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L94B. Give back what you don't know at home! (ATU 325)

.11.15.-.17,27.-.29.31.-.36.

A person promises to give the supernatural character the first person to meet (either what he has not yet seen in his own house, or what is outside the door, etc.). A person thinks that he will have to give something that has little value, but it turns out that it is his own child.

Mozambican Mestizos, Portuguese, Spanish, Basques, Catalans, Ladins, French, Bretons, Germans (Pomerania, Grimms, Baden-Württemberg, Austria), Irish, British, Old Testament, Slovenes, Croats, Moldovans, Romanians, Hungarians, Gagauz people, Russians (Teresky Bereg, Arkhangelsk, Karelian Pomorie, Olonetskaya, Tver, Ryazan, Oryol, Voronezh), Belarusians, Ukrainians ( Transcarpathia, Kiev, Volyn, Chernigov), Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Nogais, Chechens, Georgians, Western and Eastern Sami, Veps, Estonians, Setu, Lutsi, Swedes, Danes, Finns, Karelians, Komi, Chuvash, Marie, Mordovians, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Siberian Tatars, Teleuts, Khakas, Southern Selkups, Dolgans, Central (?) Yakuts, Baikal Evenks.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Ronga-speaking Muslim mestizos Lourenço Marques [the king is poor, fishing; the seven-headed serpent gives gold for promising to give him the first thing he meets in his home; this is a pregnant woman wife; the night before the young man is to go to the snake, two men in white tell him to put seven milk vessels in the doorway; the serpent comes and drinks them; gives the young man the ability to understand the language animals, tells no one to talk about it; the young man marries, laughs when he hears birds and animals talking; the wife is furious, thinks he is laughing at her; the rooster tells the cat that he would simply beat his wives; the husband does this, the wife stops being angry]: Junod s.a., No. 29:182-184.

Southern Europe. The Portuguese [a wooden spoon maker went into the forest; noticed a hollow in a chestnut tree, looked inside; the Moor tells him to give him what the person sees first in the house, otherwise he will die; went out the eldest daughter; she went to the Moor; in the palace he gave the key to the room, not to open it; she opened the bodies there were decapitated; the Moor noticed blood on the key, cut off the girl's head and threw it into the same room ; asked the man for an middle daughter for the company of his sister; the same; the youngest also entered that room, but noticed that the sisters' bodies were warm; connected their bodies to their heads, moistened them with blood, the sisters came to life; the youngest washed the blood from the key, the Moor was happy; the youngest put one of the sisters in the basket, told the Moor that she had sugar in it, asked her to take it as a gift to her father; forbid her to open it - she sees everything; when the Moor intends look into the basket, the sister sitting in it says: I see everything; Moor: beautiful eyes see far - running, running; left the basket to the girls' father; the same with another sister; then the youngest made a straw doll, she left the terrace, dressed her own dress, and sat down in the basket herself; when she returned, the Moor tried to grab the doll, fell off the terrace and broke his neck; after that, the palace and chestnut disappeared]: Coelho 1879, No. 26:63-65; Portuguese [poor fisherman went to sea and hears a voice: if you give the one who looks you first at home, then there will be a rich catch; the fisherman decided that it will be a dog, but it turned out to be a son; the young man went to by sea, a ship rose from the day, the young man sank to the bottom, there is a palace, everything is done by itself; at night someone lies down with him; one day a ship appeared and the young man went to visit his parents; asked for him matches and a candle; when he came back and lit the candle, a beautiful girl was nearby; a drop of wax fell on her; she told her to look for her in the Castle of Black Stones, wearing out seven pairs of iron shoes; he set off; an ant, an eagle and a lion are arguing over a dead sheep; the young man divided it, each gave him the ability to take his form, two legs, a feather, a fur; the young man became an eagle, flew into an impregnable castle; allowed the girl pull herself together and put herself in a cage; at night he got out of her as an ant, ended up with a girl; she says that the giant's strength is in the hair that grows on his navel and girds his waist twice; after this giant will fly out of the giant; the young man gnawed through his hair with an ant, caught a dove with an eagle; there is an egg in it, he broke it in front of a giant, he died; wedding]: Dias Marques 2019, No. 101:151-153; Spaniards [ The poor man goes for the bars, grabs the willow, the dragon tells him to bring him what he meets first at home; he thinks it will be a dog, the youngest daughter comes out; he sends the eldest first, average, the dragon rejects them; at night she sheds her skin, becomes handsome; the dragon's wife visits the sisters, they are jealous, burn their skin, the husband tells them to look for him in a gilded castle, wearing out seven pairs of iron shoes; wife and son come to the old woman, she tells her to wait for the Moon Eagle to return; the Moon sends to her Sun Brother, he sends him to the Wind Brother, the Wind takes her to the castle, where her missing husband marries; wife consistently kindles three coal given by her husband, each fulfills a wish to have a beautiful spinning wheel; for three spinning wheels, the wife buys three nights in the prince's bedroom; on the third night, the prince does not drink a sleepy potion, returns to his wife and son]: Malinovskaya 2002:233-237; Spaniards [{the origin of this text is not specified, but there is another one from Huelva as well as Latin American versions}; a fisherman caught a siren in the net ; she threatens to eat it if he does not give the first to meet him at home; the fisherman thought that a dog would come out, but his son came out; he went to say goodbye to his friends; he saw an ant, a wolf, an eagle, who were arguing over a dead donkey; the young man gave meat to an eagle, bones to a wolf, an ant's skin; they gave the young man a piece of ear, a feather, a paw that could be used to take the form of a wolf, an eagle, an ant; becoming an eagle, a young man flew to the princess; she brought him to her room, where he took on a human form; not only the princess likes him, but also the king himself; but the siren took him away; the king and the princess went in a boat, they showed the siren a silver paddle; for this she stuck the young man out of the water, but only up to the neck; they showed a gold paddle, the young man became an eagle, flew away; then the siren told the earth to open and the princess when she went into the palace, failed; a young man in the form of an ant entered the underworld; the princess is guarded there by a giant; the young man also gave her the image of an ant, both returned to earth; wedding, everything is fine]: Camarena, Chevallier 1995, No. 316:115-117; Basques [Canillo fisherman caught a fish (redfin pagel), which asks to let it go, promises wealth; the fisherman let go, got rich, but became impoverished again; caught the same fish again; that promises wealth if a fisherman gives her what he will be the first to meet at home; he thinks that a dog will come out, and Canillo's son younger has come out; he must be sent to houses by the sea; he lives there hell, who takes the form of a fish; in the house, a devil makes a noise on purpose, throws him into the sea; he swims to the shore; a lion, a dove and an ant ask him to help them divide the dead horse; he gives the lion meat giblets pigeon, bone ant; they give it the ability to turn into a lion, dove, ant; in the form of a pigeon, K. flies to the house; a devil flies to the house; a beauty nearby; asks where life is the devil; in Mount Iparrre his brother, he has a hare in his stomach, a dove in a hare, an egg in the blue; K. flies to that mountain, is hired as a shepherd; the owner tells him not to take the sheep to the mountain, the hell will kill them there; K. drives them to the mountain, in the form of a lion fights the devil, the sheep eat fresh grass; the maid spies, hears K. dreams of a piece of bread; on the third day she brings bread, K. overcomes the line; in the form of a dove, flies to the first line an ant enters his house, breaks an egg on his forehead; returns to his father; he became arrogant when he got rich, but when he recognized his son, he took him to him]: Barandiaran 1962a, No. 13:62-68; Catalans [fisherman caught a siren; she tells him to give the soul of the first to meet him at home; this is his son; a young man helps an eagle, a wolf and an ant, they give him the ability to take their form; when The siren almost grabbed him, he turned into an eagle and flew to the king's palace; the princess caught the eagle and he became human again; the siren tries to grab the young man again, he escapes as a wolf; ant; marries a princess]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 316:316; ladins: Uffer 1973, No. 5 [hell promises to fulfill a woman's wish if she gives him half of what she has under her apron; she I peeled the beets and thought it was about her; when she gave birth to a boy, the devil asked if she wanted to keep the top or bottom; the top is the soul, so she chose the top; the hell took the bottom, the boy was without legs ; one day he crawled to the miller and he mocked him to bring him water with a sieve; trout fell into the sieve, asked her to let her go, promised to fulfill his wishes; the half asked him to be able to bring it with a sieve water; the miller gave him a bag of flour, knowing that he would not be able to lift it, but the Half again asked the trout for help; when he saw the flour, his mother thought that Half had stolen it; he was offended and left; when he saw the princess, asked trout to become pregnant; when the baby was born and the king found out who the father was, he ordered his daughter, Half and baby to be put in a barrel, thrown into the sea; the half wished his legs to grow and He threw the barrel onto the island, knocked out the bottom, ordered a garden and a palace to appear; the king decided to look for his daughter, came to the island, did not recognize the young; when he slept, his hand hung out of bed and the princess told his son put grandfather's hand in bed; the king heard and recognized his daughter, handed the throne to Half], 32 [=Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 67:330-338; the miller has daughters Mengia, Mariosla, Maroia; the elders are arrogant; the miller became impoverished; a man in green met him in the forest; promised to enrich him if the miller gave him what was outside the door; the miller thought there would be a broom, but the youngest, Maroia (M.), turned out to be; at night, a knock, a miller asked M. to open it, she went out, but took blessed water with her; no one; in the morning, hell with a barrel of gold in the yard; he was going to take it away, but the miller promised that next time M. would leave without consecrated water; the miller hid the vessel, but the next night M. dawned on herself with a cross of consecrated water; the same; on the third night, finding no water, M. dawned on herself with a cross, moistening her hands with slop from the garbage bucket; the same; then hell teaches me to go to the forest with M., pretend to split the fallen spruce, let M. hold the wedge; then pull out the ax and cut off the girl's hands; the miller did so; the prince hunted and found M., married her; and the miller became rich, his daughters told him to buy an inn; the prince went to war, M. gave birth to boys named Son and Satken; the messenger stayed at the inn; Mengia changed the letter: handless gave birth to a puppy and a kitten; replaced the prince's reply letter with an order to expel M. with her children; the hangman did not kill M., but told her not to return; she could not bend down to drink from the spring; appears Our Lady, tells us to put the stumps of hands into the water, his hands grow back; a house is ready for M. with her children, it will have everything you need; after returning from the war, the prince went to look for a wife and came to that house 7 years later; refused to go to bed, but lay down on the chest; heard M. tell one son and then the other to fix his father's leg that had fallen from the chest; they returned to the palace; everyone was happy; the miller and his wife and torn by daughters by horses]: 9-11, 120-127.

Western Europe. French: Canziani 1934 (Savoy) [a farmer wanders, trying in vain to borrow money; on the way, a rich rider offers him to borrow it for a promise to give back what he returns home will see in his wife's hands; during her husband's absence, the wife gave birth to a son; when the husband came in, the wife put the child out of her arms, trying to grab an unfamiliar black cat; at the same time, the curé came in, cast a spell; the cat howled, it was Satan]: 60-61; Joisten 1991, No. 26.1 (Dauphine) [western 1954; the poor watchman meets the devil, who gives him money for promising to give what he will come home to meet him tonight; it is not a dog that comes out, but a daughter; the devil comes twice, each time the daughter goes to discover herself as a sign of the cross, sees no one; the third time the father brings Marie to the door himself, the devil, holding her hands, carries her away on his back; when M. asks for help from St. Virgo, her hands remain with the devil, she falls down, lives under a rock canopy; the prince's dog brings her the food that the prince gives her; he notices that the dog is losing weight, finds a girl, leads to parents, marries; prince goes to war, wife gives birth to son and daughter; devil replaces her husband's reply letter with orders to get rid of his wife and children; the servant takes them to the forest; the dog brings them food; the fairy sees a woman washing clothes, sending them to the source, washing with her, M.'s hands growing back; a fairy giving a needle that makes wishes come true; seven years later, the king {did the prince become king?} returns, goes to look for his wife and children, finds and hears M. telling the children that this is their father, listening to her story; celebration, wedding]: 176-180; Bretons [the peasant went to pay the rent to the señor, on the way, he was robbed; an unknown person gave him money on the condition that in 12 years he would give him the most precious thing his wife now; his wife was pregnant; the couple went to the priest, who suggested that He was the godfather of Pipi (a baby), and the godmother was St. Virgo; on the way to school, the black poodle takes P.'s bread every time; when P. is 12 years old, the priest tells him to go to St. Virgo; she tells him about his father's agreement with the devil and gives him a book to help defeat the devil; he will throw the young man three times; realizing that the greater strength is why he will throw him far into the forest for the third time; P . fell asleep in the forest by the stream; a girl came up and took his book; P. came to the castle, where a girl was sitting in the hall reading his book; she returns her for promising to take her out of the castle and marry her; tells her take gold and run while her sorcerer parents sleep; father chases, daughter turns horses, etc. into glace (mirror?) from the ground to the clouds, the sorcerer returns; next time the daughter turns horses, etc. into a source, and themselves into a mirror at its bottom; the third time the witch pursues with her husband; the girl turns the end, etc. into the river and the golden bridge, P. into the willow, himself into the eel; the sorcerer began to cut the willow with an ax, and the witch with trout that rushed to the eel; the eel won, the sorcerers turned back; the young reached P.'s parents, the bride was baptized, the young were married]: Luzel 1870:39-51; the Germans (Pomerania) [returning from afar, the king ordered the fisherman to bring vendace fish immediately; he replied that they did not have it Yes, but the king does not want to listen; the fisherman threw a net, but there is no vendace; someone came up and promised to help the fisherman if he promised to give him something he did not know at home in 14 years; and let him sign in blood; the fisherman brought vendace and found out that his wife had given birth to a son and the queen had a daughter; when he found out what was going on, the king refused to eat the fish and ordered it to be thrown back into the sea; the fisherman's son grew up in the castle like a prince; When he found out that the devil had been promised, the young man cried; but a little man came and gave him a book and said that it would help; the hell took the young man hundreds of miles away; demanded that he throw the book away and threatened to throw it into the sea but he did not throw it away; and when they landed, the young man drew a cross sign in the sand so that the devil could not leave; he had to hand over a receipt and write another one stating that he had no control over young man; hell flew away, and the young man went across the plain; six days later he saw a mound and a door; an old man in the room; he was ready to receive the young man, but when he went to the hill, he must stay to the left and not turn to the right; but to him I was tired of it; the old man warned him that death was waiting to go to the right; the young man still went, there was an iron gate in front of him; someone's hands seemed to raise him and found himself in the room; everything he wanted was immediately appearing; In the evening, a black woman came in and disappeared; at 11, three dwarfs came in, told the young man to play cards with them; he did not react; then they played him like a ball, and disappeared at midnight; the young man woke up when the sun was already high; on the second day it was the same; the woman was half white; until 12, the young man was cut and slaughtered, and then he was whole again; on the third evening the woman became three-quarters bright; the young man was talked to in his father's voice, but he knew it was all hell; so was his mother; he woke up in the royal bedchamber; a disgraced princess threw herself around his neck; one day a young man wanted to go home to bring him parents; wife: here's a white horse, it will ride, but it can only carry one person - leave your parents where they are now; the horse flew above the clouds; the parents did not recognize their son; when he opened, he met also with the king; he paraded; but the young king told the old king that his kingdom was much larger and his wife was incomparably more beautiful than the king's daughter; his wife warned him not to say anything, but the king violated her order and was now thrown into prison; he asked the children to bring his white horse, but he was not there; but then the old king received a letter from the young wife: to let her husband go, otherwise the city will be turned to ashes; when he saw the young king's wife and her warriors, the old king realized that the young king was telling the truth; the wife disappeared, leaving her husband with iron shoes and a staff: she would find her when she was worn out; in The forest came across three people who shared the inheritance: an invisible cloak, boots by leaps and bounds, and a hat that shoots silently; the king put on his cloak, took everything and disappeared; came to the house, where the cannibal mother of the month; had dinner; then to the Sun; on the third evening to the Wind; he knows where the kingdom of the king's wife is; she is now celebrating a new wedding; they immediately flew in and the wind caused a terrible storm; the Queen sent a master to repair the towers; the king agreed with him that he would give him a job in the queen's room; when the newlyweds came in, the king beat them while remaining invisible; the groom thought it was hell and ran away; the king opened queen; wedding]: Jahn 1891, No. 54:281-298; Germans (Pomerania) [despite his wife's warnings, the merchant's son lost his father's inheritance; decided to drown himself; siren: I'll give money if you promise to give it back what is hidden in your house; the man gladly wrote a receipt that he would give it back in 14 years; the chest at home is full of gold; wife: you sold our unborn son; the young man grew up handsome and smart; when they came to the bridge, the young man drew a circle around him with chalk; siren: nothing, I'll take it in 3 years anyway; the young man said that since his parents gave him the line, he no longer knew them, and left; in the forest he answered the hunter that he had neither a father nor a mother; he took him home; in a year he became the best hunter, and the trees he planted grew in 3 months; the hunter sent him to look for more luck; on the tree there was a bird with gold and with silver plumage, sings as a nightingale; asks not to shoot, gives three feathers; taking the pen in your mouth, you will become the same bird, and when you take it out, you will become a human again; the same is a mouse (hairs, you can become a mouse); the same is a greyhound dog ; lion; at the inn, a young man found out that the king was looking for a hunter; the king loved him as a son; he also worked in the garden; once he came across a high wall; the chief forester said that she had three daughters behind her king, look the same; unguessed which of them is who, cut off his head; the young man became a bird, let the younger princess catch himself, she brought the bird to her room; in the evening became human; princess promises to marry him if he releases her and sisters from captivity; how do you recognize her from her sisters? will drag his right heel a little; in the morning the young man returned to the royal castle, said that he wanted to try to identify the chosen princess; three times correctly pointed to the youngest; the wedding, the young man was made heir ; the wife gave birth to a son; a year and day later, the young man chased the deer, who brought him to the bridge over the river; turned into a siren and dragged him into the water; the prince's wife offered a golden spindle for her husband; she refused, but let the young man go to the Schwartzland, kill a 9-headed dragon there; a hare will jump out of him, a dove from a hare, an egg from a pigeon, there are keys in it, they must be brought to the siren; the young man ran to Schwartzland in in the form of a greyhound, then a lion; in the city of mourning, the princess is given to be eaten by a dragon; the young man told the warrior given to him by the king to give him food and wine when he fights the dragon in the form of a lion; cutting down 3 heads, the young man hid in a hole with a mouse; shot a hare, a dove, took out the keys; since the young man already has a wife, the princess was given for that brave warrior; gave the siren the keys in exchange for a receipt given to her by his father; as soon as the siren took the keys, the lake became a kingdom and the siren became a princess]: Jahn 1891, No. 62:340-351; Germans: Grimm, Grimm 2003, No. 31 [hell suggests that the poor miller enrich him if three years later, he will give him what is behind the mill; when he returns home, the miller finds out that behind the mill was not an apple tree, but a daughter; at the hour, the girl washed herself and circled a circle around her with chalk; hell may come, demands that all the water be removed; the girl washed her hands with tears; hell tells her to cut off her hands; she washed the stumps with tears; the devil had to leave; the girl left home; the gardener saw her bites off an apple hanging on a tree; the young king married her; when he left, she gave birth to a boy; hell changed the letter, gave birth to a werewolf {or rather an inhuman child}; then the devil changed the letter the king ordered to kill the mother and child, deliver her eyes and tongue to him; the Queen Mother sent the tongue and eyes of the doe, told her daughter-in-law to leave; God sent an angel to take care of the young mother; her hands grew, she lives with his son in the palace without needing anything; the king returned and went in search of his wife and son; after 7 years he found them and returned them to his palace], 92 [=Grimm, Grimm 1987:251-256; the merchant's ships sank, he broke; the black man promises to enrich him if in 12 years the merchant brings what is now the first to push him in the leg; his son pushed him; 12 years later, the young man went to that little man; he sent him to sail on ship; the ship arrived at the enchanted castle; there the snake will become a princess again if the young man suffers the torture of 12 black men for three nights; he endured it, lives with the princess for 8 years, then decides to visit father; the princess gives the ring; it will take you wherever you want, but the husband should not use it to carry it to his father; he came to his father disguised as a poor shepherd, his mother recognized him by his mole; to prove that he is married to a princess, the son carried his wife and child to show his father; the wife was offended; when the husband fell asleep, returned to her place, taking the ring but leaving her shoe; three giants argue over the saber, which he would cut off all the heads except one, the invisibility cloak, the speedboat boots; the man asked the giants to let him try things, carried over to his wife; she was feasting while sitting on the throne; he himself sat on the throne, cut off the heads of those who tried to kick him out]: 109-113, 310-314; Grimm, Grimm 1987, No. 181 [=Grimm, Grimm 1987:410-413; a woman rises to the impoverished miller from the pond, promises to make him rich if he gives something that he is now born in his house; he promises; it turns out that his wife has given birth to a son; a young man grows up, becomes a hunter, marries; one day he comes to the pond to wash his hands, is dragged under water; his wife sees three times in a dream, as she climbs a mountain, there an old woman teaches what to do; you must leave a comb, a flute, a spinning wheel on the shore of the pond; every time the object is washed away by a wave, the husband sticks his head out of the water for the first time, the third jumps ashore; the spouses run, they are covered by a wave, the wife turns into a toad, the husband becomes a frog, the wave takes them far apart; they regain their human form, they herd sheep; they find each other]: 527-531; Hubrich-Messow 1988, No. 53 (Baden-Württemberg) [the king promises a reward to those who bring something particularly valuable to his table; the poor fisherman is sad; the green man promises the rich the catch is if the fisherman gives him what he hid at home; the fisherman catches three fish - with a golden crown, a golden scepter, a golden lock on his back; the king rewarded the fisherman, but it turns out that his wife is pregnant, the child is "hidden"; the parents gave the boy to his godfather, her husband's cousin; he took him to the bishop for advice; they went through the forest, where the boy was taken away by that man; the boy planted an apple seed, a tree grew, he drew five crosses; but the apple fell off the crosses, a stranger grabbed it, then the boy disappeared], 54 [the stranger promises gold to the poor peasant, if he gave him what he did not know at home; at home it turned out that his wife was pregnant; the boy was given to baptize first, he was the poor teacher; (more about how the murderer atoned for his sins and went to heaven, and hermit to hell); the young man escaped]: 91-92, 93-94; Germans (Swabia) [the wagon is always stuck on the rise; this time the devil promises to help if the peasant promises him that he is not at home knows; it turned out that his wife became pregnant; the boy who was born was sent to a monastery; at the age of 5 he learned the prayer of St. Virgo; at 10, she promised to give him a rod two years later with which he would go to hell to pick up a receipt promising his soul; the young man goes to hell; on the way, the robber under the tree asks him to know where for him a place is prepared in hell; in hell, the guy consistently opens three doors with his rod; after the first two, no one knows about the receipt; for the third, the guy picks up the receipt and sees the robber's fiery bed; tells the robber and promises to come to him again when he becomes a priest; seeing the robber's deep remorse, he forgave him his sins; he turned into a pile of ashes from which a white dove fluttered out] : Meier 1852, No. 156:57-61; Germans (Austria) [the king got lost hunting; a hunter in black clothes showed the way for a promise to give what would be the first to meet the king; a daughter came out; three days later a white wolf came running, she sat on it, he sped off; three days later, the wolf threw her off; she came to the house of the Month; they ate the chicken, he collected the bones, wrapped them, told the girl to keep them; the same with the Sun; with By the wind; he brings to the mountain; you have to throw the bones, climb them like steps; there were not enough bones, the Wind tells you to cut off your little finger; at the door there is a black hunter, he has become a rich king, he and was a white wolf; wedding]: Cerf 1992:211-216; Irish [a pregnant woman was carrying a head of cabbage; someone offered to buy what she was carrying; she decided it was cabbage and asked for six pence; and it turned out that the devil bought her unborn child from her; when his son is 18, he suddenly died, the body was left in the chapel; one person forgot the box there; the eldest, middle daughters refuse to go after her, the youngest went; the dead man gave a ring, told him to take it to the fire and burn it completely; in the morning he returned as a young man; a year later this girl, in the guise of a beggar, came to the boy's mother, she was allowed to sit by the fire, she gave birth; mother the young man looked stealthily; he said that this look sent him to hell for 7 years; his mother is ready to go in his place, she comes, cannot enter; the father is the same; the wife is coming; he gave her a ring that satisfies her hunger, forbid eating anything in hell; after 7 she leaves hell, dragging souls; refuses to give them to St. She gives Sunday to the Virgin, God, for she rested only on Sundays; she returned home, where her son was; she gave him a ring, put whiskey in a glass, told him to take it to his father; he recognized his ring; mother sent him to hell, but his wife saved him]: Larminie 1893:188-195; the British [the king left, at this time the queen gave birth to a boy, decided not to baptize, but to call Nix Nought Nothing; when the king went home, the giant offered to carry him across the river, said that in return he needed nothing or nothing; when he returned, the king found out about his son; decided to give the giant the son of a poultry house; the giant carried a boy, asks what time it is; he replies that just at this time his mother is picking eggs for the queen for breakfast; the giant killed him; next time the same time (the gardener's son; mother is picking vegetables for lunch); when the queen is carried, he replies that at that time the king father was sitting down for dinner; the giant's daughter fell in love with NN, helps him; the giant demands: 1) clean the stable (animals and birds performed); 2) drain the lake (the fish drank water); 3) get 7 eggs from the nest at the top of a smoothbore tree 7 miles tall; the girl cut off her fingers and toes, made steps out of them; NN took out eggs, but one broke; the girl tells me to run, the giant catches up, she tells me to throw the comb (thorny thickets), the dagger (the fence), the bottle (the wave, the giant drowned); leaving the bride, NN went alone to the castle; the poultry house bewitched him, he fell asleep, his parents did not know, the king orders him to marry someone who could wake him up; the giant's daughter climbed a tree, the gardener's daughter saw a reflection in the spring, decided what was her own and what was needed try to marry a sleeping young man; the poultry house taught him to spell for a while; the gardener also saw the giant's daughter, brought him to see his daughter's groom; he is sleeping, the giant's daughter is trying to wake him up; tells their story out loud, naming the young man NN; the king and queen hear that the gardener's daughter was forced to spell NN; the poultry house was executed]: Jacobs 1890, No. 7:33-39 (translated to Shereshevskaya 1957b: 102-107)

Western Asia. The Old Testament [Jephthah, turning to God, promised that if he defeated the Moabites, he would offer a burnt offering what would come out first to him from the gates of his house; first to leave only daughter; she asked permission to mourn her virginity in the mountains with her friends, after which I. fulfilled his promise; and it became a custom that every year the daughters of Israel went to mourn Jephthah's daughter Gileadian, four days a year]: Judges 11:30-40.

The Balkans. Slovenes [the gentleman tells the fisherman to catch fish in three days for the feast he is having; the fisherman caught nothing; someone in green clothes promises a rich catch for promising to give what the fisherman has he does not know at home; he will come for his promise in 20 years; the fisherman agreed, immediately caught fish; the man in green warned that the fisherman promised him a son; after completing his studies, the young man tells his father to approach him with him on the shore and when he steps with one foot into the green man's boat, say "In the name of the father, and the son, and the Holy Spirit!" ; after that, the boat with the green man and the young man disappeared; they found themselves in the town of Perdonkorten ("Wundergarten"); in the castle, the snake tells her to kiss, he tells her to die in response; the next night, snakes have two heads; the third is three-headed, he kisses her, she turns into a girl; after that, the castle and the city are disgraced, the owner of the castle (and he is the girl's father) and the people greet the young man; he began to miss at home, decided to visit his father; the wife gave a ring that would allow him to travel to his father and return back; if he tells others about the ring, it will be lost; on earth, the master wants to give the young man one of his two daughters; a young man tells them about the ring; they put him to sleep and stole the ring; after 5 years, the young man decides to go to Perdenkorten without a ring; comes to a woman, she has three dangerous brothers; a young man calls himself after their missing fourth brother; they have speed shoes, an invisibility cloak, a hat that makes its way through any obstacle; he asks for permission to wear it all, disappears comes to the house of the sun; his servant is there; the sun has returned, says he does not know about Perdenkorten, tells him to turn to the moon; she also does not know, sends it to the wind; he says that tomorrow he will freshen up with the breeze who have gathered for the wedding of the princess there; thanks to his wonderful objects, the young man follows the wind through all obstacles; remaining invisible, the young man drops church books on the floor, which the chaplain laid out for the wedding; the old wedding is upset, the princess marries a young man; storyteller: they gave me wine in a sieve and bread in a glass and one on the back with a shovel; after that I left]: Wratislaw 1890, No. 58:301-312; Croats [while hunting during a thunderstorm, a man noticed a damn son showing a fig to St. Ilya; shot him with a gun; the devil made the river full, turned old man, offered to transport it; let the man give him what he did not know at home; wife gave birth to a son; hell, his wife and daughter came by queues every day until the young man grew up; the pop gave the young man a book that would protect him from the devil; but the devil's daughter persuaded the young man to look at her; he looked and immediately disappeared; hell says until evening cut down the forest with a wooden ax, sow corn and bake cakes; the daughter has fulfilled the devil; build a church with 9 towers and have a service at lunchtime (the same); the daughter tells the devil to run; the devil pursues; turned into an old man with a girl; next time the wife is chasing the devil; the lake and the duck; do not raise your head, otherwise your mother will tear your eyes out; but the young duck looked up and the devil snatched them out; but the daughter convinced her mother to regain her eyes; she became a Christian, everything is fine]: Eschker 1992, No. 9:56-61; Moldovans: Botezatu 1981 [the hermit gives the childless queen grapes, she conceives a son; the king hunts, hits a line into the fortress; he releases the king when the king promises to give what he does not know at home; son Dafin has grown up, the hell takes him away; D. learns the language of birds from him; overheard the birds talking, they say that he is unhappy For 180 years, an arap draws water from a bottomless well, where the stolen Vester feature bathes; old man A. teaches D. to steal the clothes of bathing V. without looking back; A. blesses their marriage, gets rid of punishment the devil disappears; the devil agrees to let D. and V. go if D. 1) plows the field to the horizon in a day, harvests, bakes bread (V. orders the demons); 2) shoot a hare in the garden a trait (this is the devil himself, V. chases him in the form of a hound, D. hits him, his wife asks him to give the devil to fry, in the evening the devil is bruised); 3) identify among hundreds of girls (tears in V.'s eyes); hell puts D. and V. in prison, they fly away midges, hell sends demons in pursuit, V. turns 1) himself into a garden, D. into a gardener; 2) a wheat field and a reaper; 3) a duck and a river; the devil tries to drink water, bursts; D. and V. come to live with their parents D.]: 293 -300; Romanians [the old man advises the childless emperor to send a fisherman to catch a fish; if the Empress eats it, she will give birth; the fish does not bite, the fisherman asks God or the devil to help catch it; water monster gives fish for promising to give what he does not know at home; a fisherman brings fish, the Empress gives birth; the fisherman's wife was also pregnant, gives birth to Peter; he grows up, goes to a monster; a monster in the form of a man meets on his way, tells him to go to him on horseback; the horse advises him to run, on the way P. picks up a golden pen, is hired by the emperor as a clerk, writes the pen for him; other servants report this to the emperor, they are persuaded to send P. to get 1) the bird whose feather it was; along the way, P. feeds people who ate each other, they promise help; the same thing feeds the fish in the sea; the horse advises P. to lure the bird with food and wine, P. brings it to the emperor; 2) marry Emperor Slava-Mir; P. brings her, she promises to marry the emperor if they also bring her glass palace; those people bring the palace, get fish from the bottom of the sea lost keys; Glory Mira asks for the Water of Life, the Water of Beauty, the Water of Death; their mistress tells P. to divide wheat, barley, oats in an hour; the birds that P. used to feed are shared; Glory Mira gives the emperor drink Death Water instead of Beauty Water, he dies, P. gets a wife and a throne]: Browne 1915:320-329; Romanians [the king asks his three daughters what to bring them out of town; the older two ask for outfits; the youngest is a singing walnut leaf; an invisible voice promises to give him what will be the first to meet him when she returns; the youngest daughter comes out; the father brings her to a certain place and she disappears from eye; finds herself in the underworld, where the prince must spend another 6 years in fear of the dragon; a year later she gave birth to a son and came to see her family; when she comes pregnant again for the fourth time, talks about her happiness, and she gives a candle and tells her to look at her sleeping husband; he says that he has now lost three-quarters of his strength; tells his wife that she will not give birth before he puts his hand with her on his stomach; a cloud carries him away; the wife goes to the moon (she gives a golden fork), to St. Friday (headscarf), St. Sunday (golden hen with chickens; tells us where the prince and the dragon live); the dragon buys items for permission to spend the night with the prince, adds a sleepy potion; for the third time, the prince hears a wife who gives birth to gold-haired twins; a prince brews a dragon in resin; they return home, taking older children left to the prince's sisters on the way]: Bîrlea 1966:420-422; Gagauz people [ the cart is stuck in the mud, the devil promises to pull it out if the person gives what he does not know at home; the man promised, and the wife gave birth to a son at that time; the guy grew up, went to hell with the receipt; the woman in the woods: with his brother Peter Sodom; PS sends him to get to know the country, and when he returns, go to him; the old man (this is God) tells him to stick a candle to a barrel of tar in hell, then the devils will give the note themselves; the devils forced the lame the devil to give the note (he cut off his heel and took the note out of there); the devils showed the place prepared for the PS: a hot harrow - blankets, a hot mace - a pillow; upon learning about this, the PS promised no more to do evil; the guy became a bishop, PS came to confession: killed 99 souls; bishop: plant a burnt pear stick when a pear grows out of it, sins will be forgiven]: Moshkov 1904, No. 46:78-80; Hungarians [the king gathered a nobility, went hunting, got lost; God did not answer him; hell immediately volunteered to take him to the road if the king gave what he did not know at home; this is a newborn daughter; 10 years later, the king tried to replace the princess of the daughters of the pig; she said goodbye to the pigs, damn the deception, killed the girl; the same with the daughter of a shepherd; had to give mine; hell tells her to clean the grain from ash in 2 hours; son the line tells the devils to do the work; the same the next day; on the third, to build a church with a tower to heaven and God himself as a priest; this is impossible, they are running; the son's mother catches up with the line; the young man turned Mary is in a field of wheat, and she drives away birds; pretends not to understand the devil's question, talks about sparrows; her father, the church and the priest, is chasing; for the third time they catch up with the devil and the devil together; the lake with a duck; both rushed into the water and drowned, so now the devils are gone; the king became devout and after death handed over power to his daughter and her husband]: Jones, Kropf 1989, No. 37:188-195.

Central Europe. Russians (Teresky Bereg) [the ship stopped in the middle of the sea: give me what you don't know at home; the man thought he promised a lamb or a calf, but it turned out that his wife gave birth; the son grew up by accident shot through the window of my grandmother's backyard; she began to swear - so shakoy, given to the sea king! the father took his son to sea; the sea king greets him, the dumb boyars are envious; ice came out from behind the stove, took out the ball on a rope and shumbled: I must tell the tsar that Ivan boasted to make a church with 70 doors; Martha- the princess sent I. to sleep, told the spirits to do everything; build a ship to sail on the sea and dry and through the eye of a needle; they built the perfume; get the bahar cat: three days, she does not ask for food; they brought perfume cat, I. and M. are running; M.: what's behind? I.: cloud; M.: it is my father who is flying snakes; wrapped I. in a church, and himself in a priest; next time a lake and a perch; mother flew in, turned into a pike, could not swallow perch; I. goes home, left M. to wait; he is immediately married there; M. became a bird, flew in, sings about what happened three times, I. heard, took M., rejected a new bride]: Balashov 1970, No. 107:335-341; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Onega Bay of Bely seas) [In the forest, a peasant wants to shoot a bird, she asks to feed it for a week - it will come in handy. A week later, she hits the tree with its beak - the beak trembles, the peasant feeds for another week - the oak has staggered, a week later the bird bites the tree and it falls. He leads the farmer at the expense. In three kingdoms, this Nagoya bird has a sister; the sisters of the silver and gold kingdoms feel sorry to pay the ransom, and the sister of the third {obviously copper} gives the casket. The bird takes the farmer to his way home. He lost his way, opened the casket - a chamber appears and all he needs is closed the box. The king arrived, alone, shows the way, but asks in return to promise "what he does not know at home." My wife gave birth to a son at home. After 12 years, they send him to a self-alone king. At the fork, the young man chooses not the road where the grass is green, but the one where the peas are scattered. He comes to the pond where 31 girls bathe, the clothes alone lie separately, he hides them. The girl asks for a return, promises, if it is a young man, to be a bride. She is the daughter of a self-united king, saying that he has been looking for Ivan for a long time. He advises me to say that he did not know what his father promised him. The Tsar swears at Ivan, who has been serving as a groom for three years, and the tsar makes him a key man. He offers to choose a bride among his daughters, they all look the same, and I. identified the bride when she pulls out her handkerchief. They got married. Tsar Ivan loved, but thoughtful senators are jealous. The wife offers to go to Ivana's village. I. enters the house alone, leaves his wife with her grandmother in the back yard. At home, he forgets about his wife, and a bride has been picked up for him. The wife made a chatter out of barley, poured it into the oven, and a pigeon and a dove flew out from there. His wife brings them to Ivan's wedding, the birds sing about how Ivan forgot about his wife. He remembers and returns to her]: Onchukov 2008, No. 60:193-195; Russians (Karelian Pomorie, Sumy Posad) [the ship sank in the middle of the sea; the sea king tells the merchant to give that he does not know at home; there the wife gave birth to a son Ivan; the boy grew up, went to the king of the sea; 12 swans flew in, became maidens, they are daughters of the sea king; I. hid clothes from one, this is Vasilisa Premudraya, she agreed to be Ivan betrothed; went down to sea; the sea king orders to build an air crystal palace; the VP calls the servants who built it overnight; an aerial crystal ship (the same); tame the stallion; VP: this is the king himself; it is necessary beat him with iron hammers and bars, pour ash into my eyes; the horse had to descend from heaven; now the king tells me to choose a wife among his 12 daughters; VP: I will have a mosquito on my nose; once again (fly); third once (the mouse will run between my legs); VP: we have to run in the evening, he will eat us in the morning; she wrapped I. in a church, a watchman herself; the lake and the duck; the third time the VP threw a "raft", became a river of fire; the sea king asks to put on the towel, walked on it, the VM cut off the towel, the king burned down; I. left the VP, went ahead; VP: forget me; he met his parents and forgot, they picked up a bride for him; VP sent his grandmother- a backyard with a pie; two doves flew out of it, began a conversation; I. remembered everything, married the VP]: Razumova, Senkina 1974, No. 48:238-243; Russians (Karelian Pomorie) [contrary to the owner's order , the workers left a few grains on the field; the mouse and the bird argued over them, the war of birds and animals began, everyone died, the eagle remained wounded; the prince pointed his gun at him three times, the eagle asked not shoot, and ordered to feed for three months; tried to fly - three more; then more; ordered him to sit on it, took him to receive a reward; on the way he threw it and picked it up three times so that the prince would feel the same fear as he himself, when the prince pointed his gun; tells him to take a multi-colored box from his worn sister, a self-shaking purse from the middle sister, the youngest has a key to a multi-colored box; the eagle tells him not to open it along the way; he opened everything flew up, the road became difficult; a tall man: I'll bring everything back if you give it back that you don't know at home; he was a magic king; people came out of the box at home, began to uproot, harrow, etc.; during this time, his wife gave birth to a son; Ivan Tsarevich grew up, shot, hit his grandmother's window; grandmother: it won't take long for you to break windows, in a year the magic king will take you away; father denies; for the second time - the same; grandmother gave me a cup of water to drink, I. became a mighty handsome man; tells the most beautiful of the 12 swans to hide the dress when they arrive and become girls; she promises to be faithful to Ivan; the king orders to rebuild it overnight palace; Elena the Queen flew in like a bee, tells I. to go to bed, orders the spirits to do everything; the ship will work out of a gun that is 30 years old under the window; E. gives a lash, I. hit the head, soon she returned by ship; cut down the forest, etc., and by morning bake pancakes from flour; the same, everyone does the perfume; choose E. from 12 mares (one hair on the face is slightly longer); the same from 12 pigs (red speck in ear); out of 12 girls (fly above her right eye); E. and I. are running, E. left saliva in the bath to be responsible for herself; chase; what can you see? - The cloud is high behind; turned into a chapel and an old man; two pigeons on a pile of manure; himself with a ruff, I. - a ring, swallowed the ring, dived into the lake; the king became a pike, but he could not catch the ruff; drank water, but the ruff became a duck, the duck flew away; the king followed, hit the rock, burst with the water he had drunk; E.: I'll stay in the field as a pebble, and you go to the house, don't forget to say hello to your older sister, otherwise you'll forget me; I. did not say hello, forgot, a new wedding is being prepared; two pigeons came out of the cake, talking about the forgotten E.; at first E. does not want to get up: I. has already been blessed; but he persuaded her, she came out of the pebble, I. became live with E.]: Nechaev 1938:85-110; Russians (Olonetskaya) [chicken and mouse quarreled over a grain, the mouse called animals, and the chicken called birds; the eagle's wing was torn off; he asks the man for him for three years feed; he wants to throw it away, then feeds again; the eagle put the man on his back, they fly to the eagle sisters; tin, silver did not give the box, but gave the gold box; ordered not to open it on the way; he discovered, Koschey the Immortal put the good back for promising to give what he did not know at home; his son returned at home; once broke the window; grandmother: oh, you, mother-born, fatherly promised; said that he was given to Koshchei; gave a ball; 12 swans - Koshchei's daughters - flew to the lake; the guy took his youngest's clothes; the girl promised to marry; Koschey tells me to go around the horse; the bride: hit the club between his ears; this is Koschey himself; tells me to choose a bride among 12 sisters; bride: a fly will sit on me; they ran away; they threw flint (mountains), flint (fiery river); the bride made the guy a lake, a duck herself; Koschey shot, missed, left; swore not to pursue anymore]: Vlasova 2011, No. 51:86-88; Russians (Orlovskaya) [the peasant took aim at the eagle; he promises to fulfill his wish; peasant: make him rich; eagle: you will meet an old man, will give a bag; the elder tells you not to open the bag on the way; the peasant opened it, the chervonets fell down; the old man collected it, for this he tells you to give what you do not know at home; the wife gave birth to a son; he grew up, goes to the forest; sleeps the eldest Baba Yaga has a hut on chicken legs; she sent to the middle; the middle one to the youngest; the youngest gave a wooden hand to Prince Balalay - he was blind; B. felt that the hand was wooden; the girl daughter B. tells me to run; turned into a field, the guy turned into a watchman; a cell and a monk; the river and so; B. tried to drink the river, burst; the girl tells me not to say hello to her younger brother at home; the guy greeted, forgot the bride; she baked a cake, there are two pigeons from there, the guy remembered; wedding]: Kalinnikov 2017:9-14; Russians (Voronezh) [the tsar aims at the eagle three times at the oak; agrees to feed him for three years; every year an eagle tries his strength; after the third, he puts the king on his back, carries him, throws him into the sea three times and picks him up again, so that the king will feel the same fear as he did when the king aimed at him; the eagle's younger sister refused to feed the king, let the dogs down on him; when the eagle carried the king further, the younger sister's house is burning behind him; the same is with her middle sister; the elder feeds generously; after that, the eagle gives the king a ship and two chest: red to unlock in the backyard, green in the front; but the king opened the red one on the road, the cattle came out of it; a man came out of the water, put the cattle back for promising to give what the king of the house was not knows; at home, the tsar unlocked both chests, a garden appeared from the green one; Ivan Tsarevich was born at home; when he grew up, he was left on the seashore; Baba Yaga's hut nearby; she teaches: 12 spoonbills will fly to the sea, they will remove clothes, they will swim, it is necessary to hide the clothes of the eldest, Vasilisa the Wise; gives for a promise to help when I. comes to her father, the Water King; I. met, took Obedala, Opivala, Moroz with him; the water tells you to build a crystal bridge overnight (the VP servants did everything); plant a garden (the same) to recognize the bride from his 12 daughters (she will wave a handkerchief; fix her dress; the fly will fly); tells you to eat a lot; drink; survive in a hot bath (assistants helped); young people are fleeing, VP turned horses into a well, herself into a bucket, prince into an old man; pop and church; honey river with jelly shores, Tsarevich is a drake, VP is a duck; the water began to drink, burst; VP tells you to go forward to his parents, but not to kiss his sister; I. kissed, forgot the VP; takes another wife; VP chipped in as a beggar, brought a pie, in it a dove with a dove; dove: you'll forget me like I. Vasilisa Premudruya; I. remembered that everything is fine]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 219:171-177; Russians (Voronezh) [the mouse quarreled with V No. 224:197-204. The cat tells her to wait every time, while he eats bread, drinks milk, etc., stealing grain from the barn, the animals began to fight birds; the wounded Eagle asks the merchant three times not to kill him, but to care for him; three years later he carries him on his back; He drops three times over the sea and catches him to make the merchant feel like he, the Eagle, is afraid of being shot by him; the Eagle's sisters in the copper and silver kingdoms refuse to give the merchant a casket, a sister in gold He gives it to the kingdom; the Eagle orders not to open it along the way, the merchant opens it, a palace and servants appear from it; the Unbaptized Forehead collects everything in a casket for promising to give what he does not know at home; the merchant is met by his wife with his newborn son; Ivan grows up and goes to NL; Baba Yaga advises to hide the wings of a colorful cabbage roll when three cabbage rolls arrive for a swim; this is Vasilisa Premudraya, NL's favorite daughter; he has Chumichka cook lies as if Ivan promised 1) to cut down the forest in a day, harvest, bake pies out of flour; 2) make a flying ship; VP does everything, Chumichka is thrown off the ship; 3) NL tells me to go around the stallion; this is NL himself, Ivan hits him with a hammer; 4) choose a bride among three mares, three pigeons, three girls (the VP has a dull glitter on the bridle; he will wave his wing; a handkerchief); after the wedding, the young run, the VP turns Ivan into a vegetable garden , himself in a head of cabbage; a well and a falcon; when NL himself is chasing, the VP throws a brush (forest), a comb (mountain), a towel (sea); Ivan is the first to come home, kisses his godmother, forgets the VP; she is hired in workers, Ivan is ready to marry; VP comes to the wedding with a pie, a dove with a dove comes out of it, the dove says that the dove will forget her, how Ivan forgot the VP; Ivan recalls]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 224: 197-204; Russians (Tver Gubernia) [the merchant began to drink from the river, he was seized by Miracle Yudo the Lawless, tells him to give him that he does not know at home; while the merchant was away, his wife gave birth to a son; he grew up, went to Chu; baba yaga gives a ball, he rolls to her sister, she gives the other goes to Chu's daughter, her ball is rolling CHU; there are 77 ducks on the sea, followed by a fence with heads on poles; the girl tells you to take three steps back, the young man ends up in Chu's house; he gives tasks 1) to put up a barn overnight , 2) grow up overnight, collect wheat in a barn; Vasilisa Premudraya does everything; 3) recognize VP among his 77 daughters (waving a handkerchief, shifting a ring); wedding; young people are running, VP leaves 4 dolls responsible for himself; throws a comb (forest), soap (mountain), ubrus (sea); VP warns her husband not to kiss the child when he comes in; he kisses, forgets her, is going to marry another; VP makes a cake at a feast a dove with a dove comes out of it, the dove asks the pigeon not to forget it, as Ivan VP forgot; Ivan recalls]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 225:205-208; Russians (Ryazan) [the merchant leaned over to the water for a drink, grabbed by the beard, must give what he does not know at home; son Ivan; at the age of 18 he went to the sorcerer; his 12 daughters are swimming, the young man hid Maria Tsarevna's clothes; the sorcerer tells me to recognize her among her sisters (her husband will sit down on the face); collect the scattered grain (the birds collected); build a golden palace by morning; the palace is ready, M. tells me to run; chase; she chipped off as a goat, and I. as a shepherd; an apple tree and a watchman; when the father himself, M. tells Ivan to cross the river, it will grow up as a flower there, you must pluck it; and if you don't pick it, you'll forget it; and you'll forget not to take it home, what you don't know; M. became a crucian carp, and his father became a pike; he chased for three years, retreated; I. picked up his newborn brother at home, forgot M., did not come to pick the flower; the shepherd cut the flower to make a pipe; the pipe: I. forgot me; M. became a teacher, I. met her ( the informant does not remember)]: Samodelova 2013, No. 69:78-80; Russians (Voronezh) [One person wanted to drink water from the pond, could not reach the ladle, drank it like this. Immortal Koschey grabbed him by the beard and ordered him to give "what you don't know". In his absence, his son Vanyusha was born, whom his father sent to Koshchei when he was 17 years old. Immortal Koshchei's relatives gave him a ball that led him to the pond where Koshchei's 12 daughters bathed. He hid one of them's dress and told them to move it to the other side of the pond in exchange for it. She moved Vanyusha, and they went to Koshchei together. Koshchei liked the boy, stayed with him for a week, then he began to test him, giving him three hours to rest before each task. Vanyusha easily picked up the oak tree after drinking drops given to him by Koshchei's daughter. Then Koschey ordered him to build a church - Vanyusha was helped by 12 daughters of Koshchei. Koschey told him to choose a wife from his daughters. The youngest waved her hand and he chose her. After 3 hours, Koschey ordered the horse to be split into 12 chains, but Vanyusha and his wife managed to escape, and instead of them Koshchei was answered by an unclean spirit. Koschei and the rest of his daughters chase them, the fugitives turn into a pond. Next time, in church, they leave the chase, live happily ever after and make good money]: Pukhova 2006, No. 11; Russians (Voronezhskaya) [The mouse lives with a rich man, stores cereals. When the bread runs out, the rat borrows the Mouse's cereal and promises to return it by Palm Sunday. The mouse comes for the duty, the rat beats him. The mouse collects animals for trial. The rat drinks vodka to everyone except the eagle (flew to buy a book) and leans to its side. The animals justify the rat, decide that the cereal is common. The eagle scolds the rat for not making supplies on its own and for giving the animals a drink. The rat wants revenge on the eagle. Suddenly, all the animals and birds fall asleep, and the rat will fly up to the eagle's wings. The eagle asks the man for help, he cares for the bird for a year, the eagle grows wings, he invites the man to visit him, rewards him, gives a box that can only be opened at home, choosing a "beautiful place". On the way home, the man stops in the quagmire and opens the box, from there people come in and start building houses. The guy doesn't know how to get them back. An imp appears, offers to help in exchange for something the man does not know at home. He agrees and writes a note about the agreement. At home, he learns about the birth of his son, builds a town in the open, and lives richly. The son grows up, finds a note and goes to hell. He gives tasks - to cut down the forest, plant watermelons, and his daughter helps them fulfill the trait. For her kindness, he calls her to marry. For the third task, training a horse, the girl advises to tie three pounds of twigs to her belt so that the horse does not throw it off. The girl warns that it is dangerous to complete the next task, heat the bathhouse, prepares a "mess" that answers questions in Ivan's voice. The girl and Ivan run away. The devil finds out about the escape, sends his servants in pursuit. The girl turns herself into cats (horse manure), Ivan into stubble, then herself into grass, Ivan into a dove, the drovers do not recognize them. Satan himself follows the trail, and the fugitives turn into a sea and a duck. Damn tries to drink the sea, but it bursts. Ivan and the girl return to his parents' house, get married and live happily]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 28:137-142; Ukrainians, Belarusians ["Give What You Didn't Leave Home": Man, Not Suspecting, giving way to his newborn child; after reaching a certain age, a son (daughter) is forced to go to hell]: SUS 1979, No. 811:205; Belarusians [Death as a robber or warrior takes a receipt from the peasant stating that in seven years he will give back what he did not have when he left home; this is a son; eight years later Death came for the boy; he offered her wine, she climbed into the bottle, he plugged it; when he released it, it no longer bothered him]: Sumtsov 1913:62; Belarusians [the king's most beautiful ship sank; he promises half the kingdom to whoever returns the ship; unclean strength: you don't need half the kingdom, give what you don't know at home; it turned out that the wife gave birth to a son and daughter at home; they grew up, a snake flew for them, brought them to the forest; the boy talks about barrels, the girl about watermelons; the serpent realized that these were not princes children; he had to give them back; one day the serpent told the boy to separate the poppy from the ash, and the girl to embroider a towel; the vorn took them under his wings, carried them away from the snake; he caught up, took them away; the next day, the ox tells the girl to take a brush and a comb, and the boy to sit in the left and right ears; the serpent catches up, they throw the brush (forest), the comb (earthen mountain), a bar (stone mountain); waving a handkerchief by the sea is a bridge, on the other side there is no bridge; the ox orders to cut it into 12 parts, they turned into 12 dogs; they began to live; brother does not know what to snakes began to fly to the sister; the sister asks for bear milk; the bear gave milk and the bear cub; the same with the she-wolf; the dogs were left outside 12 doors; the sister tells her brother to warm the water; the raven: take your time, dogs 9 the doors were gnawed; the brother asks for permission to blow the trumpet before death; the dogs heard the snake tore; the sister took a snake's tooth; the brother and sister began to live with their parents; the sister put the tooth in the brother's bed; he died, his sister died in a barrel and at sea; the wolf took out a barrel, the bear knocked out the bottom, found a tooth, took it out; began to live happily ever after]: Romanov 1887, No. 7:63-65; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [poor man's horse stops; an important man says that the horse will go if the poor man promises to give him what he does not know at home; at this time his wife gave birth; three months later, his son Ivan grows up and leaves; the old man explains that he the Devil is sold; you have to hide by the sea in a hollow, Devil's three daughters will come to swim, we must take the third ring; it will take the form of water, fire, snakes, but the ring must be given as a promise to become I.'s wife; therefore, the wife takes I. to his father; he demands 1) to arrange a field on the site of the forest in a day, harvest, bake bread; 2) throw a bridge to the kingdom of far away (by order of the wife, the devils do everything); 3) kill green hare; wife enters the sea, father, mother I. pass by; it was the hare; the third time grandmother I., I. shoots, the grandmother turns into a hare; The devil tells the eldest daughters to turn into mares, but I.'s wife promises to give them for his brothers; I. and his wife run away, turn into a monastery and a monk, wheat and a boy, the devil does not recognize them; for the third time Chertikh is chased, recognizes his daughter and son-in-law in the form of a lake and gander, takes I.'s eyes away; her daughter becomes a spring, Chertikha leans down to drink, drops her eyes, his wife returns them to I.; wedding]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:196-202; Eastern Ukrainians (Uman in Kyiv region) [The mouse and the Lark quarreled over the grain; gathered birds and animals for war; the mouse told the ants to bite the wings of the birds at night; the birds fell, killed by animals; the eagle remains in the tree, asks the hunter not shoot; he points his gun three times; feeds the Eagle with a cow, a bull; he carries it through the air, drops it three times and picks up that man was afraid like the Eagle when he was targeted; the Eagle teaches promise the hunter to return the Eagle, ask for an egg for it; the uncle, the Eagle's brother refuse, the father agrees; orders to break only houses; the hunter breaks on the way, cattle come out of the egg; the snake promises to return cattle in an egg, if he gives something that was not at home; son Ivan grows up, goes to the Snake; she demands 1) to uproot the forest overnight, etc., harvest, bake pies; the daughter of the Snake is walled up in a stone pillar; promises to do everything if I. marries her; 2) turn the Dnieper, arrange a trading harbor; 3) catch a golden hare; the snake's daughter tells her to grab everything that comes out of the hole; I. misses the viper, the old woman; this and there was a hare; the girl turned into a hare herself, I. carried her; both run away; the Snake sends her husband in pursuit, the fugitives turn into wheat and grandfather; into a monastery and an elder; for the third time the Snake chases itself; the river and perch ; The snake becomes a pike, did not catch it, began to drink the river, burst; the bride tells her uncle not to kiss her uncle's child at home; I. kisses, forgets the bride; is going to marry another; the Snake's daughter makes doves out of dough, those they tell their story, I. remembers everything, marries the daughter of the Snake]: Pankeev 1992:297-307; northern Ukrainians (Volynskaya, Vladimir-Volynsky y.) [summary of the fairy tale from Mikhail Krivoshapkin's manuscript "About Volyn and Minsk Polesye" (1898-1899): "The man drowned in the swamp and cried out: "Help me, God, or hell!" Damn helped the man, on condition, give him something that the man does not know at home; it was a newborn child who soon bought hell from a man, paying a dare instead of money"]: Zelenin 1914, No. 12:296; northern Ukrainians (Chernigov, Nezhinsky district) [the hunter saw a well on the mountain, started drinking, someone grabbed his beard; he had to promise what he did not know at home; when he returned home, it turned out that his son was born; when Ivan is 7 years old, he went to the snake; woman towards: 12 doves will fly to the river; we must wait for another one, hide the shirt; the girl promises to call the one who took it father; brother; when she said that her husband, I. came out from behind the bushes; she is the daughter of a snake, they came to him; serpent: in order to cut down the forest in a day, harvest crops, bake bread; the girl called her servants, did everything; teach the horse to fly (done); the bridge over the wide river (done); the girl tells him to run, ask for cherries be responsible for her; the serpent sent 12 doves in pursuit; the girl became a lamb, I. a shepherd; church and pop (I. each time pretends not to understand the questions of the pursuers and answers inadvertently); the serpent flies by itself; river and ruff; the snake became a pike, did not catch up with the ruff; I. and the girl reached Ivan's father, got married, began to live happily ever after]: Malinka 1902, No. 17:282-286; Ukrainians (the place of recording is not a decree ., according to M. Wozniak, vol.3) [the sea grandfather stopped the merchant's ship, tells him to give him that he does not know at home; while he was not at home, his wife gave birth and raised a son; at 12 he went to his sea grandfather; 12 ducks turn into girls they take off their clothes, bathe; the young man hides his youngest's clothes, gives him for a promise to become his wife; tells him to go without turning to vipers and animals in a hut on a chicken leg; the betrothed waits for him there; teaches him to answer boldly lions, break the gate, recognize her among 12 identical girls; so three times; the merchant's son gets a wife]: Pankeev 1992:151-160; Poles: Dombrovsky 1992:52-67 [the peasant spends the night in the tavern; come robbers; when he sees an outsider, the chieftain beats him, but it turns out that the man is covered in armor; the next day, the robbers solder him, he read only half of the prayer before going to bed, covered in armor half; the next evening I didn't read it at all; the chieftain does not kill him, but asks him to pray for him; wheat has grown, the peasant takes him to sell it, gets stuck in the swamp, says that the hell will not help; the devil appears, pulls out the cart for promising to give what he does not know at home; the young man grows up, goes to hell to return the contract with the devil; in the forest he is met by that chieftain of robbers; asks him to know what awaits him in Hell; in hell, Beelzebub is chained in 12 chains, burns in fire; devils are sawing chains with saws, they are almost sawn, but Easter is coming and when "Christ is risen", the chains are restored; the young man outlined himself with chalk, began to sprinkle holy water; one drop fell on Beelzebub's forehead; he orders to blow pipes; after the third time he is a lame devil, returns the contract; he is shown the robber's bed; it shrinks and lengthens, a fiery sulfur rain from above, fire and knives around; returning to the forest, the young man puts penance on the robber; he must distribute wealth, he will be forgiven when his baton sprouts; the young man ordained a priest; one day he sees an apple tree in the forest, it grew out of a baton; the priest tells us to remember all sins; after each one named, one apple falls; it turns out that the robber then saved his father young men; when he says that he killed his father and mother, the last two apples fall, the old man dies, is forgiven], 231-240 [returning from a victorious war, the king is lost in the forest; the demon tells him to give what he has at home she does not know whether to give a receipt; at home it turns out that the queen gave birth to a daughter; she grew up; after her engagement, she stayed in a room with a mirror; the devil came out of the mirror, showed the receipt, took the girl through the window to a tower on chicken legs; when leaving, tells you to clean everything up, not to look behind the stove; she cleans up, looks, where 5 balls turn into 5 sheep; they tell you to take a receipt, run; they cross the river along the belt lowered from the sky; the devil threw the devil, without the devil, then the devil and the devil run together; the sheep turn into a haystack, the queen is hidden inside; the fugitives have their belt lowered at the abyss, and the hell threw the devil; the sheep are the watchhouse, the royal is in a thatched roof; the sheep have wings from the sky at the mountain, they fly over the mountain, carry the queen; the devil is left to gnaw the stones; the wedding is at home]; Lifshits-Artemyeva 2017 [the childless king returned to the castle, wanted to drink; the ladle at the well is not handed over; the king leaned to the water, Koschey grabbed his beard, let him give him what he did not know at home, and when he returned, he would immediately find; the king promised, the well disappeared, the king caught up with the squad; he found his newborn son at home; his name was Nenadalek ("unexpected"); when he grew up, he met an old man with green eyes, he recalled the promise; N. went, found 12 girlish shirts by the sea, and saw 12 jaws in the water; hid one shirt; the jaws became girls, dressed and flew away; the 12th asked to return the shirt, promised help; she is Koschey's youngest daughter; ordered K. to crawl to the throne on her knees; they fell into the underworld; K. laughed, did not kill N., promised to give tasks; 1) create a palace with a garden overnight ( the girl created); recognize the youngest daughter (girl: you will notice the sun under your right eyebrow); in the presence of K. sew a pair of shoes while the straw is burning; the girl tells you to run, leaves the spit responsible for herself; K. sends servants; the girl turned herself into a river, N. into a bridge, a horse into a crow; into a forest with many paths; into a church, a priest, a bell tower; K. did not recognize, returned; the girl tells not to enter the city: if R. kisses a child who came out to meet him there, he will forget her; and so it happened; the girl became a cornflower in the field; the old man found him, transplanted him, brought him home; someone cooks and cleans; the fortune teller advised to guard, the old man found the girl; on this day the Queen is getting married; the girl speckle the cake, asked the cook to serve; two doves jumped out from there, began to tell how N. forgot the girl; the Queen all remembered that I came with my girlfriend to my father's country; wedding]: 209-221; Czechs [father goes to the fair; eldest daughters ask for outfits, the youngest is a rosebud; roses have long faded; suddenly father sees a rose bush in the clearing with the only blooming rose; he picked a rose, a terrible beast came out from behind the bush; I agree to give the flower if a person sends him the first person to meet him at home; this is the youngest daughter; she agreed to go to the beast; the earth opened and the girl was in the black marble palace; the shaggy beast warns that she will be tormented by monsters, but she must remain silent; monsters at night attacked and then disappeared; after every night, a third of the castle turns white; at the end of the third, the girl screams that she is dying; the monsters disappear, a beautiful young man is nearby; they ride in a golden carriage to visit their father and sisters] : Nemtsova 1977:14-20; Poles [a rich merchant got lost in the forest and got stuck in the swamp; hell promised to take him out if he gave him a receipt that he would give him something he did not know at home; when he returned, the merchant found out that his wife had a son; when he was 7, he had already learned a lot; went to hell to return the receipt; on the way he found himself in the lair of a terrible robber named Madey; he killed his father, lived with his mother; she hid the boy, M. smelled him, but did not kill him, but asked him to know what bed was prepared for him in hell; the boy had holy water and an icon with him, he easily opened the door to hell; the devil agreed to return a receipt, but Tvardovsky, who was burned by drops of holy water, did not want; the devil threatened to put T. on the bed prepared for M.; the boy asked to show her; there are knives, nails and razors, burning from below fire, burning sulfur drips from above; returning to the robber, the boy spoke about what he saw; he asked him to come to him when the boy became bishop; 30 years later, the bishop found an apple tree in the forest, and under it - a gray-haired overgrown old man; the servants could not pick apples from the apple tree; the old man (it was M.) began to confess, and as the apples turned into pigeons and flew away; when M. was guilty of killing his father, The last one flew away; the bishop forgave M.'s sins and he fell to dust]: Woycicki 1920:51-55; Slovaks [the miller is rich and his wife is beautiful, but there are no children; once he went for millstones; on the way back the cart is stuck in the mud; isn't it? hell: give me what you don't know at home; the miller agrees, the hell took the receipt, promised to come for what he promised in 24 years; the young man grew up and came to the forest; there's a house made of human skulls, one is missing above; the giant owner says his name is Mataj; the young man asks him about the way to hell; M.: find out what my bed is made of and how I can avoid it; the young man met a poor old man, this is an angel; he indicated where in the rock entrance to hell; gives holy water to drive away the devils and the branch, open the rock; Lucifer, who took the receipt, did not want to give it back, but the other devils forced it, they were afraid of holy water; the young man told him to show him bed prepared for M.: it is made of fire snakes; and in order to escape, he must dig a hole on the rock, plant his club in it and carry water in his mouth crawling on his knees; if the club blooms and brings fruits, he will be saved; upon learning of this, M. set to work; when he returned home, the young man became a priest and then a bishop; he met M. in the forest; he began to confess; as he confessed in their crimes, apples fell from the tree, turned into pigeons and flew away; when M. confessed to killing his parents, the last two pigeon apples flew to heaven; the bishop blessed M., who died, too flew away as a dove]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 14:79-87.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Nogais [Azdaa asks the old man to give back what he does not know at home in 18 years; son Shaar Soltan grows up, daughter A. Shaarkhan helps 1) sit on knives (puts it flat), 2) get corals from the sea (gives a note to the sea a.), 3) firewood from the forest (a note to wolves and bears); 4) the horse tells you to cut off and take a piece of it in his mouth hooves, SHS does not burn in the fire; 5) c. tells you to throw the SHS off the roof, S. spreads felt at the bottom; Sh. and SHS run away on horseback, turn into 1) an old man and an old woman picking apricots, 2) taking a bath in mosques; by the sea, Sh.'s mother tells her to eat sand for seven years; seven years later, S. is caught from the sea by an old man and an old woman; pigeons say that Sh.; ShS opens Sh.]: Nogai 1979, No. 12:47-54; Chechens [one prince has three sons, the other has a daughter; the second leaves the first arrow; blood came out on it, the prince sends sons to help his friend; he has a daughter; brothers see fire; the elder knows how to spend 7 days underground, the middle one to fly, the youngest to pull the eagle out from under the eagle; the youngest crept up to the sleeping snake, took the girl away, the eldest hid everyone underground; after 7 days he had to go out, the snake grabbed the girl, who caught up with him on the fly, brought the girl back; the serpent will guard them again; promises to let them go for promising that they do not know at home; during this time Hambor's fourth brother was born; he grew up, came to the snake, he tells Princess Albica to get from behind the seven mountains; the old woman gives a bead, she turns it into whatever you want; H. becomes a duck, lets herself be caught, the duck is given by A., H. again the man takes A. through the underground passage, they fly as a dove and a dove, brothers A. chase hawks; then hares and hounds; grains and roosters; H. and A. themselves became hawks, tore roosters to pieces; H. cuts off the head of a snake, brings A.; wedding]: Kibiev, Malsagov 1981:145-153; Georgians: Bogoyavlensky 1894a (Imereti) [the hunter sees a wounded nine-headed eagle, he asks not to shoot him, to heal him; carries him for a reward to his sisters, they are married behind the kings of the white, red, blue seas; the older two refuse to give the box, the youngest gives it; the Eagle warns not to open it on the way; the man opens, the city appears from the box; the Eagle in He tells anger to collect everything back, for this is his land; agrees to lay down himself for a promise to give what he did not leave at home; a man has a son at home; he grows up, goes to look for the Eagle; the old man says that they will arrive three eagles with copper, silver, gold feathers to swim, tells him to hide gold; the young man returns for his promise to marry him; wearing feathers, the eagle carries him to his father; the 9-headed Eagle orders to build 1) church, 2) garden, 3) bridge, the bride creates everything; 4) identify which of the three eggs the bride is in; she says that the egg will move; the Eagle is still going to kill the young; they flee to the kingdom of the young man's father, everything is fine]: 8-19; Chikovani 1954, No. 31 [=Kurdovanidze 1988.1, No. 37:136-141; the eagle spread out on three oaks, asks the hunter not to kill him, cure him; brings him to his parents, tells them to ask them for treatment only box; on the way, the hunter feeds the eagle, cuts off the last piece from the leg; when he reaches, the eagle heals it; the eagle's mother tells him not to open the box on the way; the man opens, the whole city comes out of it; the devil places the city is back for promising to give what you don't know at home; this is a newborn son; he grows up, goes to the maiden to be eaten; the old woman tells the youngest girl's daughter to hide the dress when they swim; she becomes his wife; dev tells him to cover the house and yard with gold cloth; put up a palace by morning; his wife's people perform; drive around the horse, this is the dev himself, the wife gives a bit and a hammer; the spouses run; the wife turns into the field, the husband is a reaper; into the forests and the old man; into the lake and the duck; the first two times the mother pursues, the third, both; they drink the lake, they burst], 269-272 [kaji takes the chamois from the hunter; returns for the promise to give what is not I saw; at this time a son was born at home; the boy follows in the footsteps of the kaji; by the river he hides the dress of one of the three doves who have come to swim; this is the daughter of Kaji; for the returned dress, the girl promises to help; Kaji tells 1) to put a golden bridge across the river (the devas put); 2) catch a black horse (this is the girl's mother, the girl gives a whip with steel teeth); the young run, in the girl's room the voice continues to answer , I'm sick; Kaji is chasing a boar; the girl turns herself into an old woman, her husband into an old man, they work in the garden; Kaji did not recognize, the wife says they were fugitives, and the garden was a flying carpet; carpet - a temple, where a monk and a nun (the same); the wife of the Kaji is chasing; the young man is a fish, the girl is the foam of the sea; the mother cannot collect all the foam, tells her daughter to remain foam for three years, three months and three days; three days before Three girls come to the young man, ask him to marry any; a true bride sends two birds to the wedding, one tells how the groom forgot the bride; the young man remembers marrying his betrothed]: 167-172.

Baltoscandia. Western Sami [a childless fisherman caught a huge fish; it spewed thalers into his boat and asked him to give him what was in his wife's womb; the fisherman did not think his wife was still pregnant, so he promised; after that he got a rich catch; he paid a neighbor's huge debt; one day a man sat down with him and said that he was that fish and that the man's wife was pregnant; he would come for the boy when he was 12 years old; the boy grew up and went to school; the teacher cut his long nails, combed him and gave him a prayer paper; a troll met him at sea and told him to board his boat; the boy agrees if the troll will read what is written on paper; the troll refuses and sends a storm, but the boy is unharmed; the same for the second time; after the third, the troll sails away forever; the boy returns to his parents]: Kohl-Larsen 1982, No. 15:104-111; Eastern Sami [a merchant drives through the battlefield of birds and animals; an eagle asks him to be cured; after a year or two he tries to take off, three years later he puts him on his back, takes him to his brothers and mother; brothers in copper and silver houses reject what was brought; in gold, the parents of the eagle give him golden eggs; the eagle tells him to throw them from hand to hand at home; he throws them along the way, a golden one appears the house, and the eggs become soft; to hell with them, says the man; the devil grabs them; for a promise to give, what you do not know, takes the merchant home to the golden house; to meet the wife and the baby; he grew up, went to look Trait; dwarf chuckles teach what to do, how to identify the bride; Devil has 39 daughters - illnesses; The devil tells him to choose three times, the young man chooses the one he is the same age each time; the young run; the wife transforms herself in a duck, a husband in a feather; The devil can't catch up with them, tells them not to marry for three years; the father involuntarily his son to marry; at the last minute a duck arrives, turns into a girl, marries a guy]: Charnolusky 1962:270- 277; Veps [returning from the city, the man leaned to the water, someone grabbed his beard; give him what you don't know at home; his wife just gave birth to a son, the sun is in front, a month in the back; the boy grew up and went to the ogre; he had a cauldron of boiling water; the guy threw the ogre into the cauldron, covered it with a lid; went home; on the way he bought a sheep from the shepherd; he peeled it off, put it on himself; began to live with an old woman who had a son killed, but the horse, armor, weapons remained; the boy smashes the enemy three times; when the king found out what it was, he gave him his daughter]: Ariste 1964, No. 5:18-19; Estonians: Jakobson 1954 [the farmhand was in the woods when The Thunder (Pikse) distributed food from the sky to wolves; he also receives a slice of bread from him, instructing him to put the crumbs on the shelf; every morning they then grow into new bread; the owner asks why the farmhand no longer starves; when he finds out, he also goes to the forest; the Thunder tells the last wolf that his share is in the bushes; the wolf agrees not to eat a person for promising to give what he sees first at home at the gate; the best bull comes out, the wolf kills him]: 162-165; Järv et al. 2009, No. 31 (Sangaste) [the king has a daughter, the farmhand has a son, the king exchanged children with the farmhand; the farmhand's adopted daughter went to the forest and disappeared; the king got lost, three men were taken to the road for promising to give the first to meet him; the king thought that a dog would come out, but his son came out; he took him to the forest; the master of hell tells 1) to herd a white cow, 2) a gray horse; the girl teaches how to tie a thread to the cow's ear, a rod to the horse's face; 3) cultivate, sow the field, harvest, make beer; the girl teaches how to release three herds consistently geese, they do everything; the owner promises to marry the young man with the girl tomorrow; the girl tells the head of a white cow's calf to be cut, a golden egg jumped out of there; they run, the egg warns of the chase, a girl turns into a burdock, a young man into a bud on a burdock; into a lake and a fish; into a wind and a butterfly; geese are sent in pursuit, have not identified the fugitives three times, executed; the fugitives get home; parents already died, the castle is intact, the young are settling in it]: 132-134; set: Järv et al. 2009, No. 33 (Satserinna; written in Estonian) [the man went to sell flax, returned a year later, leaned to the water to drink, someone grabbed him by the beard, let him go for promising to give what he did not know at home; during this time his wife gave birth to a son; (he grew up); one girl told the young man to take with him two loaves, two belts and a ball yarn; the ball rolled, the young man followed; threw two lions on the waist, the other two on bread, they missed it; Damn (vanahalb) tells me to plow the field, etc., bake bread; 2) build a church; 3) build an iron bridge; daughter Devil tells her to go to bed, does everything; 4) choose a wife among his daughters, turned into mares, into turtles (the assistant will bite and bite other horses and pigeons); the young man gets a wife; she tells him to run, leaves saliva responsible for himself; the devil sends his sons in pursuit, the wife throws bark behind (a forest grows; sons Cut the devil, hide axes, the lark says that sees where, they have to hide), clay (mountain; same: lark, shovels), water from a glass (lake; Devils drink, burst); a young man brings his wife home]: 139-141; 2015 [mouse and sparrow divided the grain into the peasant's barn, quarreled over the last grain; because of this, the animals began to fight birds, the lion was left without hair, the eagle was left without feathers; the eagle asks the man to feed him until the feathers grow; when he recovered, he put a man on his back, flew to his sisters; the first one had a copper box, the second had a silver box, the third had a gold box; the first two were not given, the third gave it as a reward for saving the eagle; the eagle tells you not to open it on the way home, the man opened it, a golden estate appeared; the black man put back for a receipt to give what he does not know at home; the man thinks it is a dog, and at home the wife gave birth to a son; he grew up, a dog took him to the sea, they sailed in a boat to the island, hid in the bushes; two doves flew in, became girls, the young man hid his clothes alone, gave it for promising to become his wife ; she tells the old man to greet loudly, he does not hear well; heard; promised the bride, if the young man leads the geese to swim, the eggshell in front, not to lose a single egg; to tame the stallion; the bride tells make a nine-pound club and beat a stallion with it; in the morning the old man's head is bandaged; build a church out of wax; the bride created a church and a bridge; they ran away, leaving the bird responsible for them; that three days answers; then the old man sends his son to catch up with the fugitives; the girl turned herself and the young man into a priest and a chapel; the pop replies that he has not seen anyone for three years; the other son; into a flower and a bee; the old man himself is chasing; the girl turned herself into a lake, the young man into a fish; the old man began to catch and fell into the water; the girl tells her not to greet her younger sister at home; he violated the ban, forgot his bride; went to marry the colonel's daughter , chopped firewood all night, returned; to the general's daughter he carried water; to the king; he ordered to carry water; the young man saw the girl's reflection in the water and remembered everything; gave the king a box, people came out of it; everything was fine]: 25- 29; Lutsie (Western 1893) [in the forest, a man leaned to the water for a drink; the waterman grabbed his beard: give what you do not know at home; a son was born at home; grew up, went to the forest, the mother gave 9 cakes with her milk; the devil is tied; the boy consistently throws cakes over his left shoulder; they close the path to the line, he runs to the spring every time to drink; the blacksmith hid the boy; the devil demands to be unlocked; blacksmith: spill with his tongue; grabbed his tongue with hot mites, the devil ran away; the blacksmith gave a horse, tells him not to look at what he met; the young man did not look at the underground dwarfs, at the naked old women, but looked out of the corner of his eye at girls; the horse is gone; the devil tells him to get him a princess; gives ducklings, piglets and veal - these gifts are enough; he gave it to a wolf, bear and swan; on a stone a man as tall as a thumb, advises take it with you; a young man comes to the king; king: in the forest 9 years ago I lost 30 stallions; bring and get a princess; bear brought; 30 oxen: the wolf brought; the princess lost her ring in the sea: get it; the swan dives, got it on the third attempt; the king orders to go to a hot iron bath; the man with a finger enters first, the bath becomes cold, the tooth does not fall on the tooth; so three times; swim in boiling water; the man with the finger first, the water is warm, it's great to wash; recognize the princess among many girls; she warned: she will stand on her left heel; next time: I'll stand on tiptoes; third time: I won't among others, I'll carry a bowl across the meadow; the king sends the young, giving money and gold; that's the hell, a grave with burning resin, a rope through it: go, I'll get the horse back; young man: show me how; hell went on the rope, the young man cut it with a sword, the devil fell into the resin, only the smoke remained; came home on horseback; wedding; ate and drank, flowed down his lips, did not get into his mouth]: Annom et al. 2018:215-220; Icelanders [the king chased behind the deer, the companions fell behind; the deer was gone, he saw the house, the door was ajar, there was a big dog in the room; food, wine and fodder for the horse were ready, the bed was free; in the morning again; the king sat on his horse and went home, but the dog stopped him; he did not even thank him for his hospitality and now let him give the one who would be the first to meet him at home; this is the king's youngest daughter; three days later the dog began to scrape into door; the king sent a maid instead of the princess; the dog took her away; on the way asks what time it is; she: at this time they are sweeping the room; the dog realized that it was not a princess, tore up the maid, returned to the next day; this time the princess went; replies to the dog that she was meeting her father at that time; the dog brought her into the house; at night, a man in the girl's bed; when it's time to give birth, the dog warns that the baby will be carried away immediately and that she does not cry; the princess gave birth to a girl, the kite took her away immediately; the princess did not cry and was rewarded with a golden comb; the dog tells the princess that her the older sister is getting married; she can visit her, but she will return three days later and should not talk about herself; she gave two dresses - let her sister give one, the other she will wear herself; all the same after birth second daughter, received a precious necklace; released to her second sister's wedding; gave birth to a boy for the third time and shed a tear; the dog gave a mirror, but reproached that this time it was not so good; the princess's third sister is getting married; this time the princess's mother gave a pebble and taught him how to lower him over the sleeper's face to see him {incomprehensible}; the princess saw a handsome man, he woke up and said that now they would have to part; he is Prince Sigurd; after the death of his mother, the king found a hut in the forest in which the woman and her daughter; the woman called herself queen, her husband died in battle, kingdom broke; the king married her, but S. refused to marry her daughter and his stepmother turned him into a dog at 10, and then marries her daughter anyway; you can save yourself by marrying a beautiful princess, so that no one can see him, that the princess gives birth to three children and shed tears; that tear is a thorn (Staar) in the boy's eye, the princess will only wash him away with her own tears; it is his father's brother who has become a deer to lure the princess's father; let the princess go to his uncles, taking with her the comb, necklace and mirror she received as a gift; the princess came to the prince's first uncle; he sent the second; his wife and three children are with him; the boy has an eyesore; she washed him away with the tears that were in her scarf knot; uncle: let the princess go the short way through the mountains, then she will be in time before the wedding prince; gave a staff with an iron tip: the road would be smooth as a mirror; no one recognized the princess in the palace; she began to comb her hair with a golden comb, gave the bride the right to spend the first night with her husband; but she could not wake him up; the same on the second night, bought for the necklace; the prince's third uncle advised to quietly pour out the drink that would be offered for the night, it contained a sleepy potion; princess bought a third night for the mirror; she and the prince agreed; the next day a feast; the prince's three uncles brought the princess and her children in and asked if the prince knew them; he replied that he knew; the witch and her daughter turned into a giantess, but the prince's uncles put poles in their mouths, and the servants hidden under the tables put shackles on them; the prince married the princess; soon the old king died, the prince reigned, the uncle did Jarlami]: Poestion 1994, No. 3:21-38; the Swedes [the king is lost; a white bear comes out to him three times, offering to take him to the road if he gives him the first to go home to meet; for the third time, the king agrees in the hope that a dog will come out; but the daughter came out; the next day, Prince Willius sailed on ships in the guise of a polar bear, took the princess away; when the princess was already gave birth to six children, the king met a polar bear while hunting, asked him to tell her daughter that he had married; the princess decided to visit her father, although her husband asked to do so after the birth of her seventh child; stepmother advised her to light the fire at night to look at her husband; drops of candle wax fell on him, he woke up, said that after the seventh was born, they would come to live with her father and he would no longer take on his form a bear; and now he will go beyond the Sun and Earth; a wife with six children and a seventh in her arms went looking for him; a century-old bear mistress sends a bear to take them to her 200-year-old sister, the mistress lions, and she sends a lion to take them to her 300-year-old sister; she is the owner of falcons, lives with a robber; at night she pretends to have dreams, tells them to her husband, and as a result finds out how to get to where Prince Willius lives with the Sun Woman; a falcon takes a woman with her children there; a stone must be thrown into the sea, it parts; the Sun tells the princess that today she is engaged to the prince, puts them in a chicken coop; the princess turns it into a rich room, starts spinning; the sun sees gold spinning accessories, buys them for permission for the princess to spend the night with Vilius; gives him sleepy twice a potion, on the third night he pours it out; at a feast, V. asks the Sun what to do with someone who tried to separate friends; she replies that he should be put in a barrel of nails and rolled; V. planted Sun in a barrel of nails]: Stier 1971, No. 8:43-53; Danes [the poor man went to sell the canvas; in the forest at the spring, an old man offers to buy for a promise to give back what his wife wears under his sash; the poor man thinks that this is a bunch of keys, but the wife is pregnant; the poor man brings the baby, the old man dips him in a spring and gives him the name Grünhut ("green hat") - you can't baptize again; turns him into a hedgehog, a deer, a falcon, again as a baby; enough the poor man for his kept promise, tells him to bring the boy when he is 10 years old; tells the boy to be a hedgehog, a deer, a falcon; now he is Knight Grenhat, he can turn into these animals and cause him in case of trouble; the old man tells you to hire a groom for the king, to fear the Red Knight; G. hired a prince, KR serves him; the princess fell in love with G.; the KR himself wants marry her; tells the prince that G. can get the most beautiful girl; in the guise of a hedgehog, a deer, a falcon, G. penetrates an overseas princess, promises to marry the prince, she leaves with him on a ship; KR pushed G . into the sea, he brought the prince the princess himself; the mermaid saved G., he is in her palace; the princess pretended to be dumb; they want to burn her; the mermaid let G. save her, he appeared in the guise of a hedgehog, threw a fire; princess she revealed the secret to the prince's sister, she fell in love with G., both fell silent; they want to burn them, G. threw a fire in the guise of a deer; they fell silent again; the mermaid does not want to let G. let them go - let them burn them so that G. forgets them; he He only asks to raise it above the water to see the fire; he flew away with a falcon, scattered a fire; the prince married an overseas princess, G. married the prince's sister, and the Kyrgyz Republic was burned]: Grundtvig 1878:192-227 (=Suritz 1991:67-74); Danes [the king gets lost hunting, the horse drowns in the swamp; the sorcerer promises to help if the king gives him the first male being born; the king returns, with him Irregang's son was born; when he is 15 years old, the sorcerer demands a young man, leaves his stick, the young man flies to him on a stick like a horse; in the house, Maid Misery's maid is a kidnapped princess; the sorcerer tells 1) to cut down for day forest (M. raises his apron, the forest falls down; before that and every time further I. swears that he will remain faithful to M.); 2) clean the sheep's pen (M. tells the shovel to work); 3) drive the stallion to the watering hole ( he is full of fire, M. easily pacifies him); M. hears the sorcerer negotiating with his mother to fry her and I.; leaves the firewood responsible for himself; runs with I., sitting on the sorcerer's horse; M. turns I. into a bush, The sorcerer does not recognize himself in a pink bud, a horse in a stick, returns; next time: church, priest, churchyard; now the sorcerer's mother is chasing herself; duck, duck, stream; witch throws an apple at a thread to attract the fugitives, but the duck bites the thread; the witch bursts, turns into flints scattered on the shore; M. turns the horse into stone; tells I. to go home first, because 7 has passed years old; his mother is dead, the king has a child with his new wife; let no one kiss I.; the dog licks I. in the face, he forgets M.; she turns a stone into a calf, is hired as an employee, she is asked to sew a shirt for the prince for the wedding; the coachman wants to stay with her overnight; she asks him to throw ash at the fire in the hearth, he sticks to the scoop, M. lets him go only in the morning; the next night another servant sticks to the latch; then groom: take the calf to the barn, it sticks to the tail; in the morning, the wedding carriage is in trouble, everything breaks; each time Prince I. himself is forced to ask the maid (i.e. M.) to replace the glob with a shovel that has burst bolts - latch, horses - calf; replacements are great; at a wedding feast, M. throws grains, pigeons flock, begin to tell her story; I. remembers everything; tells a parable about the lost and the key to the box found; M. explains that the dog that licked I. became the current bride; M. asks to throw her into the water; then becomes a normal woman, unable to witchcraft, and her gray the calf becomes a prince; it was her bewitched brother]: Grundtvig 1879:100-137 (=1920:83-109); Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 70 [28 options; while hunting, the king bent down for a drink, the devil grabbed him by her beard, let go for promising to give someone whom he did not leave home; this is a daughter; when she is 20, the king left so as not to see what would happen; the goat tells her to climb into the barrel, takes the barrel away in a sleigh; meets three groups of devils, sings well, the cheerful devils move on; the king ordered the ribbon to be thrown across the sea, the goat crossed it, bringing the queen; the devils followed; they threw a ribbon, pulled, all devils drowned], 71 [about the same; the goat hides the girl on the cart in straw], 72 [wolves are chasing, drowning at the river crossing]: 155-157, 157-163, 163-164; Lebite 1965:146-148 [the king leaned to drink water, someone grabbed his beard, told him to promise to give back what was not left at home in 18 years; a newborn daughter at home, 18 years later her father took her to the palace overseas; the goat offers to take her girl home; answers three times to the matchmakers on his way that he is carrying hay, singing a song to them; calls the king, who sends a ship with silk ropes; matchmakers run to the sea, asking for the same; king throws them ropes out of their tow, in the middle of the sea they tear, the matchmakers drown], 149-153 [the fisherman didn't catch the fish, says let the hell cling, Damn gives fish for promising to give what you don't know at home; A son was born at home when he grew up, his father sent him to the old man of Gray Mountain Kost (SGC); the young man comes to one, then to another old woman; the first calls birds, the second to animals, no one knows the way to SGC; the old man sends to the river, in which three swans, the daughter of SGC, bathe, tells the youngest to hide the wings; he hides the wings of the eldest, middle swans, take their wings, fly away; then the youngest, she asks for her wings to be returned, plants the young man on his back, brings him to SGC; he promises him a daughter if the young man can 1) uproot the forest, plow the field, collect wheat, bake pies for the wedding (by order of the Swan, devils do everything); 2) go around one of the three stallions (this is SGC himself, the Swan tells him to be stabbed in the neck with a knife); 3) identify the bride among the crows (she will sit on the edge, scratch his beak); identified him three times; 4) swim in boiling milk (his wife bewitched vat, husband is unharmed); wife leaves drooling responsible for her, runs with her husband; 1) turns into rye, husband is old, devils come back; 2) church and priest (same); 3) lake and pike; SGC pursues, does like a bull, trying to drink the lake, bursts]; Latvians [a poor fisherman caught a jug, a giant in it, is going to eat the fisherman; he asks to climb back into the jug first; frees him for promising to give wealth; the fisherman's son became friends with the master's son; suddenly the fish is not caught; the giant catches for promising to give what he does not know at home; at this time the wife gave birth to a son; he grows up, studies well and recruits wisdom; the princess asks him to save her deceased father before the devils take him away; the young man spends three nights in the castle, drawing a line around him; the deceased king gives him the castle, the state, the good and the daughter; princess magic ring; when she saw her husband's half-sister, she decided that he had cheated on her, took the ring; the young man goes in search; the giant's two sons cannot share the invisibility cloak and the saddle, which will bring them where they need to go; the young man tells them to race against the millstone, picks up items, flies to the princess; everything is explained; she cancels a new wedding, returns to the young man]: Nierda 1952:73-83 ; Finns: Goldberg 1953 [The childless king sails, the waterman stops the ship, lets go for a promise to give back someone who was born at home in the king's absence; this is his son and daughter; the king secretly dug an underground shelter for them; the waterman who came tried to give him a foal, a calf, a lamb; he himself began to look for children; in the forge, a hammer ordered him to take him and walk; fell where the shelter was, a water hammer took the children away; they grew up, the girl married him; her brother shed tears, a wolf appeared, told him to sit on him and run; the young man enters the room where the water man and sister sleep, grabs his sister, sits on wolf; at the direction of the wolf, takes a stone from under his tail, throws it, grows a mountain to heaven; the waterman returns for a hammer and a chisel, breaks through the passage; wants to leave the tools, but begins to talk about them scream forty; the waterman takes them home, comes back, catches up and returns the fugitives; the young man cries again, the bear comes, everything repeats; the young man throws the bear's bristles, wooded mountains appear to the sky ; then the same episodes; the third time brother and sister run away on a fox, she tells them to throw flint; the water cannot overcome the sea of fire, he stops pursuing; brother and sister build a house for themselves across the bubbling river ; the wolf, bear and fox come to live with them; the sister throws stones into the river, the current calms down, the water crosses the river, lives with the girl; during the day she turns into a pin, the girl hides her in cracks in the wall; the animals feel it; the sister asks to lock the animals behind 9 iron doors for the night; the water grabs the young man, throws him into a hot bath; the animals are torn, breaking one door after another; the raven tells the young man hold out a little longer; at the last moment the animals break in, tear the water to pieces; the young man forgave his sister; she found a water bone in the ash, put her brother under his pillow; the bone pierced his head, sister buried the deceased; the animals dug the body; the bear put its head on it, the water bone passed into it, the young man came to life; the bone passed from bear to wolf; the fox put its head up, managed to pull it back, the bone was stuck in a pine tree; they all came to the brother and sister's parents, the young man rejuvenated them with live water; the father expelled the traitor daughter, his son became king]: 170-186; Salmelainen 1947 [the young man is going to shoot the capercaillie, he asks not to do so; so three times; the young man agrees to take the capercaillie home and feed him for a year; the capercaillie has a copper feather on his tail and when it fell out, he flew away; in the evening he returned, asked for food for another year; a silver feather grew; after the third year, a golden one; the capercaillie ordered to sit on it; they fly across the sea, the capercaillie throws off three times and picks up the young man to experience the same the fear that the capercaillie felt when they aimed at him; they fly into the copper castle of the capercaillie's younger sister; he tells me to ask her for a chest without a key, but she did not give it; the middle sister in silver castle; the eldest in the golden castle gave it; on the way back, the capercaillie was tired and left the young man on the mountain; he did not want to drag the chest, he left it and a palace, household, people, etc. appeared; the old man promises to place all back if the young man promises to give him what was born at his house; the young man knows that his wife did not expect a child and promised; the old man allowed him to leave the baby for a year, told him to say his name - Krummdreher; in a year, the boy grew up, became a young man, went to an old man; there was an oak tree between the sea and the lake, he climbed on it, saw the girls on the ship; they began to swim, he hid one of them's clothes; I gave it for promising to become a wife and help; this is the daughter of an old man; she gives her handkerchief, he makes him invisible and offers any food; before entering the castle, you must pull an iron stake out of the ground with a ring on at the end; the young man pulled it out easily; the young man knocked on the lock door, the old man went out but did not see anyone, and the invisible young man entered the bride's castle; the old man tells 1) to create a castle neither on earth nor in heaven; 2) for cultivate the field for one night, harvest and bake bread; 3) bring three iron-billed capercaillies from across the sea; bride: bribe 7 out of 9 horses, and we can ride away on two; the old man chases; the girl waved a handkerchief, a mountain arose, the old man ran for an ax; cut through; the girl turned her horses into a church and bell tower, herself into a priest, a young man into a clerk; they replied to the old man that the fugitives were already across the river; he was back in chase, but the girl created a river with a handkerchief; the old man stopped pursuing; everything is fine]: 19-25; Karelians (Kalevalsky district) [the husband went to the forest, took aim at the Vuoka bird; she asks not to shoot, but bring and feed a year; so three times; explains that it was wounded when it fought with a capercaillie; when the bird recovered, ordered the cow to be slaughtered, to take meat with it, it will bear it for a reward; over the sea three times throws off and picks up a person so that he feels the same fear as she did when he aimed at her; the bird consistently stays with its three sisters in a copper, silver, golden house; only the sister from the golden house agrees to give the box with the key; when flying away, the vuoka hits her wings, the copper and silver houses burn down; the man opens the box on the way, countless goods fall out; the giant demon puts everything back for promising to give what was born in his house during the man's absence; it turns out that a boy was born and has grown up; the boy accidentally broke a pot of soup on the old woman's window; she says that he has been promised to an Arab guest, let him go to him; the boy (now more like a young man) leaves; sees three swans come to swim, take off their clothes, become girls; he hides his clothes alone; the girl agrees to take him as a groom; says that she was cursed to be the daughter of an Arab guest; the swan took the young man under her wing and brought him to an Arab guest; the young man spent the night with the girl, in the morning she gave him a drink living water, ordered to break all the axes and saws that the father would give to prepare a huge amount of forest; after that, the devil gave his ax, the young man told the demons to do the job; the second task was to dig up there is a giant field on the rock (the same is to break hoes and shovels); hell tells you to choose a bride among three identical girls; chickens; mares; the girl teaches that she will have a longer tie on her apron; will put her in side finger; puts aside her back leg; hell offers to ride a horse, it's himself; the girl teaches you to whip the horse with a whip and a sledgehammer in the forehead; the beaten devil is sick, the girl tells me to run; they turned into a shepherd and cow; priest and church; demons did not understand, returned; when they became a lake and a ruff, the devil himself ran, tried to drink the lake; the ruff ripped open his belly, the water flowed out, the hell died; the girl sends the boy home, and she must be water for another three years; the young man became a wealthy merchant, forgot his bride, is preparing a wedding with the princess; the girl comes and offers to buy buns from her; the buyer wants to sleep with her; she tells her to come in the evening; the girl sent her boyfriend to buy firewood, she stuck to the door handle all night; the next evening she went out to bring a bag of flour; on the third evening the merchant himself came; she lay down with him, said who she was; they stayed together]: Onegina 2010, No. 16:182-193.

Volga - Perm. Komi [The mouse quarreled with Sparrow, the birds began to fight the animals, killed each other, the Eagle with a broken wing remained by the sea of blood; the old man picked him up; the old woman tells the Eagle to be shot twice, Every time the eagle asks not to do this; when he recovers, he carries the old man, throws it twice, picks him up from the ground so that he will be afraid; Eagle's sister gives a box, does not tell him to open it on the way; the old man opens, gold falls asleep; another old man (this is an evil tun) puts gold back for promising to give back in three years what you don't know at home; the old man has been away for fifteen years and has a son; the old woman tells the young man to watch for the twelve swans, the daughters of Tun, to hide the youngest's clothes while they are swimming; she gives him her ring, flies away; Tun marries him, sets tasks, his wife teaches him how fulfill; 1) build a palace overnight (monsters are building); 2) create a river with fish, gardens on the banks (same); 3) a crystal bridge (the same); a daughter steals her father's handkerchief, runs with her husband; tun pursues them; she waves her handkerchief, creating a forest, then a river; a young man pierces tuna with an arrow, he turned into a pine tree]: Novikov 1938, No. 25:88-103; Chuvash: Grigoriev 1971 [=Eysin 1993:265-271; Sparrow quarreled with With the mouse, a big bird stood up for him, the Mouse gnawed on her wings; the man cured her, she took him to her sister, who gave him a casket, forbade her to open it along the way; the man opened it, the garden and the palace fell out; Old Shige-Sukhal hid back for promising to give what he does not know at home; when he reached the age of 18, his son went to the MF; the old woman says that his fiancée will be ninth out of 18; his wife helps to carry out emergency assignments; 1) build a church overnight; 2) grow wheat - bake rolls; 3) tame the horse; the spouses run, the swan girls are sent in pursuit, the wife turns into an apple tree, the husband into a gardener; the field and the peasant; in lake and fry; MF flies like a hawk, chases perch, malek turns into pike, swallows it; the spouses return to her husband's parents]: 70-77; Chuvash tales 1938:89-94 [The eagle asked the man not to shoot at him, heal his wing; he feeds him cows, sheep, his wife curses; raises him to the sky, throws him, picks him up, now the person also feels afraid; he is lucky to his sisters, the middle one gives a casket, a man opens on the way, silver falls out; the old man puts back his elbow for promising to give what you don't know; during this time, his son Ivan was born and grew up; comes to the lake, hides the dress of one of three bathing swan girls; I. gives when she calls him not a brother, but a sweet one; gives a ball, I. comes to her father; 1) to give the stallion and the mare (these are the girls' parents; I. beats them, drinks them); 2) identify the youngest of the sisters (she blinks an eye); I., gets married; when she comes to her parents, she forgets his wife's request not to kiss the child in the cradle (this is an old man with an elbow), forgets his wife; they want to marry him, the cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo, turns into an ex-wife, he remembers, returns to her], 17-26 and 177-187 [just like a Komi, to identify his son among horses]; Marie: Chetkarev 1941, No. 37 [the soldier returns home, bends down drink to the pond by the mill, the devil grabbed his beard, let him go for promising to give what he did not know at home; his son Ivan is at home; I. goes to look for the one to whom he was sold; enters the door in an oak tree, down the stairs; the old man (he is the younger brother of big Satan) tells you to walk three hundred miles, 11 pigeons will fly to the lake, turn into girls, swim, put on their clothes again and fly away; after that, the 12th, her clothes, will arrive must be hidden, returned for the promise to become a wife; she promises that she is three years away, she will hang a ribbon from the window, her house will be the third on the edge; I. comes, the wife tells her to go to her father, slam the door loudly, take away a spoon from him, start eating himself; Satan is surprised, promises to give work in a week; tells 1) to uproot the forest overnight (the wife sends workers, I. brings the last stump); 2) plow, sow, harvest, bake bread, bring one boat of bread (same); 3) build a church and have the pop serve; same; Satan will turn into a pig, the wife tells you to throw a hammer at her; tame the stallion; this is Satan himself , you have to hit him with a hammer; Satan tells you to choose a wife from 12 girls, they are in the form of pigeons; wife: I will go down and rise; 12 sheep (the wife will come out third); 12 dewdrops (the third is on the edge, here she will drip); Satan sends young people to a cast-iron bath, wants to burn; the wife tells the broom, the trough, the ladle to answer that they are still soaring and washing; the young are running, Satan's 11 daughters are chasing; the wife turns I. into a chapel, herself old woman, sisters come back; Satan chases himself, wife ruff, husband becomes a lake; Satan becomes a pike, cannot catch a ruff, breaks the shore so that the young do not go out, but I.'s wife restores everything; wedding in Father I.'s house]: 282-286 (=Sabitova 1992:102-109); Chetkarev 1948 [the old man bent over to the river for a drink, the waterdevil grabbed him by the beard, let him go for promising to give a lamb with a silver head; at this time, his son, a silver-headed Pazi, was born; grew up quickly, rode a horse, does not stop meeting girls, men (that's all hell), climbs a pine tree; hell made an ax out of a tooth, out of a finger axe, began to cut; The bear offers to chop it for him, throws an ax into the lake; the devil drinks it, cuts it again; the same episode with the Wolf, the Fox; the squirrel climbs with an ax on the pine tree; the devil makes a new one another tooth and finger; The squirrel tells P. asks Aktavia to lower the iron chain; P. climbed into the sky, left one hair; the devil ate it, said that it was tasty, but not enough, went into the water]: 8-10; Mordovians: Evseviev 1964, No. 13 [an old man three years old in the forest, leaned to the water, Vedyava grabbed his beard; refuses the stallion, the ricks, the beekeeper, demands what the old man does not know; at home to meet a three-year-old son; grew up, went to Vedyava; Baba Yaga sends to her older sister, she sends to her eldest sister; she says that her brother has 40 stakes, but the last one does not yet have a head; three ducks will come to swim, they will girls, we must hide the youngest's dress; she promises to become a wife; tells her not to eat what her father will offer; he tells 1) to do all the work overnight, from uprooting the forest to baking bread; the wife tells the servants do everything; 2) an iron bridge from the porch to the church, on the sides of the apple tree with apples and birds (the same); 3) tame the stallion (this is the girl's father, she became a man, tamed him herself with a hammer and iron with rods); he promises to marry the young, his wife tells him to run, otherwise the father will kill, leaves the spits responsible for himself; turns himself into a cow, her husband into a shepherd; church and pop; himself into a ruff, her husband into a lake; this one once the father himself is chasing, tells his daughter to be a female for 7 years; the wife says that she will become a woman in 7 days, but at home the husband should not kiss his younger sister; he kissed, forgot his wife; she flew pigeon to the new one the bride, has become a woman, the bride sees a reflection in the well, thinks that she is so beautiful, returns without taking water; the same younger sister; the young man came himself, saw his wife, remembered everything, the wedding with her]: 77-87; Samorodov 1972:83-95 [A childless old man leans to the stream for a drink, Vedyava grabs his beard; he promises to give what he does not know at home; when he returns, he finds out that he has been absent for three years, he has son; three baba yagi consistently send the grown-up young man further; the latter tells the youngest of the duck girls to hide their clothes when they arrive to swim in the lake; they are her brother's daughters; her father tells 1) for spend the entire cycle of work for a day from cutting the forest for arable land to baking bread; 2) an iron bridge, on the sides of the apple tree; the wife tells the forest men to do everything; 3) go around the stallion (this is the father-in-law himself, the wife tells beat him with a hammer and an iron bar); the girl leaves her spit to answer, the young run; she becomes a cow, he is a shepherd; church and pop; servants do not recognize fugitives, father-in-law flies falcon himself; lake and ruff; father-in-law pike cannot swallow a ruff; tells her daughter to be a dog for seven years; the wife tells her husband not to kiss his younger sister at home; she chases the dog away, kisses her brother herself, he forgets everything; he is married, he sees in reflection in the well, remembers his real wife; he is married to a dog, seven days later she turns into a woman], 98-107 [the sick Eagle asks him not to shoot three times; Suralya agrees, fattens The eagle is bulls; he carries it across the sky, drops it three times and catches it; in Surale's copper, silver palace, they do not give bodies to save the Eagle; palaces burn down; they give in gold; the Eagle does not tell you to open the bodies on the way ; S. discovers, wealth ("machines") falls out; the old man puts everything back for promising to give what you don't know at home; son Pandai goes to the old man; his daughter teaches him what to do; the tasks are the same as p. 83-95; the girl's father is the last head on stakes; the fugitives turn into a birch tree and forester, a mountain and a rat, a river and a fish; horses drink the river, burst; at the young man's house, his wife tells him not to kiss his older sister ; she kisses him herself, he forgets everything; the girl promises to marry the one who brings her ram ring at night; he enters the ram, remembers, marries], 262-268 [(=Pomerantseva 1973:69-75); the old man bends down drink, Vedyava grabs him by the beard; he promises to give what he does not know at home; returns three years later, his daughter meets him; grows up, goes to V.; her front tooth is silver, waxed; mother gives a comb and a brush, her father a whetstone; old men and old women ask if she saw the girl's Silver Teeth; she laughs, the wax falls off, they chase her, she throws objects; the comb turns into the forest, the whetstone up the mountain, the pursuers gnaw through obstacles; the brush turns into a tree, the girl climbs it, asks her sister living in the sky to lower the thread; she consistently replies that she will plow field, sows hemp, soaks the tow, hide it; lowers the thread when old men and old women gnaw through the trunk; in the sky she hides his sister from her bear husband; he eats coals, does not find it hidden; sister puts her in chest, tells me to take it to parents; The silver tooth from the chest says, I see every time the Bear wants to open the chest; the father finds his daughter in the chest], 282-292 [in the forest, old man Uncle Nai-Nai tells to the old man to give what he does not know at home; he finds his son at home; he grows up, goes to D., greets Viriava in the hut; she sends him to her older sister; she teaches the youngest of the three bathers to hide the clothes daughters D.; this is Marya the Beautiful; give him when she calls him not brother, but husband; D. tells 1) to count millet in the barn, 2) build a palace and a glass bridge (the wife performs), 3) go around the stallion; this seven-headed serpent; the guy cuts off his heads with an iron club; 4) recognize his wife among three doves (bites others in the back); 5) among three girls (wipes a fly off his face); M. leaves his ring to answer, runs with her husband, turns himself into a herd, him into a shepherd; both into two flowers; into a lake and a duck; this time it is not servants who are chasing, but D. himself, unable to drink water; M. tells her husband not to kiss his younger sister at home; he kisses, forgets M., prepares for a new wedding; sees M.'s reflection in the well, remembers, marries her]; Paasonen 1941 [on his way from abroad, the old man leaned over for a drink, damn grabs his beard, tells promise to give what she does not know at home; she meets her daughter at home, her front tooth is silver, waxed; parents decide to send her to her older sister; she meets young devils, then devils middle-aged, replies that she did not see a girl with a silver tooth; laughs at the old ones, the wax falls off, the devils are chasing, the follower girl throws back parts of the spinning wheel; grows lime, maple, birch forest, devils gnaw through them; when she throws a spinning rod, a tin mountain grows up, the girl climbs it, calls her older sister who is in heaven; that follower replies that she is already plowing the field, sowing collects, flutters hemp, winds a rope, etc.; the devils have almost gnawed through the mountain, the girl climbs the rope to her sister, that follower hides her from her bear husband, making her a needle in moss, a coal among coals, garbage in a pile of garbage; The bear eats it, but does not find the girl; the sister turns the girl into a pea, hides it in a cake, tells the Bear to take the hotel to her father; The silver tooth from the box says I see every time the Bear wants to eat a cake; the Bear was attacked by dogs near the house, he ran away, the father found his daughter; at home The bear is looking for a wife to eat; she tells him to open his mouth on the roof, throws him there millstone, Bear dies]: 282-291; Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 58 [the fisherman leaned over the water; someone grabbed his beard, ordered him to give something that is not in the world; the fisherman caught an unusual fish; ate with his wife, she gave birth to a son; the diva began to demand him; the fisherman promised that the young man would come by himself; he goes to the forest, through the gate to another world; refuses the help of the eldest, middle daughters of the diva, promises marry the youngest; she helps to fulfill the diva's instructions: 1) uproot the forest, arrange a field, harvest, bake bread in a day; 2) tame the argamak (this is the diva himself); 3) distinguish the bride from her three sisters (raised her feather); the divas locked the young in an iron bath; the girl became a needle, turned the young man into a thread, they got out through a small hole; they run, the divas sends their men in pursuit, they don't understand that the fugitives have become 1) a yellow and red flower; 2) a church and a bell ringer; the divas chases himself, the fugitives have become a lake and fish; the divas tries to drink water, the daughter tells him to fall knee-deep, turns him into stone; the fugitives took the diva's treasures, returned to the young man's parents]: 264-273; Yarmukhametov 1957 [Safa said goodbye to his wife, walked around the world, saved a swan attacked by Ubyr; she carries him to her eldest, middle, younger sister; the older, middle refuse to give a gift, the youngest gives a chest, tells not to open it on the way; S. opens, a shop appears, gold; the old man asks that S. groans, places the fallen back for promising to give that you don't know at home; during this time a son was born; grows up, leaves, sees swans swimming, grabs one, this is the daughter of that old man, teaches her father to ask her father for a job, her servants are all do; 1) a night from cutting the forest under arable land to harvesting; 2) transfer water from one lake to another with a sieve; curb the stallion; this is Satan himself, the girl teaches him to hit him with a hammer, put on a 40 pound bridle; 4) identify the bride among the pigeons (he dances, she looks at his legs, the rest at his head); Satan threw both into the zindan, they flew away like flies, leaving saliva to answer; the wife turns into a mosque, a dzhigit in muezzin; she is at sea, he is goldfish; Shaitan began to fish, drowned, dzhigit and his wife settled with his parents]: 184-190 (=Bashirov, Yarmukhametov 1956:56-66); Bashkirs: Barag 1989, No. 10 [the gray crow threatens to sink the merchant's ship; sends a mare, whoever leaves the merchant's house must leave on it; a young worker comes out; the old woman teaches the last of the seven white girls to hide clothes- swans who will come to swim in a milk lake; a girl leads him to his father, he was a gray crow; six swans are his own daughters, the seventh is a kidnapped earthly girl; father-in-law tells the stallion to drink (the wife teaches you to hit him with a stick), give six mares a drink (these are swan daughters, you have to click on their forehead), plow the field overnight, grow bread (the wife tells the genies); the wife tells the young man to run, they they turn into a sheep and a shepherd, the servants have not identified; the father-in-law is chasing himself, does not believe that he is just an old man and an old woman in front of him; the daughter flew as a falcon, her father as a falcon; a roach and a pike; the ring into a girl's bucket, the father is a fisherman, asks to return the ring; the girl threw it away - the grain; the rooster bites, one grain from under the girl's foot into the golden eagle, he killed the rooster; the fugitives got home safely], 11 [{confused text, the narrator confused the stories}; the mole and the crow sowed bread, did not share the harvest, the war between birds and four-legged birds began; the tired bird Samrigush asked the man to feed her; the wife is dissatisfied, tells shoot; the man took a gun three times, but did not shoot; three years later, S. took the man to her home; dropped and picked him up three times so that he would also feel afraid; tells the old woman to ask for a copper a bridle, a rusty sword and a carpet; you have to ring a bridle, a seedy horse will appear, put the folded carpet like a saddle, do not turn it home; the man has turned it around, there is food, but the horse can no longer turn does not obey; the old man turned, ordering to give what the man does not know at home; this is a son; he became rich at home; the old man took his son; sewed horses into the corpse; the beast took him to the river, the young man went out, 12 girls flew to swim- swans, he hid the wings of the younger Maysarwar; she brought it to the old woman; she tells 1) to uproot the forest overnight, sow, harvest, bake bread; 2) sew boots with one hand while the straw is burning (M. does everything); 3) tame the horse, tie it to a pole (the horse is an old woman); M. teaches which bridle to take than to beat; 4) distinguish M. among 12 sisters (they write, M. one letter in red); the young man gets M.; she tells do not unlock the 41st room; he unlocked, there is a giant, asks for a drink, freed himself, said that he would take M.; M. and her husband are running, the giant caught up, took it away; they run again, 11 sisters are chasing, M. is a haystack, the husband is a wattle fence, sisters returned; swineherd and pig (the giant did not recognize, but the old woman caught up, found out, took M.); the husband goes to look, feeds bears, wasps, snakes; the old woman tells them to herd horses, bears, wasps, snakes drive them back; for work, the young man asked for a bridle, a rusty sword, a carpet {as at the beginning}; the young man runs with M. again, the old woman and the giant became large, M. and her husband became a chicken with a rooster, hid the cereal; the husband leaves M. at the edge of the village; she becomes an old woman, he does not want her; wants to take another one, but M. turned him into a monkey; then she freed him, beautiful herself, everything is fine]: 71-74, 74-86.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [the golden eagle asks the king not to shoot, but to leave him; after recovering, he carries the king on his back, throws him into the sea twice and catches him, because the king was going to kill him twice; the youngest, middle sister the golden eagle sets a dog against the king, the golden eagle sets fire to their houses; the golden eagle's mother welcomes him cordially; the golden eagle gives him two chests, they must be opened behind and in front of the palace; the king sails on the ship, opens the chest on the island, cattle come out of there; a man puts cattle back out of the water for promising to give that the king of the house does not know; this is a son; the prince grows up, the waterman demands him; in the forest, the cannibal advises him to steal the feathers of the eldest of the 12 swan girls (they are the daughters of water) who will come to swim, pay for the promise to become a wife; this is Gainizhamal; the water requires 1) to build a bridge overnight, 2) a garden with nightingales (G. all does), 3) identify one of the daughters three times (G. promises to fix the handkerchief for the first time, the dress, the third time there will be a fly on her head); the waterman is going to burn the young in the bath, they run away; G. turns 1) horses in the forest, husband in old man, himself in the well; 2) my husband goes to the mosque; 3) end up in the river, husband and himself in ducks; water drinks, bursts; G. tells her husband not to kiss anyone at home; the prince kisses his sister, G. forgets; she comes to his wedding, brings a pie with live pigeons, the dove replies to the dove that he will forget her like Tsarevich G.; he remembers everything; wedding]: Daurbekov 1979:87-92.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Siberian Tatars (Baraba) [a man leaned to the river for a drink, peri grabbed his beard, ordered him to give what he did not know at home; at home, a person finds out that he had a son; at the age of 16, he went to look for peri, three old Peri sisters consistently give advice; first 37, then 3 more peri pigeon daughters will come to swim, take off their clothes; the young man must take medium out of three clothes; peri requires Identify the bride among 40 girls, she warns that a fly will sit on her nose; the young man takes Peri's daughter as his wife; he tells her to uproot the forest by morning, plow, sow, bake bread; the Peri do it, then again ; father-in-law locks the young in the bath; when he leaves his spit to answer, turns her husband and herself into a needle and thread, they go out through the gap; the father sends a chase; the daughter turns 1) her husband into millet, herself into a reaper; 2 ) her husband to the mosque, herself to his grandfather; the father chases himself, she turns her husband into a lake, herself into a duck; the father tries to drink the lake, the duck pushes his stomach, the water flows out; the young go to her husband, the wife does not tell him kissing his younger sister, she kisses him herself, he forgets his wife; at a new wedding, the peri-dressmaker creates pigeons, they kiss, remind the young man of his former wife; he reunites with Peri]: Dmitrieva 1981, No. 6: 111-115; teleuts (recorded by G.M.Tokmashev, first quarter of the 20th century) [Ker-Sagal's three brothers {"piebal/brown beard"} lived richly; a poor old man brought home a shot bunny; told the old woman to cook it, and went to the COP to ask for a hoop to dry his skin; when he went into their house, he accidentally heard their conversation; the COP began to beat him and say: "We told each other fairy tales, you, scoundrel, stepped on the tail of our fairy tale"; the old man began to make excuses; CS: " You're an old man, they say there's something at home that you don't know or see. Give us that - I don't know what, and we'll give you a hoop. If you don't give what we're asking for, we'll hit you again!" ; the old man agreed; the COP gave him a hoop; the old man returned home; saw that the old woman had given birth to a son; noticed how the younger COP came home; ran into the forest, leaving the boy; the COP asked him where his parents were; boy: "My father has gone to forge an ax from the frog's horn!" ; KS: "Why does your father need an ax?" ; boy: "Ker-Sagal will come to us today (so) to cut off his head!" ; CS: "What, is your frog horned?" ; boy: "If our frog doesn't have horns, then where did your fairy tale get its tail?" ; The COP ran away, told the brothers about the boy; they take turns going to the old people's house; the situation repeats itself ("My father left the ram's horn to forge his sword!" , "My father has gone to forge a spear from the snake's horn!") ; the CS did not return again; the old man and the old woman returned home; the boy grew up, hunted and fed them]: Funk 2020:178-181; Khakas [sparrow and mouse argued who would drag more into the bins bread; began to accuse each other of theft, got into a fight; a war between birds and animals began; a hawk asks the peasant to feed him until his wings grow; the peasant cares for him; he brings him to to his sister; returning home, a peasant does not know how to swim across the sea; a man in a boat carries for a promise to give what he does not know at home; this is a son; a water man takes him, tells him to create a taiga; the girl gave a handkerchief, he waved at it, a taiga arose; the waterman tells the boy to find a wife, otherwise he will kill; he runs away with the girl; they scattered on the ground, the water became a rooster, could not collect all the wheat; agreed to let the fugitives go, they came to the boy's parents, everything is fine]: Katanov 1907, No. 378:390-391.

Western Siberia. Southern Selkups: Dulzon 1966, No. 50 [Damn enough man, makes him promise that he does not know at home; a son is born, grows up, his father goes with him to the forest, sends him for a donkey specially forgotten where they made the boat; the boy is met by the Devil (the text ends)], 52 [the man makes the boat, the devil grabs him, makes him promise that he does not know at home; a boy was born at home; when he grew up, father sends him to the forest for a forgotten bar, the devil grabs him; he replies that his mother's name is "She will come to bed in the morning, she will cry", his brother, "She will wait for me outside," his father, "The Forest Wolf"; explains why he called them that; the devil was upset, let the boy go]: 137, 141-143; Pelikh 1972 (Narym) [the old man leaned down to the ice-hole to drink; the ice grabbed his beard; the old man promised to give his youngest daughter; then the eldest; Ice let him go; took his eldest daughter; she swims, asks people on the shore where she is taking her; the tenth replies that she is going to the waterfall; the girl runs to the mountain, does not turn around as Ice asks her; resorts to an old woman overgrown with hair; she asks her to kill; the hair turns into deer, the old woman's liver into a grandmother; the girl stays with her]: 322-323; Tuchkova 2004 (b. Chizhapka), No. 1 [=Lukina 2004, No. 2. 4:36; almost the same as in Pelikh 1972; the tenth person replies that the girl is being carried "to a bad place"]: 328-329, 395.

Eastern Siberia. Dolgans: Efremov 2000, No. 11 (zap. Efremov in 1964; also published in Sanghi 1985:162-178) [The mouse persuades the Bird to spend the winter, make supplies, first eat it; by spring there are not enough supplies, the Mouse beat its children, bit through its wing to the chicks; The bird complained to Yeokshökyu, who sent soldiers; the mouse complained to its king the dragon Mongyu; Mongui killed Yeokshökyu's wing, the birds scattered; the merchant feeds YE. three years, until the wing heals, even sold his wife; YE. carries it to his older sister, tells him to ask for a cat that rushes in coins; she refuses; the younger sister does not give the chicken rushing gold coins; mother and a young girl gives a box; the man is lost, Aat, the hero, lets him go for promising to give what he does not know at home, otherwise he will suck it in; YE. says he was an abaasa hero; carries a man home, on the way, sisters YE. give him a box, from which you can take gold and silver; a wife bought by a man gave birth to a son, gave him a handkerchief and a ball, the ball rolled into the land of death; the girl teaches not to drink himself, cook A. in a cauldron when he gets drunk; it was the daughter of Ë., the young man married her, became rich]: 201-203; Popov 1937 [to have children, the old woman turns to ayyi, the old man turns to abaasa; ayyy gives a boy and a girl, the abaas threaten to swallow the old man, makes him give what he does not know at home; the spouses hide their children under the hearth; the abaas eat their spouses, do not find children; they grow up from the sky a horse descends, takes them away, gives flint, flint, an ax, they must be thrown at an Abaas pursuer; they turn into fire, mountains, sea; the abaas remain overseas; the horse tells him to be killed by crushing a louse on his head; parts of his body give rise to a city, buildings, property; his kidneys turn into a dog bear and a dog wolf; in the absence of his brother, abaasa comes, his sister agrees to marry him, He lures his brother's handkerchief, gives it to her husband; the brother hurries, the cliffs crush his dogs - the bear and the wolf; the horse brings his brother to the old woman, she gives the bow; the hawk fights the yokshokyu bird; the brother He shoots through the wing; for promising to cure him, he helps open the mountain, freeing the bear and the wolf; they kill the abaas; the brother hangs his sister by the legs, puts two plates under his eyes; overnight The left one fills with tears, which means that the sister cries for her husband, not for her brother; he leaves, leaving the bear and the wolf; the one-eyed, one-armed and one-legged abaasa fights with another over a woman; Er-Sogotoh ( his brother's name is mentioned for the first time) frees the woman, takes her away; the abaas pursues them, E. throws the comb, the forest grows; E. kills the abaas, marries the rescued woman]: 208-238 (quail. Efremov 2000, No. 2:79-135); Yakuts (summary of the archival text, place of recording not specified; central?) [the merchant promises to give the sea spirit what he does not know at home; this is a son; the old man advises the young man to go to three sterhs, one of which will give a black stone; the guy gives it to the sea spirit, comes out victorious from trials; Siberian is a pupil of the sea spirit, the guy runs with her, turning into birds or fish; the spirit swallows them; they rip his stomach off and go out]: Ergis 1967, No. 101:181; Baikal Evenks (north of Transbaikalia) [the mouse and the bird agreed to prepare supplies for the winter together; the mouse took everything for themselves; the bird pecked out her eye, the animals and birds began to sue; the lion hit the Eagle, who could not without feathers to fly away; the man picked him up; his wife cursed, but her husband fed him for two years; the Eagle brought him to his sister, told him to ask for a box as a reward; it had a hut, maids; on the way, the man forgot how to fold the box back ; the old man folded for a promise to give what the man's wife did during this time; this is a son; he went after the red dog, hid the clothes of one of the three swan girls who bathed; she helps to fulfill difficult the old man's tasks; 1) build a house overnight; 2) tame the horse; 3) sends his wife and his wife to the bathhouse, sets them on fire; the girl turns them into a needle with a thread, they run away; the servants chase, they turn into a church and a headman, sheep from a shepherd, a lake and a perch; this time the old man chases himself; stops chasing; at home, a guy kisses a child, forgets about his wife; at a wedding, on the other, she reminds him that he marries her]: Voskoboynikov 1960b, No. 10:43-53 (=1958, No.).