L96B. The demon is pushed into the cauldron..13.21.23.29.-.31.33.

A person comes to an ascetic, demon, etc. He is going to kill him by pushing him into a boiling pot or cutting off his head when he bows before the deity. A person asks the ascetic to do everything first, pushes him into the cauldron or cuts off his head.

Malgashi, Tibetans, Ancient India, Punjabi, Kumaoni, Northern India (Hindi), Bengalis, Assamese, Muria, Baiga, Abazins, Ossetians, Kumyks, Dargins, Avars, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Persians, Tajiks, Turkmens, Uzbeks, Yagnobs, Veps, and Kyrgyz.

Sudan - East Africa. Malgashi (sakalava) [a childless woman turns to the sorcerer Rakakabe; he gives the drug on the condition that she gives him her first child; a woman gives birth to twins indistinguishable from each other; R. comes, the mother tells me to come tomorrow, promises to dress the elder in red; the young man cuts the cloth into pieces, gives it to each of his comrades; the same with a black cloth; then R. sends first one, then the second young man bring water in coconut without splashing it; takes the one who manages to do it with him; at R.'s house, an old woman teaches the young man to push R. himself into a boiling pot; the young man takes R.'s property, sinks into water up to his neck, his body becomes gilded; leaves, kills a snake that is about to eat two mighty chicks of a bird; she gives him a female; the same with two donkeys (takes a female donkey); the same lioness, a giraffe; he leaves animals in the cave; puts on rags, smears herself with resin as if he were a leper; then comes to the lepers, then to the cave, where she takes on normal shape; the leader's daughter chooses the groom, throwing lemon; lemon twice falls into a young man who looks like a leper; the chief's daughter husbands him but does not sleep with him; the king is sick, he will be cured by donkey milk; the young man gives it to four young men, but for this he burns their legs with a poker ; attacked by a neighboring chief, a young man in his true form smashes enemies with animals; next time he cuts his finger with a sword, the chief bandages the wound with a handkerchief; the wife tells the maid to wash her husband so treat with herbs, dirt and resin go away, everyone is happy; he appears all over the celebration, the chief recognizes his handkerchief; the younger brother follows in the footsteps of the elder, he is still the same; the elder learns about the beauty who wins against those who come to her, goes to look for her; the youngest comes to the elder's wife, she takes him for her husband, but he puts a sword between them at night; the older brother loses, is imprisoned; the old woman gives younger mice - you have to play at night, release the mice, the cat will chase them, knock over the lamp, you can quietly pick up your chips; the woman offers herself, but the youngest only tells the elder to be released; After learning that the youngest slept with his wife, the eldest kills him; after learning from his wife about the sword, the eldest returns to the body of the youngest, the bee revives the victim, everything is fine]: Haring 2007, No. 80:207-220.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [lamas are powerless to help the king have a son; after changing their appearance, the cannibal gives him pills to conceive the king's wife, horse, and dog; each gives birth to three sons every month foals, puppies; after three years they grow up; in fulfillment of his promise, the king sends a son with a horse and a dog to the cannibal; the cannibal tells us to feed the goat and chickens; the hay turns into wolves, the grain into wild cats, they eat a goat and chickens; contrary to the ban, a young man enters the castle, finds a sleeping princess, takes off the flower behind her ear, she wakes up; says that the cannibal feeds on the hearts of people, his you can only kill when he turns away; every day he teaches you how to complete the next tasks of the ogre; when the ogre asks him to go around the stove three times, I must say that it is too dark, let him go ahead himself, hit from behind; but the cannibal was walking too fast; next time he had to show the young man how to bow ritually; when he bent down, the young man cut off his head; the life of a giant in a boy who holds a goblet of liquid; every drop is the life of one of the giant's victims; the young man tells the wall to open, behind the wall is a boy, he kills him, brings a goblet; the girl leads him to the dungeon, where the corpses of the dead, tells them to sprinkle them with liquid from the goblet, people come to life, the girl remains the mistress of the castle, the prince returns to her parents]: O'Connor 1906, No. 16:103-115.

South Asia. Ancient India [in Vetāla-pañchavimśati, 24-25 Vetala teaches King Vikrama what he should do; the ascetic Kapalika sent the king to retrieve a dead body from the tree; he will ask lie on the ground so that 8 members of his body touch it; you must ask him to show him how to do this and then cut off his head; the king did so, tore out the ascetic's heart]: Tawney, Penzer 1927:xiv; Punjabi [(episode in the hero's adventure series); Raja Rasalu went up the Ganges, met giantess Gandgarri; she was sitting by the boiling pot waiting for brothers to bring the man to eating; promises to marry R., but first, according to the ritual, you have to walk around the cauldron three times; R. pretends not to know how to do this, let G. go forward; he pushed her into the cauldron himself; when her skull burst, the roar was terrible]: Swynnerton 1884:69-70; Kumaoni [the king has 7 wives but no children; the yogi gave fruit on the condition that the king give one of his future sons to him; the king gave fruit only to six queens , but the youngest picked up the peel and also gave birth; 12 years later, the yogi came, but only the youngest's son agreed to go with him; he showed him all the rooms but one; when the yogi left, the prince unlocked it and saw bones; they laughed: you'll be like us; but the bones taught us what to do; the yogi will boil a pot of butter, order him to walk around; I must say that the teacher must go ahead, push him into the pot; they will fly out two bees, the red one must be killed, the black one must be thrown into the cauldron; after that, the prince found Amrita in the yogi's house, sprinkled his bones, the people came to life and formed his army; at the head, the prince came to his father, who handed him over to him throne, and sent the sons of other wives to the forest]: Minaev 1968, No. 46:109-110; northern India, Mirzapur, Hindi [the fakir promises the king that he will have two sons, but he will have to give him one; Sher Shah and Azim Shah were born and raised, the fakir demanded that the promise be fulfilled; the king tried to slip a boy from the low caste, but not to deceive the fakir; leaving an arrow pierced into the wall, SHSH went; if the arrow he will fall, he died; the fakir brought him to his place and went to buy oil; the skull says that soon the SHSH will be like him; gives advice: when the fakir asks him to bend over the boiler of boiling oil, we must pretend clumsy and ask for a show; then sprinkle this oil on the bones of the dead, people will be reborn, become servants of the SHH; when the fakir tells them to bend over the cauldron, the arrow in the wall trembled, and when the SHH pushed a fakir into the cauldron, established itself firmly; everything is fine]: Crooke 1892-1893, No. 742:210; Bengalis: Beck et al. 1987, No. 23 [king has 7 rani, but everyone is childless; the sweeper loses the desire to eat when looking on his gloomy face, so he has lunch before going to sweep; when he learns of this, the king thinks to take his life; the ascetic gives him a spine, tells him to crush him and give it to his wives; but one of his future sons the king must give it to him; the eldest six wives drank the powder themselves, and the youngest scattered in the water what was left on the stone on which the spine was pushed; the elders gave birth to defective children, and the youngest shell; the king drove her away ; she lives in a forest hut; she dreams that a baby comes out of the sink to suck her breasts; she pretends to be sleeping, grabs him; the boy says he hid in the sinks from an ascetic, and now there will be difficulties ; the mother brought her son to the palace, the king is happy; when the boy is 12, the ascetic took him away; the women advised his mother to become an admirer of the goddess Sankata Mangal Chandi; the ascetic asked the boy what way he took wants to walk: short but dangerous or long and safe; the boy chose the first one; they came to the Kali temple; the ascetic forbade the boy to look south; when he looked, he saw a pile of smiling skulls ; they say that each of them was sacrificed to Kali, now it is a boy's turn; let him pretend not to bow because he is a prince; the ascetic will show while standing in front of the Kali statue; we must grab it from statues sword and decapitate the ascetic, then sprinkle his skulls with blood - the dead will come to life; as it happened, the prince returned to his parents]: 79-81; Porozhnyakov 1990 [the ascetic gives the childless queen a potion for a promise give up one of the two sons she will give birth to; at the age of 16, the elder prince plants a tree, leaves with an ascetic; if the tree dries up, he is in trouble; a puppy and a hawk go with him; an ascetic forbids walking to the north; chasing a deer, the young man goes north, there in the house of a beautiful Rakshasi, he wins, puts a puppy, a hawk, a young man in a hole; the younger brother sees that the tree has dried up, follows the eldest, with him the puppy's brother and the brother is a hawk; the younger one beats Rakshasi, she returns the prisoners; says that the ascetic sacrifices young men, seventh in turn; the skull teaches to ask the ascetic to bow first to Kali, cut him off head; Kali gives the young man the gift that the ascetic wanted; those who were previously sacrificed come to life]: 91-96; Assames [an astrologer promises a person the birth of two sons if he gives him one; he must also give the horse; the young men have grown up, the elder leaves the younger one a plant that will wither if he is in trouble; the bones and skulls in the astrologer's house are told to cut off his head as soon as he enters the house; his with blood he will revive the dead; the young man did so; on the way back, the demon {another?} took the form of a deer, lured the young man into the cave, where he suffocated; the plant wilted; the younger brother goes in search; when the demon runs away with a deer, the young man catches up with him in the form of a tiger; the deer has become a boa constrictor, the tiger with a mongoose; after killing a demon, he revives his brother with the remedy received from the demon; both returned home]: Goswami 1960:94-95; muria [Raja's wife quarreled with his younger brother and he left; came to Rakshasi Jal Kaniya; said he wanted to marry her sister Bael Kaniya, who lived inside a Hungarian quince fruit (Aegle marmelos); JK hid the young man from her husband, but he came, sniffed him out and promised not to cause harm; but when he saw it, he decided to swallow it; the young man became small; when Rakshasa swallowed him, he cut his liver and stomach with a knife, went outside; Rakshasi said that only her husband could help him overcome the guard of predatory animals around that tree; the young man revived the Rakshasa; when they arrived in the forest, the Rakshasa gave the tiger a goat, a bear fruit, and a snake's milk; when the fruit was picked, the Rakshasa told him not to cut it on the way, but only at home; but the young man broke the ban; a girl came out of the fetus and began to cook; but the young man fell asleep and could not wake him up; the underground inhabitants took her to Tarbhum Ghotul (lower world); the young man woke up six months later; heard a voice from an anthill, dug it up; the ants built an anthill on the head of a long-haired sadhu; he said he had been meditating for many years; explained that to go down to TG you can only weave a rope from the bark of the twelve forests; when the rope is ready, the sadhu lowered the young man, promising to pick him up if he gives a signal; the young man killed the underground inhabitants, the sadhu began to pick up the girl and him; BK said that she forgot the necklace below, the young man jumped for it; found the necklace, but could not get to the ground; two vultures came down to peck for the corpses of the dead; the female agreed to put the young man on her back and take it to the ground; he found Jogal Karo, the daughter of a sadhu; she said that her father locked BK; for promising to marry her, she said that her father's life was in a bird's nest in the middle of the sea; gave a ring; the young man threw him in the sea, a frog came out, brought him to that nest, he took him; the sadhu forbade his daughter to marry a young man, took him to the temple to sacrifice Chandi Devi; offered to eat the rice on the floor like this how roosters peck; the young man asked for a show, hacked a sadhu, but his blood gave rise to a thousand of them; then JK tore off that bird's legs and wings, and then cut its throat; the sadhu died; the young man took BK, but JK out of jealousy shot him with a bow; the mongoose revived him; BK said: let JK also be the young man's wife; all three returned to the boy's brother, lived well]: Elwin 1944, No. I.5:24-38; baiga [sadhu promises both Raja wives have a son if the Raja gives one to him; wives eat mango and give birth; first the Raja sends the adopted young man; the sadhu threatens to kill both sons; when the real son of Raja comes to the sadhu, The severed heads in his house advise the young man to answer every invitation from the owner to do everything himself; the young man cuts off the sadhu's head; on the way home he saves the tiger cubs, and the tigress gives him one; kills a snake that devours the chicks of the Rai Gidal bird nightly, she gives him one; he marries a princess; chasing a deer together; kills a snake that devours the bird's chicks nightly with a request to do it himself; with a tiger cub, a bird falls into a hole, breaks; his brother is indistinguishable from him, comes to the Raja, puts his sword between himself and his brother's wife at night; throwing a severed little finger into the hole, revives the dead; thinking that the second brother slept with his wife, the first kills him; learns the truth from his wife, she revives her second brother with live water]: Elwin 1944, No. I.8:34-36.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abazins [a bearded rider on a rooster gives Prince Kalmurza three apples, his three wives eat them, give birth to sons named Mhamat, Mkhamatmyrza, Mhamatbi (Jr.); one K. promises give it to the rider; the children are almost indistinguishable, but the youngest is the strongest and most dexterous; the rider on the rooster picks him up; the old woman tells him not to pass under the iron gate (cut), push the rider himself into the cauldron and cook; the horse tells him not to take gold, but to pull a wineskin over his head, go to the village; M. tells the old woman that his name is Old Burdyuk (SB); the khan's two eldest daughters laugh at him, the youngest brings apples, notices golden hair under the wineskin; sisters choose grooms by throwing a ball at them; the eldest marries the prince, the middle for the Agmyst, the youngest for the SB; they are placed in a chicken coop; in the evenings, the SB burns the horse's hair, that appears, people marvel at the horseman; the prince will cure yogurt from reindeer milk; the SB milks all the deer, gives them the other two sons-in-law, stigmatizes them; the prince likes the youngest daughter's yogurt the most; the daughter explains that the chicken manure in her is because they live in a chicken coop; they are moved to a stable; the same is true of horse manure; the SB steals a princely herd; gives them to their sons-in-law, putting new stamps; at a SB feast tells his story, reveals himself, shows stamps on other sons-in-law; receives half of the prince's property, returns with his wife to his parents]: Tugov 1985, No. 35:83-91; Ossetians: Dzagurov 1973, No. 46 [Halin-Barag gives childless spouses three apples on the condition that they give one of their sons to him; when golden-haired sons were born, three apple trees grew near the house; the eldest went with HB; the skull in He teaches the cave to pretend to be misunderstanding, let HB show himself how to fan the fire; the young man pushed HB into the fire and, taking a shovel, did not let him get out until it burned down; the skull points to HB's armor and horse; the shepherd laughs (Aldar marries three daughters, he will be given pig tails), then cries (he must kiss the pigs in the ass); they changed clothes; Aldara's youngest daughter noticed golden curls, offered food and a glass to an imaginary swineherd; Aldar pretended to be sick - which of his son-in-law would bring fallow deer milk; the young man called his horse, milked his doe, gave his sons-in-law milk, for which he cut off his right ears; get water, reviving the dead; the young man took it out, gave his sons-in-law ordinary water, cutting off his little fingers; get a dancing and playing fur coat; the young man slipped between the crushing mountains, took out a fur coat, gave his son-in-law an ordinary one, for which he cut out belts with backs; brought everything to Aldar, showed marks on his sons-in-law; Aldar took everything from his son-in-law, gave it to the young man; one day he chased a fox at Black Rock, she hit him with his tail, he became petrified; the middle brother went in search the eldest's wife mistook him for her husband, he put his sword on the bed; he also chased the fox and became petrified; the youngest first came to the skull in the HB cave, who first ordered the fox's hole to be covered with stones; the fox became as a girl, whipped all the petrified; the elder brother killed the younger ones because they slept with his wife; but at night the wife put scissors in bed; the girl's face revived the dead with a whip; returning home, the girl revived the skeletons in the HB cave, the skull also became a woman; the middle brother married one of the lively ones, and the youngest married a fox girl; she rejuvenated the brothers' parents]: 177-193; Kumyks: Bagriy 1930 (1) [(developed in 1902) A.E. Gren, from L.G. Lopatinsky's mother); the old man gives an apple to a childless rich man, he must eat it with his wife; three sons will be born, one must be given to the old man when the boy is ten years old; the older brothers are afraid, the youngest is called to go to the old man; the old man takes him inside the mound, there is a palace; 1) collect scattered wheat and millet; he (baba yaga) collects; 2) dig it overnight a huge hole, fill him with firewood; the same; 3) the young man opens the door, there is the owner's daughter, says that tomorrow his father will burn him, teaches him to push him into the fire himself; the young man takes his wife and wealth, returns to father]: 38-40; Barsov 1882, No. 1 [dervish gives the childless khan an apple, let his wife, mare, dog eat, each bring twins; one boy, stallion and puppy must be given to the dervish; the eldest was named Arslan- khan, the youngest by Batyr Khan; the dervish takes A. away; at the source, the skull teaches: this is a black maiden, you must pretend that you can't do anything; let him show how bread is baked; push the maiden into the oven and add oil; Having killed the maiden, A. rides his horse and with her dog; the counter tells him to put his finger into the stream when he meets; A. took out a splinter to the lioness, she gave a lion cub; killed a snake that crawled to the eagle's nest, which gave an eagle; he dipped his finger, it turned gold; poured that water on a lion cub, an eagle, a dog; after releasing the animals and putting on a hat, A. hired a gardener for the khan; knitted the bouquet with his golden hair; the younger princess saw, understood who is a worker; sisters sent father three apples, rotten, half rotten, ripe; vizier: it's time for daughters to marry; khan ordered daughters to throw an apple at passing men; the elders threw a vizier at the sons, the youngest as an employee; the khan lodged them in a collapsed hut; the khan fell ill, they needed reindeer meat; A. sat on a nag, then took on his true form, summoned an eagle, killed a deer, poisoned some of the meat; gave it to his older son-in-law, for this put a seal on the youngest of them; the khan scolded his older sons-in-law for the bitter meat, and he liked what A. had brought; bring lion's milk; the same (A. poisoned the milk in one wineskin), the seal on back to his elder son-in-law; A. Khan recovered from milk; enemies attacked, A. defeated them, said that his older sons-in-law were his slaves, showed seals; Batyr Khan followed his brother's footsteps; received a lion cub, an eagle, and drenched himself with gold water; A.'s wife mistook him for her husband, but B. beat her; when A. arrived, she began to accuse him; A. caught up with B. and killed him, then repented; saw one mouse kill another and then revive him with grass; A. revived his brother with it; everything is fine]: 121-128; Dargins [the one-eyed man promises the childless khan the birth of three sons if he gives one to him; gives an apple, the peel must be fed to the mare, the core of the dog, they will also bring three foals, three puppies; only the youngest son agrees to go to the one-eyed man; each time he asks him to show him how to do something; he pushes himself into the tarum (to bake bread); frees the kidnapped daughter of the khan, sends her to her father, promising to return for her; on the way he pulls a splinter from a lion, kills a snake that regularly devours eagle chicks; the eagle arrives with its wings raised wind, rain - her tears; gives the young man one eagle to help; after changing clothes and hiring a gardener, asks the bathing khan's daughters to comb their hair; the youngest gives it, he leaves gold on it hair; the gardener tells the khan to give rotten, semi-rotten, fresh apples (symbols of daughters of different ages); khan's daughters throw apples at the chosen ones, the youngest chooses a poor gardener; he twice his true appearance, with the help of a horse, a dog and an eagle, smashes enemies; the khan is sick, he will be cured by lion meat, the lioness gives the young man one of the lion cubs, the right half is poisonous; older sons-in-law buy meat for the stigma buttock; khan drives his older sons-in-law with poisonous meat, greets the younger one; he appears in true form, shows his stigmas on his older sons-in-law, making them slaves; lives with his wife; goes to visit his father; He goes to Shirim-Shahir, whose people come to turn to stone; his brother comes for him (he puts his sword on his bed on the way, spending the night with his wives), his words pity the SHSH, all the stones are disgraced; all brothers marry: the first plays an unplayed wedding (when he was a gardener), the second at the school, the third on the one-eyed daughter]: Osmanov 1963:125-139 (=Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (1): 401-413); Avars [the beggar gives the childless the man has two beans, tells him to give one of the two sons who will be born; when Arslan and Batyr grow up, the father gives A.; on the way he drinks from the stream, the skull at the bottom says that the beggar is the Black Dev, teaches pretend that he does not know how to take revenge on the floor, heat the stove; pushes the deva into the fire; pulls out a splinter from the lioness, returns the eagle to the nest, gets a lion cub, an eagle; dips his finger in the stream, he becomes gold; washes his hair, mane and horse tail in the stream; lets the animals go, they will return when he burns the pen; smears his face with mud, hires a gardener; Khan's youngest daughter sees his golden hair; khan invites three daughters to throw an apple at whoever they want to marry; the youngest leaves at A.; the khan chases her away, she and A. live in a hut on the outskirts; the sick khan will be cured by deer meat; he summons an eagle he is a horse and a lioness; A. catches a deer, gives bile meat to his older sons-in-law, for which he stigmatizes them; venison is bitter, the khan is angry, and the meat given by his youngest daughter is delicious; but he is worse he needs the lioness's milk; the lioness gives it; A. stigmatizes his elder son-in-law, gives milk in a jug with vinegar, it is sour; the khan has recovered from the milk brought by A.; as a reward, he asks his two slaves everyone sees the seals on the backs of older sons-in-law; A. takes on his true form; brother A. Batyr follows in his footsteps, the lioness, the eagle give him the brothers of the lion cub, the eagle received by A.; A.'s wife takes B. for her husband, rejected, cries; reproaches A., who returned from hunting; he catches up with B. kills with an arrow; repents; one mouse kills another, revives her with grass; A. revives B.; feast]: Kapiyeva 1974:72-80; Armenians: Bogoyavlensky 1892b, No. 8 [the dervish promises the childless king two sons, if he gives one to him in ten years; becoming a monster, he carries the boy across the sea; at this time, his head rests on the clouds, one leg on one bank, the other on the opposite side; two chained tigers advise the boy to push the dervish into a hot tone when he offers to warm up; after hacking the tigers, the young man receives the key to the stable from them; by moistening his hair in a gold spring (tigers they also show silver and pearl), covers them with a bubble; hitting them with a key, summons horses; smashes his father's enemies three times, sitting on black, red, white horses; the sick king asks for milk from the queen of tigers; the young man gives the king's servants the milk of ordinary tigers, brings the queen's milk himself; the king recovers, recognizes his son, feasts; after the death of his father, the young man reigns]; Epiphany 1892b, No. 8 [the dervish promises childless to the king of two sons on the condition that he gives one to him; after 10 years he takes his youngest son; to overcome the sea, the dervish turns into a monster and crosses the sea; the tigers tell the boy to push himself the dervish went into the oven, he burned down, the boy let the tigers go; they show springs of golden, silver, pearl water; to hide his new appearance, the prince pulled a bubble over his head; white, black, red horses will come to him at first request; the king was attacked by enemies, the unrecognized prince smashes them three times, the king bandaged his hand with his handkerchief; the king will be cured by tiger milk; the young man gives it to the royal people for permission to stigmatize; this is the milk of ordinary tigers, and the young man brings milk to the queen of the tigers, shows his marks on the bodies of the nobles; they are severely punished; the king recognizes his handkerchief and has regained his son] : 99-107; Azerbaijanis [Padishah Deshkuvar is childless; dervish gives an apple, orders to give it to three wives, when sons are 15 years old, one must be given to him; Khan's daughter gives birth to Hanbala, Beybala, the camel driver is Nerbal; the dervish is given to N.; the skull warns that it will be baked in a tandoor; N. pushes him into the cauldron; in the fortieth room a lion, a horse, a bird; in front of them grain, meat, hay; N. swapped places properly; they promise to help; N. dresses poorly, lives with an old gardener in the city; the older princesses do not like him, the youngest wants him to bring her flowers; the bird brings him an unfading bouquet; the son of the vizier and the son of Vekil N. in her true image gives the same bouquets, but for this he puts a stamp on his hand; the daughters of the padishah throw an apple at the one they want to marry; the elders throw an apple at the sons of the vizier and vekilya, the youngest for N.; the sick padishah needs game broth; the lion drives all the game for N., the other sons-in-law return with nothing; N. gives game, puts a stigma on the other hand of rivals; but the padishah recovered only after the broth from the head of the roe deer given by N.; Padishah D. goes to war; only N. defeats him; N. sues everyone, retires to a castle in the mountains with his mother, wife, gardener, bird, lion and horse]: Azerbaijani tales 1986:128-159; Kurds [a dervish tells a childless padishah to eat an apple in half with his wife, his wife will give birth to twins, take one dervish for herself; at the age of seven, Hasan admits the father of the dervish, Hussein, the padishah; the dervish burns Hasan in tandoor; Hussein finds skulls, the last Hasan; one of the skulls explains what to do; Hussein pushes the dervish into the tandoor, people are reborn from skulls; Hussein marries the daughter of a padishah; she does not tell him to ride in a big mountain; the gazelle lures him into a cave, turns him into a girl, kills him with an iron rod; Hasan is indistinguishable from Huseyn, comes to him to his wife, but puts a sword between himself and his wife; hits the girl with a rod, brings her brother to life, the girl Gelyafruz is disgraced, Hasan takes her as his wife; brothers and wives go to their father; on the way, Hussein is alone exterminates enemies; Hasan is jealous (he is almost the son of a dervish), throws his brother into a hole, takes his wife; lions feed Hussein, caravans raise him out of the hole; the padishah's daughter buys him; her father finds out, tells throw him in a barrel into the river; the miller finds him, adopts him; Hussein smashes his father's army, they do not recognize each other; the unrecognized Hussein comes to his wife's wedding with the son of the vizier, defeats the groom, kills Hasan, reveals himself to his father], 8 [starting as in (5); Mirza Mahmood goes with the dervish, Ismail stays with the padishah; the dervish tells MM to take a lamp from the cave, not to take gold; he takes it, manages to jump out , the door slams shut, the dervish dies; MM lives with an old woman; the lamp creates gold; to see Princess Dunya-Guzal's little finger, you have to pay ten gold; MM pays thousands to see her face for a month wants to marry; she tells me 1) to find out why Useini-Kösa feeds a horse with sea pebbles in Istanbul; he tells how his wife cheated on him with an arap, turned him into a dog; a neighbor's daughter takes his wife's whip W., turns him back into a man; he turns an arap into a donkey, his wife into a horse, he eats pebbles, flies to Tehran in an hour; 2) why does a blacksmith break his swords in Baghdad; he went to work for 15 years, when he returned, he mistook his son for his wife's new husband, hacked both; 3) why does the mullah cry in Telavi when she comes down from the minaret; the three sisters of the peri flew to the minaret with doves, took the mullah as the youngest's husband; them The father ordered him not to sigh at home at all; he violated the ban, he was returned, his wife flew back; MM married DG]: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 5:80-89, 108-117.

Iran - Central Asia. The Persians [the dervish gives the childless Shah an apple; let him eat in half with his wife, she will give birth to twins, let him give one; the boys Abrahim and Esmail grew up, the dervish took Abrahim; the dervish went forward, and a stone rolled up to Abrahim (E.) with the inscription "this is a diva"; then with instructions to ask the dervish to dance around the boiling oil boiler himself to teach him to push the dervish into the cauldron; when The dervish is dead, E. unlocked the rooms, freed the gazelles, revived petrified people and horses; the wind horse tells them to leave soon - the dervish has a brother; E. touched the golden water, his hand and hair turned golden; The diva's brother is chasing, the horse tells me to throw needles (a field of thorns), salt (salt desert), water from a wineskin; the water spilled out in front; the horse swam across the sea, and the diva died in the whirlpool in which the mill; E. was hired to the gardener's palace; the three daughters of the padishah asked for bouquets; the bouquet for the younger E. tied with his golden hair; E. and the princess opened up to each other; the daughters sent the padishah watermelons: barely ripe, ripe and overripe; padishah: let everyone throw an apple at the chosen one; E. pulled a lamb's stomach over his head; the youngest chose E., they were placed in a stable; the elders chose the sons of the vizier and the vakil; the padishah fell ill, to him he needed gazelle meat; E. summoned those rescued gazelles; sold one to his older sons-in-law, asking him to give him his head and legs; the meat given to his sons-in-law was bitter; from the broth brought by his youngest daughter, the padishah recovered ; moved her with E. to the palace; enemies attacked, E. defeated them, opened up to the padishah; E. went to visit her parents; the old woman invited her to her place, he fell into a hole with swords and spears; only ointment would cure, who the old woman has; she is the mother of those two divas; Brother E. saw that the tree planted by E. was withering; Brother E. met a rolling stone, instructing her on how to defeat the sorceress; he killed her when she became a cat; pulled out and cured E.; their mother went blind, helped by the same ointment; feast and celebration]: Osmanov 1987:322-336; Tajiks [Kalandar gave the childless poor man two apples for him and his wife; she will give birth to two boys, Let him give one to him; when the boy grew up, the calandar took him away; he tried to run away from him, came across a human head; his head is a diva, he has 40 rooms in which people are imprisoned, and the forty-legged cauldron in which he roasts them in oil; offers to sweep the soot off the boiler and push him there; he must outwit him; the boy pretended not to know how to sweep the soot, the diva became himself, the boy pushed him into the cauldron; the cat has 40 keys around his neck, the boy unlocked all the rooms with them, released the people overgrown with hair, shared wealth between them and returned home]: Amonov 1961:274-275; Turkmens [the padishah has 40 wives , there are no children; two heroes are sent far to the sage; he promises that the 40th wife, the slave Guljemal, will give birth to two sons; when the padishah lies down with her, the dervish enters and tells him to eat with his wife an apple in half, one son after giving it to him; G. gives birth to two glowing boys; the father hides them in an underground crypt; 13 years later, the dervish comes, plays the dutar, the boys go out to him, he picks them up the youngest; parrots tell him that it is a dev, he will push him into a boiling pot; the boy confronts the deva himself; comes to the plane tree, where the black dragon devours the Simurg chicks every year; kills the dragon, Simurg gives him a few feathers; takes a splinter out of the tiger's paw, which gives him hairs; the young man pulls his stomach over his head, hires a gardener in front of the Shah's three daughters; asks them to comb their hair, the elders drive him away, the youngest gives him; when he receives a name, sees silver and golden hair on him; the padishah convenes the people, tells the daughters to throw a stone at whoever they like; the eldest marries the son of the vizier, the middle for the son is vekil, the youngest is for the pleshivets; they are placed in a barn; the sick padishah asks for keik meat; when hunting, tigers and Simurgs drive all the keiks to the pleshivtsa; the other two son-in-law receive meat, for which the young man stigmatizes them; appears in glory, takes his sons-in-law as slaves, the padishah admits that he made a mistake; the young man fights peri, is thrown into the well by her; the elder brother goes to the rescue, everyone takes him for the youngest; he puts his sword between himself and the younger's wife; peri wins, both brothers return home]: Stebleva 1969, No. 24:94-124; Uzbeks: Ostroumov 1890, No. 1 (Tashkent) [=1906b, No. 1:1-7; Yalmauz-Kampir came to The childless king, disguised as an old woman, gave three apples; let each of the wives eat and give birth to a son; he would send one to her; the youngest received the most delicious red apple; after 7 years, the Palace of Culture came for the youngest prince; another old woman teaches the prince to push the Palace of Culture itself into a cauldron with 40 ears, in which she will melt lard to fry the prince; we must ask her to teach her how to bypass the cauldron and lean over it; destroying the Palace of Culture , the prince saw a cat with 40 keys around her neck; exhausted girls behind one of the doors; each screams: I'm not fat, she's fat; the prince let them go; behind the second door boys (the same); in the 38th room there are three demon, in the 39th - three horses, in the 40th - three birds; everyone gave their hair and feathers, promised to come to the rescue if necessary; the prince dipped his hair in a jug, it turned golden; went to the steppe, asked the shepherd lamb trebuchin, took the form of a black boy; remains to live with an old woman; the king gives away three daughters; the prince brought flowers, only the youngest took it from his hands; when the grooms gathered, she threw the apple at prince; the king gave her for him, but deprived her of mercy; the king hunted; the prince summoned his assistants, who caught the game; he gave it to his elder sons-in-law for permission to put their seal on their shoulders; to himself he left the most delicious meat; the king liked this meat most of all, but it contained dung; after that, the king moved his youngest daughter and husband from the stable to the palace; asked why his son-in-law caught birds best; he explained that he was a prince, and the others were his servants, they were branded with him; the king made his younger son-in-law an heir and after the king's death he received the throne], 2 (Kokand) [the fool gives the childless king 3 apples; from The king bit off a quarter of the first, the third half, and gave the second half entirely to the second wife; the first and third gave birth to boys with a shortened body, the second to be handsome; the fool came to demand a son from the second; The king tried in vain to give him other people's children; the human head teaches the young man to push Satan into a cauldron with 40 ears; find a piece of meat in the ash; the young man gives it to the cat, takes the keys to it; the young man unlocks the doors freeing the strongmen and various animals, everyone promises to help him; he went to the city, covering his golden hair with a turban, only the king's youngest daughter guessed that the king put them in the stable; everything opens, king gives the throne to his younger son-in-law]: 3-9, 9-13; Yagnobs [Kalandar gives the king three apples, let each of the three wives eat, he will come for the youngest son; everyone gave birth, sons grew up, Kalandar did not take the elder, the middle one, took the youngest; he kicked his skull on the way; the skull told how the calandar pushed him into the cauldron, ate him, advised him to push the calandar; after killing him, the boy unlocked the doors, freed the prisoners]: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 22:122.

Baltoscandia. Veps [returning from town, the man leaned to the water, someone grabbed his beard; give him what you don't know at home; his wife just gave birth to a son, the sun is in front, a month in the back; the boy grew up and went to the ogre; he had a cauldron of boiling water; the guy threw the ogre into the cauldron, covered it with a lid; went home; on the way he bought a sheep from the shepherd; he peeled it off, put it on himself; began to live with an old woman who had a son killed, but the horse, armor, weapons remained; the boy smashes the enemy three times; when the king found out what it was, he gave him his daughter]: Ariste 1964, No. 5:18-19.

Turkestan. Kyrgyz (Tien Shan Region, Toguz-Toros District, 1946) [the old khan has three wives, no children; witch: children will be provided that she takes them away in 7 years; the khan agreed; the witch bit three apples and gave each wife an apple; they became pregnant; when the witch appeared 7 years later, the khan hid his children, and the witch gave the children of the poor; but the witch solved the deception; the khan gave the elder son, middle son on the second day, younger on the third; she sent the youngest for firewood to fry him; the skull lies, the boy kicked him, the voice from the skull: you will become the same skull as me; the boy brought skull to one elder; elder: when the witch is about to fry you, ask her to cast the chilten spell; when she reads, push her into the cauldron; then take the keys on her belt; the boy did everything, unlocked 7 storerooms, freed many people, shared the good between them; he took tulpara for himself and went not to his father, but to his named father-in-law Khan Darbaz, the father of the girl they chose for him as a wife; he met a dev, who had a splinter in his leg - a grown plane tree; dev asked her to extract, also begged and ate tulpara; dev began to scold his comrades who could not extract the plane tree; gave to the boy a horse and a dish of gold, pulled out a lock of hair from him, gave it to the boy; that boy went to the city of Khan; exchanged the horse for a goat, took off his skin, pulled it over his head; turning into a pleshivets, the khan entrusted him herd cows; Khan's three daughters were swimming in a ditch and saw that the boy's forelock was golden; the youngest ran to him, but his sisters took her away; the khan tells the daughters to cook pilaf; the two older pilaf turned out to be fresh, the youngest was delicious; the vizier explained that the eldest daughters were restarted, and the youngest was at their heyday; the khan gave the daughters an apple each and ordered them to throw the apple at the one they chose; the elders threw apples at the Bai sons, the youngest was in Pleshivets; they were settled in a separate yurt; enemies attacked, both son-in-law died together with thousands of warriors; Pleshivets burned a lock of deva's hair, who helped kill enemies, the boy was already wearing khan's clothes came to the khan, he handed over power to him]: Narynbayeva 2018:58-60.