M114i. What are your relatives doing? ATU 875 (4), 921.

.12.15.-.17.23.27.-.32.34.

When asked where her father, mother, brother, etc., is answered by a girl or boy in such a way that only an intelligent person can guess what they are talking about (a father went from a friend to make an enemy , mother - make one out of two, etc.); or the girl explains the meaning of such phrases uttered by another.

Uther 2004 mentions Japanese and Korean versions; number 921 on Ikeda 1971 is another story: a lying champion finds only his young son in a competitor's house and he tells unprecedented things; Korean (Choi 1979) and Yakut (Ergis 1967b) signs under Uter's numbers 659 and 315, as well as, apparently, Chinese (Ting 1978, No. 921) contain texts having little to do with this plot. In the Arabic sign al-Shami under number 921, our number is M39A6h.

Fulbe, Spaniards, Catalans, Portuguese, Maltese, Italians (Tuscany, Lazio), Ladins, Scots, Irish, British, French, Germans (Schleswig- Holstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Austria), Dutch, Frisians, Flemish, Arabic literary tradition, Iraqi Arabs, Kashmiris, Hindi, Assames, Santals, Maria, Bulgarians, Gagauz, Hungarians, Slovenes, Serbs , Romanians, Moldovans, Greeks, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Novgorod, Kostorm, Voronezh, Oryol, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Kholmshchina, Ugric Russia, Galicia, Hutsulshchyna, Ivano-Frankivsk, Pokutye, Kiev, Poltava, Kharkiv, Chernihiv), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Adygs, Abkhazians, Dargins, Swans, Georgians, Turks, Pashtuns, Eastern Sami, Finns , Karelians, Setus, Latvians, Swedes, Danes, Mari, Siberian Tatars (Teleuts, Khakas).

West Africa. Fulbe [a man promises a heifer to someone who can express himself more intricate than himself; passing through the city, he notices a boy; asks him to bring water; the boy is gone for a long time; when he appears, he speaks that he forgot to ask what kind of water a stranger wants, they have different ones; the person says that he is ordinary; after drinking, he asks what the boy's father (hereinafter referred to as the mother, etc.) is doing; the father went to cut down the poles prop up the sky; mother - to finish what she started in her absence; older sister - cut out a stick to beat people; the boy explains; the father went to reconcile the two rulers, the mother - to give birth, they marry his sister sons of both rulers {incomprehensible}]: Paulme 1976:228-230; dan [one raspberry went to change the bull for tales; the boy fried bananas; replied that his mother went to disturb old people with new ones, father went to look for death, the elder brother went to interfere with the black earth with the red one; the raspberries asked for water; the boy went to the river, killed the bird, collected water, squeezed blood into it; explained that when he took water, clean and red water fought with each other; the boy explained: the mother went to give birth; the father climbed a palm tree, could break to death; the brother went to sow rice; the raspberries gave the boy a bull]: Paulme 1976:231-232.

Southern Europe. The Spaniards [the young man replies: the father digs up the dead and buries the living (removes dried trees in the cemetery and plants new ones); the sister mourns last year's laughter (she is pregnant)]: Boggs 1980, No. 921: 101-102; Catalans (including Mallorca and Ibisa) [the king asks the peasant son where his father is; - Uproots people from their homes (uprooting stumps). - And the mother? - She cries over last year's happiness (she went to the funeral of her daughter, who died a year after the wedding). - He hunts; he will leave everything killed, and he will bring the unkilled (presses his lice). The king admires young men]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 921:183; the Portuguese [the clever son of a peasant answers questions mysteriously: {father?} {father?} went do a favor he'll never be rewarded (went to a funeral); {mother?} bakes bread eaten last week (to lend it back); the sister suffers from the pleasure she received a year ago (gives birth); {he himself} eats some and waits for the next ones (rising from the bottom of the boiler) the beans he cooks); looks at the harvest of regret (if it's good, it's a pity he sowed so little, and if it's bad, it's a pity that there are so many)]: Cardigos 2006, No. 921:234; Italians (Tuscany, Lazio): Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 921:234; Maltese [the king asks the peasant son what his father is doing; - Drills a hole to plug another (borrows to repay the debt); mother? - kneading dough for bread eaten last week (making bread to pay for the borrowed flour); older brother? - He hunts, leaves the dead, and brings them alive (crushing lice); how much does the father earn per day? - Three pence and lends everything at interest (the family has three children)]: Mifsud-Chrcop 1978, No. 921-921A: 357-359; ladins [the tenant cannot pay the landowner; promises that he will grow up soon his smart son and will pay with interest; the landowner comes to the tenant when only his boy is at home, sitting by the stove on which something is being cooked; asks him questions, and when he explains the meaning of his answers, admires his mind and forgives rent and interest for a thousand years; 1) what is the boy doing? - I watch them dance up and down (beans in a pot on the stove); 2) Where is my father? - It is beneficial and harmful (it waters the meadow, thereby diverting water from the neighboring meadow); 3) Where is the mother? - I went to bake the bread I ate yesterday (they borrowed the bread, I will have to repay the newly baked bread); 4) Where is your aunt who lives with you? - The upstairs room cries because of last year's joys (she got married a year ago and is now giving birth)]: Uffer 1973, No. 46:228-230 (=Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 35:228-230).

Western Europe. Scots, Irish, British, French, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Austria), Dutch, Friesians, Flemish : Uther 2004 (1), No. 921:544-545

Western Asia. Arab literary tradition [the plot has been known in Arabic fairy tales since the 10th century; "Imruu-l-Quais and the Clever Girl"]: Liungman 196:239; Iraqi Arabs [the saddler forgot that he sewed gold in the saddle coins, and sold it; but the one who bought it returned the saddle a year later for repair, the saddler found his gold; from now on he began to sing: once I lost and I won't say what, now everything is back and what I won't say; The Sultan heard and, when the saddler refused to tell him the meaning of his words, the Sultan demanded that tomorrow his three virgin daughters stand in front of the palace pregnant; youngest daughter: it's not difficult; tied up jugs under her clothes and sisters; the sultan asks each one what month she is and what unusual she wants to eat; the elders answer, and the youngest says that she is in her month and wants fish, roasted under seven seas; sultan: how is it? girl: just like a pregnant virgin; in the morning he sent her younger matchmaker; the girl opened it, and the matchmaker wanted to talk to her mother; the mother went to make two out of one; then with the older sister; she I went to convert black into white; and the middle one? plucks roses; matchmaker: at this time there are no flowers; and here is a purse from the Sultan; the girl looked into it; if a man gives a lamb, does he cut off his tail? The sultan understood everything; the mother is a porvitukha; the older sister removes women's body hair; the middle sister embroiders roses on silk; let the midwife keep the coins she stole from her purse for herself, but does not do this anymore; but having failed to realize his marriage, the Sultan went to war in the country of Siin; his wife put on men's clothes, gathered her army and followed the Sultan; after setting up a camp, invited the Sultan to play chess, won against he had a dagger; then the sultan won and asked for his dagger back, but the imaginary commander offered him a Kurdish virgin in return; the unrecognized one came by herself, nine months later gave birth to a son named Siin; then The Sultan went to fight in the country of Masiin; (same: amber necklace; a Kurdish girl who only met a man; a son named Masiin); for the third time, the country of Gharb (Sultan's headband; gave birth daughter named Gharg); upon his return, the sultan decided to marry his paternal uncle's daughter; the wife sent her children to a feast, holding a dagger, a necklace, a handkerchief, they sing that they are the Sultan's children; when they see his wife , the Sultan understood everything, sent a new bride and really married the saddler's daughter]: Bushnaq 1987:339-343.

South Asia. Kashmiris [the wealthy merchant has a stupid son; he was ashamed to marry him, but his wife insisted on finding a bride; the father agreed to give his son three coins; let him buy one with one she will throw something for herself, throw the second one into the river, buy food, drink, gnaw, plant in the garden, and more food for the cow; blacksmith's daughter: leave one coin in your pocket and buy a melon for the other, it has everything five things; the father did not believe what his son had come up with; when he found out about the blacksmith's daughter, he decided to marry her son; he came to the blacksmith, only his daughter was at home; - Where are the parents? - The father went to buy a ruby for a cowrie, and the mother went to sell words; explained that the father went to buy lamp oils and the mother went to marry; people advised the groom to say that he would beat every day the wife had 7 shoes; the blacksmith offered to cancel the wedding, but the daughter said she would settle the matter; the first night she said it was not good to quarrel on the wedding day; then the first week; and then, as usual, returns to his parents for a while; the merchant's wife insisted that he give his son money to trade; a young merchant comes to a luxurious house; the hostess offers to play backgammon; the cat is taught to extinguish the lamp rang, at that moment the hostess replaces backgammon; the merchant lost his property, wife and himself; occasionally gave home a letter to his father, in which he described everything as it was, and to his wife, in which he wrote that he was rich, and when she returns, he will beat her with a shoe; the person sent accidentally mixed up the letters; the wife in a man's dress came to the cat's owner, asked the servants what was going on, took a mouse with her; released when the cat was supposed to turn off the lamp; the hostess lost everything, including herself; the husband did not recognize his wife, she appointed him her sardar, hid his prison clothes; when the husband was going to beat his wife with shoes at home, she was in his presence She told her parents everything, showed his clothes; the hostess, now a slave, confirmed everything; the old merchant ordered all the treasures to be handed over to her daughter-in-law, not to a fool's son]: Knowles 1888:144-153; northern India ( Eastern Hindi - chattisgarhi) [when the lender came to demand a debt from a fisherman, only his little son is at home; - Where are the parents? - The mother went to turn one into two, and the father went to fence the thorns with thorns; the lender took the boy to court: if the answer is understood, he will forgive the debt, and if not, he will put the boy in prison; boy: mother went to grind peas, and my father made a barbed fence around the garden with prickly egg-plants; the lender had to forgive the debt]: Grierson 1904:199-200; Uttar Pradesh (Hindi) [fish {meaning of course, the crocodile} ended up on the shore and persuaded the man to get off the horse and take it to the river - deeper; was going to swallow a man; a wild apple tree (crab-apple) and an elephant say that thanks are not exists; the jackal pretends to understand everything thoroughly; tells the man to take the fish to where it was and leave it; later the fish finally got to the water, and when the jackal came for a drink, grabbed his leg; jackal: why did you grab the root? the fish let go of its leg; one day it went ashore and climbed into the jackal's lair when he was not there; the jackal came up, suspected something was amiss, called out: lair, lair! the fish decided that his lair should respond to the owner and responded; the jackal said he would return now, collected dry leaves and made a fire at the entrance; the fish roasted and the jackal ate it]: Rouse, Crooke 1899, No. 16: 165-171; Assamese [{there is a motive}]: Goswami 1954:67-68 in Thompson, Roberts 1960, No. 921:115; Santals [three or four men came to the village to see a girl to see if she would be a bride; Another girl came up; the first one was asked where her father was; - He went to meet the water; - And the mother? - I went to make two people out of one. Second, leaving: while I was standing here, I could have to card a seer of cotton; those who came thought that this second one was very hard-working; when the man returned to their homes, their wives explained to them that the girl's father had gone mow the grass to cover the roof and the mother to thresh (to thrash dal - {incomprehensible}; it turned out that the chosen bride could neither peel cotton nor spin; father-in-law advised to coat with glue and roll in cotton wool; the young woman did so; her husband beat and drove her away]: Bompas 1909, No. 103:305-307; buffalo maria [the lender came to the debtor, only the little son at home; - Father went to cover thorns, mother to make big things out of small things, sister to make two out of one; the lender forgave the debt and paid extra to find out what the boy meant; the father went to make a barbed fence around the garden where the prickly brinjal is planted; the mother went to the cotton field, pulls the seeds out of cotton wool; the sister went to rub the peas (each pea breaks into two halves); when the parents returned, the boy did not gave them the 20 rupees they had received; then they decided to kill him; they took him to fish with poison, pushed him into the water, the big fish swallowed him, but poisoned himself and threw it ashore; the tiger came to drink and heard sounds , asks who is bothering him; boy: I am brushing my teeth with a palm tree panicle, eating tiger tails; tiger asks him to spare him; boy: gently rip the fish's belly and go to the other side of the river; kill a deer there (? sambhar), leave me one leg and go without looking back; the boy brought a deer leg to the old lady; cut off all the meat, said it was bones, you can chew them now; and we'll give the meat (actually bone) to my grandfather, when he came; the old man swallowed the imaginary meat, the bone was stuck in his throat, the old woman tried to push it in, and the old man suffocated to death; the old woman promised money if the boy saved her dead body; that took the body to someone's garden; the owner thought it was a thief, hit him with a stick, the body fell into a well; boy: you will be responsible for the murder of my grandfather; the gardener paid money for silence; having received money from a gardener and an old woman, the boy saw a bear by the road; he came behind and put a few coins in his ass; a Muslim merchant believed that the bear was defecating with silver; boy: I'll ride your horse I'll take the money, and you can take whatever comes out in my absence; the boy rode off on the merchant's horse and never came back; the girl washed the Raja's clothes; boy: Raja sent me to pick up his clothes - it doesn't matter , washed or not; the girl gave it away, the boy dressed up as a raja; the old woman led her granddaughter to the river; boy: my grandfather sent me for her; he put the girl on a horse, rode to people, promised to eat a goat on a bet and a pot of rice, a bride as collateral, and if she eats, she will receive a girl from the Kalar caste; quietly dumped food into a hole, got a girl; he now has two of them; brought them to an empty house; everyone who came there by chance he deceived; the young man let them in (they did not recognize him in the dark) on the condition that no one would relieve themselves at night, otherwise he would kill them; those who came thought that the local spirit was talking to them; when they fell asleep, the young man he smeared crap on everyone's clothes; when they smelled, those who came ran away; the young man built a palace and became a raja]: Elwin 1944, No. VIII.12:262-266 (Zograf translation 1971, No. 74:271-275).

The Balkans. Bulgarians [a wealthy man gave his son three hundred sheep, but did not give money to feed them; ordered his son to bring them all alive and well after wintering; the son met a girl who advised me to borrow money and feed the sheep until spring, and then cut their hair, sell it, repay debts and rams; the guy did so; then told his father who told him who had told him; the father decided to marry his son to this girl, went to marry her; when he came, the girl's father was not at home; asked her where her father was and if he would return soon; the girl replied that her father had gone to the mill and that if he went around the forest, he would return soon, and if he goes straight, he will be late; soon the girl's father returned, agreed to give his daughter, but demanded that the matchmakers come; when they came and sat down at the table, dogs barked in the yard; father-in-law went out see who was coming; when he returned, he said that Neroda (dial. monk) was coming, leading a bad child (dial. mule) and carrying nenitsa (dial. salt); the girl explained: there was a monk who led the mule and carried salt; when the young were married and set off on the road, the father-in-law said that he would go hunting, and told him to wait for it by the even furrows and dry stumps that let water out; they reached the vineyards, the girl said, that they should wait here; one day their father-in-law was captured by robbers, taken to the forest, demanded money; their father-in-law told them to go to his house and tell their daughter-in-law to feed them and drink them, and then brought them to the basement , which contains the money; asked me to tell her that our female brought the puppies, and the pig was piggy, so let him take the puppies and throw them under the pig, and put the piglets under the knot; the robbers told everything their father-in-law told their daughter-in-law; their daughter-in-law fed them and gave them water, and then said: "Here are piglets for you and puppies for a pig!" ; the villagers killed the robbers, went to the forest, saved his father-in-law]: Ketkov 1979:151-153; Gagauz people [the king sent his son to look for a bride; he went to the widow, her daughter washes her hair, says that curse the house without dogs; the prince asks what the girl is cooking in the pot, she replies that "one up and the other down"; the king explains to his son that the girl regrets that the dog does not warn about those who come, that she cooked peas; the prince asks where the girl's mother is; "the mother went out of two women to make one young woman" (to put patches on the shirts); the king tells his son to give the girl a bag of money, who hid a few gold ones; the girl asks to tell the king that "the horse is good, but the tail is circumcised"; the royal son married her]: Moshkov 1904, No. 106:179-180; Moldovans [the tsar orders the shepherd to sell the sheep and return back from with a flock and proceeds; the daughter advises to shear the sheep, sell wool; after that, the king gave the shepherd a heifer; she wandered to the boyar, who took it for himself; the king promises a heifer to whoever says that it is fatter, faster, sweetest of all; boyar: our pig, our greyhound, our honey; the shepherd's daughter: earth, thought and look, sleep; when he learns that the shepherd's daughter gives answers, the king gives a spindle, hemp, tells us to hide the canvas on the entire army; the girl sends a sliver to the king to make a machine, reel, etc.; the king gives 10 boiled eggs - let him raise the chickens; the girl cooked two handfuls of seeds, sent the king to grow corn to feed the chickens; the king sent the boyar to find out about the girl; she apologizes: the house has no ears; the brother went to change the name of the seeds; she will go straight - he will be late, and all around she will come quickly; the mother went out of two old women to do one young; explained: a house without a dog is like without ears; the brother went to the mill, the grain will be flour; if he goes past the tavern, he will stay; the mother makes two old shirts a new one; the king tells the shepherd that his daughter should not come on horseback, neither on foot, nor on the road, nor across the field, nor dressed, nor naked, neither with a gift nor without a gift; the girl wrapped herself in a net, saddled a stick, a hare under her arm, two pigeons in her hand, one leg on the edge of the road, another across the field; dogs rushed at the gate, she let them out a hare; gave the king pigeons, they flew away; the king married her on the condition that he would be the first to judge people; the mare gave birth; the other two say that a cart gave birth to him; his harness; the queen: first lock the foal and then release him; he went to the mare, not to the cart or harness; the king decided to drive his wife away, but agreed to feast first and let him take it away, what is the most important thing for her; the king got drunk and fell asleep, his wife took him to her place; after that they lived together]: Botezat 1981:325-332; Greeks, Hungarians, Slovenes, Serbs, Romanians: Uther 2004, No. 921:544-545

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Novgorod, Kostroma, Voronezh, Oryol, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Kholmshchina, Ugric Russia, Galicia, Hutsulshchina, Ivanovo- Frankivshchina, Pokutye, Kiev, Poltava, Kharkiv, Chernihiv), Belarusians [Brides (boy, wise virgin Fevronia) riddles: in the absence of parents, a girl (boy) says that the mother went on loan to cry, the father went to sow the trouble, asks whether to tie the horse to winter or summer, etc.]: SUS 1979, No. 921:232; Russians (place of registration not specified) [after the death of parents, the boy lives with her uncle; he tells me to sell the sheep, return both the sheep and the money, and be full himself; the girl you meet: sell wool, eat sheep, eat eggs; uncle takes her nephew to marry the girl; she suggests tying the horse by winter or summer (to a sleigh or cart); replies that the father went to exchange 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 by evening, and if straight, he will return in three days (direct way through the swamp); uncle married his nephew]: Afanasiev 1958 (3), No. 327:57-58; Poles [The king asks an allegedly stupid village boy a series of questions and gets mysterious answers that he can't understand. aa) What do you see? - One and a half men and a horse's head (yourself, half a king, his horse slipping through the door; (a1) Are you home alone? - No, because I see half of two four-legged animals (the king's legs and the front horses). (b) What are you doing? - I cook what goes up and down (peas that are cooked in a boiling pot). (c) What does your dad do? - Good and evil, or more harm (cuts off young shoots, sometimes destroying good ones and leaving bad ones, or blocks a path trodden in the field, although at the same time trampling a new one nearby; (d) What Does the mother do? - At dawn, she baked bread eaten a week ago (to pay for borrowed flour), cuts off a healthy person's head in the morning to feed the patient (cuts chicken), beats a hungry person at noon, and makes him eat well-fed (drives away chickens and forcefully feeds the goose); (e) What does the brother do? - Hunts by throwing what she catches on the ground and carrying what she can't grasp (catches lice); (f) What does the sister do? - Mourns last year's joy (walks with a child)]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 921:277-278; Czechs, Slovaks: Uther 2004, No. 921:544-545.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars: Useinov 1992, No. 17 [the poor have a wise daughter, the padishah decides to test her; he and the vizier dressed as wanderers came to her house and asked where her father and mother were; girl: mother went to turn nothingness into being, and father into nothingness; a few months later, the padishah called the girl and asked if she remembered him; girl: you came to a crazy house; crazy means without a dog; the mother went to give birth, the father to cut trees for firewood; then the padishah gave the girl 40 rams and ordered her to return them with lambs a year later; she told her father to slaughter sheep, and a year later she brought chebureks padishah as a gift because he gave birth to an heir; girl: if you can't give birth, sheep can't either; the padishah recognized the girl's victory and let her go]: 229-234; Radlov 20121, No. 18 [guy I came to the village and went to the girl, greeted her; girl: May Allah protect the crazy house; Where is the father? - I got on an eight-legged horse and went hunting (I went on a mare that is about to get necklaces). Where is the mother? - I left one to make two (to give birth). Where is the daughter-in-law? - I went to the fact that she never gets tired (to the river for water); the guy was happy that the girl was smart and married her]; Adygi [in the absence of parents, the girl intricately answers the guests (the father sat on the eight-legged black man and went to catch what he could not catch many horsemen; the brother went to look for what he had not lost; the mother went to detain two things, etc.); the continuation is usually the prince's marriage on this girl]: Tkhamokova 2014, No. 921:184; Abkhazians (zap. P. Shakryl, s. Lykhny) [the prince is required to finally marry; he only wants someone who can sew legs and dudes from pieces of steel and iron; his two milk brothers went to look for such a girl; in the same house the girl replies that her father sows what will be the subject of a quarrel by the road (she sows wheat, but did not make a fence); the mother went to exchange a tear (she went to mourn her neighbor with the expectation that she would come in due time mourn); when the brothers asked for wine, the girl advised me to tie the horse to the vine; there was no vine in the yard; so where did the wine come from? as for the prince's condition, let him first send her sand twine and a needle made of small stones; when he learned about the girl, the prince sent her a ram so that she would not kill him, but cooked two servings of kebab from it, and from wool made a burka and a hat; the girl emptied the ram and cooked a kebab from the testes; the prince sent her gold and diamond things through her brothers; the girl responded: small and large stars turned out to be rare; let the two mountain eagles not lose each other and the two brothers not hear hurtful words; the prince ordered the brothers to return what they had appropriated; for the wedding, the prince ordered to cook a meat dish and hominy from the cliff he pointed to; the girl gave her father a knife: do not work tomorrow until the prince arrives; when he comes, hand the knife and ask him to cut off the rock's head with your hand; the prince married the girl]: Khashba, Kukba 1935:132-135; Dargins [Shah Abbas demanded that everyone go to work; girl: let the Shah come to me himself; he asks questions, she answers; What are you doing? - One out of two. - Where is Dad? - I went out of my friend to make an enemy. - Where is the mother? - I went to make one out of two. Shah did not understand, the girl explained: I sew one new shirt from two old shirts; my father went to a friend to borrow money; my mother went to help the woman in labor; the girl agreed to marry the Shah after he had mastered craft - he learned to make gold chains; the Shah went on a journey, saw a lot of meat in one city, he was thrown into a hole; there were dead and alive; he sold the unfinished chain, he used this money to make new; the news of the chain master reached his wife; the Shah was released]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 20:93-94; svany [first there is water everywhere, there is a rock in the middle of the water, God in the middle of the rock; he came out of it, drained the water, the mixture of water and He divided the land around the rock in two, made heaven from one part, and the earth out of the other; a tear from his right eye became Michael the Archangel, from the left eye Gabriel the Archangel; God and the angels walked and met the young man, They asked where the men were? - We went to look for quarrels (i.e. to fence off the extreme field with a wattle fence, there will be a quarrel with a neighbor). - Where are the women? - Let's cry (i.e. mourn the neighbor); God liked this clever young man, he took him with him, his name was George; the angels tried to take God away from the stone, but he insisted on coming there, hit the stone Satan came out with a whip, saying that he and God were of the same kind, asked for a share; God chose humans and animals for himself, and Satan chose man's soul; but the angels said that this was only until the Son appeared; {more Gospel stories}]: Margiani 1890a: 244-252; Georgians [boy's answers: Father's things are good and bad; mother is forced to borrow; then he is brought to the king]: Kurdovanidze 2000, No. 921:75; Turks : Stebleva 1982, No. 68 [the padishah disguised himself as a commoner, went into the hut, began to talk to the girl; the vizier stood next to him listening; - Where is your father? - Went out of doing a little bit of things. - And mother? - I went to make two out of one. - Your house is beautiful, but the pipe is crooked. - But the smoke is going straight. - If I send a goose, will you be able to pluck it? - To the last fluff; padishah vizier: if you do not explain our conversation, you will lose your head; the vizier came to the girl, she demanded a hundred gold for each word; the father sows, each grain will make a lot grains; mother is a midwife; crooked trumpet - I have one eye with a scythe; but I see well; you're a goose yourself, and I'm told to pluck you]: 282; Walker, Uuysal 1966, No. 6 [a man has three daughters; to feed them, he steals three brooms from the padishah's palace every day and sells them; he was caught; the padishah promised to hang him if he did not bring daughters with obvious signs of pregnancy by tomorrow; the eldest says she wants marry a butcher, the middle one tells me to bring 3 kg of cotton, puts herself and her sisters under their clothes as if they are pregnant; the padishah asks everyone what she wants; the elders answer about butcher and boat maker; the youngest wants watercress (Nasturtium officinale) from the sea, lemons from poplar, oranges in winter; padishah: impossible; girl: like feeding her stomach overnight; padishah sends to the house of a former thief (now he got a job at the palace) two officials; the youngest daughter is at home; the father is wearing roses, the older sister makes two out of one, the middle sister makes the ugly beautiful, she herself has just finished cooking up and down, and now she has a horse and horseshoes, but no nails and nothing to make them out of; officials left the girl two parcels from the padishah; she unfolded them and told her to say hello from a kite to a falcon; but sometimes things go like a crow smeared with crap; we were 12 years old, and what is now 10? The padishah understood everything: the father is doing the job of a gardener, the older sister is giving birth, the middle sister removes hairs from her face, the girl herself cooked lentil soup, now she embroiders; and the sent stole 2 gold coins out of 12; padishah married a girl]: 135-139.

Iran - Central Asia. Pashtuns [the father took his son to look for a bride for him; offers to carry each other, the son does not understand; the father sends him home, calling him a fool, he will find him an intelligent wife himself; at home the girl replies that her mother separates heaven from earth, and her father interferes with earth; explains: the father is at the funeral, the mother is a midwife; the marriage was concluded, the young wife explained to her husband that his father meant to brighten up the road with a conversation ]: Thorburn 1876:190-192.

Baltoscandia. Karelians: Konkka 1959 (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 me to put a broom in the bathhouse, cover the food with a towel; on the way, you had to take my father's hat and mittens and talk; the king found out about the intelligent woman and took her away; the old man sends her a message: Do you always wear sturdy dresses or do you always wear ripped dresses? daughter-in-law: torn on Saturday night (which means that the barn gate is open); father-in-law freed and returned his daughter-in-law]: 79-82; 1972 [the brothers sowed rye together; the rich on two horses quickly harvested the crop, the poor almost there was nothing left; the poor man came to complain to the king; the king promised to solve three riddles in favor of the one who would solve three riddles; both brothers do not know the answers, the king allows them to think at home; at the advice of his daughter, the right the answers are given by the poor brother; what is the fattest; our pig is no, the land; which is the fastest: my stallion is no, a thought; who is the nicest and kindest: the wife is not, the mother; the king gave three boiled eggs, let the daughter of the poor the brother will raise the chickens; the girl tells her father to take the boiled grains from the porridge - let him harvest to feed the chickens; three linen fibers to weave a towel - make a piece of spindle to make a loom; the king comes to the girl's house, without getting off her horse, she looks into the hut: is anyone at home; a girl: one and a half people and a horse's head; where is the father? I went looking for something I wouldn't like to find; where is my mother? I went to my neighbor for something she would never be able to do for her; where is her brother? left for warmth; answers: father repairs the seine, looks for holes; mother buys a neighbor who died yesterday; brother went to buy firewood; the king married a girl]: 28-32; the Finns [in the forest, the king knocked on the house, no one opened it; the young man inside answered mysteriously and rude; Where is the father? - He left doing a little bit (when the king later called him to the palace, the young man explained that his father went to sow turnips); Where is the mother? - He bakes last year's bread (they borrowed bread last year, and now her mother is baking bread to return it); Brother? - When hunting, he leaves the birds he meets in the forest, and brings the birds they meet home (i.e. kills lice); Sister? - She mourns last year's laughter (she gave birth to an illegitimate child); after receiving the answers, the king wants to punish the guy for his audacity; asks what is lighter - light or milk? - Light. King: If milk is spilled on the floor and the light falls, the milk is lighter; the king put the boy in jail; he put a bowl of milk on the threshold; in the morning the king came in, stepped into a bowl in the dark and fell on his back; boy: the light is still brighter; the king let the boy go, but ordered him to come tomorrow day, night, or on the road, nor without a road, nor on horseback, nor on foot, nor naked or dressed, neither go inside nor stay outside; the guy covered himself with a goat skin, came along the edge of a roadside ditch, attached a sieve to one leg and a brush to the other, crawled into the yard at dawn; seeing strange footprints, the king went out into the canopy; there the guy had one leg He put him across the threshold, but not the other; the king told the boy to come again tomorrow, was going to let the dogs down on him; the gatekeeper warned him; he released the hare hidden under his clothes, the dogs rushed at him, and the guy is gone]: Salmelainen 1947:85-87 (version from Salmelainen's collection in Concca 1991:268-272); Seto [the king wants to marry an intelligent girl, none fit; the poor man's mare wandered into the royal field; the king demands to answer questions, otherwise he will not give up the mare and even beat; the daughter teaches to answer; 1) what size the moon is four quarters; 2) how much from earth to sky - on foot day and night; 3) what the fastest is a thought; the king returned the poor mare to the poor, came to his daughter; asks questions where her father, mother, brother, sister are; she answers with a mystery every time and explains it; the king tells her not to come to him naked and undressed, neither on foot nor on horseback, enter and not enter the house; the girl wrapped herself in a net, sat on a goat, stepping on the ground with one foot, stepping over the threshold with one foot, not with the other; the king married on condition that the wife would not communicate with her parents and interfere in affairs; one day her father came to complain that his foal came to another man's stallion and he took him away; king: so the stallion gave birth; while the husband no, my wife went to her father, taught me to take the net and sieve, go to the king, start sifting the sand first through the net, then through a sieve; the king will ask, I must answer that I am fishing; king: does the fish live in sand? How can a stallion get a necklace? The king understood who had taught the poor man - his wife broke the agreement, let her leave, but she could take the most precious thing with her; when parting with his wife, the king held a feast; the wife offered her husband a glass of vodka to drink goodbye put a sleeping pill, brought it to her place; when he woke up, she said that it was her most precious thing, so she took it with her; the king took his wife back and had a feast again]: Kalkun 2015:140-142; Latvians [guy (girl) intricately answers the master (king) when asked where the father and mother are; the master invites the guy to his estate neither in a dress, nor without a dress, nor on the road, nor along the way off-road]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 921:332; Swedes [the gentleman asks the boy if he is alone at home, where his father is, the others are at home; the boy answers trickily]: Liungman 1961, No. 921:239; Finns , Lithuanians, Danes: Uther 2004 (1), No. 921:544-546; East Sami: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 921:239

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.

(Wed. Turkestan. Kazakhs [poor Zhirenshe-Sheshen is smart; asks women about the brod; Karashash: the one to the right is far but close, and to the left is the opposite; the JSH understood, went to the right; the other riders went left to to a close ford and almost drowned; it began to rain, all the women brought a wet dung, and K. dry covered it with her body; K.: your father will slaughter a ram for you, and not get two sheep; Father K. asked for a ram at the bay, he did not give it, he slaughtered the only sheep that was waiting for the lamb; in the yurt, ZhSH and K. speak with gestures, the father gave it; the khan tells the ZhSH to serve him, intending to take away his wife; tells him to catch up with the roll- the field, ask him where it is heading; JSH: the tumbleweed replied that the wind knows where, where the ravine comes from; Khan orders him to come day, night, walk, or on horseback, stop either in the palace or outside; K. advises to come at dawn on a goat, stop under the crossbar of the gate; Khan gave sheep, orders them to hug like sheep; K. orders to slaughter sheep in autumn; Khan came in the spring; K.: the husband went milk the hand quail, he will return soon; when K. grew old and died, the JS also died]: Daurenbekov 1979:365-369).

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 with 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 fool; father explains: crying on credit is to visit parents' graves; exchange a hundred rubles for a penny - go hunting on a horse that costs a hundred rubles; tie a horse to a sleigh or cart; the old man sent to the matchmaker girl]: Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 9:47-48; (cf. khakas [the old man was fishing for three days; on his way home, he went to a hut to warm up; there were three mokhsagals {cannibals with cow horns}; "Oh, you stepped on the tail of our fairy tale when you entered!" They tied him to the leg of the bed for three days; released him for promising to give his only daughter; when the Mohsagals arrived, her father's girlfriend hid her father behind the curtain; the first one came in, asked where his father was; - Went a pen for Make an ax out of frog horns. - Do your frogs even have horns? - Do your fairy tales have tails? Then the same with the other two mohsagals (the father went to make a spear shaft from the snake's horn; the knife handle was made of lizard horns); the Mohsagals left, and the girl ordered three poplars to fall on them, so that thunder in they were hit; a thunderstorm began and the Mokhsagals took refuge under the poplars; three poplars fell on them and a strong thunder hit them; they died]: Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 33:513-515; Teleuts (recorded by G.M. Tokmasheva, first quarter of the 20th century) [Ker-Sagal's three brothers lived richly; a poor old man brought home a shot bunny; told the old woman to cook it, and he went to the COP to ask for a hoop to dry his skin; going into their house, I accidentally heard their conversation; the COP began to beat him and say: "We told each other fairy tales, you, a scoundrel, stepped on the tail of our fairy tale"; the old man began to make excuses; KS: "You have an old man, they say There's something at home that you don't know or see. Give us that - I don't know what, and we'll give you a hoop. If you don't give what we're asking for, we'll hit you again!" ; the old man agreed; the COP gave him a hoop; the old man returned home; saw that the old woman had given birth to a son; noticed how the younger COP came home; ran into the forest, leaving the boy; the COP asked him where his parents were; boy: "My father has gone out of the frog's horn to forge an ax!" ; KS: "Why does your father need an ax?" ; boy: "Ker-Sagal will come to us today (so) to cut off his head!" ; CS: "What, is your frog horned?" ; boy: "If our frog doesn't have horns, then where did your fairy tale get its tail?" ; The COP ran away, told the brothers about the boy; they take turns going to the old people's house; the situation repeats itself ("My father left the ram's horn to forge his sword!" , "My father has gone to forge a spear from the snake's horn!") ; the CS did not return again; the old man and the old woman returned home; the boy grew up, hunted and fed them]: Funk 2020:178-181).