M157a3. The requirement to milk the bull.
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The character requires another to provide him with offspring or milk from a male animal.
Western pygmies (aka?) , Hausa, Mosi, Vietnamese, Kashmiris, Sinhalese, Hindi, Pampangos, Chinese (Shanxi), Koreans, Chuan Miao, Albanians, Czechs, Poles, Russians (Arkhangelsk), Kalmyks, Lacks, Turkmens, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Uighurs (Kashgar), Dungans, Teleuts, Shors, Tuvans (Toja), South Altai Tuvans, Dagurs, Baikal and Trans-Baikal Buryats, Khalkha Mongols, Ordos Mongols, Dolgans, Japanese.
Bantu-speaking Africa. Western pygmies (aka?) [going to war, tiger {? - lion, panther?} gives chickens to his subjects to take care of them; the antelope gets a rooster; the tiger returns, everyone gives chickens with chickens, the antelope gives a rooster; the tiger demands chickens; the elephant does not want to quarrel with him, he is silent; The turtle screams that the tiger's son is giving birth; everyone laughs; the tiger ate the antelope later]: Trilles 1932:344-345.
West Africa. Hausa: Olderogge 1959 [the king has three slaves, each with a son, their names are Blind, God's Gift, Wiser than the King; the king gives each a sheaf of straw, orders to bring 300 sheaves of sorghum next year; the first two bring, the MC brings a bowl of chaff - this is what grew from planted straw; the tsar gave the cow first, gave the MC a bull; a year later they bring a calf, the MC comes, begins to cut down the tree, says that he cuts wood for the father who gave birth (a bull cannot give birth to a calf either); the courtiers advise that the prince, dressed as a poor man, take the MC dressed as a prince to the robbers; he gave the prince beer on the way, changed clothes, the robbers killed the prince; the MC tells the king that he is wiser than anyone else; turns into a frog, the king into a snake, a mouse a cat, a bird a hawk; a bird flies into the old woman's eye, becomes a pupil, a hawk - with an eyebrow; since then, the pupil has not left the shelter so that it is not grabbed by an eyebrow]: 251-252; Mariko 1984 [the jackal has a bull, the hare has a cow, they agree to herd both animals one by one; the jackal's queue is a cow a calf brought, the jackal claims that a bull gave birth to him; they go to the judge to a squirrel (an earth squirrel); he says he must leave - he will give birth now; the jackal says that this does not happen, the squirrel awards the calf hare]: 118-120; mosi [Yelkonlingma ("I will solve any problem") sees her mother crying; she says that the chief gave her millet and told her to make beer on the same day; J. brought the chief stones, asked them open it so that people could drink beer from them; then the chief gave J.'s mother a goat and ordered him to bear offspring; J. began to cut down the dry land; replies to the chief that his father gave birth and it was necessary to warm the water for the child]: Sissao 2010, #26:69-70.
Burma - Indochina. Vieta [the king orders to bring him the wisest man; the nobleman to the plowman: how many times a day will your buffalo cross the field; the son of a ploughman: how many steps does your horse take in a day? The king sent the boy three baskets of rice and three male buffaloes: let there be an offspring of six buffaloes in a year; the boy tells his father to arrange a feast for the village; comes to the king and cries: the mother is dead, and the father does not want to give birth to him a brother; the king tells the boy to divide the sparrow into three parts to feed three; the boy tells the king to forge a knife out of a needle to cut the sparrow; the neighboring king tells thread the thread through the twisted shell; the boy orders to tie it to an ant; the king orders that the boy be placed in adjacent chambers and given the rank of Highly Scientist]: Nikulin 1976:62-66.
South Asia. Kashmiris [close Muslims are jealous of the Hindu Bir Bal, who is favored by King Akbar; when the king fell ill, they told him that bull's milk would cure him; A. tells BB to bring it; BB's daughter comes to the BB garden to wash; answers him that she is from the house of BB, who has just given birth to a son; A. was surprised, the girl replied that if a bull can be milked, then why can't a man give birth; A. all understands, exalts BB again]: Haughton 1913:294-295; Sinhalese [the king sends letters, whoever does not answer what is in the letter beheads him; the village chief's daughter explains; the king promises on it marry, demands to milk the bulls, make yogurt out of their milk, squeeze oil out of the sand; the daughter carries her father's dress to the laundress, says that her father has her period; king: where are the butter in the sunflower flower; girl: where are you were at the time of conception; the tsar married a girl]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 131:316-317; Hindi (Ganges Valley) [Padishah Akbar tells Birbal to get cowhide milk, the doctor needs it for preparing the medicine; B.'s daughter went to wash clothes at night, hitting him on the river against stones; the noise woke A. up, the girl was brought to him, she explained that the clothes needed to be washed urgently, because her father had given birth to a child; A. : this is impossible; girl: just like milking an ox; learning that the girl is B.'s daughter, A. rewarded her]: Beskrovny, Chelishev 1978:37-40.
Taiwan - Philippines. Pampango [the royal servant had a clever daughter, Marcela; the king told the servants to take M. a little bird and tell her to cook twelve different dishes from the same bird; M. replied:" If the king makes twelve spoons out of this pin, I will make twelve dishes out of this bird"; the king ordered that the sheep be taken to M. and told her to sell the sheep for six reais and together with She returned it with money; M. sheared the sheep and sold wool for six reais, and then sent the money to the king with the sheep; the king told the servant: "Go to Marseilles and tell her that I am ill and my doctor advises I should drink a cup of bovine milk. Let Marcela get me this medicine, otherwise her father will lose his seat in the palace"; M. and her father stabbed a pig and covered it with blood on pillows, sleeping mat and blanket; in the morning M. took the laundry soiled linen on the river, above the place where the king bathed; the king shouted; M.: "In our country, it is a custom to wash mats, pillows and other things stained with blood immediately after the birth of a child. Last night my father had a baby"; King: "Does it happen that a man gives birth?" ; M.: "This does not happen as bovine milk does not happen"; the king said he marries her son for her intelligence and virtue]: Rybkin 1975, No. 64:166-167.
China - Korea. The Chinese (Shanxi) [the emperor tells the minister to bring a cock egg; he is desperate; his 12-year-old son Kan-lo with an ugly face came to the emperor himself, said that the father had given birth to a child and was lying in beds; emperor: a man cannot give birth; K.: and roosters do not rush; the emperor appointed him minister]: Serruys 1946, No. 11:251-254; Koreans [the landowner tells the peasant to bring a mulenque, otherwise his wife will take him away; the wife came to the landowner: the husband gave birth, is it possible to occupy seaweed - there will be milk; the landowner orders to make a boat out of river pebbles; wife: let the sand twist the rope to tie the boat; landowner: in Worms got bronze pillars; peasant wife: split the ax with a knife, pull the bone marrow out of it, lubricate the column]: Riftin 2007:286-288; Chuan Miao [three sons have stupid wives; father speaks daughters-in-law who lets one go for half a month, the other for 15 days, the third for two weeks; they do not understand anything, the girl explains; the father marries her youngest son; official: make a cloth as long as the river and grow up a pig weighing down a mountain; younger daughter-in-law: here are the scales to weigh the mountain and the ruler to measure the river; official: let the stallion give birth and the rooster lay eggs; younger daughter-in-law: today the father gave birth; official: bring thunder liver and dragon heart; younger brother's wife prepares an explosive mixture, puts a candle in the box, tells her husband and brothers to take it to an official; he dies from the explosion]: Graham 1954:231-232.
The Balkans. Albanians [the cruel vizier summoned Mullah Nasreddin; he crumbles in flattery; the vizier gives him a mule for a year on the condition that in a year he returns him with offspring; N. gladly accepts condition; explains to friends that in a year either a mule or a vizier will die]: Serkova 1989:304-306.
Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Kola Uyezd, recorded from Fr. Konstantin Shchekoldin) [The Tsar allows the Queen to attend the trial. He deservedly punishes his wife and acquits her husband when his wife disagrees with him, her unborn child (from the womb) says that "the harlot pulls the harlot." She is afraid of her son and when he is born she orders him to kill him to eat his heart. The servants do not dare to kill the child and bring her the heart of a lamb, which replaces her son as a blacksmith. The king is surprised that his son is fond of blacksmithing, working only with hammers and forging iron with them. A shepherd's son is elected by his peers as a child king: all the children stood up with candles in their hands facing the east and the shepherd's prince's son lit a fire. He judges fairly, and adults who are wrongly judged by the king and queen also turn to him. While the poor woman carries flour in her dish, the wind blows her away. She goes to the king for justice. He laughs at her and refuses to judge the wind, she decides to turn to the child king, and the king laughs at her again. The child king listens to the woman and finds out which captains landed on the shore that day. He asks them if they needed the wind to stick, and they confirm that they wouldn't be able to do it without it. The child king tells them that the wind took away the poor woman's flour and the captains not only compensate her for the loss, but also give a bag of flour to everyone and everyone is satisfied. The king learns about the boy's trial and wants to check it out. He sends him three bulls and asks him to give them back with offspring. The boy eats bulls' meat, insulates the roof with skins. When the king asks where the offspring is, he sends a man to the king who takes off his pants and shouts "I want to give birth", the king calls him crazy and the man points out that the bull also cannot give birth. The child king sees that the king and queen go for a walk. It fills one rolling pin of the scale with feces, and it grows larger over time. He explains to the king that a woman's mind is just as easy and costs nothing. The tsar understands that it is his son and takes over "thus, the queen did not have to triumph over the truth"]: Burtsev 1898, No. 23:107-112.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks: Dzhimbinov 1962 [khan wants to find an intelligent wife for a fool's son; it rained, two girls ran home, the third covered dung with beshmet and drove the calves away from the cows (so they wouldn't suck milk); beshmet got wet, but I'll dry it by the fire; khan: how many dung are there in the bag? girl: as long as your horse stepped from the palace to our kibitka; the khan orders to make koumiss from bovine milk, sew the kibitka with ashes; the girl covered the kibitka with matting and burned it, put up a pole ( it means that someone is giving birth in the house); Khan: How can a man give birth? girl: in the khanate, where koumiss is made from bovine milk, maybe; the khan orders to ride a two-headed horse not along the road or along the steppe, upon arrival, sit not inside the kibitka or outside; daughter tells her father to come on a stallion mare, ride along the side of the road, sit outside at the doorstep with kibitki felt over his back; the khan ordered him to come next time with a bag for gold and an arcana for horses; the bag will not be filled in any way, You can catch as many horses as you want with an arcana; girl: a bag of human eyes, you have to add sand to fill it; a lasso from a human vein; to shrink it, you have to burn one end; khan married son on this girl; fell ill; told his son to catch up with the tumbleweed, ask him where he would spend the day and night; the wife ordered to answer: we must ask the ravine and the wind; the khan tells his son to bring a horse with two heads that look in different directions; wife: bring the stallion mare, the foal's head is pointing back; the khan died quietly]: 149-152 (=Vardugin 1996:471-473); Egorov 1978 [Khan Tsetsen married his son, took he was hunting; when he saw a deer lying down, he said: "Run quickly, catch the deer by the horns"; the son ran, the deer rode away; the khan killed the deer with an arrow, beat his son with a whip; the son told his wife everything, who decided that the old man went crazy; went hunting again, the khan asked his son to cook meat in a wooden cauldron; the son hollowed out a pot from a piece of wood, poured water, crumbled meat and started a fire; the cauldron burned down; the khan beat his son ; he told his wife everything, who said that the old man was crazy; the khan asked his son to catch a horse with one head south and the other north; the son caught two horses, tied them by the tails, and brought him to the khan; the khan beat his son, sent his daughter-in-law to his parents; began to look for a new wife for his son; met an intelligent girl, told her father to make koumiss from bovine milk; the next day rode again; the girl put her father to bed, told him to moan; the khan asked for koumiss made from bovine milk; the girl says that the father is giving birth, so he has not cooked it yet; khan: "Do men give birth"; girl: "Why do men give birth" milk comes from a bull"; the khan decided to marry her son, told her father to come to the palace; the girl gave the old man a purse, when he met the khan, he offered him gold; began to fill the purse, the purse stretched out, held the entire treasury; they had a wedding, the khan took his son hunting; noticing a deer lying down, said: "Rather catch the deer by the horns"; the son did as before; the beaten returned home, the wife explained: "Shoot soon"; they went hunting again, the khan asked to cook meat in a wooden cauldron; the son did as before; the beaten man returned home, the wife explained that it was necessary to pick up the phone from the khan, fill it with tobacco, light it and give it to him; the khan asked to catch a horse in the herd, with its heads facing one south and the other north; the son did as before; the beaten man returned home, the wife explained that you need to bring a mare that is about to necklace; a neighboring khan sent Khan Tsetsen a wooden whip handle with the same thickness to determine where the roots were and where the top were; daughter-in-law: "If we put this stick into the water, the root, since it is denser than the top, must go deeper into the water"; the neighboring khan sent the same mare and foal to Tsetsen to determine which of them is who; the daughter-in-law said we should not give them food for three days, and then both pour oats smaller than one horse in size, and see which of them would shovel and move the oats to the other while eating with their lips, that - mother; a neighboring khan sent two identical snakes to Tsetsen to determine which one is male and which is female; daughter-in-law: "We must keep them in the dark, and then lay them on the way at the entrance. some wide velvet for them to crawl on it. As soon as the snakes are on the velvet, the female one will immediately curl up and lie quietly, and the male one will crawl around the sleeper, with her head raised high, as if guarding her dream"; the neighboring khan invited Tsetsen to visit; he came, chained him to a cart, given bread and water; Khan Tsetsen: "Write a letter to your own so that your whole kingdom will be chained here to one soul, and there I will find that wise man myself {who solved riddles}"; Tsetsen wrote to his wife: "The kingdom of our neighbor Khan turned out to be a real paradise. There is no suffering, no death, no illness; there is also no winter, and everything smells like spring; there is no summer either, and everything is cool in autumn. People here live on allowances in all four seasons and do not know what work is... I sleep on a soft feather bed. I eat fatty lamb and drink strong aromatic tea, dress in blue velvet. There are no limits to my pleasure, entertainment and fun... It all happens 24 hours a day. There is no way to leave this country even for one minute. When you receive this letter, all your heart and soul come here. Remember: you, my old lady, are trusting; there is an unfortunate piebald foal in my herd, but it is gratifying that there is a piece of fragrant oil in my chest... Everybody wander around. I miss you a lot"; a letter was sent with a messenger to the Tsetsen Khanate; daughter-in-law: "Everything he writes must be understood in the opposite sense. Tea and mutton are water and crackers; feather bed is earth, blue velvet is sky. Fun around the clock - suffering around the clock. And the fact that there is no way to be away even for one minute means that he is shackled... "You, my old lady, are trusting" is a warning not to believe the letter; "An unfortunate piebald foal in the herd" is the khan talking about a son who still does not understand anything, "a piece of butter in a chest" - it's me... The call "all wander here" means "go to war against the neighboring khan and free me"; they went to the neighboring khanate, told the khan that they were happy to wander to him; he freed Tsetsen, asked feast; by morning, the daughter-in-law brought the army, found the enemies sleeping, captured them]: 19-31; Lucky (Western 1932) [The king ordered the three nukers to carve a clearing; the shepherd's daughter advised me to ask the king for scissors; the king tells the shepherd to guard the sheep while they lie down; the daughter told her father to slaughter the sheep and go to bed; said to the king that the father gives birth - since the rams can lie down, the man can also give birth; the king married the shepherd's daughter; when leaving, he forbid her to interfere in affairs; two young men got into a fight, one smashed the other's face in blood; the king's wife told him to take hot coals with his hands; explained that the heat would burn his hands and the blow bleed; two men came; one said that his horse was necklace, and the other that his arba, under which it turned out to be a foal; the queen explained that the mare's owner was right; when she learned that his wife was judging people, the king told her to leave, allowing her to take what she wanted; she brought her sleeping husband to her father's house: I like you most of all; the Tsar returned his wife]: Khalilov 1965, No. 75:236-239 (=Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:202-203).
Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens: Kekilov, Kosayev 1962 [Sultansoyun saw the wife of a man named Karakuduk and decided to get rid of her husband; Mirali promised to help K., taught him what to do; S. orders to receive in six months offspring from a horse, a couple of bulls and a dozen rams; six months later, a wife came: her husband was giving birth; S. realized that this was M.'s advice]: 54-55; Steblev 1969, No. 76 [Sultansoyun saw a beautiful woman; Mirali: is it possible take someone else's wife? S.: I will find an excuse; tells the husband of a woman named Karakuduk to receive offspring from 90 rams in 5 months; K.'s wife tells the sheep to slaughter or sell, she takes care of the rest; when the padishah arrives, the wife says that K. is giving birth; the padishah rode back]: 350-352.
Volga - Perm. Chuvashi [Gordey is rich, his neighbor Artemy is poor; G.'s mare gave birth, the foal lay under A.'s cart; he says that it was his cart that was necklace; the king promises to decide in favor of someone who says that everything is sweeter and more pleasant in the world; G.'s wife advised me to say that honey; Orina, daughter A., is a dream; king: what is stronger? wife G.: our piebald mare; daughter A.: water; who is the fastest? wife G.: hare; daughter A.: thought; king: how much from one end of the earth to the other? G.: You can't pass in a century; A.: the sun passes in a day; how much from earth to sky? G.: no one can get up; A.: no more than a mile - when the lights in the sky turn on in the evening, you can see, and when you drive through the clouds, you can hear thunder; how far is it to the bottom of the earth? G.: fathom; A.: the father left 30 years ago, has not yet sent a letter; the king gave the foal to A.; marries his daughter, but gives the bull: let her calve as a heifer, she will grow up and give milk for the wedding; O. ordered the bull should be slaughtered, and when the king came, she replied that the father had gone to give birth; the king ordered that a wedding dress be sewn from a flap; O. ordered that hemp be grown from the seed and threads made in three days; the king orders that O. came neither in the field, nor by road, nor on foot, nor on horseback, with a gift that is visible but not accessible to her hands; O. appeared riding a hare, gave a pigeon as a gift, which immediately flew away; the king married O.; orders do nothing against his will; two argue whether the cart or the mare is necklace; O.: Whoever the foal follows is the mother; the tsar executed his wife]: Sidorova 1979:165-168; Tatars [padishah feeds the poor man; Each time he replies that he has eaten and continues to eat; the padishah tells him to explain; the poor man's daughter filled the bucket with pebbles, then sand, then water - everything fits; the padishah tells you to come neither hungry nor well-fed, neither naked nor dressed, neither on horseback nor on foot; the daughter sews clothes for her father from the net, puts seeds into her pocket, puts them on a goat; the padishah gives less thread, tells her to sew a shirt and pants; the daughter of an old man handed over a twig: let the padishah make a loom; the padishah gave a ram - let him hug tomorrow; the padishah came himself; daughter: the father gives birth in the bathhouse; the padishah married a girl; says nothing in his absence not to decide; three beggars came; one mare necklaced, but blood fell on the cart; the owner says she gave birth to a cart, the owner of the bag was a bag; the padishah's wife: he went to guard the wheat that was being poisoned fish; the padishah is back, tells his wife to leave, taking what she wants with her; she gave him a drink, took him to her place; explained that she wanted him; the padishah told him to return home]: Zamaletdinov 2010, No. 24:85-91; The Bashkirs [Khan Turakhan's stallion, Khan Yanebakhan threw out the mare 60 versts from T.; Y. accused T.; bald boy Taz undertakes to resolve the dispute; crossing the river, puts on boots - not to spoil feet on stones; taking peers, I begin to kill dogs. - They did not come to the rescue when wolves strangled sheep 60 versts away; I demand a wiser sage, Taz exposes the bull - lives with his mind; then the goat is gray-bearded; Y. gives Tazu the name Erense-sesen; T. adopted him; E. went to look for a bride, caught up with the old man; offers to pass the time, make a cauldron out of the ground; says that the road is straight winding and winding straight; E. comes to the old man's daughter, says that the stove is good, and the pipe is crooked (the girl has a humped nose); girl: but the craving is good; explains to his father E.'s words: he suggested start a conversation, bake a grouse in a hole; the straight road turned out to be uncomfortable; the old man asks for 6 identical mares for his daughter, E. sends 6 rays - the main thing is that they are the same; T. tells the girl to sew galoshes from stone; girl: let him send threads of sand; T. sent a bull, let him calve; girl: my father gave birth, cannot go out; E. married a girl; for every word he receives Altyn from Khan (since he helped resolve the dispute with Y.); they want to execute Brother E. for lying: an arrow hit the hare's ear through his leg; E.: the hare scratched his ear; the brother was released]: Barag 1990, No. 1:14-19.
Turkestan. Kazakhs: Daurenbekov 1979:277-279 [Girenshe married an intelligent girl; Khan wanted her for himself, ordered 1) to sew boots out of stone; his wife tells me to ask for a butter drink and a wax awl; 2) cook the bull, so that he has nothing in his intestines and is not slaughtered (drive for two days, give them only salt water to drink); 3) let 9 sheep be brought lamb each; the wife ordered them to be slaughtered, smeared her hands covered in blood, said that J. gave birth to a boy; Khan called J. to hunt, his wife brought koumiss from her milk with her - let Khan drink; now J.'s wife has become Khan's mother], 365-369 [poor Zhirenshe-Sheshen is smart; asks women about the brod; Karashash: the one to the right is far, but close, and to the left, on the contrary; ZhSH understood, went to the right; the other horsemen went left to a close ford and almost drowned; it started raining, all the women brought wet dung, and K. dry covered it with her body; K.: father will slaughter a ram for you, and not get two sheep; Father K. asked for a ram from the bay, he did not give it, he slaughtered the only sheep that was waiting lamb; in the yurt, ZhSH and K. talk with gestures, the father gave her; the khan tells the ZhSH to serve him, intending to take his wife away; tells him to catch up with the tumbleweed, ask him where he is going; JSH: tumbleweed answered, what is known to the wind, from where the ravine comes from; Khan tells you 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 at the crossbar of the gate; Khan gave sheep, orders them to hug like sheep; K. orders to slaughter sheep in the fall; Khan came in the spring; K.: the husband went to milk the hand quail, he will return soon; when K. is old and died, while the news also died]; Zhanuzakova 1977 [(episode of a long text); Khan gives Girensha 40 rams, orders them to hug by spring; wife J. Karashash tells them to be slaughtered; Khan came in the spring; K. tells him that her husband went to the steppe to milk a hand quail; Khan does not believe, K. reminds of sheep]: 266-267; Potanin 1916, No. 9 [Az-Janibek demands destroy camels from Yusuns and Congrats, because mares throw out foals because of their scream; Jirenshe Sheshen was still a boy, volunteered to go to the khan, let them bring with him a big camel, a goat with a beard and gun; dogs barked, J. started shooting them; says that Yusun Kongrat camels throw camels away when these dogs bark; khan: your camels can't hear our dogs; J.: and your mares our camels; Khan: Didn't you find you higher to send me an ambassador? J.: No one is taller than this camel; Khan: is there no elder? J.: This goat has the biggest beard; Khan gave J. a horse and a nice dress; one day J. suggested that his companion make a wooden cauldron boil and replace thin horses with fat ones; he mistook him for a fool; River J. said: I saw two fords, one close but far away, the other far but close; on the close there was a swamp, the satellite barely got out; the companion's daughter explains to him: J. meant to smoke a pipe, feed horses; J. and the girl Kara-Shash exchange signs, then negotiate; J. has only one bull; he stabbed him, hid the meat in the yurt of his future father-in-law, accused him of stealing, eventually got K.; Khan wants it for himself; gives 40 rams - let them bring lambs; when the khan arrives, K. says that J. gave birth to a child; then the khan ordered the bull to be cooked alive; K. teaches how to water the bull with brine; when he was stabbed, there was no blood ]: 67-70; Uighurs (Kashgar) [the padishah wants to test his son, goes hunting with him, offers to catch gazelle; the son rushes after the gazelle; the padishah hit the gazelle with an arrow, beat his son for stupidity; the vizier advises to marry a son to an intelligent girl; the padishah and the vizier see girls fleeing the rain; everyone is covered with empty bags, Gulinur alone took off her clothes, covered a bag of dung; the padishah asks where G. lives; in a hut with 60 windows; the padishah realized that he had holes; tells Father G. to make a katyk out of bovine milk; in the evening G. says that the order has not been executed: the father gives birth; the padishah decides to marry his son to G ., tells her father to come for gold; S. tells her to take not the bag, but his eye, he will fit more into it; after the wedding, the padishah tells his son to bring meat cooked on a stick; the stick burned down, G. tells him to bring it to his father kebab; a neighboring padishah sent a planed stick, tells me to answer where the butt was and where was the top; G.: the butt will fall in the water; distinguish the mare from its adult foal; G.: mother will shovel oats daughters, and take the daughter for himself; the neighbor captured the padishah, ordered him to write a letter for his army to surrender; the padishah writes: "I am visiting a neighbor. His kingdom turned out to be a true paradise. There is a yellow silk canopy above me, I sleep on a soft feather bed, eat fatty pilaf, drink strong tea, and the khan drinks red wine. We have fun day and night, we have no strength to leave this kingdom. After receiving the letter, come with the entire treasury, and slaughter three lambs who come from the steppe. There is an unfortunate black foal in the herd - don't take it with you. And be sure to grab a smart fox." The padishah's wife believed that everything was so; G. orders the messengers to be killed, led the army, freed the padishah]: Kibirov 1963:28-34; Dungans: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 47 [the emperor orders two dignitaries bring a cock egg; a 12-year-old son alone came to the emperor and said that the father was giving birth; since a rooster lays eggs, a man could also give birth], 57 [the official told the guard to bring two cock eggs, otherwise he will kill to death; a wife comes instead of a guard: her husband has given birth; if a man cannot give birth, then the rooster does not lay eggs either]: 230-231, 253.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Teleuts [Eren Checheng wants to marry a stupid son to a smart girl; it's raining, all the girls are on their bunches {?} ; one undressed, covered the firewood with her clothes, covered her breasts with her hands; EC: why? I will have to start a fire at home immediately; my father and mother saw my genitals, but no one saw my breasts; EC married her son; Yara Checheng decided to take my daughter-in-law, ordered me to make boots out of stone; daughter-in-law collects sand: I want to make a rope; YACH: is it possible? daughter-in-law: and stone boots? YACH: let the bull give birth to a calf, treat the bull with milk; daughter-in-law tears the grass: father-in-law gave birth to a child, grass must be laid; YACH tells you to arrive neither in a shirt, nor naked, nor on a horse, nor on foot, nor by road, nor without a road , stop neither in the yurt nor outside; the daughter-in-law tells you to put on a net, ride between two furrows on a stick, step into the yurt with one foot; YACH threw EC into the hole, sent seven ambassadors to his son with his letter; EC : I'm lying on 6 layers of white silk, covered with seven silk blankets, playing checkers, drinking sweet light wine; I have 7 rams at home; kill 6, prick out the seventh's eye, break your arm, let him read the letter daughter-in-law; daughter-in-law: wine - tears, silk - snow, checkers - stars, 7 rams - ambassadors; six were killed, the seventh's eye was gouged out, he led them to the YCH, they killed him, EC took his place]: Potanin 1983, No. 100:362-364; Shors [older brother Maas ("gadfly") is rich, younger Arychak ("bee") is poor, he has a daughter Sholban ("Venus"), M. agreed to give her a calf, he has a big offspring, M. demanded back no other a calf, and the whole herd; both brothers came to the khan, who tells them to solve riddles; M.'s wife gives stupid answers, S. is wise (mother earth is fatter than fat, sun is faster than fast); Khan tells Sh. mosquito skin, which in response demands a thread of sand; Khan orders the bull to calve; S. collects grass, says that for the newborn, because her father gave birth; Khan marries Sh. Son to make him wiser; Khan goes with his son, tells him to shorten the road, he starts drawing on the ground; S. explains that the khan asked to talk to shorten the path]: Funk 2011 (2): 248-252; Tuvans - Tojins [old man Cÿ meldey tells her daughter that she will go to Ai-han for a drink of milk; she teaches what to do and how to answer; A.: 1) "In the middle of the blue lake, there is a sandalwood without a top, 15 branches are raw, 15 are dry"); if S. is not he guesses, A. tells him to cut off his arm and head (the moon in the first and second half); 2) count the years of a polar bear with a black head (the daughter sewed three dried human skulls to her father's clothes right and left; the bear says he is 110 years old, but he has never seen such a seven-headed creature); 3) weave a rope of ash (weave it from a sedge, pull it between poles, set it on fire, it will be covered with ash, but it will remain strained); A. tells S. to drive home 6 oxen, milk, cook tarak; daughter tells us to drive them into the pen, sits down to comb her hair in the morning; A. arrives, asks how much hair she has; she: how much your horse took steps; forbids entering the yurt - her father gives birth there; if the father cannot give birth, then how to get milk from oxen; A. tells S. to come with his daughter; writes the names of all living things on the pole creatures, and the falcon and the kite deliberately misses; S. did not notice this, the daughter noticed; A. passed off daughter S. for his son; came to Saryg Khan, who put gold and silver under his pillow, accused him of stealing, crucified on four stakes; sent four soldiers to his camp; crucified A. asks to convey obscure words; daughter-in-law understands, orders to kill three soldiers, let one be a guide, go with by army; they liberate A., Saryg Khan captured]: Samdan 1994, No. 9:307-321; South Altai Tuvans [Haraat Khaan and Jechen Khaan hate each other; DH has an unfit son; he left on ovaa a sign with the inscription; the poor girl read and said: if an eagle is drawn, why write "kite", if a woman is drawn, why write "man"; khan decided that she is suitable for daughter-in-law; khan: how much once held out her skin under a leather stick? girl: how many steps did your horse take? khan orders to latch a rope from the ashes; the girl burned the rope; khan: make tarak from bull's milk; girl: the father is now having labor pains; since a man cannot give birth, then the bull does not milk; khan: let the father will come and be neither inside nor outside, naked or dressed; the girl tells her father to wear pants, shirt and stockings and climb between the wooden lattice wall and the felt of the yurt; the khan tells the girl's father to count years of a bear's life; daughter tells me to bring her two skulls that have turned white in the sun; painted them red and tied them to her father's shoulders; bear: there are 75,000 trees on the mountain, and I'm 75 years old, but I've never seen one; find out hare age; daughter: smear honey and sugar on trees in a hare meadow; hare: 60,000 trees on the mountain, and I am 60 years old, but I have never tried such sweets; XX married my son to a girl; was captured; two heroes and XX was tied to iron stakes, XX was given one louse a day, heroes two lice; XX said that his people were belligerent; to take prisoners, you must send his son a letter: you need to gather people with the lower reaches of a large river and from the upper reaches of a small river; the droppings of a sheep and a neutered goat are a value, it cannot be left; daughters-in-law say: let sheep and goats with horns go ahead, and without horns follow them; in front 4 iron poplars with my doors; let two cut down and uproot two and bring them here; I win, I lie on 9 blue silk carpets, lean on 4 iron backs on all four sides of the world and eat every day sheep soup; son is going to saw poplars; daube: gather warriors, they will need weapons sent to kill two at once, take two with them; the soldiers freed the khan and brought the loot]: Taube 1978, No. 50: 254-259 (=Taube 1994, No. 39:255-258); Dagurs [seven brothers have Temuodi's servant, he has a Yamadi son; brothers tell T. to cook porridge with bovine milk; I tell my father to pretend he is giving birth, so don't can cook; answers his brothers that since a bull gives milk, a man can also give birth; the brothers took Y. hunting, put up a tent for him by the river; he carried his brothers' saddles there, and he stayed in the saddle tent; At night, the brothers pushed the tent into the river, thinking that they had drowned Y.; in the morning they saw that they had made a mistake; fearing revenge from the brothers, I fled with my father]: Bender, Su Huana 1984:174-176; Baikal Buryats (Unga) ) [three Gurgaldayev brothers ask the girl if her father and mother are at home; "They went to a neighbor who were not properly in debt, were not sick, left to get sick"; the girl did not allow them to spend the night, they went to the steppe, they ordered to milk the bull by morning, cook tarak; girl: no time, I collect chips, the father gave birth to a son; do men give birth? - Do bulls calf?] : Khangalov 1890:20-21; Trans-Baikal Buryats (Selenginsky, Borgoy ulus of the Dzhidinsky District of Buryatia, 1969) [Bagsha met girls playing on the road, asked why they were building a house on it; one of the girls told him not to break it; bagsha came to her old father; he plowed the land; bagsha: "Old man, how many Did you take steps in the furrow in a day?" ; old man: "I didn't count"; bagsha: "I'll come in the morning, count it"; the old man was upset, his daughter reassured him: "Bagsha will come on horseback. You asked him, "How many steps did your horse take to this point?" ; the old man did so; bagsha: "By tomorrow morning, milk two bulls and make fresh yogurt. I'll come and eat it"; the daughter told her father not to go out and said that she would meet him herself; Bagsha, who arrived in the morning: "Did your father milk the bulls? Is yogurt ready?" ; daughter: "I didn't have time. He's giving birth right now"; Bagsha: "Don't be stupid! Do men give birth?" ; daughter: "Do bulls milk? How can you get yogurt from them?" ; Bagsha thought, "Which one of us is the real teacher - me or this wise girl?"] : Tugutov, Tugutov 1992, No. 100:262-263; Mongols (probably Khalkha) [Khan had a stupid son; officials advised: "Choose a smart wife for him so that she could conduct public affairs. Tell me, Khan, to draw all the animals in the world, written signs, plants, the sun, the moon and stars, put these pictures on the main roadway, and make all your subjects worship them images. An intelligent person will immediately notice the shortcomings in the drawings"; the Khan approved this, and a decree was read out everywhere: "A prayer has been posted for the faithful at the pass. I command everyone, without exception, to come to that pass within three days and pray. Whoever does not pray will be severely punished"; all subjects prayed; when the old man and daughter passed through the pass, his daughter dissuaded him from praying: the drawings are inept, the artists forgot to depict a hare, the text of the prayer lacks the "huvm" sign; the khan found out, wanted to see the girl; when she was collecting argal, he came to the old man, ordered him to milk the bull by morning, and cook tarak from milk; in the morning, daughter she scattered manure on the west side of the yurt, put her father on a mattress, and at the entrance to the yurt she drove two stakes and held a hairrope between them (this is done when there is a sick or newborn in the yurt); when the khan came for a cockroach, the girl went out and said that it was impossible to enter the yurt - the father was giving birth; the khan asked where it had been seen for a man to give birth; the girl: "Didn't you, O Your Lordship, /You saw that eccentric, /What makes yogurt/From bovine milk? /If he has appeared like this now, /Why not give birth to a man?!" ; khan returned home; when the girl went to get the argal, came to the old man, ordered him to twist the horse fetters from the ashes by morning; in the morning the girl weaved fetters out of hay, set it on fire - it turned out to be fetters of ashes; showed them to Khan , he left; she went for the argal, the khan came back, told the old man that he would come again tomorrow, and ordered the old man not to let his daughter go outside or leave her in a yurt; he came in the morning and could not find her (she stood between the wall and the felt tire of the yurt); when she went out, she returned to the palace; the girl went for the argal, the khan came to the old man again: "Ride a double-headed horse and come to me at the turn of day and night, between today and tomorrow. But you can't go on the road. If you do otherwise, don't blow your head off." The girl told the old man to catch a mare about to get necklaces and explained: "When you arrive, say: "The sun is setting there, it's night here , and it's dawning in the west." When asked which way you went, say, "On the grass between two roads." When they ask: "Did you come on a double-headed horse?" , say yes. When they look at your mare, she will already have two heads"; the old man came to the khan, answered as his daughter told her; the khan married his son to her; went hunting with him, said: "Go, son, in front of his father, so that the horse's tail moves"; he jumped off the horse, began to twist the horse's tail; the khan scolded him, beat him; killing and cutting the beast, ordered him to make a fire, prepare a wooden cauldron and fry the meat; the son made a fire, knocked down the tree, sawed off the lower part and began to hammer it; told the khan what he was making a wooden cauldron; the khan beat him again; killed another beast, the khan asked him to start a fire, fry the meat and spread the black litter; the son made a fire, roasted the meat on a spit, tore the felt off the saddle and spread it; the khan beat him; at home, the son complained to his wife, who explained what was going on; khan went hunting again, took his son with him, repeated his previous requests; when he heard the first, the son went in front of his father in a quiet trot; when he heard the second, he made a wooden spit and fried meat on it; when he heard the third, fried the meat, and when the ground from the fire turned black, he removed the ash from it so that he could sit down; the khan sent his son home, decided to continue hunting himself; went to a foreign state, was captured; for three years I was lying in a dirty yurt; when they decided to execute him, I asked permission to send a letter; wrote: "I show mercy to all relatives and friends, /I write to my homeland with a low bow /And I inform you that in a foreign country/ My life is nice and free./Will I ever come back? - I don't even like the thought of it! /It's so wonderful to sleep under a canopy blue/On an emerald silk bed! /I lie in scarlet pillows day and night, /I drink goat milk in large bowls, /And eight servants in an eight-story palace/They serve me so respectfully and important! /I live here as a master, not a guest, /I'll die, let my bones decay here./If you want to share my happiness, /Well, pick up the cattle and come./And the first person to go to my country/ Let him drive him cattle in front, /And lead hornless cattle back./Take your belongings, - it will do on the road, -/ Carry everything... Yes, I almost forgot: /The foal was scabies /And the mare in our herd./You can part with them/Leave them, scabies, in place: /A contagious horse will not bring us honor./Two my sandalwood trees/They shine with a hat of gold leaves. /You need to leave one in place, /Try to transport the other. /Go deep into my large rooms. /Gold scissors hang there/At the head in bedroom, for a nightmare, /You must definitely take them with you..."; the messengers handed a letter to the khan's son, who believed and was happy; my wife deciphered: "A great trouble has happened to me./I ask my relatives; to me show mercy. /Find out: I'm captured in a foreign country, /And I'm in danger of dying here every hour./My fate is incredible, /Will I ever come back? /I sleep and eat in the open air, /Bed is earth, and I'm completely waste./Eight guards out of an eight-walled yurt /They don't even let me into the steppe; /I won't die today or tomorrow/And bones here in someone else's the country will decay. /But if you want to save me/Then come with the army as soon as possible: /Armed in the lead squad, /And let the unarmed man walk behind. /The messenger who rode with my letter, /Make him walk behind. be a guide on the way/And if there are two of them/And kill one on the way./So that your son and khansha mother do not interfere with you/You hardly need to take them with you on a camp./There is no smarter than my daughter-in-law in the khanate./ Ask her for advice on everything, /She will always find a solution./So let her boss go camping!" ; daughter-in-law gathered an army; one of the messengers was killed, the other was forced to be a guide; they seized the lands of the neighboring khanate, freed the captive khan]: Mikhailov 1962:78-86; the Mongols (Ordos) [ Shurguljin Khan wants to marry a stupid red-faced son to an intelligent girl; gathers people, asks questions; a tree with 12 branches, 360 flowers looking up, 360 down; the old man's daughter explains to her father that this is a year; five myriads of yellow hares led by a hare with a white spot on its forehead (stars and moon); ten myriads of bushes and a red stump (mountains and Mount Sumeru); bring three measures of meat wrapped in bone, two measures of bones wrapped in meat (egg and yuyuba); when he learns that the old man has a daughter, S. promises to come, tells me to cook koumiss from the milk of a castrated bull; girl: father gives birth, I am going to get a midwife; S. married his son on this girl; tells her son to greet him on a horse about two heads (wife: pregnant mare); greet him neither in the yurt nor outside (between the bars and the nightmare); prepare ashes fetters (weave fetters from dry couch grass, set fire, an ash trail will remain); S. decides to seize the neighboring kingdom, the son chatted everything; the enemies seized Sh., put him in a well, he eats his own lice; the neighboring king sends a nobleman bring the people Sh.; Sh.: they will go if they find out that I live well; asks me to tell me: I live happily in a house dark as a coffin; I eat only goat meat and lamb; the carpet on which he is sitting is made of colorful brocade and striped yellow silk; I spend my days contemplating five jewels - turquoise, corals, mother-of-pearl, ruby and lapis lazuli; lying on a piece of blue silk that has no boundaries; when you come, let it go in front of you your cattle, and let the horned ones go ahead, followed by hornless; there is one red ram with curved horns that is always behind everyone - kill him; at the head lies a black rough file - take it with you; at your feet there is a pair of sharp scissors - take it with you; there is no need to go in large numbers, it will be enough if three go; the daughter-in-law understood everything: the file is Sh., the scissors are herself; the ram is the son of Sh., kill him; horned - an army; the enemy was defeated, S. was released; he married his daughter-in-law to the son of his younger brother, handed over the kingdom to him]: Mostaert 1937, No. 9 in Solovyov 2014.
Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [the king tells the poor man to answer what is faster and sweetest; the poor man's daughter tells me to say that gaze and sleep; the king orders to bring the bull with offspring; the daughter orders to slaughter the bull, take it to the king hooves: the hoof is the mother, the bone inside is the child; the poor man confesses that his daughter gives answers; the king tells her to mend the leaky iron bucket; the daughter asks the king to turn him inside out first; the king took girl as a wife; she decides everything; tsar: there are no two kings, we will divorce, but you can take the most precious thing; she brought him sleeping to her; the tsar returned his wife, taking her parents as well]: Porotova 1980:99-103 ( =Efremov 2000, No. 13:227-233).
Japan. The Japanese (all of Japan, including northern Ryukyu, but it is not clear whether all the episodes are everywhere) [the provincial owner tells the man to pick berries in winter; his little son comes to the owner instead of his father; he says that my father could not come, he was bitten by a snake; - But there are no snakes in winter! "Berries too; or the samurai asks the peasant how many times he hit the ground with a hoe." How many steps did you take? Among the tasks in different versions are: Bringing Mr. a pregnant bull; the son says that the father cannot come, he has just relieved himself of the burden; or bring a drum that makes sounds without touching a drumstick; bring a rope of ash; which half of the cake is sweeter? which hand made a sound when clapping your hands?] : Ikeda 1971, No. 922:206