L96A. Oh! .15.27.-.33.
Theperson sighs, followed by a character named Oh, Uf, Awai, etc.
Sicilians, Italians (Lombardy, Umbria, Tuscany) Greeks, Bulgarians, Romanians, Gagauz people, Russians (North, Moscow), Eastern and Northern Ukrainians, Stavropol Turkmens, Karachays and Balkarians, Abazans, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Ingush, Avars, Tabasarans, Megrelians, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Persians, Veps, Karelians, Komi, Udmurts, Kazan Tatars, and Kyrgyz.
Southern Europe. Sicilians: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 44 [the lumberjack has three daughters, the youngest Maruzza; he sighs, Oh, my! , Ohmy appears, offers to give him his daughter as an assistant and wife; the eldest comes; O. shows her the corpses of women who have violated orders; leaves, ordering him to eat the hand of the deceased during this time; the girl throws away her outside the window; O. asks, the hand answers that she is here; O. kills the girl, gets the middle sister; the same with her; the mother's spirit teaches M. to burn his hand, collect the ashes in a bag, attach it to her belt; O. thinks that the hand answers from M.'s abdomen; shows the ointment to revive the dead; tells me not to go into the same room; she finds a young man in her body with a dagger in his body, revives him, he is a prince; they agree that she will kill him again and in this time finds out how to kill O.; O. says that if you break off this twig and put it in his ear, he will fall asleep; M. put him to sleep, revived everyone, everyone came back, she married that prince; a few years later the twigs rotted, O. woke up, found M., made a silver statue, ordered it to be worn, played musical instruments inside; the statue was brought to the palace; O. went out, put everyone to sleep except M., and began to boil cook it; the potion bottle fell, everyone woke up, O. cooked it in oil himself], 49 [The poor shoemaker has three daughters; he sits on a stone, exclaims, Oh! ; a young man appears, asks why his name was, takes him to an underground castle, gives him gold, tells him to marry his youngest daughter; she agrees; it was King Cardiddu; the witch bewitched him because he refused take her daughter; he forbids his wife to unlock one room; sisters come and advise her to unlock; at night she lights a candle, wax drips on K., she ends up in the woods; the king says she must now go to witch; she demands to sweep and not sweep, make and not make a fire, cook and not make a bed; every time K. appears, teaches how to make half; teaches you to ask the birds to wash the pile underwear; a witch sends a girl with a letter to her sister; K. teaches that it is necessary to praise the river, where water is mixed with blood, she will calm down; take bones from the donkey, give the dog hay, and the dog's donkey hay; praise the door, it will stop opening and closing; you can't open the box along the way; you have to run as soon as the witch reads the letter: it says that the letter that brought the letter must be eaten; girl opens the box, it starts to ring, K. comes to fix things for the last time; the witch tells the door, the dog, etc. to keep the fugitive, but they say that the girl was good to them; the river is evil against the witch, when she runs up, drowns her; the witch gives her daughter to K.; the girl is at the foot of the bed, the witch's daughter is in bed; K. asks to switch places for a while; the witch brings down the floor, her daughter, not the girl, dies; K. and his wife run away, he turns into a vegetable garden, she becomes a gardener; a church and a clerk; a pond and an eel; a witch cannot catch him; at home she crosses her arms over her head until she opens it, K.'s wife is born; K . tells the funeral bells to ring, the witch believes he is dead, takes off her hands, K.'s wife gives birth to a son; the bells ring for health, the witch smashed her head against the wall]: 287-294, 324-332; Italians ( Lombardy: Pavia) [the poor father of 5 daughters began to pull turnips out of the ground, fell down, oimé exclaimed! (Oh!) ; a monster appeared - a half-frog half-human, his name is Oime; tells him to give him his daughter no later than a year later; gives him a purse of money; the youngest daughter comes to the underground palace; the monster gives her a sleepy drink so that she did not know who she was with at night; her father comes to her and advises her not to drink the potion; in the evening, O. asks the lamp if the girl is awake, she replies that yes; the girl is in the forest with her born as a baby; comes to another country, she was put in a barn; the monster finds her, the spell dissipates; both end up in the garden where turnips grew, the girl's husband turns out to be a wonderful young man]: Aprile 2000:427; Italians (Umbria: Castel Viscardo, 1969) [after picking the chicory, the father of three daughters exclaims: "oimè" ("Oh!") ; a serpent appears, demands one of his daughters as his wife; the youngest agrees and goes with the snake in an underground palace; her husband is a serpent during the day and the king's son at night; the king himself languishes in detention with sorcerers ; the girl opens three rooms in which she discovers three women preparing everything she needs for the newborn; after giving birth to a son, the girl must leave the palace; with her what is prepared for the baby, and the ball she comes to Rome for, where she is allowed into the royal palace]: Aprile 2000:731; Italians (Tuscany: Siena) [the queen offends the old woman; she predicts that she will have a son, but he will disappear; he is carried away by a dog; the father of three daughters says, obimé (Oh!) ; someone appears, tells him to give him one of her three daughters, chooses the youngest; sisters tell her to unlock the forbidden room; she removes the key from her sleeping husband's neck, unlocks the room; there women do everything necessary for a newborn; she finds herself in the forest; liberation from witchcraft after talking to her mother {whose?}] : Aprile 2000:729 {also an option on p. 730}.
The Balkans. Greeks: Dawkins 1916 [the father sent his son to study to be a hatter, he did not learn; decided to take him away; sighed at the source; Oh (Of) appeared: why did he call? promised to study, he must come for the young man in a year; daughter Okha tells the young man to answer her father that he has not learned anything; on the way home, the young man turned into a lamb, a donkey; told his father to sell him in an image camel; bought Oh, paid separately for the bridle; daughter Okha let the camel go; Oh chased the hare; then the sparrow and the hawk; the sparrow became a rose, the hawk became a dervish, demands a rose from the king; the princess threw a rose to the ground, it crumbled in barley, the dervish became chicken with chickens, the seed became a fox, bitten them; the young man married Okha's daughter]: 365-369; Hahn 1864, No. 73 [the poor woman has three daughters; she went to collect herbs, sighed, the Moor appeared, asked why she called him; ordered to give one daughter, for which he gave gold; gave the girl a human head to eat, the girl hid her under the roof; the Moor called her head, she responded from under the roof, the Moor sent the bride home, telling her second sister to be sent; she received a human leg for dinner, hid it behind a keg of butter; the same; the youngest received a hand, but hid it under skirt; the Moor decided that the hand was responding from the girl's belly; they live well, but in the evening the husband gives his wife sleeping pills and she immediately falls asleep; the sisters learned to hide a sponge under their clothes and pour sleeping pills on her, not in her mouth; at night she saw a handsome man next to him; when her husband fell asleep, she noticed a gold lock with a key on his chest; she opened, there was a river, a woman was washing clothes, a pig came up and wanted to carry the laundry; wife The Moor called out to the woman, the Moor woke up, said that he was now Filek-Zelebi, let the pregnant woman look for him; let him take three pairs of iron shoes and three golden apples; after wearing out the first pair, he would go up to mountain and throw an apple, it will lead to the older sister of the Federal Law; she weaves gold cloth for the child of her brother's wife FZ; then the second pair of shoes, the second apple, the second sister (the same, makes clothes for her son FZ); the third sister's wife gave birth to a boy with a lock on his chest; the Federal Law appeared, everything is fine]: 80-84; Megas 1970, No. 26 [the poor hunter returns without prey, and he needs to give three daughters; he says Alas and Alack (Ach-chach), a black servant of the Sun appears, says his name is Alasandalack {i.e. ah-hah?} ; the youngest daughter agrees to go beyond the Sun; he does not show her face; sisters visit her, teach her not to drink sleeping pills, light a candle at night, look at her husband; a drop of wax falls on the Sun, that wakes up, tells A. to kill a woman; he feels sorry for her, he sends her to one, to the other lamias, the sisters of the Sun; she gives birth to a beautiful boy; the Sun returns her, holiday]: 57-60; Legrand 1881 []: 1-10; Bulgarians [the widower sat down and sighed, Oh! a toothy head leaned out of the well; asks to bring one of her daughters; in her palace she feeds human beings, the girl throws meat under the table, the vestibule (plucked tool) answers Okha, where is the meat, that locks the girl for fattening; Oh tells the old man that he married his daughter to a rich man, he brings the middle one, the same with her; the youngest picks up the kitten, takes it with her, keeps it in his bosom, he eats all the meat the vestibule replies that the meat is under his heart; Oh falls asleep, the girl leaves the kitten with him, takes off the key from his neck, unlocks the door leading to the rooms where the slaves work; they say her sisters are outside the door with another key; the girl brings another, but this door key to the outside; the slaves run away, one advises to hide in a lantern; yunak buys it, keeps it in the kitchen; at night she goes out, sprinkles salt into the pots; yunak carries the lantern to her, the girl appears, the yunak promises to marry her when she returns from the war; the princess, whom the Yunak rejected, finds out about her; tells her to dazzle, take her to the forest; the old woman returned her herbal vision; the returning yunak is ill with grief; everyone brings him cooked meals; when that old woman brings him, he finds the ring given to the girl in it, recovers, finds a girl, she asks free the sisters; he hits Okha on the neck with a sword, the saber breaks; the trees come to the rescue, kill Okha (they are grateful that the Yunak did not burn the forest into which the king fled); the yunak unlocks the dungeon, brings out sisters of the bride; wedding]: Klyagina-Kondratyeva 1951:14-25; Moldovans [orphaned, Ion sowed wheat; birds pecked the harvest; buckwheat was beaten by frost; went to work, received a foal, his wolves ate; the second time he asked for a millstone - he was shattered by lightning; left home, getting a rooster for his work while harvesting hay; he came with him to the king - he was driven away; the hermit ordered him to take his wife; says that three fairy birds fly to the milk lake, take off their wings, swim; let Ion hide the youngest's wings and give it back only after the third promise to become his wife; Jonah received a fairy, but the Sun saw He took it away; the king has a tree to heaven, whoever gets fruit from the top, received half the kingdom; the tree is divided into three branches, into eastern apples, on southern pears, western nuts; the Sun invited to watch behind the rays; food will be brought by the Lord of the Birds, Frost, Wolf Iron Mouth, Serpent Golden Scales; after questioning everyone, Jonah beats everyone for the destroyed wheat, buckwheat, foal, millstone; seeing that the Sun leads Under the aisle of the fairy, Jonah cuts down golden trees and throws them on the way; explains to the Sun why he punished his servants and himself; the Sun returns Jonah's wife, sends them peacefully to earth; Jonah bears fruit to the king; the advisers tell him not to cut Jonah's head, but to give impossible assignments, and then take his wife away; 1) let the vineyard be around the palace to the horizon; the wife called her servants, the vineyard is ready; 2) get At the bottom of the sea, a self-playing flute (genus of the flute); the wife gives a ring, Ion comes to the sea, sighs, appears Oh, says that the devils at the bottom will flute for 7 years, all this time you can't sleep; at the bottom of the sea, Ion gives the hell tasks, at which time he sleeps himself; count what is more - blades of grass or leaves; Ion brought a flood to the king, fell asleep himself; they began to dance, they could not stop the flood, died; Jonah received the kingdom and had a wedding]: Botezat 1981:105-117; Gagauz people: Moshkov 1904, No. 40 [the father takes his son to work, says at the well, Oh! hell comes out, his name is Oh, takes his son to study; tells him to recognize among three bulls, three pigeons, the father finds out; the son has returned, became a dog, tells him to sell, but without a bridle; next time he is a horse; the father sold with a bridle, the buyer was hell, the bridle became a bird, a devil a falcon, a bird a hare, a devil a dog, a hare a fish, a dog a catfish, a fish a millet, catfish a chicken, I didn't find two grains, they became a fox, she bit a chicken; the guy returned to his father], (cf. 40a [orphan is looking for an adoptive parent; someone takes him to teach; black people will turn into a dog); the adoptive parent became a hare, the dog chased him, did not catch up; I came to the master, became a girl: Kadyr Padishah brought me to your wife; during the wedding, the girl became a dog and ran away], 40b [the father takes his son to work, says at the well, Oh! hell comes out, his name is Oh, takes his son to study; in two years, the father must recognize his son among pigeons, the son warns that he will tie a thread over his leg; the father gets a son, he turns into a horse, tells him to sell he, the hell became a master, bought a horse, tied him up; the other devil asked for a horse, he threw himself into the sea, swam away, and the imp drowned and now lives at the bottom of the sea]: 59-61, (61-62), 62-63; Syrf 2013 [the old man leads the son to learn a craft, stops at the well, sighs; Oh asks why his name was; the old man gives his son, Oh takes him to the well; there the girl advises him to answer that he has not learned anything; the father takes him away son, he will become a pair of oxen, he must be sold, but without a rope; the father sells, the son returns; the same - becoming a greyhound dog; a horse; the father agreed to sell and bridle; the hell drove the horse, he dodged turned into a bird, hell into an eagle, a bird into a flower in the girl's room, hell a great job, wanted to pick a flower into a millet seed, hell a chicken with chickens, the guy became himself, killed a hen and chickens]: 165-167.
Central Europe. Russians: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 251 (Southern Russians?) []: 291-294; Karnaukhova 1948 (North) [the old man took his son to school, sighs on the way; Oh appears with a pine tree tall, takes his son to study, tells him to come in a year; a year later a fly flies in, turns into son, teaches him to recognize him among 12 roosters, males, stallions (stamps his foot, moves his ear, waves his tail); the old man gets a son; he will become a dove, tells him to sell, but without a cage; a dog without a leash; a horse without a leash bridles; the father sold with a bridle; Oh began to beat the stallion, he fell, Oh chases the wolf; the ruff and the pike; the ruff became a ring on the finger of the merchant's daughter; the pike became a young merchant, asks for the ring to be returned; the ring barley on the floor; Oh, a rooster, I didn't notice one grain, it became a hawk, he beat a rooster]: 195-200; 2009, No. 44 (Arkhangelskaya: Pinega) [the old man took his son to school, sighs on the way; Oh, picks up tells the son to study, tells him to come in three years; in three years a mosquito flies in, turns into a son, says that the owner has 11 more employees whom his parents did not identify; among 12 pigeons, he will fly higher; among the horses he stomps his right foot; among the fellows, a fly will sit on his right cheek; the old man gets a son; he will become a dove, tells him to sell, but without a cage; a dog without a leash; a horse without a bridle; the father sold with a bridle; Oh began to beat the stallion, he fell off, Oh chases the wolf; the ruff and the pike; the ruff became a ring, on the princess's finger; the pike became a rich merchant, asks to return the ring; the ring to the floor with barley; Oh - a rooster, one I did not notice the grain, it became a hawk, he beat the rooster]: 128-132; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [the widow took her son to study; sighed for her husband - Oh! Human: Why do you remember me? He took his son to study, tells him to come for him in three years; the widow cannot recognize her son among 12 rams; a year later, 12 pigs; a year later the son comes - he has become more cunning than the teacher; I will be the fourth on the edge a horse of 12; the widow received a son; he orders him to be sold as a horse, but without a bridle; the widow sold him twice, the son returned, and the third time the buyer snatched the bridle from her hands; the sorcerer chased the horse, tied it, went to the tavern; the horse asked the groom to let him go to the watering place; disappeared into the water with perch, the sorcerer followed the pike; the perch ashore in a ring, the princess put it on her finger, at night a young man next to her; warns that a man will come, call himself the owner of the ring; we must throw it on the ground, the ring will crumble with grains, let one press down with his foot; the sorcerer became a rooster, pecked the grains, the princess released the last one from under her foot, it became a hawk, he pecked a rooster, became a young man; wedding]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:216-222; Russians (Moscow) [father took his son to study; sat on a stump, sighed, Oh! old man: what do you need? takes to study with the condition of identifying his son in three years; three years later the dove knocks on the window; becomes a son; there will be 30 horses, he will beat him with a hoof; the man took his son; he orders him to be sold as a horse, but without a bridle; the third time the father gave it with a bridle, and bought Oh; the maid let go of the horse, he became a dove; Oh chases a kite; fish and pike; the fish became a ring, the royal daughter washed and picked it up; at her house the young man took his form: Oh, ask your father for me, throw the ring on the ground; it crumbled into millet, Oh became a rooster, it bites; one grain under the princess's heel became a fox, bitten to death a rooster; wedding]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 31:79-81; Ukrainians (Poltava, Gadyachsky U., c. 1878) [The poor have a lazy son (they will eat, they will not let them eat, they will not let them do, lie on the stove "without pants"). His mother offers to send him to work so that he can learn something, they give him to a tailor - he returns in 3 days, gives him to a Swedish man, and runs away to a blacksmith. Father wants to send him to another realm, believing he won't run away from there. The path lies through the forest, the father sighs down to rest on a stump - a wrinkled grandfather with a green beard knee-deep comes out, introduces himself as King of the Forest Och, asks why his father called him, said" Oh," when I sat down. Oh, he asks him to study for a year on the condition that he stays in service for another year if his father can't recognize him. Oh takes the guy to the next world, to a hut where everything is green, including Okha's wife and children. Oh sends the guy to cut wood, he falls asleep, Oh ties him up and puts him on firewood, sets him on fire, the guy burns. Oh splashes live water, the guy comes to life and becomes handsome. A year later, Och's father comes to pick up his son, Oh scatters the measure of millet, the same roosters run, the father can't find his son, he stays for another year. A year later, Oh shows the sheep "one by one", but his father doesn't know again. In his third year on the way, he meets an old white man (clothes, white beard), tells his story, who suggests that his son can be distinguished among pigeons - everyone will eat millet, and he will be the only one who will sit down under a pear - with the help of a hint, the father recognizes his son and takes him home. Having turned from a bird to a person, the guy becomes even more beautiful. The father grieves that they are poor, the son turns into a greyhound, catches a fox, predicts that the pan will want to buy it for 300 rubles, but forbids his father to sell the chain. A dog is bought without for a hundred rubles, it turns into a human being and returns to its father. The guy turns into a falcon, his father sells it to gentlemen without a hat for 300 rubles. At the fair, the guy turns into a horse, his father forgets about the ban and sells Okha, who turned into a gypsy, halfway. He leads the horse into the steppe, leads to the hut, the horse becomes a perch, swims away, Oh becomes a pike. The perch swims to the shore, turns into a pomegranate ring, and is pulled out of the water by the princess. Oh turns into a merchant, asks the king to return the lost ring, the girl does not want to give it back, throws it "neither to you nor me", the ring hits the floor, crumbles with millet, the merchant wraps it in a rooster pecks all grains except for the princess who has rolled under her leg. Millet turns into a guy, the princess falls in love with him, persuades her father and marries him]: Rudchenko 1870, No. 29:107-114; Eastern Ukrainians: Chubinsky 1878 (Poltava, Pereyaslavsky District), No. 102 [the man decided to give his son to someone; on the way they saw a grave above the road; they went to rest; the man sat down and sighed: "Oh!" ; an evil spirit jumped out of the grave, asked why she was called; the old man replied that he did not call; the evil spirit said her name was Ohom; Oh asked where they were going, and when he found out, he said he wanted to hire a boy for a year; a year later, the man came for his son, called Och; he said he would give all the money, but if the old man did not recognize his son, the boy would stay for another year; brought the old man to the grave, there were three roosters; the old man did not recognized a son among them; a year later he came again; Oh said the same thing as the first time; they look - three drakes were walking; the old man did not identify his son this time; took the money, went home; a year later he began to gather go again; the son knew what time he would come; ran to meet him in a whirlwind; the father said that Oh warned: if he did not recognize his son a third time, he would take him away forever; the son said that Oh would make them pigeons; whoever has a right wing bulging is the son; the father came to the grave, called Okha, identified his son; Oh gave his son and the money; the father asked his son if he had learned anything; the son replied that even Okha will hold it; said he would become a horse during the fair, and told his father to sell it to the one who had the most money (that would be Oh); warned him not to give the bridle; the fair began, the son turned into a stallion "sribna wool, gold wool, and if you look at his hair"; his father brought him to other horses; came Oh, paid the most; the father gave the horse, but without a bridle; went to wash, Oh stole the bridle; the horse galloped fast to throw Och off; decided to run to the church; ran past two crosses - Oh held on; at the third church the horse stopped at the cross; Oh sensed frankincense, ran away; the horse turned back into a man, returned to his father; "here is the song and live"], 103 [the woman told his grandfather to take her son to school; the grandfather took him, climbed a big mountain and said: "Oh!" ; pan came out, asked why his grandfather called him; when he found out that he was taking his son to school, Oh offered to give his son to him; promised to learn, asked for a pile of spoons in a year; the grandfather did it, came to Och; he brought three hawks and let them eat; told the grandfather to recognize his son; he did not know; Oh said to make a pile of plates; the grandfather did, brought it; Oh took out three roosters, poured them to eat; told them to recognize the son, the grandfather could not; Oh said to do it again spoons; the grandfather brought him, Oh brought him to the stable, ordered him to recognize his son among the three horses; the grandfather said he would not know; Oh told him to make spoons; the grandfathers son cut firewood and told the Naimichka to give it to his grandfather: when he would come , the son will stand on his right side and stomp his foot; the grandfather came, the namichka told me how to recognize his son; Oh called the grandfather to the stable, he identified and took his son; went home; began to think about how to make money; son turned into a hawk, said to sell himself for a hundred carbonavtsy; his grandfather sold him to his lord; the hawk brought him quails; one by one he flew to the yar and turned into a hare there; he ran to his father, took the form of a man; we found out about the fair, the son said that he would become such a horse that "one wool is short, and the other is gold"; told his father not to sell it until five bags were filled with gold, and forbade giving the bridle; Oh came, paid in gold, snatched out the bridle; tied the horse tightly to the stable; his grandfather's son's comrades were there; he asked them to loosen the rope, as a result he ran away; Oh rushed in pursuit, turning into a wolf; by the sea the horse turned into a perch and the wolf into a pike; they saw the royal daughter and the maid; the son turned into a ring, Oh into an old man; the princess said that she would give up the ring after seven years of service, Oh agreed; at night the young man He lay with the princess, and during the day he was a ring; said that when it was necessary to give it back, let it be sown with poppy seeds; one top would roll, the princess should step on her; they did so; the grandfather turned into a rooster, poppy began to bite; the top under his foot became a hawk; he killed the rooster; the young man and the princess got married; "live and chew, but they don't let us"]: 368-375; northern Ukrainians (Volyn, Novograd-Volynsky y.) [the grandfather had no children; the woman asked God for a child; he gave them a boy; in a few years he grew up big; the woman told his grandfather that there was a lot of money, but the son could not do anything; the grandfather sent the boy for horses, he He did not find them; his grandfather took him to town, sat on the deck on the way and said: "Oh, moss"; a warlock jumped up and asked him what his grandfather wanted; he replied that he wanted to teach his son a craft; the warlock said that he would learn; a year later, the grandfather brought money; the warlock played the horn, two rams came running; the warlock asked if the grandfather recognized his son; the grandfather replied that he gave the man and he was shown cattle; warlock ordered to bring another hundred rubles a year later; when the grandfather returned, he played trumpet; two stallions with silver manes came running; the grandfather did not recognize his son again; returned a year later; on the way he walked through the city, there met a girl; she asked where he was going; said that his son's grandfather would not help him out and that she would teach him, but the owner would bake her in the oven; the grandfather replied that if she told me, he would go to the oven himself; the girl warned that the owner would put millet on the table and a pigeon that would not bite would be his son; the grandfather came to the warlock, who poured millet, clicked pigeons; the grandfather pointed to his son, the son became a man; the warlock let him go; at home, his son made a mill that had milled so much flour day and night that there was nowhere to go; the woman sent his grandfather to ask if her son wanted to marry; he replied that until he earned money; said that there would be a fair and he would become a silver ram; ordered to bring a lime branch; made a gold cord out of it; said sell it (i.e. a ram with a cord) for three hundred rubles; the grandfather sold to the lord; the ram turned into a pigeon, returned home; said that tomorrow there would be a fair again; ordered to bring a fake branch, made a bridle; said that he would become a stallion with a golden mane and tail; forbade selling the bridle, otherwise they would buy it forever; a warlock came up, bought a horse, stole a bridle; tied it to a cast-iron gutter at home; a girl was walking to help his grandfather; the horse asked him to untie; turned into a dove, flew away; the owner took the form of a starling, flew after him; the dove fell into the water, became a roach; the starling turned into a pike; the young man jumped ashore, became a ring; the royal girls washed there; one put a ring on her finger; the young man said, When the king orders to give it back, he would become a pea, let it step on one pea; they did so; the owner became a rooster, began to peck peas; from a pea under a kite appeared with his foot, killed a rooster]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 104:375-379.
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; (cf. Karachays, Balkarians [tired three-headed emegen (each head has one eye) says, Oh ooh-oh; Yoruzmek comes out from behind the cliff, says his name is Oh oh oh, what his gun returns youth; one by one kills 15 emegens with a gun, including a three-headed one, takes their wealth]: Debét 1980:47-52); Abaza [veal shepherd asks his father to marry him the Shah's daughter; the Shah promises think if the shepherd is skillful; son and father go, get tired, the father sighs, Wow appears from the mound, takes the young man to teach; daughter W. tells the young man to say that he does not understand science, otherwise his father will kill him; A year later, Wow returns the young man, who turns into horses of different colors, his father sells them, the young man is at home every time; tells him not to sell in prison; his father was greedy, sold, Wow brought him home, young man flew away as a dove, Wow chased a gyrfalcon, flew to the Shah; in a series of reincarnations, the young man won, killed Ukha; took the Shah's daughter and daughter Ukha]: Kapiyeva 1991:35-40; Abkhazians (Western 1934) [the father leads the bad son to teach the craft; by the sea he says, Hite (an expression of annoyance - the son stumbled); Hite comes out of the sea, inviting his father to come for his son in a year; a year later, at the bottom of the sea, H. He orders to identify his son among many; the son warned that a fly would sit on his cheek; at home, the son tells him to sell him in the form of a horse, cow, buffalo, not to sell the halter; he sells; buffalo asks H. to give him get drunk, rushes into the sea, swims away with fish; H. is a cormorant; a dove is a hawk; an apple on the princely's daughter's lap is a knife; millet is a chicken; the last grain in the needle, H. is a thread; goes into the needle, but she rushes into the needle fire, thread burns; young man marries princess]: Khashba, Kukba 1935:114-119 (=Shakryl 1975, No. 39:204-208, =Bgazhba 2002:182-186); Ossetians [the old man leads his son to study; sighs, crouching on the mound; from The mound comes out Oh oh; takes his son for a year; a year later he invites the old man to recognize his son among two identical boys (the son warned that he would scratch his ear); the son orders to sell him as a ram; comes back; in the form of a trotter; the father is tempted for money, sells with a bridle; Oh, oh, torments the horse with work, he runs away; Oh oh, the hound, the horse, the fox, then the dove, the stalker, the eagle; the dove is an apple, Oh -oh - boy, needle - thread, thread into the fire - the needle burned; the young man returns to his parents]: Britaev, Kazbekov 1953:41-44 (=Britaev, Kaloev 1959:219-222); Ingush [princess promises to go beyond a guy who knows how to do what others can't do; the father leads his son to study, sitting on a stump, groans, Uffay appears; tells him to send his son to study for a year; daughter W. advises to answer that he has not learned anything, otherwise W. will kill; a year later, the father took his son; he tells him to be sold when he becomes a horse, but not to sell the bridles; the first time the son was sold, returned; the second time W. bought him with a bridle; his daughter let him go ; the young man flew like a dove, the father behind him like a hawk; the dove sat on the girl's lap; the hawk fought so much that the girl gave him the dove, but it became an apple; the hawk became poor, asked for an apple; the apple crumbled millet, the beggar became chicken with chickens; the grain became a rat and bit them, then the young man took on a human form; the princess married him]: Tankieva 2003:360-362; Avars [the poor man's son asks his father marry the khan's daughter; the khan agrees if the son-in-law is smarter than others; the son and father stop at the mound, the father says, uh, Uf jumps out of the mound, offers to give him his son to a year in science; daughter W. tells him every time that she does not understand science; W. lets the young man go, he turns into animals, tells his father not to sell himself in prison; W. buys with a bridle, the daughter lets go; the young man flies away with a dove, W. pursues gyrfalcon; apple is an old man, millet is chickens, a cat kills chickens; all this in front of the khan; a young man marries the daughters of Khan and Ufa]: Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (1): 118-122 (=Saidov, Dalgat 1965 : 281-286); Tabasarans [a poor young man asks his mother to marry the princess; the king demands that he learn a non-existent skill, otherwise he executes; the young man goes on a journey, sighs "Akhchakh" at the spring , Azhdaha drags him into her world; there a kidnapped girl teaches him transformations; he flies away in the guise of a bird Simir Gush, Azhdaha is chased by an eagle, the young man turns into a horse, Azhdaha shouts that the horse has run away, the horse tells the poor man to sell it, he returns to the owner as a bird; orders him to sell it in the form of a buffalo; Azhdaha came, began to demand keys, the key became Simir-gush again, Azhdaha an eagle, the young man fell on the padishah's knees, Azhdaha became a tramp, begged for flowers, grain for flowers, a tramp for a chicken with chickens, the last grain for a fox, she ate chicken and chickens, became a young man; the padishah had to give him his daughter, the young man magically built a palace, brought Azhdakhi's prisoners to him]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 55:499-502; Megrelians: Mingrelian Tales 1890:No. 2 [the old man put his little son on his shoulders and carried him to study; crossing the river, he staggered and exclaimed, "atu!" ("ah!") ; A man appeared on the shore: I'm Atu, what do you want? promised to learn his son, in a year his father should recognize him; a year later the old man went for his son; old woman: when you enter the house, your son will sit by the hearth; a mustachioed man by the hearth; the old man pointed to him, Atu I had to return my son; on the way back, the son ordered him to be sold as a boat (horse); bought him Ata, spurred him and galloped; the horse became a rooster, Atu a hawk, a rooster a fish, a hawk a fishing rod, a fish a needle, the fishing rod with a thread; the needle went through the fire and the thread burned; the boy returned to his father]: 322-324; Teptsov 1894, No. 10 [the old woman ate an apple, gave birth to a lazy son; the old man took him to study, crossing the river, fell, said, "Oh!" , an old man jumped out of the water, asked what his name was; a year later the father returned; must recognize his son among 500 boys (son: I will have a stick in my hands); when I return home, the son tells me to sell him in the form of a bull , but not a red-bearded ass without front teeth; then into boats {some pet}; into a horse; father sells a red-bearded toothless ass; he brought the horse to him; the horse to the mouse, the sorcerer to the cat, the mouse in a swallow, a sorcerer into a falcon, a swallow in a needle, a falcon in a thread, a needle in the stove, the thread burned down; the boy returned to his father]: 23-26; Georgians [a peasant woman asks her husband to send her son to study; the husband goes looking for a master to teach his son; drinks water, says Ahkahar ("Oh, how good"); a devil with this name jumps out of the water, takes his son for a year to study; a year later, the son warns his father that the hell will turn his disciples into pigeons, he will fly first, then last; the young man has to return the line; along the way he shows his father how he can turn into a golden egg, chicken, rooster; a peasant sells his son in the form of a hound, a falcon, a horse; he warns not to sell a bridle; the devil buys a horse with a bridle, locks him in a stable; the young man slips out with a mouse, the devil is chasing a cat; a fish - a man with a net, a pheasant is a kite, an apple in the king's basket is a knife, grains are a chicken, a needle is a thread, a needle jumps into the fire, the devil burns]: Chikovani 1954:141-144 (=Dirr 1920, No. 4:13-17); Armenians : Ganalanyan 1965:80-83 [a peasant leads his son to study, drinks from a stream, says Ojay; O.'s water spirit takes the boy to study; after a while, at the request of the peasant, gives him a tablecloth- magic; Melik's wife replaces her; O. gives pumpkin, cavalry jumps out of it, went to melik, he returned the tablecloth, the peasant hid the cavalry back in the pumpkin; O.'s daughter tells the young man to answer that he has not yet He has learned, otherwise the father will cut off the head like other students; the young man knows how to turn into animals, tells him to be sold like a horse without a bridle; O. buys with a bridle, his daughter lets the young man go, he flies away as a dove, O. chases a hawk; a dove fell like a rose among the feasts, the hawk became an ashug, crushed a rose; millet - chicken - fox; the young man began to feast with everyone], 84-86 (Turkish Armenia) [=Khachatryants 1933:60-63; mother forgot to buy dress for the youngest daughter, says, Oh; the old man from the spring tells me to bring his daughter, he will give her a dress; the daughter marries an old man's son; visits her mother, the husband flies to her at night as a partridge; sisters razors were placed, the husband was injured, decided that his wife was to blame; E., in the form of an eagle, grabbed and left his daughter-in-law in the desert; she hears the dervish talking, finds out the cure for the razor wound; comes to the source, heals husband, opens to him, they live together again]; Azerbaijanis: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [Kaffar, a peasant son, fell in love with the princess; the tsar promised to give his daughter if K. studied an extraordinary craft; Father and K. went on a journey; after drinking from the spring, the father said, Ohek; the red-bearded man jumped out: why was his name? promised to teach K. an extraordinary art in two weeks; at the bottom of the spring, the girl teaches not to say that she has learned anything, otherwise the cannibal will eat; cut off a piece from his dress and sew it to yours, you will find the ability to transform; Ohek let K. go, who turned into a horse; when he became human again, he told his father to sell him as a camel, but not to a red-bearded man, and if to him, without a bridle; but the father sold it to him and with a bridle; the girl took it off, K. flew away as a swallow, which became a bouquet of roses, fell at the princess's feet; the dervish tells me to give the rose; the princess threw him a rose, it became millet seeds, the dervish - chicken with chickens; one grain became a fox, she ate chicken and chickens, became a young man; the tsar gave his daughter for K.]: 249-255; Nabiev 1988 [the poor man leads his son Ahmed to study; drinks from the spring, says, Okhay, what kind of water; O. takes his son to study, tells him to come for him in a hundred days; takes him to a spring; A. sees a wall of skulls; one skull tells him to ask for help from his daughter O.; O. forbids him to look into the fortieth room; in her daughter O. ; she tells A. to pretend that he has not learned everything; O. swears but lets A. go; he turns into a horse, tells his father to sell himself, but without a bridle; once sold to an old man with a bridle, A. disappeared; daughter Oh . teaches A. to wave his head to make the bridle fall; A. runs deer, O. behind as a hunter; the fish is a fisherman; the apple hides in the chest; the bird is a kite, the grain is a chicken, the jackal strangled the chicken; daughter O. agrees to go out for him, if he solves the mystery of white diva apples; he goes on a journey, she tests him; 1) tries to seduce him in the guise of a peri; 2) threatens in the guise of a hero, A. is not afraid; 3) becomes an old woman, her the lower lip sweeps the ground, the upper lip rests against the sky; asks which apple is one-, two-, three-year-old; A. puts them in the water, the annual one sinks, the three-year-old floats up, the two-year-old in the middle; the old woman turns into O.'s daughter; they spell the people killed O., marry Father A. (=Seyidov 1983:21-33)]: 23-33; Turks: Stebleva 1986, No. 16 [Kelogan ("bald") carries firewood from the forest, leans against a tree, says Oh; an arap, whose name is Oh; K. tells him take firewood home; the arap gives a casket, tells me not to say, "Open, my casket"; at home K. says the casket opens, there are food in it; K. calls the padishah to visit, he tells the vizier to steal the casket; K. goes to that a tree, receives a baton from the arap; she hits the padishah, he returns the casket; the arap gives K. a donkey, says he does not say, "Roar, my donkey"; K. says gold coins fell from under his tail; K. and his mother went to another country, they built a palace there], 45 [], 52 [robbers steal the treasures of the padishah; the youngest daughter remains on guard, does not sleep, every robber who enters is beheaded; Mehmet the Robber escaped, but there is a scar on his head; in order to take revenge, he, hiding who he is, marries the daughter of a padishah, but falls in love and stays with her; once she noticed a scar on his head, he was furious, carried her to the forest, tied it up, went to burn it for brushwood; the caravans took her away, sold her, the son of a village of this country married her; MR broke into the house, put everyone to sleep, was going to throw the girl into the oven; she said, Oh! An old man appeared, let the soldiers out of the jug, they threw MR into the oven; they disappeared; everything is fine]: 46-48, 190-194, 218-223.
Baltoscandia. Veps [the man leaned to the well for a drink, the devil grabbed his beard, demanded that his daughter, gold-haired Nastasya, be married to him; the man and his wife ran away, N. is alone at home; the goat tells him to hide in a fart straw, tied a fart to a sledge, ran; says to the first and second line that N. sews silk shirts for them on the porch; he came to Baba Yaga's house, the house was spinning, asking them to leave the sledge in the hallway; Ivan Tsarevich plays with a ball, he rolled, he can't be found; I. says that someone is in a sledge; married N.; Baba Yaga's daughter leads N. to swim in the lake, hung a stone around her neck and drowned; says I. that N. ran away, and the goat must be killed; the goats come to the water, calls N., she replies that she has a stone around her neck; I. pulled out N., killed Baba Yaga and her daughter], 36 [the poor woman and her son went to work; gasped on the way, appeared man: why did you call me? takes her son to work, tells him to come for him in three years; when he came, the man showed her 12 birds, she could not choose; the same next year - 12 dogs; the third time the old man warns: man will show 12 horses, one will be with his head down; the mother found out that she has received a son; he tells me to sell him as a horse, but without a bridle; the mother sold it; the man who bought it tied the horse tight, went to the pub; then the mother passed, the horse asked him to untie; the man chased the wolf, and the horse turned into a dog; the dog became a lake, the wolf became a pike; the lake dried up, became a bird, flew to his mother; the pike remained on land, died ; mother and son became rich, son got married]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 15:141-143; Karelians {but maybe Finns} [the peasant bent over to the lake to drink water; the water man grabbed his beard: give his eldest daughter; the peasant sends his daughter to the shore - as if he had forgotten the yoke; the water took her away; forbids her to enter the last barn; she went in, there was a tub of blood; a golden ring; she picked it up, put it on her finger, it was covered in blood, not wash it off; the waterman tells him to look in his head; when the girl touched him with a bloody finger, he was burned; he killed her, threw her into a bloody barn; the peasant grabbed the water boat, tells him to give the second daughter; father sends for a supposedly forgotten ax; same with her; father put on someone's bast shoes, they dragged him to the shore: give him the youngest daughter; father asks to go for bast shoes; the youngest found dishes with the dead and alive with water, revived the sisters; sends gifts with water to her father (older, then middle sister); when the girl from the chest does not tell me to look into the chest, the waterman believes that they are talking to him from the roof; then the youngest dresses the stupa in her watery clothes and took it to her parents; accidentally drank dead water and died]: Concca 1991:208-215.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Ottomans 1958:75-84 [], 152-160 [in Balkh, a lazy man Bu-Ali asks his father to send him to travel; his father Abdullah takes him to study somewhere; they drink from a spring, father says Oh! the beardless man jumps out of the hollow, asks if his name was credit, takes B. to study; the beardless's daughter advises B. to pretend that he does not understand anything, otherwise he will be put in a barrel of acid; gives his father's books to him; the beardless leaves B. in the desert; he returns home, tells him to sell him as a deer, a horse, but without a bridle; the beardless buys a horse with a bridle; the daughter helps B. escape, he flies away dove, then falls like a diamond into the crown of the padishah; the beardless flies like a falcon, in the form of a dervish begs for a diamond; the diamond turns into grains, beardless into a rooster, the grain into a jackal, kills a rooster; the padishah gives his daughter to B., marries his son to a beardless daughter], 240-248 [poor boy Boo Ali asks his father to let him go to look for work; he sits down at the spring to eat a cake, sighs, hey-wai! Hey-wai is as tall as an elbow, a seven-cubit beard comes out of the spring, takes him to study; E.'s daughter cuts B. into pieces, cooks it, pours cold water, turns him into handsome; so several times; after each B. replies that he has learned to turn into a horseshoe, a pigeon, etc.; the girl does not tell her father to admit that he knows more than becoming a pigeon and a horseshoe; the year then consisted of three days; Father B. will come on Sunday and must identify his son among the many pigeons; the girl explains that B. pigeon will fly to his feet; the rest of the pigeons are not identified by their fathers; the father takes the son; on the road, he turns into a hunting dog, tells him to sell himself off a leash, returns; turns into a horse; E. buys it with a bridle; borrows shahzadeh, telling him not to let the horse drink; the young wife reproaches Shahzade is cruel, the horse drinks, turns into a fish, swims away; E. chases a big fish, then a falcon after a pigeon, a dove flies to the padishah's daughter, talks about the chase, turns into a golden ring ; a mason asks for a ring for work; the ring turns into grains, E. into a rooster, one grain into a young man with a sword killing a rooster; B. young man marries the daughter of a padishah]; Borshchevsky 1967 (Isfahan) [the merchant went for gifts to her daughters, the youngest asks for a crown of pearls; remembering that he forgot the gift, the merchant says at the spring, Oh, Oh, comes out of the water, gives a crown, tells him to give him his daughter in 40 days; carries a girl in the garden, where a young man picks fruits for her, she pulls a piece of cotton wool from under his arm, he falls with his head severed, the girl finds herself in the desert; climbing a tree, overhearing the conversation sparrows, learns that a tree heals crazy, bewitched, with a severed head; replaces the box of the supposedly blind daughter of the ruler, makes her sighted, heals the ruler's mad son, the voracious son of a merchant , meets Okha in the night, revives that headless young man, happy with him]: 57-64.
Volga - Perm. Komi: Novikov 1938, No. 41 [at her husband's grave, the widow says, Oh, oh! Oh oh tells her to teach her son, come for him in three years; she cannot identify him among 12 pigeons, 12 geese in the next three years; one day at the church, a horse (this is her son) tells her that will be sixth on the right side; she takes her son away; sells him several times, he comes back; one day he forgets to remove the check, sells Oh oh; his fiancée takes off his horse's bridle, Oh oh and the young man turns into different animals, birds, kills the enemy], 42 [about the same, the old man gives his son to study Okhma (=Doronin 2004:76-84)]: 146-148, 149-153; Udmurts [the widow sighs, ooh-oh! Oh asks why she called; offers to take her son to study; the widow comes to see her son, must find out among the nine wolves; she did not know; next time the son warned that he would be on the far left; returning to his mother, he tells me to sell himself in the guise of a horse without a bridle; returned; Oh managed to persuade him to sell in bridle; Oh went to the pub, tied the horse high; the old man untied it out of pity; the horse in the ruff, Oh in the pike; a woman caught a ruff, agrees to sell Okha; a ruff in poppy seeds, Oh in a rooster, a seed in a hawk, killed a rooster ooh]: Aldan 1936:45-47; Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 14 [the coachman's son tells his father marry him the daughter of a padishah; the padishah demands to learn a craft that no one knows in a year; father and son came to the lake, the father burped, divas jumped out: why was my name saying "Uh"? took his son, told him to come in a year; the diva's daughters tell their father that he had not learned anything; at home, the young man tells him to sell him as a horse, but without a bridle; the diva bought, began to torture; his little son regretted, freed; the horse became a dove, the old man a hawk; the ring on the hand of the padishah's daughter; cereal; the old man became a klusha with chickens, the cereal became a falcon, he tore the chicken and chickens; became a horseman; the padishah gave his daughter ]: 128-132; Yarmukhametov 1957 [Safa said goodbye to his wife, walked around the world, saved a swan attacked by Ubyr; she carries him to her older, middle, younger sister; older, middle sister 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, puts what fell back for a promise to give that you do not know at home; for 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 for a job, her servants do everything; 1) the night from cutting the forest for 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 pigeons (he dances, she looks at his legs, the rest on his head); Satan threw both into the zindan, they flew away in flies, leaving their saliva to answer; the wife turns into a mosque, the dzhigit into a muezzin; she into the sea, he into a goldfish; Shaitan became to fish, drowned, the dzhigit and his wife settled with his parents]: 184-190 (=Bashirov, Yarmukhametov 1956:56-66, = Yarmukhametov 1957:184-190).
Turkestan. Kyrgyz [parents cannot hire their son as a worker; on the way out of town, an old man sits on a stone and sighs; Okyush asks why he called him, takes his son to study, asks him to come a year later; a year later, O. asks to recognize his son among seven black cats; the old man cannot; in a year too, seven foxes; etc.; the seventh year is the last; daughter O. tells the old man that among the seven horses, the son will be third from the right; the father returns his son, who tells him to sell himself at the bazaar; one day O., disguised as a merchant, buys a horse with a bridle; his daughter releases him, O. chases him in the guise of a horse; the young man is a leopard, O. - tiger; the young man turns into a ring, it is put on her finger by the daughter of the bay; O. in the guise of a horseman tells the girl's father that this is his ring; she takes off the ring, it turns into wheat, O. into a sparrow, a young man in a cat, kills a sparrow; frees O.'s prisoners, marries his daughter]: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1963:187-192 (=1981:41-44).