M114E. Link to winter or summer .28.29.31.32.34.36.
The girl suggests that the visitor tie his horse to winter or summer, which means to a sleigh or a cart.
Russians (Vologda and probably others), Belarusians, Western Ukrainians (Galicia), Northern Ukrainians (Chernigov), Czechs, Dargins, Lucks, Finns, Karelians, Estonians, Livonians, Mari, Siberian Tatars (Novosibirsk Oblast), Buryats (Okinsky District of Buryatia), Western Evenks (Podkamennaya Tunguska).
Central Europe. Russians: Afanasiev 1958 (3), No. 327 (the place of recording is not specified) [after the death of his parents, the guy lives with his uncle; he orders to sell the sheep, return both the sheep and the money, and be full himself; the girl you meet: sell wool, the sheep are cold, eat eggs; the uncle takes her nephew to marry the girl; she offers to tie the horse to winter or summer (to a sleigh or cart); replies that the father has gone to change one hundred rubles for 15 kopecks (poison hares: if the horse drives, there will be a big loss); if he goes around, it will be in the evening, and if straight, he will return in three days (direct way through the swamp); uncle married nephew]: 57-58; Smirnov 1917, No. 47 (Vologodskaya) [the elder brother was taken as a soldier; when he returned, he got married, his wife died, the other two brothers gave him only a thin cow, and when she picked up, decided to take it away; went to ask the king to solve this matter; the king made riddles: what is fatter; nicer; faster; the seven-year-old daughter of the poor brother ordered to answer: earth, sleep, eyes; other brothers wives taught me to say: our pigs, wives, horses; the king sued the poor man's cow; when he found out who taught the answers, he ordered the daughter to come out of baked eggs; in response, she sent burnt millet to the king, let will grow millet to feed chickens; the king came to her; a seven-year-old girl: tie horses at least by winter, even by summer (to firewood or cart); to decline or profit? (roasted rooster or milk); the king told her to come not naked or dressed, shod or barefoot, or on foot or on horseback; she wrapped herself in a net, wrapped her net around her legs, arrived on a ram, released a cat, dogs chased her, she stopped a ram at the entrance to the yard; the tsar took the girl and the old man to him, held it well]: 224-225; Czechs, Belarusians, Ukrainians (Galicia) [motive known]: Vries 1928:254; northern Ukrainians (Chernigov, Nezhinsky district) [matchmakers have arrived; the daughter asks the mother where to put the horse; mother: at least near winter (sleigh), at least near summer (cart); and what to take it? mother: put profits (milk), loss (lard), yes {unprinted} scrambled eggs]: Malinka 1902, No. 69:355; Belarusians [a rich man's chick calved, a poor man's wife gave birth to a girl; the rich man's wife decided that the calf will die and threw it away, and the poor man picked it up; after 7 years, the calf became a fat chick, and the newborn became an intelligent girl; the rich man demanded that the chick be given to him; the pan will give it to the one who guesses the riddles: what is fatter, richer, faster; the wife of the rich man: our boar, we ourselves, our horse; the daughter of the poor man: earth, God, thought; the pan gave the heifer to the poor man; came to his house, daughter at home; asks what to tie the horse to ; girl: at least by winter, even by summer (to the cart or sleigh); pan gives a basket of eggs: let the chickens be panu for breakfast by morning; the daughter sends her father to the lord with a request to immediately sow the field, grow millet and pour grains into a pot to feed the chickens; pan tells the girl not to appear on horseback, on foot, naked, in a shirt, with or without a gift; she appears on a stick wrapped in a net; pan released the dogs, and she was a hare, the dogs ran after the hare; the pan married her, telling her not to dare judge the serfs; two men went to the fair, one's mare necklaces, the foal climbed under the other's cart; Mr.'s wife tells one to drag the cart, the other to lead the mare: whoever the foal would run after, she gave birth to him; when he found out that his wife had begun to judge herself, the pan decided to kick her out of the house, allowing her to take what was nice; she gave her husband a drink and brought him to her father's house; the pan returned his wife]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:257-261.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Dargins [the rich brother gave the poor cow, later decided to take it away; he replied that his cow was his; the judge (talhat) promises a cow to whoever says what is fattest, softest, tastiest; the daughter of the poor man: Say that the ground, the flesh of the meat, sleep; the judge orders to remove the chickens from a hundred eggs by tomorrow; the daughter made scrambled eggs from the eggs, and ordered the judge to sow millet and squeeze it tomorrow so that there is something to feed the chickens; the judge came to the girl and found her kneading the dough; girl: May Allah punish the house where there are no ears; she is asked where to tie the horses - if you want to the plain, you want to the mountain; then explains through her father: the house should have a dog that will warn about guests; horses can be tied to an arba or sleigh; the judge married a girl, telling her not to interfere in matters; the owner of the cart and the mare argued who owns it a foal born at night; the judge's wife: the sea is burning; since the sea cannot burn, the cart will not be necklace; the judge tells the wife to take what she wants and return to her parents; she brought him sleeping; her judge returned]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 10:66-68; Lucky [younger rich brother wants to take away the last cow from the poor elder to pay for his father's funeral expenses; khan: I will decide in favor of the one who answered correctly; what fattest, fastest, most pleasant, how far from truth to lie; younger brother's wife: neighbor's pig, hare, halva, truth from lies 15 days away; older daughter: earth, thought, sleep, five fingers away (what the eye sees - it is true that the ear hears is a lie); the khan orders that by his arrival the girl raise the chickens from 40 boiled eggs; the daughter tells me that the chickens have been bred, but let the khan sow millet by tomorrow will harvest to feed the chickens; Khan: Where should the horses be tied? girl: it is possible by summer, it is possible by winter (in the yard or in the shed); the khan returned their cow and added gold]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 25:112-113
Baltoscandia. Karely (Kalevalsky District, 1937) [mother tells her son to find a bride, go early to the house where the stove is already being heated; the girl in one shirt is weaving; asks why the guest has no mouth or nose; tie the horse to winter or summer, both in the yard; father for he went warmly, the mother lies down from her fun, the brother walks back and forth; whether to cook food with spits or right with sips; with spits; she cooked perch; when he returns, the guy complains that the bride is stupid ; the father explains: you had to cough when entering; there was a cart and a sleigh in the yard; the father went for eyebrows, the mother gave birth, the brother was plowing; cook porridge or perch; the son married; the father tells his daughter-in-law to heat the bathhouse, the rooster put food on the shelves, food on the table, sword across the table, go to bed yourself; father and son went to the forest; on the way back: take off my head and hands, and throw logs on the road to make the path shorter; wife explains: the father-in-law ordered to put a broom in the bathhouse, cover the food with a towel; on the way, he had to take his father's hat and mittens and talk; the king found out about the intelligent woman and took her away; the old man asks the beggars to ask daughters-in-law, where is his death; daughter-in-law: when you hit your forehead on a pole in the stable, then death; the old man took out the treasury hidden in a pole; sends a message to your daughter-in-law: do you always wear strong dresses or go to torn? daughter-in-law: torn on Saturday evening (which means that the barn gate is open); father-in-law released and returned his daughter-in-law]: Concca 1959:79-82 (=Car folk tales 1963, No. 58; the same, but in the best translation from Karelian texts in Lavonen 1992:214-216); the Livs [the poor man has children; to prevent them from going to the rich man's plot, he dug a deep ditch; the rich man's cow tried to go down to drink and broke his leg; the rich served court; judge: the one who can answer that the richest, fastest, sweetest is right; the poor man's daughter told him not to worry; the rich man replies that he is the richest, the fastest is his stallion, the sweetest his honey; bndnyak: God, thought, dream; when he learns that the answers are suggested by her daughter, the judge tells her to come not naked or dressed, not on horseback, on foot, on the road or on the side of the road; let him tie the horse between winter and in the summer; she wrapped herself in a net, came on a goat walking one foot along the road and the other along the side of the road; tied the goat between a sleigh and a cart; the judge ordered the girl to be dressed up as a servant, but Seeing her beautifully dressed, he married himself; when he left, he forbade his wife to interfere in legal matters; two came; one lent the other a cart wheel, and at night the mare necklaces; wheel owner: if not if he borrowed it, then there would be no foal, which means that his foal; the judge's wife ruled; the judge ordered her to return to her father, taking what she wanted; the wife offered to have a feast at last; the husband became drunk and fell asleep, the wife brought him to her father's house; her husband brought her back, they began to live well: Löwis of Menar 1927, No. 88:287-289; Finns, Estonians [motive known]: Vries 1928:254.
Volga - Perm. Marie: Akzorin 1981 [father tells his son to sell the ram and bring him back home; the girl cut off her hair, sold it, gave the young man money, the son returned with the money and the ram; after finding out who taught son, the father sent matchmakers (the girl said that she lives where winter is still - the father told them to go to the yard where the sleigh is); the girl told them that her mother had gone to change black to white, the father - heart and liver cut out of wood, and brother and daughter-in-law mow gold; offers water in which the drowned man was caught; the matchmakers returned, the father explained: the mother washes, the father takes out the honeycombs, the brother and daughter-in-law reap, the girl wanted treat him to mead; the father married his son; when he died, he said that he had buried a treasure in the garden, you could dig it up in autumn and spring; the son and wife dug up a vegetable garden, then a garden; the wife explained: now there will be a good harvest, he and there is a treasure]: 150-158; Chetkarev 1948 [the father tells his son to sell the sheep, bring meat for one brew and return the ram itself; the girl cut off the wool, sold it, gave the young man money, castrated the sheep, gave it this is meat, the son returned with money, meat, sheep; the girl said that she lives where winter is; when he found out who taught his son, the father sent him to the girl's yard, where they would see a sleigh; the girl replied that the mother had left change black to white, father to take out the living's heart and lungs, and brother and daughter-in-law knock down the standing; offers to drink the dead man's washings; the matchmakers are back, the father explained: the mother washes, the father takes out the honeycombs, the brother They reap her daughter-in-law, the girl wanted to treat her to mead; the father married his son; when she came to the wedding, the bride first of all forced her to restore the collapsed kudo (a house without floor and ceiling); died; one day the son and wife went to reap, it began to rain, the son stood under the tree; remembered what his father said: he would remember him under the tree; his wife ordered it to be uprooted, there was a treasure there]: 138-140.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Siberian Tatars (Novosibirsk Region, 1 entry) [the father wants a smart bride for his son; sends him to the girl; she replies that the mother has borrowed to cry, the father is looking for someone to exchange his hundred rubles for five kopecks; the horse can be tied to summer or winter; the young man says that the cross beam is thick, asks how much it was lifted; the girl: two by two; when he returns, the son tells his father that the girl is a fool; the father explains: to cry on credit is to visit the graves of parents; to exchange a hundred rubles for a penny - to go hunting on a horse that costs a hundred rubles; tie a horse to a sleigh or to a cart; the old man sent it to the girl matchmakers]: Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 9:47-48; Buryats (Okinsky District of Buryatia) [Bardunay is rich, has three sons; his younger brother Balamja is poor, he has a daughter; the youngest came to the eldest to ask for a cart; Seeing that the youngest mare would soon be necklaces, he said that his cart would be necklace - do not dare to take the foal; Taisha promises to award a foal to someone who says by morning what is sharper, fatter, fastest; Bardunai's sons: razor, pig, horse; Balamja's daughter: noyon power, land, thought; Taisha gave the foal to Balamja, ordered him to arrive neither on foot, nor on horseback, nor by road, nor without a road, nor dressed, nor naked, nor with a gift, not without a gift; Balamja came on the side of the road on a goat, gave the bird, which immediately flew away; Taisha tells us to milk the bull, cook tarak; Taisha arrived, the daughter went out, said that the father gave birth; Taisha sent two people, Balamja's daughter offered to tie horses to winter or summer; Taisha married his son to Balamdzhi's daughter]: Bardakhanova, Gympilova 2008, No. 4:26-29
Eastern Siberia. Western Evenks (Podkamennaya Tunguska) [the prince asks the poor hunter to find him a beautiful bride; she asks to tie one deer to winter, the other to summer; the guests do not understand, but they tie him one for the sledge, the other for the saddle; the bride: what to serve - what is afraid when it is cooked? (wild geese eggs) roast what's decreasing? (bear fat); boil what arrives? (reindeer milk); the matchmakers decided that the bride was a fool, but the poor man understood; told her to come naked and unnaked, foolish and unshod, not to be in the plague or on the street; the bride put reindeer stockings on her feet, threw a fishing net, one leg outside the threshold, the other across the threshold; wedding]: Suvorov 1956:43-44.