M197B. Glowing stallions and necklaced mares. .17.27.-.29.32.33.
The owner claims that the other's mares were necklaced or thrown away because his stallions far from the mares reared, that any foal born was from his mare and etc. The young man begins to kill the owner's dogs: they did not drive away the wolves (frightened the game, etc.), although they were far from the scene. The owner admits that his statement is absurd.
Assyrians, Ancient Greece, Greeks, Adygs, Abazins, Ossetians, Ingush, Nogais, Avars, Dargins, Armenians, Bashkirs, Kazakhs.
Western Asia. Assyrians {texts in Aramaic; all versions go back to Assyrian and contain the same episodes} [in the Slavic story about Akir Premudr, Pharaoh shows King Synagrip ridiculous the claim to remove the rooster, whose cry seems to keep the inhabitants of Pharaoh's city awake; Akir, coming to the pharaoh as ambassador from S., fends off this claim with the same ridiculous counter-claim; Akir's people cats are beaten in Pharaoh's town because their scream disturbs people S.]: Potanin 1916:191.
The Balkans. Ancient Greece (The Biography of Aesop, XXI-XXIII, 101-123) [the young man lied to Aesop before King Lycurgus of Babylon and he ordered his execution; but the chief of the guard hid E. in prison; at this time King Nectanebon of Egypt sent L. a letter: "I have decided to build a tower so that it does not touch the earth or the sky; people and a man have come to answer my questions; if he answers, I will pay you tribute"; L. regrets that E. was executed, while others could not solve the problems; the chief of the guard said that E. is alive; L. is happy; E. ordered to fatten four eagles and teach them to raise boys into the air; arriving at Egypt, wittily answers N.'s questions; eagles and boys fly up, boys shout: serve beams, clay and bricks; N. admits defeat, but adds that his mares brought from Greece they throw it away when they hear the stallions from Babylon laughing; E. begins to beat the cat: she visited Babylon at night and strangled a cockerel there; if the cat cannot reach Babylon overnight, then the mares cannot hear stallions; Heliopolis priests: there is a temple in the world, a pillar in the temple, 12 cities on a pole, 30 beams above each roof, two women run around each; E.: temple - peace, pillar - year, cities - months, beam - day, two women - night and day; priests advise asking E. to name what no one has seen or heard; E. writes an IOU on behalf of N.: he owes King L. 1000 talents, the deadline has already passed; N. paid tribute to Aesop for three years; L. erected him a golden statue]: Gasparov 1991:71-79; the Greeks [the boy refused to tell his mother and father the dream, they kicked him out; he came to learn the craft; when explained why he did not live with his parents, the master asked for a dream; the boy again refused, the master drove him away; the same with the second master; he did not tell the king either, he threw him into prison; the other king sent two horses: which one is domestic, how wild? The princess advises that young man to ask; on a wild horse he did not jump over ditches, but jumped over at home; the foreign king says that his stallions are pampered because of this king's mares, let him kill his mares; young man ordered to find the blind and deaf, brought them to the neighboring kingdom and ordered dogs to be killed there: they come to steal our meat; king: your kingdom is far away; young man: so the stallions could not smell mares; the young man received wives of the daughters of both kings; told the dream: on the one hand the sun, on the other hand, the moon, a star in the head (born son)]: Dawkins 1916:537-541.
Central Europe. Russian written tradition [The oldest version of The Tale of Akir the Premudrom (two lists of the 15th century and one in the 17th century), which is probably a translation of the Armenian version: the nephew slandered sage Akir before King Synagrip; S. ordered A. to be executed; A.'s friend, who was tasked with it, saved his life and beheaded another person instead of him; A. began to hide in a shelter dug in earth; having learned that A. had been executed, King Pharaoh of Egypt sent S. a letter: "I want to build a house between heaven and earth. So a skilled builder came to me, let them do and arrange everything as I like. And let him answer my other tricky questions. If you send me a craftsman who can do anything I tell him, I'll send you my three-year tribute. If you do not find such a wise husband or he cannot answer my questions, you will send me three years of income from your land"; S. began to grieve that he had executed A.; friend A. admitted that he had saved his life; S. is happy; A. told his household members: "Find me two eagles and feed them. And tell my falconers to teach them how to fly up. And make a cage and find my smart boy among my household members, and put him in a cage, <носимую> eagles. <с клеткой>And teach them to take off, and teach the boy to shout: "Bring lime and stones, the builders are ready"; then he went to F., introduced himself as S.'s groom; F. asked who he, F., and him looked like nobles; A.: "You, king, are like the sun, and likened your nobles to sunny rays"; in other riddles F. likened himself to the moon and tree, and his nobles to stars and blooming grass; A. guessed them all; F. ordered to build a palace between heaven and earth; A. released an eagle with the boy into the sky; the boy shouted that the builders were ready and ordered to carry stones with lime; F. did not understand how to do this; A. began to beat F.'s squad with a stick, turned them to flight; F. ordered them to leave the construction of the palace and then said: "Akir, allow me this task: when your lord's horses laugh in Adora and Naliva lands , then our foal mares give birth in our land"; A. ordered the servants to catch and beat the ferret; said F. that the ferret had reached Nalivskaya and Adorskaya lands, gnawed off the head of the rooster given to him by S. and returned back; F. replied that this cannot be done overnight; A.: "And I have heard that when horses laugh in the land of Adora, your mares give birth to foals here. But you say that there are a thousand and eighty miles from Egypt to the land of Adora"; F.: "There is one oak log, and on that log there are twelve pines with thirty wheels, and each wheel has two mice, one black and the other white"; A.: "What you call a log is a year, and then you say that twelve pines on it are twelve months a year. And what do you say about thirty wheels is thirty days a month, and what you call two mice - one white and the other black - is day and night"; F.: "Bring me two ropes of sand, five long elbows, and a finger thick"; A.: "Order your keykeepers to take the same rope out of the house for me, then I will also owl according to its model"; F. demanded that it be twisted; A. checked a hole in the temple wall for on the sunny side, and when the sun rose, he took a handful of sand and poured it into the hole; the sand swirled like a rope in the sun; A. "Send your youths to lay down this rope, and in the meantime I will owl the other"; F. arranged a feast for him and gave him a three-year tribute from Egypt; A. returned to S.; he gave him his nephew; A. punished nephew, began to reproach and teach him; his nephew puffed up like a jug and broke in half]: Likhachev et al. 2004:28-57.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygi [the boy helps his Western prince repel the absurd claims of the hostile eastern prince ("Your stallions laugh, but our mares throw away")]: Tkhamokova 2014, No. 922A: 186; Abaza [Arbrykhan led the stallion to a hill filled at his command and the stallion laughed; A. said that the mares on the side where the laughter was directed gave birth to his stallion and foals him; the Kabardian people are confused; a 12-year-old boy promises to fix everything; took with him 40 riders, a goat and a camel; on the way he tells us to kill dogs: when wolves ate our sheep a year ago, these dogs were silent; khan: wasn't there more and more bearded to send to me; boy: here's a camel and a goat; khan dismissed the case]: Japua, Chekanov 2019, No. 15:121-124; Ossetians [Aldar Vostoka decided to appropriate a purebred stallion Aldar of the West, sent a message: our stallion lit, your mare necklaces, so the foal is ours; Aldar of the West sent a smart young man who killed dogs in the village of Aldara of the East: from them Barya was frightened by the deer we had tracked down; Aldar Vostoka passed off his daughter as a young man]: Byazirov 1960, No. 181:102; Ingush [due to the fact that the little stepdaughter's stallions burned on one bank, the mares of the big stepdaughter on the other side, they necklaces ahead of time; then the big padchah sent the little iron share and ordered him to be made of a doodle collar; the widow's son volunteered; came to the big stepdaughter and killed him with a hammer seven wolfhounds: they did not save his sheep from wolves; padchah: how could they know about them? young man: how could stallions know about pregnant mares? asks the stepdaughter to sew threads around the edges, gives the marble stone to make a thread; he put a bowl of water in front of the entrance (he is as smart as water); the young man put a straw over it and walked over ( I build bridges over such padchahs); little padchah awarded the young man]: Malsagov 1983, No. 70:220-221 (=Sadulaev 2004, No. 54:141-142); Nogais [khan received a message: my stallion was yearly the offspring from your mares is mine; old man Jenali goes to the possession of the neighboring khan, tells his companions to kill dogs there; that khan tells him to bring the biggest of the arrivals to him; J. sent a camel; khan: better - bearded; sent a goat; bring a bearded man to talk to; J. himself came; khan: why did your people kill dogs? J.: Why didn't they raise the alarm when wolves slaughtered sheep on the other side of the world? khan: dogs could not know this; J.: and mares could not get pregnant because of the stallion's nearing; khan: come not naked or dressed, not on horseback, not on the road; J. wrapped himself in a matting, came on a donkey along the side of the road; then a foreign khan gave J. a wineskin of gold, and his own with 40 wineskins]: Nogai 1979, No. 35:153-155; Avars [Russian tsar to the Turkish Sultan: mares laugh so much in your stable that they haunt mine stallions, silence them; the vizier went to look for an intelligent man; in one village he saw a man doing four jobs at the same time: reading the Koran, making spoons, rocking the cradle and setting in motion a pole that drove the chickens away from the grain scattered for drying; the guy demanded that the Sultan give him an old donkey, a long-bearded goat, a camel and a well-aimed shooter and send him to the Tsar of Moscow; approaching the tsar, ordered the shooter to shoot the king's dogs; the king: why did he shoot him! guy: I've come to answer the question; king: there was no better messenger, your head is no bigger than a bird's; guy: here's a donkey with a big head; king: you don't have a beard, your legs are short; guy: here's a goat and camel; and I killed dogs because when wolves attacked our sheep, I called your dogs, but they didn't come running; if stallions hear mares laughing in Constantinople, dogs should have heard mine shout; the king gave the young man gold, and the queen told her to come to her on the road and not on the road, to stop in the house or outside; the young man stepped on the side of the road, carried one leg across the threshold; the queen also gave him gold, and the Sultan gave home]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:81-85; Dargins [the son of a poor mother brought the only chicken as a gift to a rich man; he orders to divide it; the young man gives the head to the rich man, the heart to his wife, wings for sons, legs for daughters, keeps the rest for himself; receives half a bag of gold as a reward; a neighbor wants more gold, brings five chickens; he does not know how to divide, one of his daughters and himself nothing got; the rich man calls yesterday's poor man; he gives one chicken to his husband and wife (three), one to two brothers (three), one to two sisters (three), keeps the remaining two (also three); gets half a bag of gold; the nuker says that the rich man will go broke, goes to take the gold; asks the poor man where the middle of the earth is; he tells him to give him his horse, gun and clothes first; shoots at the feet of the nuker, he runs away, comes to serve another rich man; advises to demand half a herd from the first rich man: because his stallions have burnt, his neighbor's mares have brought foals; the rich man calls the old poor man; the one with five The second rich man comes to the village with nukers, tells them to kill all the dogs: they dispersed the wolves of another village; if this is not possible, then the mares did not necklace because of the laughter of stallions; the rich man demands to sew a fur coat from iron, poor man tells you to make iron threads; rich man: you are still beard; poor man: take a long-bearded goat; the first rich man gave his daughter to the poor man]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 31:144-147; Georgians (Imereti) [ The king claims that any foal born in his country is from his mare; Solomon, who was then a boy, begins to kill the king's dogs: wolves dragged a calf in my village, and your dogs after them they did not chase; the king left foreign foals alone]: Dirr 1920, No. 68:257.
Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [Khan Turakhan's stallion, Khan Yanebakhan threw out the mare 60 versts from T.; Y. accused T.; the bald boy Taz undertakes to resolve the dispute; crossing the river, he puts on boots - not spoil my legs against stones; taking my 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 Taz the name Erense-sesen; T. adopted him; E. went to look for a bride, caught up with the old man; suggests passing the time, making a cauldron out of the ground; says that the straight the road is 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 traction is good; explains to her father E.'s words: he offered to 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 stone galoshes; girl: let him send sand threads; 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 then, how he helped to 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 [Az-Janibek demands that the Yusuns and Congrats destroy camels, because mares throw out foals because of their scream; Jirenshe Sheshen was still a boy, he volunteered to go to the khan, let them give it like a big camel, a goat with a beard, and a gun; dogs barked, J. started shooting them; says that the barking of these dogs causes Yusun Kongrat camels to throw camels away; Khan: Your camels cannot hear our dogs; J.: and your mares are 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 ]: Potanin 1916, No. 9:67-70.