhtakupyr district) [Temirbek's eight brothers conspired with each other: "How is this so, because he (Temirbek) surpassed us [in everyone], let's kill him, tie a sword to the door, and we'll shout Temirbek to him, the enemies have come; when Temirbek the hero runs to the door, this sword will cut off his legs, and after that we will be heroes"; they did so; T. was left without legs, his brothers stole his cattle; T. met a blind speedboat and an armless hero (they were also maimed by his brothers); bai arranged horse races; T. sat on a blind man the speedboat, he ran before anyone else; won a school of horses; when they met the girls, they kidnapped one of them; T., having cattle and a wife, began to live happily]: Baskakov 1951:33-35; Karakalpaks [dying, buy tells three sons to share cattle and goods; they have eaten their inheritance, are trying to work, the older and middle sons did not find work, the youngest earned a lot of money, married brothers; brothers' wives: kill the youngest, he is rich; you need to attach a sword to the gate, shout "the cattle were stolen by thieves", the young man will run out and die when he stumbles upon a sword; the brothers did so; the younger sword cut off his legs, the brothers left, taking cattle and property; the young man sees a noseless man chasing a mountain goat; a young man shoots a goat with a bow, a noseless man offers friendship; he meets a man without an arm who is also chasing a goat (same); a one-armed man reports that the khan's daughter is married, they come to the one, the young man falls in love, offers to steal her; the friends live together; the boys go hunting, the girl stays at home; there is no fire; she goes to look for fire, stumbles upon the old woman's hut Mastan-Kempir; M. asks to look for lice in her head, quietly plunges an awl into the girl; pours coal and ash into a leaky bag, comes to her on an ash trail; asks again look for lice, the awl pierces again; friends notice that the girl withers, she tells them everything; friends decide to protect her, the first to be noseless, fights the witch, she overcomes him, binds him to tree, again pierces the awl into the girl; the same with the one-armed; the legless overcomes the witch, ties it to the tree; the witch announces that she can return the nose, the armless hand and the legless leg; she takes turns swallows friends, spews back whole; she is released with a promise not to harm anyone; the girl marries her younger brother; they achieve goals and desires]: Aimbetov 2014a: 26-27.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. South Altai Tuvans: Taube 1978, No. 27 [Bögen Saggan Toolaj was born {not a woman, but} a husband; attacked by the terrible giant Chureldej Chaan, deciding to seize the country before B. matured; wives B.'s two older brothers hid the baby in a poplar hollow, putting birch roots in their mouths instead of nipples; B. grew up, found an empty freaky; threw off the stones from the hearth, he found a pipe, a flint, a skein of rope with with a silver end and a silver stick; found his older brothers; went west, paving the road with a silver stick, through the windbreak and through the mountain, swam across the sea on it; when he came to Jess Mangnai, he forced her to give him the best food; DM himself easily defeated; came to his wife H., who was kind to him; turning to Nebu-Altai for help, B. hardly defeated H., drank his blood and grinded him in a stone mill; at home the wives of the older brothers became jealous of B. and persuaded their husbands to place the sword with a point at the entrance to B.'s yurt; began to shout that robbery, B. jumped out, the sword cut off his legs; the brothers and wives migrated; B. managed to kill the mare, ate its meat; one day the mush tried to nibble on his severed legs and B. tore off her two legs himself; the other mouse brought herbs, the mouse legs grew; B. also ate herbs, the meat grew together, but the bones did not they grew together; Sean Shilvey came, whom his brothers had blinded out of envy; put B. on his shoulders, went, and B. showed the way; they met a man whom his brothers had greedily cut off hands; in the sky, Arykcha's youngest daughter Khaan can heal a cripple; B. flew there with a falcon, then became a pacer and took the princess to the ground; the fire went out because the men looked at the girl; the girl went after fire to the old woman Jelbag; she poured ash and heat into her hem, pierced a hole to leave an ash trail; jelbege followed the trail and drank the girl's blood; the men put the lifeless girl on an honorable place; the old woman came and swallowed her; the men grabbed the old woman, and the nightingale began to sing, "Little Finger, Little Finger"; they cut off the little finger and the girl came out of it alive and well; the men forced the jelbege and them swallow; she spit out two, and S. was also in her little finger; all three became healthy, prettier; the old woman was released; the girl returned to heaven; the men found their wives, whom their brothers and theirs wives were tortured by hard work; brothers and their wives were tortured and then thrown into the steppes: one without legs, the other without arms, the third without eyes; when they died, they turned into flies and mosquitoes]: 97-120 (=Taube 1994, No. 5: 70-88); Taube 1994, No. 6 [about the same as in Taub 1994, No. 5, but briefly; hero name Er Argyyn]: 88-90.