L94b1. The demon collects his wealth back into the box. (.13.) .16.27.-.29.31.-.33. (.36.)

A person receives a box (bag, horn, etc.) as a gift, which he must open only at home. Driven by curiosity, he opens it on the way and everything that should make him prosperous (houses, livestock, etc.) flows in from there. The demon who appears agrees to bring everything back, but sets a condition the severity of which a person usually does not immediately understand.

(Nubians), Scots, Tamils, Hungarians, Croats, Bulgarians, Romanians, Moldovans, Russians (Teresky Bereg, Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Karelian Pomorie, Vologda, Voronezh, Orlovskaya), Belarusians, Eastern Ukrainians (Uman), Stavropol Turkmens, Abkhazians, Balkarians, Georgians, Armenians, Latvians, Setus, Estonians, Finns, Komi, Chuvash, Mordovians, Mari, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, ( Baikal Evenks, Evenks of China).

(Wed. Sudan - East Africa. Nubians [a thief steals gold fruits from the royal tree; the youngest son pulls out the feather of an extraordinary kidnapper bird; goes to look for it with two brothers; on the gate it is written that the one who has gone he will disappear to the right, he will lose his horse straight, to the left he will get to the giants from the ancient mounds; the prince goes straight, the brothers remain at the well; the genie eats his horse, then fulfills all requests; taking the cage away from as a bird, the prince violates the ban on silence; he is released for promising to bring a horse that takes him to any country; the prince violates the ban on taking a bridle; released, promising to bring a casket; the king sleeps, holding the casket in his teeth, the genie turns into a mouse, tickles the king, he releases the casket; the prince violates the ban on opening the lid, horsemen, servants, dancers come out; the genie learns from the casket owner how to place everything back (say "showlim" three times); makes a copy of the casket, gets a horse, takes the owner of the bird in the form of a horse; the prince returns with three treasures, the brothers throw it into the well, the genie pulls it out; people brothers are executed from the casket, the king hands over the throne to his youngest son]: Katsnelson 1968:63-77).

Western Europe. The Scots [the sparrow and the mouse quarreled over the grain; the war between birds and animals began; the Queen of Tetertyne came when the battle was over, the Raven and the Serpent remained; the Queen killed the Serpent, when she was ready to kill the Raven in a duel; the grateful Raven puts him on his back and carries him across valleys and lakes to his first, second, third sisters, and the third becomes a young man (he was cursed); gives a bag, tells him not to open it on the way; the young man opens, a palace with a garden appears; the giant puts everything back for promising to give his son, who will be born when he is seven years old; the young man becomes king, marries, seven years later the son is a giant; the boy's mother gives her son to a cook instead of her son; the giant asks what his father would do if he received the rod; he replies that he drove away if from the treats of dogs and cats; the king has to give his promised son; a young man grows up in a giant's house, who offers him a choice of one of two daughters; the young man demands a third, Red-haired Mary; a giant requires 1) cleaning the barn (M. does everything), 2) cover the house with bird feathers (the same), 3) get magpies out of the nest and cook magpies (M. cuts off his fingers and toes, they turn into steps of the stairs, the young man pulls out eggs, his fingers grow, except for the little finger, which the young man did not touch when he climbed); 4) recognize the bride among her sisters (she does not have a little finger); M. tells him to run, leaving answer apple slices; M. tells you to get the mare out of the ear, throw behind 1) a branch of thorn (thorny thickets; the giant runs home for the ax, then carries the ax back, because the crow promises to steal the ax), 2) pebble (mountain, giant runs home for a pick and hammer), 3) a bottle of water (lake, giant sinks); M. tells not to kiss anyone at home, a young man is kissed by a dog, he forgets M.; M. hides in a tree, wife, daughter the shoemaker sees her reflection, takes her for their own, refuses to carry water because they are so beautiful; the shoemaker takes M. into the house, says that the Queen is getting married, takes M. with him to a feast; at her glass two pigeons fly out, tell the story of M.; Korolevich marries M.]: Campbell 1890 (1), No. 2:25-38 (translated into Shustov 1994:363-373; =Kharitonov 2008:383-394 with minor differences; there is no quarrel between a mouse and a sparrow , a magpie's nest on a spruce tree rather than a pine tree; episodes of escape and persecution in Clouston 1887:440-441).

South Asia. The Tamils [the king has only one daughter, she is on the seventh floor of the palace; every day he weighs her using lemons as weights; every day, in the morning and evening, the girl looks at the sun and laughs; Surya Bhagavan (the sun, aka Shiva) decides that she is mocking him, comes in a mess at night, in the morning; the king notices that the daughter has become heavier (i.e. she is pregnant); then Shiva opens they are happy; Shiva gives her a ring and goes for gifts; but the warrior replaced the collected dishes with an iron brazier; when she saw her, the princess told her not to let anyone in; offended Shiva predicted that she would starve, work to exhaustion, cut off his fingers with a sickle and only later his well-being will return; her son asks who his father is; she gives him Shiva's ring; tells him to go to the river and help the old woman pick up a jug of water; let him throw a ring into the jug; when the ring was in the jug, there was only a little water left there immediately; Shiva asked for a drink, the old woman began to pour out of the jug, the ring fell, the old woman handed it to Shiva; the boy ordered him to be brought to him, took him to heaven; but he wanted to see his mother, because she was starving; Shiva gave him a box, told him not to open it on the way; but the boy opened it, from there valuables, houses, land, cattle have fallen asleep; the snake promises to collect everything back, but then it will bite on the wedding day; the boy agrees; now he and his mother are safe; the young man has grown up, but postpones the wedding day; finally, the day has come, the snake is ready to bite the groom; this is the snake Shiva wears as a necklace; he cannot allow it to bite his son, put his leg up and the snake bite him; it's an eclipse of the sun]: Blackburn 2005, #50.

The Balkans. Hungarians [Peter is hired by an old man to pick up horses; gets a nut as a reward, breaks it along the way, cattle come out; the iron-headed man puts everything back for a promise never marry; P. gets rich, his father insists that he marry; Ironhead comes to the wedding, P. runs away riding a stallion; three old women consistently feed him, give him scarves, buns; riding through the flame, he spreads it apart with handkerchiefs, throws buns, they turn into three dogs; Ironhead stays waiting at the wall of fire; P. hires an old woman, tells the girl about the scarves; she spreads the fire with them, The ironhead penetrates this, passes, P. climbs a tree, calls the dogs, they tear Ironhead to pieces, they turn into poppies (the origin of the poppy); P. returns home, returning the old women buns, scarves; his wife is dead; a girl from the country appears behind a wall of fire; wedding]: Gidash 1953:124-133; Croats [widower married a widow, both with a son; wife demanded that her son pass cows, and my husband's son is an ox; she gave her bread and cheese, and her stepson crusts; ox: twist my right horn, you will find food there; when my stepson saw my stepson full, my stepmother pretended to be sick, she needs the meat of that ox; ox: when a butcher will come, jump on my back; took the young man far from home; warned me: I will butt with a plump ox and win; and the thin one will kill me; then take both my horns, but don't open my left one until you will come home; but the young man, when he reached the bridge, opened his left horn and from there the cattle came; pitchfork: I'll put it back if she is allowed to come in the morning after her wedding night to comb his wife's hair; the young man thought: more it is not known whether I will marry; so he promised; he found only his father at home, the farm was in decline; the young man sent his father to the king to ask for a princess; after the third time, the king descended to talk to the peasant: if your son has the same castle as me, I will give it back; the young man looked into the horn: there was a better castle than the royal one; now the king demands cattle; the cattle come out of the horn; the wedding; the villa appeared in the morning; but in There was yarn in the corner, with three breadcrumbs in it; the crumbs spoke: if you go to God from God, and if from hell, then to hell; vila combed the princess and disappeared]: Leskien 1915, No. 44:197-199; Bulgarians [the poor person gets a wonderful horn or egg and only uses it when he returns home; violates the ban on the way, many pets emerge from the horn; Wolf (Cat, Serpent, Smock) helps place those who came back with the condition to give him an unborn child or invite him to his wedding when the child grows up]: Daskalova-Perkovska 1994, No. 313b: 113; Moldovans: Moldovans fairy tales 1968:232-250 [poor Nekulai saw an eagle freezing and brought it to the hut; he explained that he was a prince bewitched by the mother of three dragons because he did not agree to marry his sisters; if N. got it one of the sisters had a box, the spell would be destroyed; the eagle brought N. to the copper palace, then to the silver palace, then to the golden palace; the first two sisters did not give the box, the third gave it, the eagle became a prince and left; N. carried the box, got hungry and told her to open; tables with food appeared; N. does not know how to close the box; having received N.'s promise to give what she does not know at home, Baba Yaga tells the box to close; at home in Stefanel-Fat-Frumov was born at this time; when he is 7 years old, a tornado took him to Baba Yaga; she tells 1) to carry 10,000 carts of firewood (stepdaughter tells dragons); 2) bake bread from 10,000 bags of flour (same); 3) get out of a clogged barrel thrown into the sea (the dragons got it); S. and the girl are running, she turns him into a mill, herself into a miller; a field and an old woman; the third time the girl threw the pipe, appeared the pond, they became swans, the pursuer became goose; the swans became people and twisted the geese's neck; the girl calls herself Marioara-Tsvetik, changes with Sh. Rings; at home, S. forgot her, was going to marry; M. came into the house as a maid, baked two pigeons out of dough, put it in one ring; S. finds him, remembers everything; but M. leaves, saying that once he forgets, he will forget it again], 334-345 [the girl conceived by the smell basilica, went to the old man's cave, gave birth to a son Basilica of Fat Frumos; FF found the palace, killed six dragons - the sons of the witch Cloanza, the seventh cannot be killed, he drove him into a mortar and locked the door, brought his mother live in the palace; K. released the seventh dragon, took the form of FF's mother, pretended to be sick, sent for bird's milk; FF came to Ilyana Kosynzyan, who sent her brother the Sun; he gives a horse go to the copper mountain to a giant bird feeding the chicks with milk; FF quietly framed the jar, galloped away; IK replaced the milk with cow's milk, kept the bird's milk for itself; 2) wild boar meat; FF caught, IK replaced a domestic pig; 3) living and dead water; FF killed a 10-headed dragon, brought water, IR changed the flasks; at home, the mother (i.e. K.) suggests trying to break the rope; then two; three FF can't tear, the dragon cut it, collected the remains, put it on the horse and drove it; IR joined the pieces, made up for the shortcomings with wild boar meat, revived it with live water, gave him bird's milk; FF burned the dragon and K. in the oven, hugged him mother, married IK], 384-389 [the guy saved the crow, she brought him into his world, advised me to ask for a pillow as a reward; contrary to the warning, the guy opened it on the way, went out and ran away the cattle; iron the wolf drives him back for letting him eat the guy when life is dear to him; the guy gets married, the wolf comes; the loaf lying on the table begins to tell how the seeds were sown - and then the whole cycle of work -, each time repeating "I endure, and you are an ox"; "and if they knead without skill, the bread has burst. Burst too, wolf!" The wolf burst].

Central Europe. Russians (Teresky Bereg) [Ivan, a peasant son, went hunting; the bird Pavá is sitting on land, asking not to shoot, but to feed a year, collecting sheep from all over the world; a year later, Pavá sat on an oak tree, the oak did not sway: feed for another year; the oak swayed; three years later it shattered into chips; Pavá put I. on his back, they are flying; the sun is not burning in front - my brother's house; ask for a rotten box; "Give me back a rotten box, then I'll talk about the surfactant bird. "Don't tell us surfactant birds, and we don't give us rotten boxes!" ; at my father's house: take it, take a rotten box, just tell me about the PAVA bird! Pavá turned out to be a red girl: do not open it until you come home, but if you come, go out into a big meadow; on the way, the bird does not tell you to open it, but I. could not stand it and opened it; there was a house and gardens, food and drink enough, but nowhere to go; three days later, outside the window: give me what you don't know at home, I'll collect a rotten box; at home my wife gave birth to a son; once she caught it, thundered - give it back, man, promised! on the way, 40 girls are swimming, the boy hid the belt alone; gave it when she went out to him; their father is Cosó Kolesó, let I. hire him; KK only has this daughter, others are stolen; KK: choose a bride from 40 sisters; girl: I'll brush a fly off my face; next time I'll wave my handkerchief; on the third, a fly again; wedding; my mother was Christian, tells me to run; three days later my father chased a braid wheel; the girl threw a lash: dark forests from earth to sky; father went for a shovel to make a road; kraebag: a stone mountain from earth to sky; the same; flint: a river of fire; KK could not cross; I. s reached home by his wife]: Balashov 1970, No. 44:146-151; 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, began a war of birds and animals, everyone died, the eagle was wounded; the prince pointed his gun at him three times, the eagle asked not to shoot, but ordered him to feed him for three months; tried to fly - three more; then more; ordered him to sit on he suffered the reward; on the way he threw him and picked him up three times so that the prince would feel the same fear as he did when the prince pointed his gun; ordered him to take a multi-colored box from his worn sister, from the middle one has a self-shaking purse, the youngest has the key to a multi-colored box; the eagle tells me not to open it along the way; he opened it, everything flew up, the road became difficult; a tall man: I'll return everything back if you will give me what you don't know at home; he was a magic king; people came out of the box at home, began to uproot, harrow, etc.; his wife gave birth to a son during this time; Ivan Tsarevich grew up, shot, hit his grandmother's window; grandmother: you won't break the windows for long, in a year the magic king will pick you up; your father denies; the second time - the same; your grandmother gave you a cup of water to drink, I. became a mighty handsome man; tells you to hide the dress herself a beautiful of 12 swans when they arrive and become girls; she promises to be faithful to Ivan; the king tells us to rebuild the palace overnight; Elena the Queen flew in like a bee, tells I. to go to bed, orders the spirits do everything; work the ship from a gun that is 30 years old under the window; E. gives a lash, I. hit the head, soon she returned with a ship; cut down the forest, etc., and bake pancakes out of flour by morning; the same, perfume everyone performs; choose E. from 12 mares (one facial hair is slightly longer); the same from 12 pigs (red speck in the ear); out of 12 girls (a fly above the right eye); E. and I. are running, E. left in the bath responsible for saliva; chasing; 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 (Arkhangelsk Bay, Onega Bay of the White Sea) [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 (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 to feed him for three years; he wants to throw it away, then feeds him again; the eagle put the man on his back, they fly to the eagle sisters; tin, silver did not give the box, but the gold one gave; ordered do not open the road; he opened, Koschei 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, paternal- 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; bride: hit with a club between my 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 (fire 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 (Vologodskaya, Kirillovsky y.) [the mouse and sparrow shared the seeds, the sparrow pecked the last one, the mouse complained to the fiery serpent, the eagle interceded for the sparrow, the serpent scorched his wings; Vasily the Sagittarius pointed his gun at him three times; the eagle asks feed him for a year, tries to fly, asks him to ride for a year, then another; after that, the eagle flew with him; drops him three times over the sea and picks him up again; stays with three sisters in copper, silver, gold kingdoms; only the older sister agrees to give the box; the eagle tells not to open it on the way home; the ships landed on the island, V. opened the box, the city appeared; the old man put it back for promising to give what V. does not know at home; let him send him a son in 20 years, he is a seven-humped demon; when Ivan is 20, he went to the demon; A hut, a hut, backwards to the forest, in front of me! there is Baba Yaga, that demon is her brother; she gave a ball, he would reach her older sister; there too, "the hut turned like chicken legs", "backwards to the forest, to me in front"; "The old woman lies twice as her mother head on the bench, legs in the pipe"; gave a cane when she stuck and did not pull it out, you go there; 12 swans flew to the sea, one of them far from the others; I. hid "to look to his knees (to the navel)"; stole her clothes; "If you are young, let her husband be"; "What manners did you get here, Ivan Tsarevich!" ; "My owner has 38 heads, and all have to hang 40 heads - two stakes are empty. And all of us, shouldn't we be here together?" Demon quests. Make a pole from ground to heaven so that the cat can work, go up - tell 12 fairy tales, and down - sing 12 songs well"; I.'s wife performed everything by morning; the demon tells us to identify Maria Tsarevna among the 12 girls; M.: I will have a fly on my right eyebrow; then: dig a ditch overnight and let a steamer go through it; performed; identify M. among 12 swans; "The right wing has a longer wing" {incomprehensible}; out of 12 foals (one tail hair is longer); cut down the forest, plow the field, etc., by morning for the cake to be ready; M. leave saliva responsible for themselves, runs with I.; M. is the chapel, I. is the elder; the well and the ladle; the swamp and the kite; the unclean spirit began to drink the swamp; M. turned herself and I. into a ring, threw it, her sister had it; she threw it on the floor, the ring crumbled with beads, I. and M. appeared; they came to his parents ; wedding]: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 34:133-148; Russians (Voronezh) [the mouse quarreled with V No. 224:197-204. The cat tells her to wait every time for him to eat bread, drink milk etc.. rrobiem, 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 it on his back; throws it three times over the sea and catches him, so that the merchant feels 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 the golden kingdom gives it; the Eagle tells not to open it on the way, the merchant opens, a palace and servants appear from him; 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, goes to NL; Baba Yaga advises hiding the wings of a colorful cabbage roll when three cabbage rolls arrive for a swim; this is Vasilisa Premudraya, NL's beloved daughter; his cook Chumichka 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 him to go around the stallion; this is NL himself, Ivan hits him with a hammer; 4) choose a bride among three mares, three cabbage rolls, three girls (the VP has a dull glitter on the bridle; it will wave its wing; a handkerchief); after the wedding, the young run, the VP turns Ivan into a vegetable garden, himself into a head of cabbage; a well and a falcon; when NL himself is chasing, VP throws a brush (forest), comb (mountain), towel (sea); Ivan is the first to come home, kisses his godmother, forgets VP; she is hired as a worker, Ivan is ready to marry; VP comes to a wedding with a pie, a dove with a dove comes out of it, the dove says that the dove will forget it, as Ivan forgot the VP; Ivan recalls]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 224:197-204; Russians (Voronezh) [Tsar aims at the eagle three times at the oak tree; agrees to feed it for three years; every year the eagle tries its power; after the third, it puts the king on its back, carries it, throws it into the sea three times and picks it up again, so that The king was as afraid as he was 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 was burning behind him; same with the middle sister; the elder feeds generously; after that, the eagle gives the king a ship and two chests: the red one in the backyard, the green one in the front; but the king opened the red one along the way, and 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 did not know; 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 shore seas; Baba Yaga's hut nearby; she teaches: 12 spoonbills will arrive at sea, take off their clothes, start swimming, 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, Frost with him; the water tells him to build a crystal bridge overnight (the servants of the VP did everything); plant a garden (the same) recognize the bride from his 12 daughters (that will wave a handkerchief; fix the dress; the fly will fly); tells you to eat a lot; drink; survive in a hot bath (assistants helped); the young are running, the VP turned the horses into a well, herself into a bucket, the prince in old man; pop and church; honey river with jelly shores, prince - drake, VP - duck; waterman began to drink, burst; VP tells you to go forward to parents, but not to kiss his sisters; I. kissed, forgot VP; beret another wife; VP chipped in as a beggar, brought a pie with a dove with a dove in it; dove: you will forget me like I. Vasilisa Premudruya; I. remembered that everything is fine]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 219:171-177; Russians (Voronezh) [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; Russians (Orlovskaya) [the peasant took aim at the eagle; he promises to fulfill his wish; peasant: make him rich; eagle: if you meet an old man, 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 orders to give what is not at home you know; the wife gave birth to a son; he grew up, goes to the forest; spends the night at the eldest Baba Yaga in a hut on chicken legs; she sent to the middle one; the middle one to the youngest; the youngest gave a wooden hand to Prince Balalay - he is blind; B. I felt that my hand was wooden; the girl-daughter B. told me to run; turned into a field, the guy turned into a watchman; the cell and the monk; the river and so; B. tried to drink the river, burst; the girl tells me not to say hello to the youngest at home brother; the guy greeted, forgot the bride; she baked a cake, from there two pigeons, the guy remembered; wedding]: Kalinnikov 2017:9-14; Belarusians (Gomelsky y.) [the son is Ivan, the father is a drunkard; the neighbor took I. as an employee; he grew up, went on; hired a serpent; this is the serpent Chavolay; after 6 years I. left, C. gave him a book, ordered him not to open it, otherwise he would eat it; I. got lost, opened the book, cattle flowed out of it; C. appeared: eat; agreed that C. put the cattle in the book back, and I. promised not to marry; at home I. refuses matchmakers; still others say that they have two good dogs will fight off C.; during the wedding, C. appears; I. jumps away; the horse has fallen; the hut: turn your back to the forest; Baba Yaga fed her, put her to bed, gave bread with her, showed the way to her sister; she has the same thing, the oldest sister has the same; every dog, from afar, senses C.; every pernet and food appears; the third baba yaga gave a handkerchief to wave at the sea - a bridge appeared; when on the C. Bridge, wave again - the bridge disappeared, C. fell into the sea; I. woke up, three dogs nearby: Lomigor, Lomikamen, Lomizhelen; two kingdoms ate a 12-headed serpent, in the third he was led to eat a princess; I. and his dogs killed him, The princess tied her wounds with a handkerchief; the servant cut off I.'s head, ordered the princess to say that he had killed the snake; the dogs grabbed the viper, forced the viper to bring water growing and living; revived I.; the princess's wedding with her servant is being prepared; I. sends dogs, the princess recognized them; at the feast, the tsar sees the princess's handkerchief on I.'s hand; the servant was beheaded; wedding]: Romanov 1886, No. 9:73-77; (cf. Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians [A miraculous escape: a young man promised a line (to the water king, sorcerer) comes to him on time, performs with the help of a girl (daughter) water king) difficult tasks, runs with her; they turn into different animals and objects. - Tales number 313A begin with an episode: the devil (waterman, etc.) grabs the beard of a traveler who tried get drunk. Tales like 313B have this beginning: a person saves a bird, it takes it to the overseas kingdom, gives it a wonderful box that he should not open, violates the ban (cf. AT 537); tales like 313C end with the episode "The Forgotten Bride". The usual beginning of fairy tales like 313A, B, C is "War of Birds and Animals" (ATU 222=AA 222A) or "Mouse and Sparrow" (ATU 222B*=AA 222*B)]: SUS 1979, No. 313A, B, C: 112-113); Ukrainians (Uman) [Mouse and Lark quarreled over a grain; gathered birds and animals for war; the mouse told 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 to shoot; he 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 the hunter to promise return the Eagle, ask for a raitso egg; Uncle, 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 the cattle to the egg if he will give what 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 you to grab everything that comes out of the hole; I. misses the viper, the old woman; it was the hare; the girl she turned into a hare herself, I. carried it; 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 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, they tell them the story, I. remembers everything, marries the daughter of the Snake]: Pankeev 1992:297-307.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Stavropol Turkmens [(zap. A.N. Gren, from materials by L.G. Lopatinsky); The Mouse and the Rat are fighting over prey; the Eagle tries to reconcile them, they gnaw on it; the hunter shoots the wounded Eagle three times, both times a misfire; agrees to bandage his wing; the Eagle carries him to his wives; throws him off and catches him three times to make him feel how afraid the Eagle was; sends a man to each wife as a fortuneteller; the first two are dissatisfied with what they are promised the return of her husband, the third is happy; the Eagle throws the first off the cliff; the Eagle gives a box, does not tell you to open it along the way; the man opens, the herds run away, he says, Ah; The old man appears from under land, returns the herds to the box for promising to give his son Azerbaijan; Aha's son tells B. not to admit that he has mastered science, A. lets B. go to his father; B. knows how to turn into animals, tells his father to sell him like a horse, but without a bridle; A. buys with a bridle, wants to kill, son A. tells him to run; B. turns into a hare, A. into a greyhound; the lark is a kite, the father is a chicken, the fox grabs the chicken; A. gives B. property, leaves to another country]: Bagriy 1920 (2): 77-84; Abkhazians: Shakryl 1975, No. 24 [the peasant has three daughters and three sons; when he dies, he tells the elder to take his sisters to the balcony, the grooms will take them; each time a girl a cloud takes away; the brothers send the elder to search; he chases sulfur, drove the horse to death; he came to the palace of his older sister, she hides her brother in the chest, the Adaui giant comes, promises not to eat brother-in-law; sister advises you to ask for the box; adaui tells you not to open it in public; he chased sulfuric again, drove the donated horse, came to his middle sister, received a white arash (horse) as a gift, flying to the sky; chamois again - drove arasha; to his younger sister; gets a black smelly horse Kakua-Zalashv; he turns into a good horse, a bridle in one ear, a saddle in the other; tells you to grab a chamois only by the horns, the young man touches his back, the chamois disappears; they see her as a girl in the garden, take her away; the box gets heavier, the young man opens it, a city with people appears, the young man reigns; leaves wife as queen, goes to his son-in-law, who gave the box; he puts the city back in the box, the king brings her home, opens it, the city appears where his father's home is], 28 [the rider wants to kill the snake, the widow's son does not give; the snake brings to himself, tells her parents to give a pouch that they have not yet opened; the young man opens it on the way home, a city appears; hell puts the city back for promising not to name the brother of the one who runs out at home; the brother runs out, the young man does not recognize him, the brother leaves; sees three daughters a line, one is enough, she promises to help; the devil tells 1) to dig a mountain overnight, 2) build a bridge across the sea (all done); 3) tame the horse; this is the devil himself; the wife tells him to be beaten with a hammer; at night the young run away, the devil sends an army; the wife turns herself into a shop, her husband into a merchant; the same is a dead man and a pop; himself the father is chasing, the wife tells me to enter the rock, confuse the roads; he stops chasing]: 112-120, 143-148; Balkarians [the hunter refreshed the deer; he jumped up; running away, he replied that this is not a wonder, but a wonder Blind Aliyuk will tell; the man went to look for him; in the house on the bed, a man with a skewer branched in two, stuck over his shoulder, stretched out over his heel, two women are crying nearby; a man says that he is SA; he and 9 sons met Emegen, who invited him to the cave; when he left, he closed the exit with a rock; ate horses and sons; plunged a spit into SA; when he left for a while, did not close the exit; SA rolled out, the travelers picked him up; his wife and daughter were by the bed; the hunter went to that cave; he shook Emegen's hand so much that he broke two phalanges of his fingers; began to fight; emegen drove the hunter into the ground by belt, and he on his shoulders; made him explain how to revive horses and boys (whip the remains); SA will recover if the spit exit is filled with red ram fat; after my death, take mine tie your large intestine to your waist; the hunter revived the dead; opened the chest, a dagger jumped out of there, but the hunter dodged; tied the gut to a tree, it cut it; gave the sheep meat to the dog, it died; took it out spit from SA, cured him; SA gave his sister to the hunter; gave him a casket; the hunter does not know why he whipped, a herd of horses jumped out of there; wolf: I'll put it back, but give me my only son; hunter told the wolf to come in a year; in a year the wolf agrees not to take the hunter's son, but let him marry him; the fox promised to help; turned into a fat ram (boulder), let the hunter change him on a gray horse; when he returns, the fox tells him to play the violin; girls will gather, you have to grab one and ride away, it is impossible to catch up with the gray horse; in order not to give it to the wolf, the fox itself became a girl; the wolf is chasing; the fox has become a mufti, tells me to ask the wolf to ask the mufti for advice; mufti: my stick knows whose head will break, he is to blame; killed a wolf with a stick; the guy brought home his wife and wealth]: Malkonduev 2017:358-362; Georgians (Imereti) [the hunter sees a wounded nine-headed eagle, he asks him not to shoot, to heal him; brings him for a reward to his sisters, they are married to kings 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 anger tells 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; the man has a son at home; he grows up, goes to look for the Eagle; the old man says that three will come to swim eagles with copper, silver, gold feathers, 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) a church, 2) a garden, 3) the bridge, the bride creates everything; 4) identify which of the three is the bride in; she says that the egg is moving; the Eagle is still going to kill the young; they flee to the kingdom of the young man's father, everything is fine]: Bogoyavlensky 1894a: 8-19; Georgians (Ingiloyans) [Solomon, his wife and minister went, stopped for the night, began to cook fish; S. say that you dreamed of another person sleeping on his bed, if true, let one of the fish come to life; the fish jumps out of the cauldron; the minister says that a prophetic voice told him that S. was killed; the second fish pops up; the queen admits that she was plotting to kill S., because she was the mistress of Kunzulelia, the king of the islands and the ruler of demons; S. suggests that K. fill the jug with demons, then he will give him his wife; demons gather in a jug, he is not full; S. suggests K. himself to climb there, closes the jug, throws it into the sea; fishermen caught it, discovered it, demons escaped; those who fell into the water became watery, others fell into forests, gorges, caves, etc.; this is how spirits appeared]: Janashvili 1893, No. 16:171- 172; Georgians [the eagle spread out on three oaks, asks the hunter not to kill him, cure him; carries him to his parents, tells them to ask them for treatment only a box; on the way, the hunter feeds the eagle, the last cuts off a piece from his leg; when he reaches, the eagle heals him; the eagle's mother tells him not to open the box on the way; the man opens, the whole city comes out of it; dev puts the city back for promising to give something that is not at home You know; this is a newborn son; he grows up, goes to the maiden to be eaten; the old woman tells the youngest of the deva daughters to hide the dress when they swim; she becomes his wife; the devil tells me to cover the house and yard with gold cloth; put up a palace by morning; the wife's people perform; to drive around the horse is the devil himself, the wife gives a bit and a hammer; the spouses run; the wife turns into a field, the husband into a reaper; into the forests and the old man; into a lake and a duck; the first two times are haunted by the mother, the third by both; they drink the lake, they burst]: Chikovani 1954, No. 31:167-172 (=1986:219-225, =Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 37:136-141); Armenians [mouse and falcon sowed wheat, and when they collected it, they began to divide one seed, they turned to the eagle; the eagle to the falcon: you clue it; the mouse: well, let's not quarrel; and at night I hit the sleeping falcon with a sword, he hardly had time fly away; the hunter saw a falcon on the tree, pointed his gun three times, the falcon asked him not to kill, to heal him; the hunter's wife went out; the falcon put the hunter on his back, carried it, threw it three times into the sea, picking it up above the water itself; ordered to ask his father for a silk pouch; the falcon's father gives a pouch, does not tell him to open it before reaching home; the hunter opened it, found himself in the middle of a noisy bazaar; the lame man asks to give him something that he does not know at home; the hunter promised to be at home; wife: that our son is not going home; it turned out that the son was born, but now he has taken him lame; left the boy lame on the island at sea; he caught for 16 years fish, grew up; three heads flew to the island, threw off their birds' clothes, became girls, went swimming; a young man stole one girl's feathers; she promised to be his wife; gave a ball, he rolled off the island to the shore, there was a road, they came to the city; the husband was hired as a laborer; the owner decided to lime him in order to take possession of his wife; one lame guest offered 1) send a man for two storks, one golden beak, the other has silver wings; the wife calls the Arab and orders the storks to be reached, he brings them; the wife warned: if the owner says that storks are not needed, they must be released (as it happened); 2) bring a lion from Mount Aragats (same); 3) bring the invisible worker Murza; the wife gives a ball, it will lead to her sister's house; she calls the frogs, they do not know the way; the sister tells them to go for the ball to their mother's house; she collected the snakes, they answer that M. was hired by the snake king; the mother tells me to go to the snake king's house and hide behind the stove; the king will come and say, "Murza, gather on the table"; when the king leaves, call M. for with himself; he is glad, the king has already tortured him; the boatman offers M. a horn in which a foot army and a cavalry detachment; when the man received a horn, M. also returned to him; the owner wants to cut off the man's head, he blows into the horn, the warriors cut off the owner's head; M. took the couple to her husband's parents]: Nazinyan 1969:33-42.

Baltoscandia. Latvians [the hunter shot the hawk three times, missed it; the hawk grabbed it and carried it, let it go three times, but picked it up so that the hunter would feel the same fear; after that, the hawk ordered him for three years feed; then brought the hunter to one sister, asked to give the hunter Raichuk, she did not give it; the same second; the third gave it, it was something like an egg; the hawk carried the hunter almost home and ordered Raichuk not on the way to discover; he discovered; a city appeared with food and drink; not to put it back; an old man came up, put the city back for promising that the house was new; at home the wife gave birth to a son; he grew up and went to look for the devil; the old man you meet tells you to go to the lake, 7 ducks will come to swim, they will become a girl, you have to steal clothes alone and return them when he calls him sweet brother; the young man did so; hell gives tasks; 1) per day plow the land, grow, pick apples; 2) the same - wheat, bake bread; the girl does everything; 3) ride on the stallion of possession of the line; the stallion is the devil himself; the girl gave a silver, golden broom (with them drive), hammer - beat; hell put the young man and the girl in a barrel to burn; they turned into flies, flew away through the hole; the servant is chasing, the girl turned into sheep, the young man into a shepherd; next time - church and pastor; hell is chasing himself; lake and fish; water boils, hell is barely alive, gone; the girl sent the young man to ask for his father's blessing, did not tell him to say hello to his younger sister; he greeted, everyone forgot; the girl climbed the willow above the spring; the younger sister went to fetch water, saw the reflection, decided that she was so beautiful, the mug slipped out; the same second sister; the mother did not believe that at her age beautiful, she noticed the girl, told her at home; the young man ran to the girl, hugged her, and both died]: Grishina 1993:214-226; Estonians (Hargla) [the king had a feast, brought a beautiful bird as a gift, he put her in a cage; a man came out of the cage, he is the king of the Beyond (the one behind, Tagutsemaa) country; invited her to his place; became a bird, carried our king over the Front Country (Editsemaa), Middle country (Keskpaigamaa); in the Overseas Country, he gave a box, ordered not to open it on the way back; the king opened, a city appeared, but without people, and you can't leave the city; the old man puts the city back in the box and takes the king out on the road for promising to give his son; a young man is needed to place under the fourth corner of the house, three Christian souls are already there; the old man tells 1) to plow the field in a day, etc., and ready-made bread on the table ; the captive girl gives a silver whistle; the young man whistled, everything appeared; 2) during the night the bridge over Lake Peipsi (the same; the old woman came to destroy the bridge, the girl tells me to grab the old woman by the hair, throw it in lake); 3) tame a black stallion; girl: make iron tools in the forge and beat the horse with them; the old man is ready to give his daughter, must be identified among three doves; girl: I'll swing my left wing; three horses: gray hair in the tail; three girls under black blankets (the veil on her face moves slightly); wedding; a boy and a girl are running; she turns herself into a herd, him into a shepherd; the old man's sons did not recognize them; in church and priest (same); into the lake and duck; the old man comes running himself, tries to drink the lake, tells his sons to shut his ass, bursts; the king brings his wife to his home]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 50:114- 120; seto [the mouse and sparrow shared the grain in 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 without feathers; the eagle asks the man to feed him until the feathers grow; when he recovered, he put the man on his back, flew to his sisters; the first had a copper box, the second had a silver box, the third had a gold box; the first two did not allow , the third gave as a reward for saving an 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 receipt what he did not know at home; a man thinks it's a dog, and at home his wife gave birth to a son; he grew up, the dog brought him to the sea, they boated to the island, hid in the bushes; two doves flew in, became girls, the young man hid clothes alone, gave for a promise to become his wife; she tells him to greet the old man loudly, he does not hear well; heard; promised the bride, if the young man leads the geese to swim, eggshells in front, not a single egg not to lose; to tame the stallion; the bride orders to make a nine-pound club and beat the 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; she answers for three days; 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; another son; a flower and a bee; the old man himself is chasing; the girl has turned herself into a lake, a 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 broke 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 is fine]: Järv et al. 2015:25-29; Finns [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 for a year feed; the capercaillie had a copper feather on its 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 him; they fly across the sea, the capercaillie throws him off three times and picks up the young man so that he would experience the same fear that the capercaillie felt when he was aimed at; they fly to the younger sister's copper castle capercaillie; he tells me to ask her for a chest without a key, but she did not give it; the middle sister in the silver castle had the same; the eldest in the golden castle gave; on the way back, the capercaillie was tired and left the young man on the mountain; I wanted to drag the chest, he left it and there was a palace, a farm, people, etc.; the old man promises to put everything back if the young man promises to give him what was born in his house; the young man knows that his wife is not was expecting a child and promised; the old man allowed the baby to be left for a year, ordered him to be named Krummdreher; in a year the boy grew up, became a young man, went to the old man; between the sea and the lake there is an oak tree, he is on him he climbed in, saw the girls on the ship; they began to swim, he hid the clothes of one of them; gave it for a promise 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 have to pull an iron stake out of the ground with a ring at the end; the young man pulled it out easily; the young man knocked on the lock door, the old man left but saw no one, and an invisible young man entered the bride's castle; the old man tells 1) to create a castle neither on earth nor in the sky; 2) cultivate the field in one night, harvest and bake bread; 3) bring three iron-billed animals from across the sea capercaillie; bride: bribe 7 out of 9 horses, and we can ride away on two; the old man chases; the girl waved her handkerchief, a mountain arose, the old man ran for an ax; cut through; the girl turned the horses into a church and the bell tower, themselves as a priest, a young man as a clerk; they told the old man that the fugitives were already across the river; he was chasing again, but the girl created the river with a handkerchief; the old man stopped persecuting; everything was fine]: Salmelainen 1947:19-25.

Volga - Perm. Komi [The mouse quarreled with Sparrow, as a result, the birds began to fight animals, killed each other, an Eagle with a broken wing remained by the sea of blood; the old man picked him up; the old woman tells him twice shoot the Eagle, the Eagle asks not to do so every time; after recovering, he carries the old man on him, throws him twice, picks him up from the ground so that he also feels afraid; Eagle's sister gives a box, does not tell open on the road; the old man opens, gold falls out of it; the old man (this is an evil tun) puts gold back for promising to give back what you don't know at home three years; the old man has been away for fifteen years, he has a son; an old woman tells the young man to watch for the twelve swans, the daughters of Tun, hide the youngest's clothes while they are swimming; she gives him her ring, flies away; Tun marries him, gives him difficult tasks, his wife teaches how to perform; 1) build a palace overnight (monsters are building); 2) create a river with fish, gardens on the banks (the same); 3) a crystal bridge (the same); daughter steals her father's handkerchief, runs with her husband; tun them pursues; she waves her handkerchief, creating a forest, then a river; a young man pierces the tuna with an arrow, he turned into a pine tree]: Novikov 1938, No. 25:88-103; Chuvash: Grigoriev 1971 [Sparrow quarreled with the Mouse, for a big bird stood up, the Mouse gnawed on her wings; the man cured her, she took him to her sister, tadala the casket, forbade her to open it along the way; the man opened it, the garden and the palace fell out; the old man Shige-Sukhal hid it back for promising to give what he does not know at home; when he reached the age of 18, the son went to the MF; the old woman says that his fiancée will be ninth out of 18; his wife helps to fulfill emergency orders; 1) for night to build a church; 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; into the 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 [The eagle asked the man not to shoot at him, to cure him wing; he feeds him cows and sheep, his wife curses; raises him to the sky, throws him, picks him up, now the man also feels afraid; he is lucky to his sisters, the middle gives a casket, the man opens it along the way, silver falls out; the old man puts it back from 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 the three bathing girls- swans; I. gives when she calls him not brother, but sweet; gives them a ball, I. comes to her father; 1) give the stallion and the mare to drink (these are the girls' parents; I. beats them, drinks them); 2) identify the youngest of the sisters (she blinks an eye); I., marries; when he comes to his parents, he 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 old wife, he recalls, returns to her]: 89-94; Mordovians (Erzya): Evseviev 1964, No. 16 [the mouse and sparrow sowed millet, quarreled over a grain, the judge decided in favor of the sparrow, he gave him a chest, ordered not open along the way; he opened, the beetle and ladybug flew out, turned into herds of animals; the king promises to gather back if a person works for him for three days; at home, the man opened the chest again, There are a lot of herds, he decided to marry, but first he went to the king to work out his promise; Baba Yaga sends him to his older sister, who says that the king has a hundred stakes, but the last one does not yet heads; three duck girls will come to swim, you need to hide the youngest's clothes; she became a man's wife, helps to complete (without details the tasks that her father gives to the man; 1) build an iron bridge, a well with a silver log house; 2) tame the seven-headed stallion; the young are fleeing; the wife turns herself and her husband into a herd and shepherd; into a church and a priest; father cursed daughter, husband forgot his wife; pies at the new wedding became two pigeons, began to tell; the man remembered the wedding with his first wife]: 114-116; Samorodov 1972 [the sick Eagle asks not to shoot him three times; Suralya agrees, fattens the Eagle with bulls; he carries it across the sky, drops it three times and catches it; in the copper, silver palace, Surale does not give bodies to save the Eagle; palaces burn down; they give in gold; the Eagle does not tell you to open it on the way; S. opens it, wealth ("machines") falls out from there; 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 on pp. 83-95; father girls are the last head on stakes; fugitives turn into a birch tree and forester, a mountain and a rat, a river and a fish; horses try to drink the river, burst; at the young man's house, his wife tells him not to kiss his older sister; she She kisses him herself, he forgets everything; the girl promises to marry the one who brings her ram ring at night; he enters the ravine, remembers, marries]: 98-107; Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 4 [ the hunter is gone, the son goes to search; decides to shoot the owl several times, but she asks to do so next time; orders to stab the bull, feed it, carries the young man across the sea, lowers it several times to the very and raises the water again; tells you to kiss one of the two girls and then sleep only with her; ask her for a chest of birds, not to open it on the way; the young man decided to break the chest and carry only it contents; a city appears; the old man collects everything back for promising to work for him for three days; the person he meets teaches how to escape from the old man, for which he takes the chest for himself; a red and two blue ones will arrive to swim a pigeon, become girls, you have to hide a red dress; she becomes his wife; teaches you to put chips in the mouth of a tiger and a lion; tells the divas to complete the task - in a day all the work from clearing the forest to baking bread; the same is to drain the swamp, plant a garden, build a bridge; tame horses; these are divas and his daughters, the young man's wife will be red, we must sit on it; they run away; turn into a mosque and a mullah; a woman and ears; a fish and the lake; the old man cannot drink it, tells his daughter not to be happy with the young man; she warns him not to say hello to his mother; he says hello, forgets her; he is married; after the wedding he cuts belyash, the girl jumps out, reproaches her who forgot; he remembered everything, stayed with his first wife]: 43-50; Yarmukhametov 1957 [Safa said goodbye to his wife, walked around the world, saved the swan attacked by Ubyr; she bears him to his older, middle, younger sister; the older, middle refuse to give a gift, the youngest gives a chest, tells him not to open it on the way; S. opens, a shop appears, gold; the old man asks that S. groans, puts the one who fell back for promising to give that you do not 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 to ask her the father's work, her servants do everything; 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; wife In a mosque, a dzhigit turns into a muezzin; she is in the sea, he is a goldfish; Satan began to fish, drowned, the horseman and his wife settled with his parents]: 184-190; Bashkirs [{confused text, the narrator mixed 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 the 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]: Barag 1989, No. 11:74-86.

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.

(Wed. Eastern Siberia. Baikal Evenks (northern) [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, that he could not fly away without feathers; 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 fold the box back; the old man folded for a promise to give back what the man's wife did during this time; this is the son; he went after the red dog, hid the clothes of one of the three swan girls who were swimming; she helps complete the old man's difficult tasks; 1) build a house overnight; 2) tame the horse; 3) sends 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 the church and the head, the sheep from the shepherd, the lake and the perch; this time the old man chases himself; stops chasing; at home, the guy kisses the child, forgets about his wife; at the wedding, on the other hand, she reminds him that he marries her]: Wax boys 1960b, No. 10:43-53; Evenks of China [the herdsman saved a phoenix bird; it eats only horse liver, the herd stabbed all horses; the phoenix carries it to his parents, who give the herd gold the box, told not to open it on the way; the phoenix leaves the herdsman in the forest, tells him to move on; the herd opened the box, and many horses came out of it; the herd sees the owner of the forest, Elder Elinze, Asks for help, he returned the horses to the box; not only horses, but also a beautiful girl came out at home, and the box turned into a palace]: Tyulemisov, Yusupov 2011).