M198. Smart Brothers (Illegitimate Khan), ATU 655. .11.-.15.23.26.-.34.

In the house of a khan (judge, king, etc.), three brothers (rarely one person) determine that the food and drink they serve smell like dead, dogs, goats, etc., and (or what) the host who receives them is illegitimate or of unknown origin. After questioning the servants and mother, the owner is convinced that the brothers are right.

Swahili (Zanzibar), Malinka, Hausa, Arabs of Sudan, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Arabs Morocco (?) , Berbers of Morocco, Kabila, Catalans, Portuguese, Ladins, Aramaians, Kuwait, Qatar, Lebanon, Palestinians, Syria, Yemen, Socotra, Ancient India, Kumaoni, Himachal Pawlers, Punjabi, Sindhi, Rajastans, Bengalis, Orians, Koreans, Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Greeks, Albanians, Bosnians, Ukrainians (Ugric Russia), Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Abazins, Adygs, Balkarians and Karachays, Ossetians, Ingush, Avars, Dargins, Tatas, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Turkmens, Persians (Khorasan), Tajiks, Tajiks Sistan, Uzbeks, Shugnans, Yazgulyam, Pashtuns, Burish, Scandinavians (Saxon Grammar), Norwegians, Danes, Finns, Estonians, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Shors, Khakas, Tuvans, Khalkha Mongols, Mongols of Inner Mongolia (incl. Ordos), Buryats.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Swahili (Zanzibar): El-Shamy 2004, No. 655:360-362

West Africa. Malinka [when he dies, the sorcerer does not tell his sons to divide property, for one of the sons is illegitimate; but does not say who it is; the brothers first quarrel and then go to the judge (alkali); man who lost a camel; older brother: the camel was blind in his left eye; middle: with a wound on his back; younger: this is a pregnant camel; man is sure that brothers should know where his camel is; brothers explain to the judge what signs they identified the characteristics of the camel on the road; the judge serves them food; the elder: rice is spoiled; medium: meat is dog; younger: the judge is illegitimate; slave tells the judge about this and he finds out that the brothers are right; lets them go in peace, for he is the illegitimate man said by the brothers' father]: Frobenius 1922b, No. 46:98-104 (retelling in Klipple 1992:224); Hausa [(end of a longer story); three brothers go looking for the stolen ox; believe that the thief should be short, crooked and mustachioed; come to the king; he hears their conversation; The king is illegitimate, his wife is pagan, the meat is a dog; it turns out that everything is so; the king summons the people to identify the thief of the ox; among those who came there are people with the signs they said brothers; the king allows his house to be searched and an ox is found there]: Mischlich 1929, No. 2:49ff in Klippe 1992:224.

Sudan - East Africa. Sudanese Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 655, 655A: 360-363

North Africa. The Arabs of Tunisia [all three sons named Mohammed; the father suspects that one of them is illegitimate; when he dies, he says: M. inherits, M. inherits, M. does not inherit; the brothers went to the judge, and he sent him to Cady Hiddy; on the way, one says that the camel on the road was tailless, the second that it was one-eyed, and the third that it was loaded with sweets on one side and sour on the other; the owner met him halfway; the brothers described his camel, he did not believe that they did not see him, went with them to the cadia; the brothers explain the basis for the conclusions: the camel did not throw manure with its tail; pinched the grass with one side of the road; midges were spinning on one side of the road and flies on the other; cadia let the camel owner go, left the brothers for the night, told them to feed them; overhears; one says that the meat is a dog, the other that the woman who brought dinner is sick; the third is that Kadiy is illegitimate because he did not stay for dinner with the guests; the shepherd explains that the lamb was fed by a dog, the woman admitted that she was not feeling well, Kadia's mother - that he is the son of a butcher, because her husband was weak; one brother replied to Kadia that the dog was fibrous, but camel meat was not; the second that the woman did not salt the food; cadia, pointing to the third brother: this M. must not inherit, because only an illegitimate son identifies an illegitimate son]: Stumme 1893, No. 13:123-126 (=Bushnaq 1987:345-348); Arabs of Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Kabila: El -Shamy 2004, No. 655, 655A: 360-363.

Southern Europe. Catalans (Mallorca) [after their father's death, three brothers went to the king to help them share the inheritance; to meet a man who lost a mule; older brother: one-eyed? medium: grey? younger: lame? No, they did not see it; the owner of the mule went with his brothers to the king; he ordered the brothers to be fed; younger: the pig is raised on female milk; medium: wine from {what?} grapes (Setzlings-Trauben); youngest: the king is an illegitimate son, his father is a Moor; the king began to ask; the pig died, the pig was fed by a female; the wine is really from Setzlings-Trauben; Queen Mother: that year I was captured by the Moors and became pregnant; a lame mule can be seen in the footsteps; blind because I pinched grass on one side of the path; wool is a mixture of black and white; the king invited the brothers to draw portrait of his father and shoot him; the most accurate will inherit; the youngest refused to shoot; the king inherited him]: Erherzog 1896:95-102; Catalans (incl. Mallorca) [the king tells those who come to serve roast pork and good wine, and then see what they say; one: gives pork as a dog; second: wine with crap; third: the king is illegitimate; the king is illegitimate; the king finds out that the pig was fed by a dog, the grapes grew in the cemetery, and he is really a bastard]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 255:133-134; Portuguese: Braga 2002 [the man has a son and two stepsons, who were brought by the second wife; their parents died without leaving a will; the brothers went to town to ask scientists who was their rightful heir; on the way they met a man looking for a missing donkey; The brothers replied that they did not see her and that she was not a donkey at all, but a mulitsa, also blind in one eye and tail on her side; the owner did not believe that they did not see his mulitsa and took him to the judge; the brothers explain that The mulitsa steps differently from the donkey; walking along the onion field, she knocked down the dew on one side with its tail; she also pinched the grass only on one side; the judge acquitted the brothers and promised to resolve their case; let them first they have lunch at his place; one of the brothers says that they were not given a hare, but a dog: he threw a bone to a dog, but the dog did not eat, because the dog will not chew on the dog's bone; judge: the one who inherited will dig his father's grave and stab his body with a knife; the two younger brothers immediately agreed, the older one refused; the judge inherited him]: 272-275; Cardigos 2006, No. 655 [all the conclusions of the smart brothers they are loyal; a one-eyed mule with his back worn out passed in front of them on the road; they are accused of stealing this camel; the meat they served from the judge was a dog; the judge himself is the son of a Jew ( or a blacksmith)]: 151; ladins [three brothers go out successively to look for work; everyone is met by an old man and told to come back: now the first knows people; the second knows meat; the third is wine; all three they come to the inn; the owner overhears their conversation; the first tells others that the owner is illegitimate, the second that he will not eat meat because he is a dog; the third that he will not drink wine, for the maid drowned the baby in the barrel; the owner's mother, the cook, the maid admit that it is; the owner asked a human expert to find him a bride; he found it; wedding]: Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 71:198-200.

Western Asia. Kuwait, Qatar, Lebanon, Palestinians, Syria (including Aramaic Christians from Thur Abdin), Yemen: El-Shamy 2004, No. 655, 655A: 360-363; Socotra [The man has two sons, his wife has died; he remarried and died after copulation with his wife; she demanded that the property be divided after giving birth to a son; the older brothers do not want to share with the youngest; They go to the chief to ask for a resolution of their dispute; when they see the camel's tracks, the brothers determined that he was blind in one eye, without a tail, carrying lead; the camel owner asks the brothers, they describe the camel and he is not believes that his brothers did not see him; the chief ordered meat and rice to be served; brothers: meat is forbidden, rice is unclean, the chief is illegitimate; the maid confessed to the chief that the lamb was fed by a female; cook: my baby I peed myself and I did not wash my hands when I was cooking; the leader's mother: the former leader had no children, and when he died, she met with the servant; as for inheritance, the leader sent the brothers to the Sultan; he says the youngest to go to his daughter, carry the sheep and bring it to him; locks the sheep in one room and the young man in another; the daughter came running, the sultan asked to describe the thief; the girl: he had the girl's face and the back of the old man's head; brothers: yes, the father was old and the mother was young; the Sultan ordered the inheritance to be divided equally between the three brothers and they agreed]: Naumkin, Kogan, vol. 1, No. 17.

South Asia. Ancient India [the brahmana has three clever sons; he sent them to the sea to bring the turtle necessary to make the sacrifice; the elder refuses to carry the turtle: slime; the youngest: a why should we? the elder said he was the most picky eater, the average in women, the youngest in sleeping boxes; they asked King Prasenajit of Vitankapura to resolve their dispute; he offered gourmet food, but the elder he refused to eat: rice tasted dead; the king began to find out; it turned out that rice was grown in a field near the corpse burning site; the king sent a beautiful girl to his second brother, who clamped his nose: from she smelled like a goat; the girl admitted that as an infant, she was fed goat milk; when it was time to sleep, the youngest began to toss and turns on seven mattresses; hair was found on the lowest; the king generously rewarded brothers, left them at court; they completely forgot what they were supposed to bring a turtle to their father]: Tawney, Penzer 1926b, No. 163g (8): 217-221, 286-288 [there is an almost identical Hindi story in Tales of the Vetala "]; the himachali plowmen [when dying, the king gave three sons rubies each; they put them in a box, and then it turned out that one was missing; the brothers went to the priest; the man asks if they saw his camel; brothers: blind (for one eye), without a tail and carrying vinegar? they did not see; the owner came with them to the priest; the brothers explain: the grass was plucked on one side of the road; sitting, the camel did not leave a tail print; the smell of vinegar remained; the priest ordered the brothers to eat, began to listen to what they were saying; brothers: grain from the cemetery, meat not from a slaughtered animal; indeed, the grain came from the cemetery, but the meat of a goat that fell and crashed; the priest spoke of two men and a thief, asked who the brothers liked best; each named their own character; priest: the one who liked the thief took the ruby; the young man took out the ruby, returned it to the brothers, all came home together]: Dracott 1906:115-118; Kumaoni [four royal sons ask them to marry; the king says there is no money; brothers come to another king with daughters; in the morning one replies that he was in bed under the fourth sheet horsehair; second: the milk was cow's milk and the smell of buffalo (milkman: the heifer was fed buffalo milk); third: halva smelled of urdom (ground flour in the mill where urd was ground); fourth: goat meat it smells human (the kid was fed by the butcher's wife); the tsar married the princes to his four daughters]: Minaev 1968, No. 32.I: 83-84; Punjabi [tsar, vizier and servant got lost in the forest; towards blind; everyone asks him about the way, and he, showing the direction, turns to everyone, naming his rank; the king orders him to bring a blind man; he explains that it is easy to judge a person by the way he speaks; the king hired a blind man for service and maintenance; married the daughter of a wealthy merchant; after talking to her, the blind man asked permission to leave the service: the king's wife is the daughter of a prostitute; the vizier began to investigate, was convinced that the blind man was right; the king gave the blind man a higher reward; then he said that the king himself was the son of a merchant; under the threat of a sword, the king's mother admitted that he was so; king: how did you know? blind: because you are frugal]: King 1936, No. 11:364-365; Sindhi [king, vizier and servant are lost in the forest; servant, then the vizier meets the blind hermit, asks if he has seen the king; the hermit addresses them, calling them a servant, a vizier; when the king himself asks if he saw the others, the hermit calls him king; explains that he learned about the status of the questioner by how he addressed him to him; the king took the blind man to the palace; he explains that there was a worm in the precious ruby (the ruby is too light); the woman asked the king in the harem; the blind man felt her and said that she was a daughter prostitutes because she remained indifferent to being touched by an unfamiliar man; the king offered the blind man even more content, but he asked him to let him go]: Schimmel 1995, No. 12:93-95; Rajastans (Jaipur): Tauscher 1959, No. 25 in Thompson, Roberts 1960, No. 655:92; oriya (dombo) [older brother is blind in both eyes, youngest to one; they are begging; the youngest is about to steal from someone else's garden beans, the elder did not allow; the younger did not ask, stole corn, but the elder said that the brew was bitter, had to be thrown away; the king agreed to hire them for a negligible fee; buys them at the bazaar horse; the blind man explains that the mare died shortly after the birth of the foal and it was fed by a donkey; people were sent to check, it was so, the king did not buy such a horse; the next time the king He was going to buy two gold goblets, and the blind man ordered them to be melted - gilded copper; the king asked about his origin; the blind man explained that it was not royal blood, but from the dombo and tomati castes (merchants); a real king would generously reward services, and this one gives better quality rice only after each service; the queen was also not of royal blood; the king gave the blind man 12 villages and made him the first adviser]: Tauscher 1959, No. 25:59-62.

China - Korea. Koreans [two brothers were walking through a rice field; the grass was plucked on the left side, which means that a cow was walking blind to his right eye; a man asks if they saw a cow blind to his right eye; the brothers were glad that they had guessed, but said that they did not see the cows; the magpie seemed to call them, they approached the pine tree, under it a sword killed, in his chest; a man came up, accused them of murder, brought them to a judge; he asks what the crane is screaming; brothers: asks for the return of the eggs stolen from its nest, which are in the sleeve of {assistant?} ; the judge tells the assistant to return the eggs; calls the brothers to visit, but they do not eat; younger brother: they want to feed us dead and give us blood; the elder: the judge is the son of a wandering monk; the butcher confessed that the calf fed his wife with her milk - so the human spirit; wheat for the braga grew in the cemetery; the judge's mother admitted that she had sinned with the monk; the judge became a hermit]: Park 1991:253-254.

The Balkans. Bulgarians [three brothers were invited to dinner; they determine that lamb is a dog, bread is dead, and the owner is illegitimate; it turns out that the lamb was fed by a female, wheat raised in a cemetery, and the owner's mother had extramarital affairs]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 665:230; Hungarians [the king demanded that everyone tell us what they would see in a dream; one young man kept silent, him walled up; the royal told the workers to leave the hole, carried food to the young man; the Turkish sultan sent 1) a planed and painted stick, demanding to know where her upper and lower end were; young man: tie the skins in the middle and raise, the lower end will fall; the queen tells her father that she saw the answer in a dream; 2) 7 foals from one year to seven years old, how to distinguish; young man: pour barley from each year; born that year will approach his barley; 3) that everything that happens in the Sultan's country simultaneously takes place in the king's country; this time the young man tells the Queen to ask his father to be released walled up; he was released, he orders to build a tower, from the top of which you can see what is happening in the Sultan's palace, which has a glass wall; the sultan requires a guessman; the young man chooses 12 others a young man on the same face as him; everyone must answer that he is a young king; the Sultan sends a spy to see what bed royal honors are given, cut a circle on his clothes; that He hears a young man saying that the wine served is mixed with blood, the bread is mixed with human milk, the sultan is illegitimate; he carved a hole in each jacket; the young man confesses himself; the winemaker explains that cut his leg when he trampled on grapes; the maid fed the child, milk splashed into the sauerkraut; the Sultan's mother: your father was at war, Uncle Pali happened; the sultan tells the young man to hang; he asks his men some wear black clothes, others white, drive up to the gallows; the young man explains: white angels have come for the soul of the illegitimate, and black devils for the soul of a legitimate son; the Sultan was glad that he was behind him angels, ordered to hang himself; the young man returned to the king, received the queen and the throne], No. 13:269-278; Romanians, Macedonians, Greeks, Albanians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 655:361-362.

Central Europe. Ukrainians (Ugric Russia) [Smart brothers: by imperceptible signs they find a thief who stole their horse, say that the tsar is illegitimate, roast is made of dog meat, etc.; It turns out they are right]: SUS 1979, No. 655=AA *654 I: 171; Poles [three brothers come to the king; determine that the king is a bastard, the lamb whose meat is served is fed with dog milk, and the wine grown from grape grown in the cemetery]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 655:204.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [one sultan was captured by another; the owner instructed his three sons to visit the prisoner; the elder comforted him by saying that he was being kept royally - others would be fried alive; middle - that the prisoner should rejoice, still carrying his head on his shoulders; and only the younger one had reasonable conversations with the prisoner; the prisoner told the Sultan that he had sent him the cook's son, then Reznik and only the third was a prince; the sultan made his wife confess that she had conceived her first son by a cook and the second by a court resnik]: Kondaraki 1875:120; Kalmyks [dying, the father speaks to three sons that there are three poplars in the south, and then falls silent; the younger brother found poplars, dug a precious Erdni stone; the brothers found only a hole; the youngest does not confess; they went to court to Khan Balak; see the trail camel: his humps hang to the left, he does not have a right eye, it is a camel, she is wearing a pregnant woman; the camel owner does not believe that the brothers saw only a trail; the khan serves food to the brothers and overhears: this not koumiss, but blood, not lamb, but dog, black-bone khan himself; the woman admits that when she cooked koumiss, her nose bleed; shepherd: the lamb was fed by a dog; Khan's mother: got along with a commoner after the death of her husband; the khan says that he has no right to resolve the dispute, sends him to a wise girl; she asks: the man went to the Dalai Lama, met a wolf, and he did not touch him, which of them sinless; the youngest replies that man; girl: you took the stone; you had to return it and divide it into three parts; the khan's daughter does not talk, whoever talks will receive it and the khanate; the elder and middle brothers do not were able to talk, thrown into the abyss; the youngest found a dead Toti bird, revived it with living water; hiding it in his sleeve, tells the khan's daughter stories; 1) the carpenter roughly carved a human figure out of the log, the second one finished it, the llama revived the girl; probably she should belong to the lama; the girl: no, to the first carpenter; 2) (hiding the Toti under the pillow); why did the khan's daughter fall silent again? Toti from under the pillow: if he speaks, words will be heard from every place where the air comes out; girl: what is this? younger brother got a girl, freed everyone who was thrown into the abyss]: Vatagin 1964:216-222; Abaza people: Tugov 1985, No. 62 [two hunters shot one deer; divided the carcass in half, but cannot divide the head and spine; went to the old man; after eating, they said that the meat was fed by a dog, and the basta (cool porridge) had a cadaveric smell; the old man explains that the lamb was fed by a female, and barley for basta happens from an ear that grew up on the grave; (other stories); to separate a deer, the old man tells everyone to take a jaw, break the skull in half, divide the spine into three parts, and then divide each part in half], 63 [the thief stole a horse from three brothers; they went into the same house, talked about their business and, in response to the owner's reaction, suspected him of stealing; he offered to find out what he had in his hand; older brother: peel hard; medium: round; younger: walnut; the owner said that he did not steal the horse himself, but bought it from thieves, returned the horse; (then the brothers sort out complex disputes); ask the prince for as much land as possible to cover three cowhides; cut their skins into straps, got land]: 184-188, 188-193; Adygs (Western 1870s) [a gray horse was stolen from three brothers; the eldest: stole a medium grown up and snub; middle: and red-bearded; younger: and gray-eyed; brothers went in search; elder: a camel was walking through the millet field, blind in one eye; middle: and lame; younger: he had two wineskins, with milk and honey; the camel driver, heard the description of the brothers, thought they stole it; the brothers explain to the khan: the camel pinched millet on one side; dragged one leg; to the right of the road flies greedy for milk, and bees on the left; Khan: What's in my fist? round - solid - walnut! Khan gave food to the brothers; they say that he gives porridge dead, meat to a dog, khan a simple title; the khan's mother admitted to him that she gave birth to a daughter and exchanged children with a slave; manager: millet was mowed at the grave of the victim; shepherd: a lamb was fed by a female; the khan gathered people, the brothers recognized the horse thief, received gifts from the khan]: Aliyeva 1978, No. 40:280-283; Balkarians and (or) Karachays: Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983 [the younger brother came to the elder, left the donkey, he disappeared; they went to look for him, they ask the boy; he calls signs: he does not see in his left eye, limps on his right leg, a bag on his back with oats; brothers take him to the judge; boy: the footprint of his right back leg is shorter, the grass is not eaten on the left, the oats are scattered where the donkey scratched against the tree; judge: be careful like this boy then you'll find a donkey]: 15-17; Malkonduev 2017 [a bull was stolen from three twin brothers; they went looking for him; one said a mule passed along the path in front of them; the second: he had a short tail; third: he was blind to one eye; the owner of the mule is looking for him; does not believe that the mule brothers did not see, and leads x to the judge; the brothers explain: the mule's footprints are smaller than that of a horse, but larger than that of a donkey; the grass is united on one side; on the frost there was no tail mark left; the judge let the brothers go, they came to the mosque; above the bull here; the thief has blue eyes; if the eyes are blue, then the beard is red; if the blue eyes and beard are red, then the name Sosruk; S. suggested do not argue here, but brought the brothers to his place; brothers: bread made from flour raised in the cemetery; meat from sheep that was kept with dogs; the owner was illegitimate; the miller, the shepherd, the owner's mother all confirmed; the last test: what's in my hand; brothers: round; tasty; S.: right, nut; S. returned the bull]: 881-884; Ossetians [three brothers lost their horses; they went to look for them, spent the night in village; they were given food; one said that bread smelled dead, the other that meat tasted like dogs, and the third said that the owner was white, but looked like a servant; mother to the owner: wheat from the grain of three ears, picked from the grave; the lamb was fed by a female; the owner was fed by his brother-in-law's wife; the owner found the horses in his crops and returned them to the brothers]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 70:330-331; Ingush [dying, the prince reported three sons about buried pearls; the youngest secretly dug a treasure, went to the prince to identify the thief; along the way, the elder says that the horse was passing blind in one eye; middle: on the one hand honey flowed down, oil on the other; younger: the mare was a stalk; they told the prince about the mare; convinced that everything was so, the prince was surprised: what other advice such intelligent people needed; the brothers were given food, became eavesdrop; prince was born of a slave, dumplings smell like blood, meat smells like dog; prince's mother: her husband had no children and allowed her to join the slave; when she mixed the dough, she cut her finger; shepherd: saw how the sheep came together with male; the prince's daughter asks you to tell me how the brothers found out everything (the horse pinched the grass on one side of the path; a bee on one side, a fly on the other; the front legs were heavier than the hind legs; the prince met the guests with unbuttoned collar; dog broth contains fat below and broth on top); the prince's daughter talks about a girl who was not married for love; her husband allowed her to go to her ex-lover, who sent her Back, the robbers they met let go; which of them is nobler? younger brother: robbers; girl: so you stole pearls]: Malsagov 1983, No. 56:203-207 (=Sadulaev 2004, No. 58:153-157); Avars [the boy asks his father to sell him, because he understands people, horses and in precious stones; the khan buys it; he advises the khan not to buy a foal because it will cause its death; yet the khan bought a foal; advises the khan's daughter not to buy the gem; smashed it - a worm in stone; tells the khan that he is not of Khan origin; the khan's mother admits that her son died and she replaced him with a servant's son; the khan made the boy a vizier, married his daughter; once his the horse stumbled, the khan fell and died]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 42:200-202; Dargin residents [when he died, the father told his three sons where he had buried the gold, told them to divide it; there was no gold in place, the brothers went to the khan to find out who their thief was; they met a man who was looking for a missing camel; asked if the camel was lame, crooked and loaded with honey and oil; said they did not see; the owner did not believed, led them to the khan; the elder: identified lameness in the footsteps; middle: the camel pinched the grass only to the left of the path; younger: flies gathered on one side of the path and beetles on the other; the khan ordered to give it to the brothers food, began to eavesdrop; they said that the meat smelled of a dog, the wine smelled of blood, and the khan was the son of a baker; the shepherd said that the lamb sucked the dog; the storekeeper that the vineyard was laid out at the massacre site; Khan's mother, that she gave birth to a daughter and changed with a baker's wife; Khan's sister promised to find out which brother was a thief, told a story; the girl was given not for a loved one, but for a rich man; the groom sent her to her lover; he sent her to her lover to the groom; the robber let her go; the elder brother: the husband is the noblest, the middle is the lover, the youngest is the robber; the khan's sister: so you took the gold]: Osmanov 1963:139-145; taty [the hat is old, his wife is dead, his three sons and wives do not care about him; he tells everyone where the pot of gold is hidden, tells them not to tell their brothers; after that, the sons treated him well; when the father died, the brothers met at the hiding place, but the pot was gone; they went to the padishah, let him judge; when they arrived, the owner of the missing camel appeared; the older brother said that the camel was crooked in one eye, the middle brother said that on the one hand there was a wineskin with honey and on the other hand with butter; the youngest: a pregnant woman was riding it; they explained why they thought so (the grass was plucked on one side of the road; flies on one side of the road, and bees on the other; getting off the camel, the woman leaned her hands on the ground); the padishah ordered them to serve them the best dishes; older brother: meat gives a dog; medium: rice has a smell of cadaveric; younger: padishah is not the son of a padishah; cook: lambs the dog fed; the rice grew up in the cemetery; the young man advises the padishah to ask his mother to bake a cake and press her hand against the hot cake, then the mother confesses; the mother of the padishah: the husband did not have a child, gave birth to one of the brothers; to resolve the dispute, the padishah called the daughter of the vizier; she tells a story; the khan's daughter loved the poor shepherd, she was married to another; on her wedding night she threatens to kill herself and her husband; he let her go; the shepherd told her to return to her husband; she went wherever she looked, got to the robbers; to whom should she belong? older brother: husband, middle brother: shepherd, younger: robber; Khan's daughter: you took gold; younger brother gave brothers their share]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 35:160-164; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 90 [tsar bequeaths the state and the magic stone to the sons; the youngest secretly took it; the brothers went to the judge; on the way the elder: a one-eyed camel was walking (pinching the grass on one side), the middle one: on one side there was a vessel with kerosene, honey on the other (where the fly's honey, where the kerosene grass withered), the youngest: it was wearing a pregnant woman without a middle finger (where she was sitting, there was an imprint left); the camel owner took them to the king's trial, they all easy to explain; the king served dinner, ordered to eavesdrop; the elder: the king is the son of a miller, middle: there is human blood in bread, the youngest: the lamb is fed by a dog; the king grabbed the mother by the nipple with his teeth, she admitted that after the death of her husband she met with a miller; baker: henchmen got into a fight, someone injured her arm, blood fell into the bread; shepherd: the lamb was fed by a dog; to identify the thief's wife among the thief's brothers, the king's wife tells a story; the youngest says he could not resist stealing if he were a hero; queen: you have a stone; brothers: we knew it, but did not dare to tell him]: 120-125; Leonidze, Gvakharia 1971 [merchants three young men were brought to the cadia: their camel was missing, the young men described it accurately, but they themselves say that they did not see it, which means they stole it; young men: in the footsteps on the grass, they realized that the camel did not have one eye and one tooth was loaded with oil on one side and honey on the other, and a pregnant woman was sitting on it; the young man was invited to the King of Khazar; the elder brother said that the lamb was fed by a dog, the middle brother - that the wine is made from grapes grown on the grave, the youngest is that the king is the son of a cook; the king called his mother, the cook and the viticulturist, they confirmed everything]: 329-336; Armenians [three wise men went to see Caliph of Baghdad; one: a crooked camel without front teeth walked along the road; second: loaded with wheat and honey; third: a pregnant woman was riding it; the man asks if they saw him camels; they indicate signs; he thinks they are thieves, leads to the Caliph; the wise men explain: the camel pinched the grass on one side, the middle of the stem is intact; there are flies by the road on one side, on the other birds; only pregnant women lean on their hands when they get off the camel; the Caliph overhears their conversation; meat was given to the dog, rice to dead, wine to blood; they found out that there was a cemetery in the rice field, the lamb sucked the female, the grape cracker cut his leg; the Caliph awarded the wise men]: Harutyunyan 1986:179-180; Azerbaijanis [each of the three sons of the padishah renounces the throne in favor of the brothers; all three leave; saying goodbye, the father advises 1) not to neglect what has happened; 2) not to hurry; 3) when it is tight, seek advice from the elders; the brothers come to another padishah; they say that the meat is dog, that wine is human blood, and the padishah himself is the son of a cook; cook: lamb was fed by a female; winemaker: there was a cemetery on the site of the vineyard; the padishah's mother changed her newborn girl on the cook's son; the padishah married his daughter to the eldest of the brothers; the middle brother saw a portrait of the daughter of another padishah; he and the vizier test the groom; when the young man pulls out a knife, the padishah accuses him of stealing ; he makes counter-accusations (long story); all the princess's suitors have previously died; a young man kills a dragon, cleverly answers the girl's questions, wedding]: Nabiev 1988:187-199; Turks [owner Three brothers ask the stolen camel; they say that the camel was chrome, blind in one eye, missing a tooth, carried a pregnant woman and luggage - oil on one side and honey on the other; the owner accuses the brothers of theft and leads them to the judge; they explain: fingerprints of only three legs, pinched grass on one side of the road, some blades of grass remained uncut, on the side of the road on one side bees flew, ants slipped on the other; the woman sitting down to urinate, left appropriate marks; the judge asks to guess what is in his hand, the brothers guess; the camel is found; the judge orders to feed brothers; they say that the dough is dead, the meat is carrion, and the judge is illegitimate; their conclusions have been confirmed]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 348:378-379; Kurds: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 27 [ servant Ahmad tells the padishah that there is sand in the core of his saber; the padishah broke his sword, there is sand, ordered A. to give A. a scoop of shorba, made the shorbachi (the one who cooks shorba) heir; next time: pearl worm (another scoop of shorba); horse cross with buffalo (the horse refused to go into the water; the third scoop); the padishah is the heir of the shorbachi (mother of the padishah: he came to me, and then the padishah and I came kept silent); the padishah brought A. closer to him; Guria does not tell the padishah, A. and the vizier to turn over his left shoulder; the padishah turned around, he was carried away by the wind, he was in front of a toothy old woman, could not force her speak, beaten, returned, fell ill; the same with the vizier; A. tells the old woman: 1) the tailor, the carpenter and the one whose prayers please God spent the night in the forest; the carpenter made the figure of a girl, dressed the tailor, the third revived; padishah: give it to the carpenter; old woman: to the one who revived her; 2) the uncle promises a daughter to one of the nephews who will learn a better craft; the youngest bought a parrot, he was sent home with a letter, and he brought it a letter from my uncle that the daughter was dying; then the youngest undertook to resolve the dispute between the owners of a magic tablecloth, an invisible hat and a flying carpet, offered to give it to the first to bring the stone, took everything for himself and flew away; the brothers flew to the girl, the doctor cured her; decided to give her to the doctor; old woman: to the owner of the rug! 3) the elder brother sent the youngest to pick up his wife; he was late, the elder suspected bad; the younger one stabbed himself; then the elder also stabbed himself; the wife hears the doves talking: dip their pen in the water, run over the wounds; the woman revived her brothers, but confused the heads; the padishah gave the woman to the head; the old woman: the body! became beautiful and A. received it]: 264-272; Rudenko 1970, No. 30 [the padishah went to the female half once a year; the vizier came in the third year, the wife thought it was her husband; soon the padishah, the wife, came I was surprised, my husband understood everything; three sons were born, each Ahmad; the padishah bequeathed: A. inherits, A. inherits, A. does not inherit; the brothers went to judge them to the padishah of the neighboring country; the elder: passed here a lame, crooked camel without two front teeth; medium: loaded with oil and honey; younger: a pregnant woman was riding it; the camel owner met him; the brothers described the camel, the owner does not believe that they are not saw, led to the kazi; brothers: the camel dragged his leg, pinched the grass on one side of the road, where there were no teeth, blades of grass remained; where oil spilled, there were ants, where honey was flies; when the woman sat on the ground, I got up with both hands; kazi told the brothers to cook dinner; brothers: kebab stinks of dog, pilaf smells like iron, wine smells like blood; shepherd: lamb sucked female; there was a nail at the bottom of the cauldron; winemaker: me A thorn pierced her leg, a drop of blood fell into the grapes; in the morning, daughter Kaziy tells a story: a girl went to the shepherd for the missing sheep, he let her go on her wedding night until when he gets together with her husband; the padishah's son is predicted to die as soon as he marries; he saw this poor girl, decided to take her, even if she became rich; let her go to the shepherd; the shepherd called her sister, let him go to her husband; Archangel Jebrail came for the soul of the padishah's son; the father and mother did not want to give their soul in return, the wife gave it; J. gave her 140 years of life, she divided them - herself and her husband; who is nobler? younger brother: shepherd, I would not let the girl go; daughter Kazia: Here you are illegitimate]: 68-73.

Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens [padishah decided that the worst of people is a padishah, of animals is a mule, of birds is forty; whoever answers these three questions correctly (i.e. as he decided) promised to make a vizier; three people found a camel with smallpox, a red beardless man and a crow with a broken wing, thought these three were the worst; the shepherd they met teaches how to answer correctly; they respond to the padishah as they were taught shepherd, but they cannot explain why; they admit that they were taught by the shepherd Ayaz; the padishah makes him a vizier and calls him Ayazkhan; after the death of Padishah A. took his place; when old, he gives three sons money and tells you to go on a journey; seeing a camel trail, the elder says that the camel is male, the middle one says that its tail is cut off, the youngest says that he is blind in one eye; then they see a man's footprint; older: this is a woman; middle: she ran; younger: pregnant; the camel owner and two people looking for a woman took the brothers to the padishah's trial; the brothers explain: the male has more leg spacing , he dropped manure in the middle of the road, not on the sides, ate thorns on one side; about the woman, the padishah tells me to guess what is in the chest; the brothers are round - red - pomegranate; the padishah sent the complainants , ordered to serve pilaf to the brothers and let the Yasaul eavesdrop on them; the elder: the padishah is a slave, the meat of cattle fed with filthy milk, rice grew up in the cemetery; Padishah's mother: I exchanged children with a concubine, for gave birth to a girl; butcher: a lamb was fed by a dog; a rice seller: sowed rice near the cemetery; the padishah made three brothers advisers]: Stebleva 1969, No. 56:312-318; Persians (Khorasan) [three brothers they say that the meat is dog, wine is from the cemetery, the tsar is illegitimate; the tsar checks and everything turns out to be like this]: Marzolph 1984, № 655:129-130; Tajiks [a person asks three brothers, not Did they see his camel, blind in one eye, a woman sitting on it, the load was halva on one side and oil on the other? the man took the brothers to the padishah; brothers: the camel pinched the grass on one side; where he knelt down, ants gathered to one side of the road, wasps to the other; the one who sat down, and when she got up, she leaned her hands; the padishah invited her brothers, began to eavesdrop on what they were saying; the meat smells like a dog, the wine smells like human blood, the padishah himself was not royal; the padishah threatened his mother; she explained that she was barren and bought the baby from a butcher; a lamb fed a female; there was a cemetery under the garden; the younger brother killed a snake that crawled to the sleeping padishah; he thought he wanted to kill him; first brother: Simurg predicted the future to one padishah; pretended to be dead, he ordered her to be buried in a manure heap; the bird flew to another ruler, and this was defeated by enemies; second brother: the padishah's falcon he stirred up the spring, hacked it down; then saw that water was flowing out of the dragon's mouth; the padishah swore to obey his brothers]: 225-229 (=1980:220-223): Amonov 1972; Tajiks [Sultan Mahmud (gaznavid) , 998-1038) wanted to buy a slave named Ayaz; the owner said that he was worth 1,000 dinars because he understood gems, horses and human nature; after examining the emerald on the Sultan's hand, Ayaz said that it wormhole; the sultan ordered to break the emerald and there was a worm inside; having bought a slave, the sultan ordered him to choose the best horse; there were no good horses in the Sultan's stable; Ayaz chose a skinny one from among the warrior horses and a month later he turned him into the best; the Sultan told Ayaz to say that he, the sultan, was for a man; Ayaz: the sultan comes from a baker or baker; the sultan made his mother confess that by giving birth to a girl, she exchanged children with the baker's wife; the Sultan praised Ayaz and took his dairy sister to the palace]: Donish 1960:105-106; Tajiks Sistan [dying, the king orders three sons to share wealth by justice, and if they argue, contact your uncle (i.e. the king's brother), who is king in another city; the brothers went to their uncle; the person you meet is looking for the missing camel; the older brother says that the camel was blind in one eye, the middle eye was carrying honey and molasses, the youngest was that a pregnant woman was riding it; the camel's owner went with them to the local king; the king served pilaf and listened to what the brothers were saying; elder: meat in pilaf is filthy; medium: wheat for bread grew on bones; youngest: the king is the son of a shepherd; the king's mother admits that she gave birth to girls and exchanged children with the shepherd's daughter; shepherd: sheep for The pilaf was fed by a dog; a stolnik: the wheat field was plowed in the cemetery; the king asks the brothers to protect it for three nights; on the third night his younger brother guards, kills the dragon, the king sees a sword, wants to execute a young man ; the elder talks about a talking parrot: he warned about thieves, the king did not listen, killed the parrot, the thieves looted the treasury; the middle brother: the king got lost hunting, the falcon did not allow water to be drunk, The king killed him, and then noticed that the blood and poison of the killed dragon were dripping into the water; the king apologized, the brothers went on to their uncle; he ordered his daughter's nephews to judge the dispute; she tells the story of a young man letting a girl go in exchange for a promise to come to him the night after her wedding; the groom let her go, the lover too; the older and middle brothers said they would do the same and the youngest - what would take a girl; girl: you want a larger share in the inheritance, marry me better; wedding; older brother became king, middle and younger brother became viziers]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 11:141-149; Shugnans [the man asks the three brothers if they saw his camel blind to his left eye; the brothers point out where the camel went but refuse to find it; the man leads them to Judge: If they didn't see the camel, how could they know where it went? answer: someone ate grass on the right side of the road but not on the left; the brothers came to the king: rice in pilaf smells like dead, meat smells like dog, and the king is illegitimate; seller: I sowed rice where there was a cemetery; a butcher: a female fed the lamb; the king poured hot barley into the mother's palm; she admitted that her husband ordered to congratulate him if a son was born, but to kill his wife and baby if he had a daughter; people they said that a rich man with only sons promised to kill his wife if she did not give birth to a daughter; both women exchanged babies; brothers went in search of the beauty they saw in a dream; the elder buys an all-seeing mirror, the middle one is a camel moving at lightning speed, the youngest is a bowl that revives the dead; they see a dying princess in the mirror, instantly get to her, revive her; the girl chooses to be her husband the one who revived her]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 34:327-330; Yazgulyam [the king keeps three sons locked up; one day a ray of sunlight made its way to them, they tried to catch him; teacher tells them about the world outside the walls; neither brother wants to inherit the throne, their father kicked them out; they determine that a woman pregnant with her son was riding the same road on a camel who was blind to one eye and devoid of one tooth; the camel owner takes them to the judge; the brothers explain: the camel pinched the grass on one side of the road, some blades of grass remained uncut; the woman went to urinate and did not she was able to get up without surgery on her arms; she leaned more on her right hand, which means that there was a boy in her stomach; the king sent food to the brothers; they say that the king is illegitimate, cakes on human blood, and meat dog; king's mother: on the night of conception, she stole a neighbor's head and fried food on this fire; lozenge: flour cakes made from wheat that grew up in the cemetery; butcher: lamb fed a female; (more the brothers helped the man marry the royal daughter); the elder became tsar, middle mufti, junior judge]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 35:331-336; Uzbeks [Tonguch Batyr - 21 years old, Ortancha- tabyr - 18 years old, Kenja batyr - 16 years old; their father instructs them and sends them on the road; after spending the night in a deserted place, the brothers take turns awake; T. killed a lion, girded himself with a piece of skin, did not say anything to his brothers ; on the next night, O. killed the serpent Azhdar Sultan, who had crawled out of the cave (the same); at the third night, K. went out to a house where 20 robbers were cooking soup; asked him to join the gang; he was helped to climb the wall, he called the robbers one at a time, cut off each's head; entered the palace, took off his ring, bracelet, earring from three sleeping beauties; returned to his brothers; in the morning the Shah demands all the men to find out who was in the palace; the brothers were brought food, the vizier began to eavesdrop; T.: the lamb was fed by a dog; the bekmes (condensed syrup) smells of blood; K.: the cakes are laid like only a baker can put it; the brothers told each other about their adventures, the vizier and the shah found out everything; the shepherd admitted that the sheep died and the lamb was fed by a female; the gardener killed a thief in the vineyard and buried the body; the Shah himself laid the cakes, his father was a baker; the Shah married his brothers to his daughters; one day K. slaughtered a snake that was about to bite the sleeping Shah; he thought that K. was going to kill him, The vizier supported this idea, K. was thrown into prison; K.'s wife persuaded his father to ask his son-in-law; he told the story of a parrot; the parrot asked the Shah to visit his relatives in India for two weeks; the parrot's mother gave to his son the fruits of life, from which the old people are getting younger; the envious vizier injected poison into the fruit, advised him to give him fruit; the shah tore off the parrot's head; decided to execute an old man by giving him fruit; the old man became young; the Shah let all three brothers go home, his wives went with them]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 95-104 (=Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:306-308); Uzbeks [after the death of a wise father, brothers went to see the world; elder: camel passed; middle: crooked; younger: a woman was sitting on it; the owner is looking for a camel, does not believe that the brothers described him without seeing him, leads to the Shah; he orders to bring the chest ; elder: there is a thing in the chest; middle: round; younger: this is a pomegranate; the shah gave the brothers bread, let go, followed quietly; older brother: Shah is the son of a baker; the shah asked the mother, she replied that the wife the baker died and they adopted a baby; the Shah returned the brothers, asked how they found out the camel's signs; the grass was united only on one side of the path; the trail showed where from the camel a woman came down; the chest was light, something was probably valuable rolling in it; for the baker's son, the bread he gave was the most valuable; the Shah appointed the brothers as viziers]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (2): 315-319 (=Rogov 1980:260-265); Pashtuns [when he died, the father buried three pots of money, put a ruby on each; the youngest son secretly took one ruby; the brothers went to the Shah's clever daughters - let them decide which one of them took a ruby; on the way they noticed: a woman was sitting under this tree; pregnant; ran away from her husband; a crooked camel was walking along the way without one tooth; on one side there was a pack of butter, on the other hand with honey; described the woman's signs to her husband, who was looking for her; he accused them of kidnapping; the same is the owner of the missing camel; the brothers explain to the Shah: a woman was sitting, leaning her hands, which means she was pregnant, and when she went, she went to the other side, so the fugitive; the camel ate grass on one side of the road, some blades of grass remained intact; where there were flies, there was oil, where there were bees, there was honey; the first princess undertook to find the ruby thief; served pilaf; meat was human (the lamb was fed by a woman); princess: these people are too smart; another princess sent a maid to carry food and pass on: seven heavens, the sky is in the clouds, but there are many stars; brothers: the sky is five, the sky is clear, there are no stars; the princess to the maid: how dare she eat two loaves and meat? disguised as a man, the princess tells a story; the vizier's daughter agrees to the gardener's request to come to him on her wedding night when she marries; told her husband about it and he let her go; on the way ran into a tiger, then a robber, asked her to eat it or pick it up when she returned; the gardener released the woman, the robber and the tiger too; the Shah's daughter asks the brothers which of the participants to whom liked it; elder: husband, middle: tiger, younger: thief; princess: younger and took the ruby; go home, your business is resolved, return the ruby]: Lebedev 1972, No. 22:192-198; Burishi [the prince's daughter is dumb, he promises it to whoever starts talking to her; many tried unsuccessfully, losers were beheaded; one prince's monkey ordered her to be hidden behind the door, let him, in the presence of the princess, turn to doors, she will answer; the monkey says that when he died, one king told three sons to go to his friend another king; he asks the princes how they were honored at home; one says that everyone is for him the day they changed his bed linen, the second that he was well fed, the third was that his clothes were changed every day; the king tells him to do so; the princes are dissatisfied: one had a log (this is hair) in bed, the second had a log (this is hair) ghee tasted like goat's milk (the kid was there when the butter was being cooked), the third had clothes pricked (it had one thorn); the monkey asks who was softer, the prince replies that the younger prince ; princess objects - the elder who mistook the hair for a log; everyone is happy]: Lorimer 1935, No. 2:405-409.

Baltoscandia. Scandinavians [King Horwendil of Denmark married Rorik's daughter Geruda; they have a son, Amled; brother H. Fengo killed him out of envy and married G.; she allegedly suffered from H.'s arbitrariness; in order not to arouse his uncle's suspicion, A. pretended to be insane; but not everyone believed it; they decided to slip a woman into him, but this is not helped to understand whether A. was ill or just pretending; one of F.'s close associates offered to hide in straw and overhear A.'s conversation with her mother when they were alone; A., still imitating madness, killed who hid, cut him to pieces, poured it all into pigs; then he reproached his mother for betraying her late husband; they began to look for F.'s close associate, A. said that pigs ate him, no one believed him; then F. sent A. with two companions to the King of Britain; A. found a request from the satellites to kill A., replaced him with a request to kill the companions themselves; did not eat anything at King A.'s feast; said that the bread was splattered blood, drink tastes like iron, meat smells like corpses and a crypt, the king has the eyes of a slave, and the queen has the manners of a servant; when he learned this, the king began to find out; it turned out that the bread was grown on the site of an old battle; the pigs ate the robber's rotting corpse; the water for the drink came from a well containing rusty swords (or that the mead was made from honey from bees that ate the fat of the dead); the king's mother admitted that he born to a slave, and the Queen's mother was a maid; appreciated A.'s wisdom, the King of Britain gave him his daughter, and hanged his companions; returning to Denmark, unrecognized A. watered wine to everyone at the feast; fell asleep; A. threw heavy curtains on them and burned down the palace; when he entered F., swapped his swords; A.'s sword was jammed with a nail in his sheath, F. could not pull it out, A. hacked him]: Saxon Grammar 2017 (1): III.3.6:106-116; Norwegians [three brothers come to the king, do not take off their hats to him, refuse the food and drink offered; the king is outraged, but they explain the reasons for their behavior; the king makes sure they are right]: Hodne 1984, No. 655:149; Danes, Finns, Estonians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 655:361-362.

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars [the padishah orders to bring the best and most worthless person; the old man comes himself; calls the padishah unfit; breaks his gems: these are glass; the best horse He relieves himself by entering the river: he is unbred; the padishah is the son of a baker (talking, he rewarded the old man with bread); the baker's old wife admits that she changed her newborn son for the daughter of the padishah's father's wife ]: Zamaletdinov 2010, No. 28:96-99.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Sidelnikov 1952 (Zmeinogorsky District, Tomsk Gubernia) [=1958:294-303; when he dies, Nurzhan tells his three sons that he left gold; let them take it if necessary; the brothers buried gold in the cave; in winter they went broke and dug money, but the third part disappeared; the brothers went to the wise bay Baltekey; on the way, Akyt sees the trail of a tired camel, Sabit says that the camel was crooked to the right eye, Rude, that he was carrying a bucket of honey; the owner was looking for a camel; when he learned that the brothers knew the signs of a camel, he went with them to B.; after serving pilaf, B. began to eavesdrop; S.: rice grew in the cemetery; A.: the ram sucked the female ; H.: the owner is illegitimate; B. learned from the shepherd, field owner and his mother that everything is so; the brothers explained how they guessed it (the illegitimate speaks with his eyes down); told how learned about the camel's signs; then B. talks about a girl who was passed off as an unloved one; the groom allowed her to go say goodbye to her lover; he let her go back; thieves attacked her, their chieftain let her go; B. asks: who is nobler? H. says he's a thief; B. tells him to return the money, which he did]: 191-198; Coyaud 2012, No. 95 (Xinjiang) [King Madan sends 40 ministers to deliver him the most useless plant, the ugliest bird and the most insignificant man; ministers chose a pheasant during molting and thistle, found an insignificant shepherd; the shepherd advises choosing magpie and rose hips; both are beautiful but useless, while the pheasant is delicious, and the thistle burns well; the king is intrigued; the shepherd continues to show his deceptive appearance; the royal horse drinks water like cows drink (the king began to ask - the foal was fed a cow milk); there is a worm in the precious stone; the king himself is of low origin; the king's mother admitted that the previous khan had only daughters and he promised to kill her if there was no son; she exchanged babies with cook; shepherd explained that the king first thing he did was show him the kitchen]: 247-251; Kyrgyz: Brudny 1954 [khan ordered him to bring a fool; every worker replies that he is not a fool and will not go; plowman: your fool is a khan and you; a man was brought to the khan; he tells you to test tulpara; man: he has donkey blood and cow habits; khan's mother: donkeys fell into horse herds, and a foal sucked a cow; khan: how found out? man: tulpar jerked his foot like a cow and screamed like a donkey; Khan: Which of us is Khan's child, me or my wife? man: wife, and you are the son of a baker; Khan's mother: I gave birth to girls, my husband wanted a son, we exchanged children with the baker's wife; not wanting to be separated from my daughter, I married her to you; Khan: How did I find out? man: you gave me a cake and your wife a gold coin; Khan: Where is God? man: God must be talked about in a decent outfit; the khan changes clothes with a man; a man in a khan's outfit orders the execution of a fool who was a khan]: 48-52 (=Brudny, Eshmambetov 1968:188-193); Ledenev 1987 [three brothers lost their ox; the eldest: the ox is yellow-faced, stunted; the middle: blue-eyed; the youngest: his name is Kurmangaly; the brothers came to the khan and saw the thief; the khan threatened K. and he confessed, but not understands how it was discovered; Khan to brothers: what's under the bowl? elder: round; medium: red; younger: pomegranate; khan treated brothers; elder: desecrated meat, medium: dead, younger: dog; shepherd: lamb mother fed by dog; khan appointed brothers to rule instead]: 141-144 (=Sulaimanov 1998:117-123); Kyrgyz (Chuy Province, 1966) [Mendirman wandered into Khan Karakan's city, got a job as a cook; then K. instructed him to look after his tulpar; he fattened, but much less barley began to go away; M.: the former servants stole; in addition, unchewed grains can be washed out of the manure and fed again; the khan ordered to secretly monitor M.; the spy reported, that M. thinks that there is something from a cow in tulpar; M. explained: only the cow is mad in the heat, the tulpar is also worried; the herd admitted that the foal managed to suck the cow; the khan orders to evaluate it himself; M.: on one side - Khan's son, on the other - the son of a baker; Khan's mother admitted that she gave birth to a girl and replaced her with a baker's son; and the baker's son likes to treat her with bread; K. made M. one of the horsemen, then as the leader of 40, then as the chief vizier; choose the girl you like; M. found Gulgaaki, got married; horsemen: G. is worthy not of M., but of you; the old woman promised to take away M.'s wife; we must pretend if she is sick, send M. to Ayocon for milk; she swallows everyone who comes to her, and there are 40 robbers on the way; M. ordered the blacksmiths an iron house with seven-row walls; K. repents, but M. everything rides equally; horse: 40 robbers are waiting for us; but they themselves asked M. to make them their horsemen; the horse teaches us how to get there, say: 'Assaloom alaikum, mother'; she will say: 'If he hadn't said hello, not You would be well, son. ' Say, 'If I hadn't answered the greeting, mother, I would have exhausted you. ' She will ask: 'Why did you come, son? ' Answer: Get your milk. ' She'll say 'Here's my milk! ' , and will spin the boiler about 40 ears. I'll be shorter than a rabbit and you'll be as grip as a hawk. Put a cauldron with forty ears on my mane, and I'll ride away with it. If we can't get hold of the cauldron, we'll be lost and she'll swallow you and me. If we take the pot away, she admits defeat, call us back; that's what happened; Ayocon said she didn't have milk, it was a hoax; she pulled out her mustache and gave it to M.; M. returned to town to K., and then dolomali six walls near M.'s wife's iron house, set about the seventh; a brutal battle; M. set fire to A.'s mustache; Ayokon flew into the khan's possessions, swallowed both the dog that barks and the cow that was mooing; khan: Take away yours monster, become a khan instead of me! "] : Kebekova, Tokombaeva 2007:71-77; Uighurs [father sends three sons to see the world; they take turns guarding at night; the eldest killed a tiger, made himself a belt out of skin; the middle one takes turns guarding a dragon, the same ; the younger one goes out, he comes to a house, there are robbers, he pretends to be a robber too; when they go to rob the treasury, he kills them one at a time, takes off the ring and jewelry from three sleepers girls, returns to his brothers; khan invites them to his place; elder: lamb meat fed by a dog; medium: wine smells of blood; younger: Khan's father is a musician; Khan overhears, asks the cook gardener (a murdered thief is buried under a grape bush), a nurse (khansha changed the musician's stillborn son to a newborn son); brothers receive three Khan's daughters; they return with their wives to their father's house]: Kabirov 1963:174-182.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Shors [the old man took his three sons to bury the gold, ordered him to divide him equally after his death; when the brothers decided to dig, there was no gold; they went to Almas Kaan; the eldest: a horse was walking along the road tired; medium: there was honey in the bag; younger: it was a white mare blind in one eye; they told the khan, who asked how they found out; the tired horse lacks its front legs; along the road there were dead flies, husbands smelled of honey; the horse pinched the grass only on the left side, white hair fell from the tail - the mare's hair does not hold well, the urine decays; the kaan ordered to feed brothers; younger: barley grew in the cemetery; meat from a ram that sucked the dog; the youngest refused to drink surazov wine, because kaan is suraz; Kaan's mother confirmed everything, including that she gave birth to him from Suraza after the death of your first husband; kaan to him: you stole gold, why did you come? younger brother: to announce that the kaan is suraz; out of shame, the kaan ran away from home]: Chudoyakov 2002:97-99; Khakas [when dying, the father took out the hidden gold and silver, divided it between three sons; fearing to keep the money at home, they buried it at the owaa; when they went to check, there was no money; blaming each other, the brothers went to the khan; on the way they saw hoof marks; elder: piebald, middle: mare, younger : loaded with honey; then they see traces of maral; elder: one-eyed, middle: one-horned, younger: limping on his right back leg; khan tells the brothers that he is leaving now and their case will be considered tomorrow; let the wife will slaughter a lamb, feed his brothers; older brother: gives meat with a dog; middle: human; younger: the roll gives a human; the wife told the khan, who asked the maid; the maid: the lamb is fed with dog milk; drank water from a well where human remains were found; wheat was sown in the cemetery; the owners of the mare and maral came when the brothers said they knew about the mare and accused them of stealing; recognized by their fallen fur; mares urinate differently than stallions; flies accumulated on drops of honey; maral pinched grass on one side of the path; bark ripped off the bark from trees with a horn on one side; hoof marks on the back legs across; then the khan tells how he went to a wealthy merchant with a daughter; she left money on the table (not afraid that the khan would take it), put it next to her (not afraid that the khan would take it) will master it); older and middle brothers: a decent girl; younger: I would take the money and hug the girl; the khan tells me to beat my younger brother with a rod, he immediately confessed and gave the money]: Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 26:437-447; Tuvans: Taube 1978, No. 63 (Mongun-Taiga) [=Samdan 1994, No. 10:321-325; seeing the old camp, the clever guy determined that the sheep included a white goat with a black head and one camel was crooked; the woman living in the yurt was pregnant; explained to the khan that there was a white stone and a goat lay on it; the camel pinched only on the side where the eye was healthy; when the woman urinated, she leaned on the ground with his hands; the khan ordered to slaughter a ram for the boy, serve araks; guy: I do not eat dogs, I do not drink cowhide, the khan himself is an illegitimate child; Khan's mother: the lamb was fed by a dog; when cooking araks in ice was placed in the bowl with a frozen hair ring for the ox nostrils; Khan gave birth to a commoner; the khan did not execute the guy, but praised him]: 296-298; Vatagin 1971 [the horse was taken away from three brothers; the eldest: on other side of the river; middle: a man from a white yurt; younger: his name is Oodezhik; O. hides something - guess; older: under the rug; middle: with long legs; younger: spider; O. says they peeked , tells them to leave the yurt; the brothers returned: in the chest - the berry - the rose hips; O. returned the horse; the trail in the steppe; the elder: the wheel of the cart is broken; the middle: the camel is blind, the horse with a short tail; the youngest: the owner has daughter and pregnant wife; brothers caught up with the nomads, the khan placed them in a yurt, began to eavesdrop; brothers: this is not a khan, not an araka, and water is not lamb, but a dog; mother hanu: Khan left for a long time, your father a simple man; the lamb was allowed to see the dog; ice fell into the cup of arak; the khan escorted the brothers with honors]: 165-167; the Mongols (khalha?) [testing the abilities of smart brothers, the khan hides various objects; the man asks if the young man has seen his donkey; he describes the donkey, but the owner does not believe that he did not see the donkey himself; the young man says that Khan is of low origin; impressed by his ingenuity, the khan brings him closer to him; to the judge, the young man explains how he identified the characteristics of the donkey; released]: Lörincz 1979, No. 655:275-276; The Mongols of Ordos [{p. 143 not available in pdf}; parallel in a Buryat fairy tale; three brothers accused the man of stealing a bull; he first confessed and then complained to the khan; the brothers replied that they did not see the bull, but they are sure of the theft; the khan went to the field three times, clenched something in his fist and offered to determine what it was; each time the eldest starts, the middle adds, the youngest gives the final answer; 1) red; red and tenacious; yuyuba fruit; 2) alive; multi-legged; black smelly worm; 3) brown; concave; sandalwood bucket; khan sent tyumlyash (nobles) to overhear the brothers' conversation; those they say that the khan is not of royal blood; the khan was killed, the elder brother was made khan, his brothers were Tyumlyush]: Potanin 1892:143-144.