M114K. Water is neither terrestrial nor heavenly. .13.15.17.27.28.
Aliquid that is not normally used for drinking or cooking has been used once. You have to guess what we're talking about, knowing that this water is not from the ground or from the sky (most often it's horse sweat).
Sudanese Arabs, Portuguese, Galicians, Spaniards, Aragon, Arameans, Arabic written tradition, Bulgarians, Greeks, Russians (Arkhangelsk).
Sudan - East Africa. Sudanese Arabs (Jaaaliyin) [the sultan tells the man to come not naked or dressed; he has 7 daughters; the elders are crying, the youngest brought home brushwood, told him to wrap himself in a fishing net; now The sultan requires water that is not rainwater or from a well; she tells you to grind corn in a closed room and make a fire; sweat poured in a stream, it was collected for the Sultan; Sultan: let your son appear, taking a sword: I will send him to bring a pen from another sultan; the youngest daughter tells her father to ask the Sultan for men's clothes, dressed up in it, came to the Sultan; the sultan is happy, but his mother does not believe that this is not girl; tells me to take the imaginary young man to the treasury; he says: if I had a sister or bride, I would take jewelry for her; the sultan brought him to the armory; the imaginary young man was so excited that he broke his sword ; when they were given food, he swallowed everything quickly - this is a sign of a man; the Sultan's mother: yes, this is a man; the sultan gave the pen and let the person come; the girl left a note: I am a girl named Al-Surra; the sultan found and married her]: Hurreiz 1977, No. 12:89-90.
Southern Europe. The Portuguese [the princess promises to go beyond the one whose riddle she cannot solve; the losers are executed; the young man's mother gives him poisoned cakes on the road; after trying them, his dog is dead; the crows have become hers peck, they also died; robbers cook crows and die too; a young man aims at a hare and hits a bird (or kills a pregnant hare); he cooks, burning the old Bible; drinks horse sweat (water is not earth, not from heaven); finds a treasure under a tree (the root is sweeter than fruit); other episodes; all this is described in a riddle; the princess finds out the answer when she comes to the young man at night; but he finds out about it and presents it evidence that she spent the night with him]: Cardigos 2006, No. 851:203-204; Portuguese (Coimbra) []: Coelho 1879, No. 38:90-92; Galicians [princess promises to marry whoever wishes a riddle she could not solve; stupid Jean decided to try; to avoid shame, his brothers gave him poisoned bread; on the way, J. got off his donkey and fell asleep, and the donkey ate bread and died; when he woke up, J. saw three wolves eating the carcass; he climbed into a tree in fear and shot, but hit a hare; in the morning he saw that the wolves were also dead; he came to the priest and cooked a hare in his stomach with a hare in his stomach two bunnies; washed down with consecrated water; lowered the donkey's corpse into the river and in the morning saw 7 crows on it; asked the princess a riddle: bread killed Martha, who killed three after death; shot at the one she saw and killed someone he did not see; ate the unborn with the words of the Holy Spirit (con falas do Esprito Santo guisado); drank water from the earth or from heaven; saw seven alive at one dead; the princess did not guess the riddle and married Jean]: Contos 1972, #94:92-93; Spaniards [I shot what I saw, killed what I didn't see, ate what wasn't born; my mother killed Panda, Panda killed three; mom Borona killed Paula, Paula killed two, two killed seven; I walked between hard and soft, dead below, two sang above me; ate unborn flesh cooked in Holy Scripture, drank water that was not from the ground or from heaven; (etc.) ]: Boggs 1980, No. 851:101-102; Aragon [the princess promises to go beyond the one whose riddle she can't guess; the young man comes up with a riddle based on what he saw along the way; "The cupcake killed the mug (Torta mató a pinta), the mug killed three, three seven; shot whoever he saw and killed whom he did not see; ate unborn meat and drank water from the ground or from the sky; pasé por un duro, en el duro había un blando y en blando había tres"]: González Sanz 1996, No. 951:100
Western Asia. Arabic written tradition (manuscripts from the end of the 1st millennium AD) [noticing the absence of a hoopoe, angry Solomon sends an eagle to find and bring him to him; hoopoe: he was in Saba, the capital of the great power of South Arabia; she is so named after the first king; another name he was Abd-Schems ("servant of the sun"); now the wise queen Balkis, also a sun worshiper, reigns there; sitting behind the curtain on her precious throne, she does justice in her blooming kingdom; S. sends a hoopoe to her with letters and demands; before going to S., B. thinks to test it with gifts, which are combined with a test of wisdom; sends 500 young men dressed as girls and 500 girls dressed as men; according to another legend, 100 girls and boys dressed in the same clothes; S. must distinguish their gender; guess the content of the locked casket where the undrilled were a pearl and a diamond through which a curved well passed; the pearl had to be drilled, a thread was threaded into the curved well; finally, fill the crystal goblet with moisture that was not produced earth, not heaven; S. tells young men and women to wash and guesses their gender by the techniques with which they bathe; telling the queen's sent about the contents of the box, he does it in a pearl a hole with a stone; one demon brought him a silkworm, which slipped through the diamond well and left a silk thread in it; as a reward, S. gives the worm a mulberry tree to a permanent place residence; the crystal goblet is filled with foam from the horse that was driven to gallop - this moisture is neither from the ground nor from the sky; in another edition, the tear is that moisture; convinced of S.'s wisdom, B. herself goes to him; S. steals her throne, she recognizes her throne; demons told S. that B.'s lower body is overgrown with donkey hair and legs; S. tells demons to arrange a crystal floor under which water texla and fish swam; B. decided that it was water and lifted her dress to his knees; S. was convinced that the libel was false; otherwise, he did see B.'s body covered with hair, but the demons gave him a remedy to relieve him this shortcoming; S. marries B.]: Weil 1845:246-267 (retelling in Veselovsky 1872:343-344); Taibah, MacDonald 2016 {there is no stretch of thread in the Quran or the Bible; cf. The Koran, Surah 27; Kings III, 10, 1-13} [a hoopoe flew to Suleiman and reported that in the south in the country of Sava, the beautiful queen Bilquis rules sun worshipers, but they do not know about the true God; S. sent B. an invitation to visit him; her advisers offered to go to war, but B. was frightened and accepted the invitation; she wanted to transfer her throne to S.; one of S.'s genies offered to do so immediately, but the other who accepted true faith, carried the throne even faster; when she entered the crystal palace prepared for her, B. was amazed that her throne was already there; in some versions, the queen asked S. riddles; she sent him an undrilled pearl and a drilled emerald so that S. would drill the pearl and thread a thread through the thin and crooked hole in the emerald; S. called the master to drill the pearl, but how to thread the thread, not knew; then the tiny worm volunteered to do it, took a thread in his mouth and crawled through; S. sent the pearl and the emerald to the queen; she arrived and asked what water was neither earthly nor heavenly; S.: we must drive horses, collect sweat, and it will be water neither from the earth nor from the sky]: 72; the Aramaians [the king in Tehran lost his throne and property; his son, with his consent, sold it and the queen of India to the king of India, went himself to travel; the man he met asked him to hand the letter to another king; the young man tied his head with a handkerchief containing the letter; soaked it with horse sweat and drank this moisture; opened the letter, containing the order execute the giver; the young man came to town; old woman: Princess Karamane demands to guess her riddles and guess her one that she cannot guess herself; losers are executed, 99 heads are already on the palisade; young man answers all questions; (examples): a coffin that moves all the time and lives with its contents (a whale with Iona inside); there are 12 branches on the tree, 30 leaves on each, each leaf is half white, half black (year, 12 months, 30 days, day and night); young man's ambush: a rich man went broke, went to ask God for good luck; on the way he met death, tied his head with it, then put it in his pocket; wiped his body with it and drank water, which is not from heaven or earth; K. changed clothes, came to the young man unrecognized, spent the night with him, found out the secret, but forgot her cape; in the morning K. sent a maid for the young man; the young man asks for: A dove visited me, we ate and drank, she flew away, and if she denies it, I will put her plumage in front of her; the king married his daughter to a young man; he bought his parents, became even more rich, inherited his father-in-law's throne]: Belov, Wilsker 1960:230-239.
The Balkans. Bulgarians [the king will give his daughter for someone whose riddle she cannot guess; many loser suitors have been executed; the pig driver is about to try his luck; his mother, knowing that he will die, wants at least his grave to be nearby, gives him poisoned cakes on the road; the dog tried them, died; the raven began to peck at the dog, also died; the young man stabbed a pregnant cow, fried a calf at the stake made of church books and drank water from {a vessel made from?} church candles; asks a riddle: the dog ate white bread, the raven ate a dog; I found myself ungrown, fried it in words; drank water from heaven or earth; princess did not guess; wedding]: Daskalova- Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 851:301; Greeks [the king has three sons and his neighbor has three daughters; the father of sons always mocks the one who has daughters; the youngest Pumpkins (Plumpkins, Pachoulenia) teaches the father answer; the father of the sons orders to bring flour and not flour; milk or milk; T. orders to send a bag of sawdust, a bottle of foam collected from the faces of sweaty horses; after learning that this daughter is helping the neighbor solve problems , the father of the sons tells her to come herself; she does not eat, says that she is used to eating spit eggs; eggs cannot be roasted on a spit; the king invites T. to compete with his son who will bring The Parrot of Happiness; T. crossed the river on horseback, carried the Parrot away from the dragon, while the prince was trying to scoop the river with a spoon; they got married]: Megas 1970, No. 51:162-165.
Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [Marfa Tsarevna asks riddles and solves strangers; Ivan, a peasant son, went to her; his father took out his horse, his mother saddled, gave the saddles to the chase; "I sat on my father, went to mother, drove my sister"; next time he washed his face with horse sweat, wiped his mane; "I sat on my horse, washed my face not with dew or water, not with silk or handkerchief"; shot a goose, made a fire in the lower hole, He cooked a goose at the top, began to eat, climbing a tree; "I cooked it not on the ground, not on the water, ate it higher than the forest"; M. calls to the bathhouse, copulates with I. (his male member is a horse, the horse must be fed and given water)]: Onchukov 2008, No. 129:275-276.