M199. Squeeze water out of the stone, ATU 1060.

.14.-.17.21.23.27.-.34.

A man and a giant (devil, predator, robber) agree to test their strength by crushing a stone. A man presses a piece of cheese, an egg, etc., the giant believes that he has a strong man in front of him. {ATU 1060, without specifying this in the definition, includes options in which the character squeezes the brain (intestines, etc.) out of the ground; where we have been able to test, we do not include such traditions}.

Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Spaniards, Basques, Catalans, Portuguese, Galicians, Italians (Tuscany, Abruzzo, Basilicata), Sardinians, Maltese, Sicilians, Ladins, Scots, Irish, Frisians, Dutch, French, Flemish, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Upper Palatinate, Switzerland, Austria), Yemen, Ancient India, Burmese Naga, Hungarians, Slovenes, Serbs, Bosnians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Albanians, Greeks, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Luzhitans, Russians (Olonetskaya, Vladimir, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Ugric Russia, Hutsulshchina, Galicia, Pokutye, Yekaterinoslavskaya, Kharkiv), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Adygs, Kabardian people, Abkhazians, Abazans, Balkarians, Karachays or Balkarians, Ossetians, Avars, Laki, Georgians, Megrelians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Talysh, Persians, Turkmens, Uzbeks, Rushans, Baluchis, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Swedes, Western Sami, Finns, Estonians, Livs, Warriors, Veps, Karelians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Western Sami, Chuvash, Mari, Udmurts, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tuvans, Khalkha Mongols, Mongols of Inner Mongolia, Dagurs.

North Africa. Morocco, Algeria, Libya: El-Shamy 2004, No. 1060:700.

Southern Europe. Basques [three brothers go to look for work; mother warns not to hire a red-bearded man; red-bearded to meet; older brothers refuse, younger agrees; whoever gets angry first is the first the other one rips off the skin from his back to make sandals; the guy is told to bring the straightest and most crooked firewood from the forest, he does everything (the curves are the vine); herd pigs, and Tartar lives in these places; the guy took a bird, a son, a skein of thread; T. offers to compete; who throws the stone next (the guy released the bird); whoever breaks the stone by throwing it (the guy throws a piece of cheese flies into small pieces); you have to separate the guy's pigs and T.; guy: all those with two ears and one tail are mine; running away from T., the guy wrapped his pork intestines and then left them, shouting that it's easier to run; T. tore out his guts and died; the guy cut off the pigs' tails, put them in the swamp, and really drowned a few; the red-bearded began to pull - the tails come off, the guy pulls out the pigs; the guy pulls out the pigs; the guy ripped off the skin of a red-bearded man from his back, returned home rich]: Barbier 1931, No. 4:81-84; Catalans (incl. Mallorca) [the giant and the hero compete to see who is stronger; the giant holds a stone in his hand, it becomes hot; the person easily does the same with a piece of cheese]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 1060:207-208; Portuguese [a giant breaks a stone in his hand and a man presses a piece of cheese]: Cardigos 2006, No. 1060:265-266; the Galicians [clever brother herding sheep, saw a giant crush a stone with his hand, terrified ran home; a foolish man took a piece of butter from his mother, squeezed it, the giant took him into service; offers a competition: who will punch a hole in the rock deeper; the man knocked the hole out with a chisel at night and sealed with paper; pretended to break a hole, and when the giant tried it, he broke his fingers; who would knock down more pines with one blow; at night, a man cut down the pines and knocked down 7, and the giant 3; who would eat more potatoes; a man puts potatoes in a bag hidden under his clothes; who runs faster; a man pretends to rip his stomach open in order to run faster, asks a woman to give him a knife, rips open the bag, potatoes fall out; the giant also asks for a knife, ripped his stomach open and dies]: Contos 1972, No. 76:74-77; the Maltese [ignoring advice not to go where the giant lives or intentionally there sent, a poor man (a young shepherd, etc.) meets a lion man in the forest; he crushes a stone in his hand, the man squeezes juice out of the cheese; the man has mixed milk, molasses and stone chips in advance, in front of the giant crumbles it with his hand, squeezing the juice; the giant is amazed]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 1060:434-436; the Spaniards (Murcia) [the man pretends to crush stones with his hand, although they are lumps of fat; the giant is amazed]: Herná ; ndez Fernández 2013, No. 1060:177; Sicilians [a shoemaker hits cheese with a shoe, killing 500 flies and injuring 400; comes to the king, says he killed 500 and wounded 400; the king tells him to kill the giant- an ogre; a shoemaker meets a giant; clutches a piece of alabaster, the cannibal believes it is marble, leads to him; asks for a jug of water, a shoemaker pretends to bring the whole well, a cannibal he goes to get water himself; at night, the shoemaker puts a pumpkin in his place, the cannibal hits it, thinking that it is the head of a shoemaker; he says that the flea bites; the cannibal offers to eat a pot of pasta; the tailor ties a bag, puts pasta in it, pretends to cut his stomach, pasta falls out; the cannibal cuts his stomach, dies; the shoemaker shows the king a murdered ogre, gets a princess] : Crane 1885, No. 19:95-96; Italians (Tuscany, Abruzzo, Basilicata), Sardinians: Cirese, Serafini 1975, 3 1060:260; ladins [the tailor decided to become a shepherd; got a job in the fall cheese; when I woke up, I saw that the cheese was covered with flies; killed 50 with one blow; wrote "50 with one blow" on his hat, went on a journey; the king tells him to defeat the giant, promises his daughter; the tailor fed the bird, put it in his pocket; the giant offers to crush a stone in his fist, the tailor crushed the cheese; to throw a stone, released the bird; the giant bent the tree, the tailor climbed to the top of his head, the giant let go, that took off; invites the giant to learn to fly too; he fell into a ravine and crashed; now the king orders to kill a horned dragon; the tailor hid behind a tree, the dragon's horns are stuck in the trunk, his tailor decapitated; king: I have already promised my daughter to the minister; let her lie between you; whoever she faces in the morning will marry; at the feast, the minister got drunk, at night he was full of fumes and the princess turned to the tailor's side; he received the princess, and after his father-in-law's death, the throne]: Brunold-Bigler, Widner 2004, No. 44:261-268.

Western Europe. Germans (Mecklenburg) [tailor Hans wondered how tedious it was to live and work; began to beat flies; wrote "50 with one blow" on a piece of paper, hung it on the wall of his house; there is a giant in the kingdom every year he takes 10 girls away; the king promises money, honor and a daughter to the winner of the giant; two noble people saw G.'s inscription, offered to fight the giant; G.: now I'm tired, it would be nice first to eat at the king's house for four weeks; G. fell in love with the princess and was ready to die; went to the giant's castle, climbed the apple tree, left the castle, the giant pulled him off the apple tree and asked which He would like to die by death; G. suggests first finding out which one is stronger; the giant crushed the stone with his hand; G. squeezed water out of a piece of cheese; the giant threw a stone, G. released a lark - he did not return; the giant invited G. to the castle as a guest; G. did not lie on the iron bed, but climbed under it; at the fullest, the giant hit the bed with an iron club; G. as if through sleep: mosquitoes; after the second blow: flies; after Third: Is it you, giant? I'll show you now; the giant begs him to forgive him, G. threatens to destroy everything; gives life for promising to leave the kingdom; he did it immediately; G. released 10 prisoners did; the king does not give promised until G. kills the unicorn; he again demands 4 weeks to eat in the palace; in the forest, the unicorn rushed to G., who hid behind the bud, pierced the oak horn and got stuck; for the third time, the king orders to kill boar; 4 weeks later G. went into the forest, taking a bag of peas; scattered it along the path leading to the church; hid himself behind the door; the boar entered the church, G. jumped out and locked the door from the outside; made a hole in the roof and told the king that he had thrown the boar and he fell into the church, breaking the roof; wedding and celebration]: Bartsch 1889, No. 14:501-507; Germans (Upper Palatinate) [the tailor found a ribbon that read "Seven One with a blow", attached it to him, met a giant; he decided to feed him cherries and then eat it; bent the tree, the tailor climbed, the giant let go of the tree, the tailor took off and landed imperceptibly; caught a bird; offered to compete who would throw a stone higher; released the bird himself; the giant squeezed water out of the stone, and the tailor squeezed milk from cheese; the giant brought them to his cave, where there are 12 giants; the tailor found the door, went down the aisle to the ground and entered a city where mourning; dragons, giants and snakes were rampant; it was the royal daughter's turn to be eaten by the dragon; the king gave the tailor a sword; the tailor knew when the giants were sleeping, he cut off their heads, took their eyes and tongues; brought the barrel to the tree where the serpent lived; he climbed into the barrel, smelling a man, and the tailor cut him down; hiding in an iron wagon, hacked him dragons; received a princess; she hears her husband muttering about scissors and cloth in a dream; the tailor guessed it and the next night only pretended to be asleep, and began to mumble about battles and victories; the king sent son-in-law against enemies; the horse was carried, the tailor grabbed the cross, carried it, the enemies thought that the Christian god himself was jumping on them and fled; they lived happily ever after]: Schönwerth 1858, No. 14:280-288; Germans (Switzerland) [the giant met a tailor; he said he was stronger than him, squeezed a piece of cheese, water flowed, the giant believed that the tailor had squeezed a piece of flint; the dragon demands girls, the king was forced to give his daughter; the king promises his daughter to the deliverer; the tailor and the giant went to the dragon's lair; the tailor began to pull him out with ticks, and the giant prepared a hammer; the dragon swallowed the tailor, but the giant killed the dragon with a hammer and took the tailor out of his belly; the king does not know who to give his daughter to; the tailor offers a competition: who eats more; he quietly puts food into a tied bag, wins; the giant : how do you manage to eat so much; tailor: you have to rip your stomach open; ripped the bag open; the giant ripped open his stomach and measures]: Sutermeister 1869, No. 40:81-84; Germans [village teacher went to haymaking; hell wanted to grab him, he squeezed the cheese, and said that the stone would also flow water from the devil; the devils offer a bag of gold coins if the teacher agreed to serve them for a year; they sent to bring water, that pretends to dig in and bring the entire well; they tell him to bring an oak tree, the teacher pretends to cut down the entire forest; the devils decided to get rid of the worker before the deadline; they had to pay the money and bring it themselves; the teacher taught the students what to say; the children started shouting, "I want damn meat," the hell threw the bag, ran away; the young devil came to figure it out; the teacher to fight with his grandfather (a bear in a cage), the hell is a little alive; run with his grandson (let the hare out); throw a hammer into the sky; teacher: I have a relative in heaven as a blacksmith, he will need a hammer; then the hell offered to throw a stone, the teacher released a goldfinch; whoever clicks louder; the devil clicks the whip; the teacher tells him to blindfold, hits him with a club; fight with swords; the teacher drew a long line, and took a short one himself, the line ran out; then the devil asked for a short one; the teacher advised him to climb into the pigsty, stuck it through the crack; scratch (the teacher took the brushes); the hell blew, the teacher was under the ceiling; says that darns holes so that when he blows, the devil does not fly to the moon]: Zerf 1992:105-110; Germans (Austria) [the tailor slammed 9 flies, wrote "nine with one blow" on a piece of paper, put it under his hat; servant the king noticed that the king tells the tailor to kill three giants; they suggest throwing a stone into the sky (the tailor releases a bird), crumbling stones (the tailor squeezes water from the cottage cheese); who will eat more (tailor puts pasta under her clothes); in front of the woman she pretends to cut her stomach to throw off the pasta, as it prevents her from running; the woman told the giants they were stabbed; the tailor brings it languages to the king, receives an award]: Cerf 1992:247-250; the Irish [squeeze water out of the stone - the giant cannot]: Jackson 1936, No. 1060:290; the French [poor shoemaker wanders complaining about fate; buys cheese and a ball of thread; enters the robber's castle in the forest; offers to compete: who will throw a stone higher; the chieftain promises him a quarter of the castle if he wins; threw a stone, the shoemaker released the bird is recognized as the winner; who can squeeze milk out of the oak; the chieftain squeezes the oak, something drips; the shoemaker hugs the oak, squeezed the cheese, the milk pours; gets the second quarter of the castle; who will break the bigger branch size; the chieftain breaks an oak branch, the shoemaker begins to thread the entire oak; he is stopped - we believe that you are stronger; at night, the shoemaker puts a bubble of blood on the bed and lies under the bed; they come in three robbers pierce the bubble with a knife; in the morning the shoemaker is alive and well; gets the whole lock, but agrees to exchange it for gold; takes the gold, but the other robbers took it away; the shoemaker, however, is happy; married a kind girl and had a good life]: Cosquin 1886, No. 25:258-259; Scots, Friesians, Dutch, Flemish: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1060:24.

Western Asia. Yemen: El-Shamy 2004, No. 1060:700.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Burma's Naga [the tiger invites the frog to gnaw the stone, gnaws it into powder; the frog only hurt its mouth, but quietly spit out the stone and showed blood: it squeezed blood out of the stone; tiger offers to jump across the lake; the frog clung to its tail, is also on the other side; the frog regurgitates the tiger hair that falls into its mouth, says that frogs used to eat tigers, just they're tired of it; the tiger is running away]: Zapadova 1977:242-244.

South Asia. Ancient India [motive recorded in Panchatantra {would test}]: Cooper 1970:273.

The Balkans. Slovenes [the peasant sowed oats, the hare and the bear began to go to the field; the bear to the hare: get out of my oats; the hare: whoever squeezes water out of the stone owns oats; the hare sprayed in advance stone with water, the bear wanted to run away; the hare offered to sleep, really fell asleep; the bear looks and sees that the hare's eyes are open, frightened again, ran, met the wolf; the wolf led him back; the bear picked him up the wolf so that he could see the place where the hare is sitting, but squeezed so much that the wolf is dead; the bear thinks that the hare killed him with his gaze; therefore, we have many hares, but neither wolves (the bear strangled the last one) nor bears (left)]: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:235-236; Hungarians [a donkey speaks to a lion (bear, wolf) who has not seen him before that he is a shepherd carrier, king of rams; the lion demands that the donkey show his donkey strength in practice; launches its claws into the ground, water splashes; the donkey lets out a stream of urine - extracts water with less effort; donkey: if I throw one ear back, then I'm angry, and if both, then I'm terribly angry and strong then more; the lion runs away, meets the wolf; he leads him back to lift the donkey together, they tied up with a rope woven from branches; seeing that the donkey has thrown both ears back and roars, the lion flees dragging a wolf with him; seeing a dead ox grin, the lion notices: you are funny, but I'm afraid]: Kovács 1987, № 118A*: 268-269; Moldovans [bear wants to eat the miller's horse; he suggests to see who is stronger; the bear crumbled a large stone into the sand; the horse knocked fire out of the stone with its hooves; the bear is frightened; agrees to drive the horse where the grass is better; when he learns that the horses sleep standing, the bear waited while the horse froze and ran away; the wolf calls the bear a coward and tells him to show where the horse is; the bear picked it up, so squeezed it that the wolf is dead; bear: only saw the horse once and died immediately; set off to run again away]: Moldavian tales 1969:375-377; Bulgarians [the hero squeezed cheese (cottage cheese, egg) instead of stone, liquid flowed; the snake really squeezed the stone (iron), but only crushed it, and the liquid did not flowed]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1060:379; Romanians [a shepherd named Stan-le-Roc has no children; he met God and St. Peter, they are ready to fulfill his wishes; he asked for children three times; when he returned home, he saw a house full of children, everyone was hungry; he sold everything, left; the shepherds say that they are tyrannized by the dragon, ready to give a third the herd to the one who kills him; S. tells the dragon that he is stronger than him; the dragon offers challenges; S. squeezed the cheese, the water has flowed, the dragon could not squeeze water out of the stone; the dragon hired S. to serve, promising gold; the dragon threw an iron club; S. pretends to wait for the moon to be gone, otherwise his brother, a blacksmith, will take the club; the dragon tells him not to throw; tells him to bring water, S. begins to dig in the well, to take everything at once; refuses to carry a tree, but begins to tie the forest with a rope to take everything at once; hears the dragon negotiating with his mother to hit him at night with a club; puts himself under the blanket is a log; in the morning he says that the fleas have bitten; pretends to stay for another two years; he is given not 1, but 3 sums of gold; the dragon agrees to take him to S. home; when they approach, S. explains that children are screaming because they want dragon babies; the dragon ran away; those S.'s children who didn't die still live]: Kremnitz 1882, No. 1:1-16 (=Nortines 1935:113-124); Romanians [shepherds complain that the dragon steals the sheep; Stan promises to defeat him; the dragon offers to squeeze water out of the stone; S. squeezes a piece of cheese; the dragon takes S. to serve for three days, promises gold; the dragon's mother offers first test the servant's power; the dragon throws an iron mace over 5 mountains; S. looks closely to throw the mace on the moon; the dragon asks not to throw; S. pretends to dig a well so as not to carry water into wineskin; ties the forest with a rope to carry everything away at once; at night he puts a stump in his place, covers it with a blanket; the dragon hits him with a mace; in the morning S. says that flies tickled; the dragon pays money for the year and himself carries; S.: my kids love dragon meat; the dragon comes up, the kids scream what they want to eat; the dragon left the gold, ran away]: Mirener 1958:19-26; Bosnians [9 giants have a mill; who is there he will go, he will not return; in the village the peasant has three sons, the youngest fool; he decided to go to the mill, taking a bag of ash, cheese and a drill; a giant came in, the guy threw ash into his eyes; the giant offered to measure with strength; crushed the stone with his hand, but did not squeeze the water; the guy squeezed the cheese; the giant offers to make holes in the log with his finger; the guy drilled 5 holes in advance; the guy climbed the cherry, and the giant climbed her tilted and held; decided to collect it too, let go, the guy flew far and fell on the hare; brought it - they say, caught it; to make a cow pen, the guy breaks branches, not pulls trees - says that it will be stronger; roasted a cow - who will eat more; the guy quietly throws meat behind him; who will throw a stone next; the guy pretends to throw over the ninth mountain; giant: no need, this is my house; brought him home; the guy was supposed to get into the vat for the night, but hid behind the vat; at night, the giants poured a pot of boiling water into the vat; in the morning the water cooled down and the guy lay down in the vat; the next night the guy was sent to the stable, and he hid behind the barn; the stable was set on fire, the boy was unharmed in the morning; on the third night, the giants blew out the cannon to where the boy was supposed to sleep, but he lay down elsewhere; on the fourth night, the giants poured boiling water for a vat, and the guy slept inside the vat; the giants loaded the guy with ducats and let him go home, and then chased after him; guy: 9 giants robbed and robbed nine more; the giants returned to their homes]: Eschker 1992, No. 12:68-73; Bosnians [the gypsy stole a bag of corn, began to grind it in an abandoned mill; a giant came; the gypsy squeezed the cheese, the giant believed that it had squeezed water out of the stone; brought an ox, telling Bring firewood to the gypsy; he pretends to bring a whole beech, the giant broke off the branches himself; the gypsy hides pieces of meat, the giant believes that he ate more than he has; the giant bent the cherries, then lets go the gypsy threw it up, he grabbed the daw, said he jumped after it; he could not bring a wineskin of water, pretends to move the spring; he ties the forest with a rope, pretends to bring it in its entirety; at night he put a saddle on the bed instead of himself, the giants hit him with a hammer, in the morning the gypsy said that fleas were biting; giants compete to see who would throw a stone next; the gypsy pretends to aim at a distant tower; the giants stop him - their king lives there; the giants themselves brought a wineskin of gold to the gypsy's house; the gypsy says his chimney will answer; the giants are frightened, they run away, the gold remains for the gypsy]: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:72-76; Albanians [every night a bear slaughters several shepherd's sheep; the dervish promises to help, let only a shepherd give him sheep cheese; invites the bear to measure his strength; crushed three heads of goat cheese, the bear could not crush the stone; the bear suggests that the dervish go for firewood and let him bring the bull; dervish: because of such a little thing as a bull, I won't go anywhere, though a lion would be needed; the bear went after the bull himself, and sent the dervish for firewood; he begins to entangle the forest with a rope to tear out all the trees at once; the bear is amazed, brings firewood himself; leaving the bear to fry the meat, the dervish goes for water; pretends to bring the spring along with the rock; the bear brings a wineskin of water himself; the bear offers to fight; he squeezes the dervish so much that his face turns red; dervish: not I want to squeeze you like this - you'll turn into minced meat; the bear asks why the dervish hardly eats; he says he has recently eaten sheep; the bear takes him to his place; tells his mother and sister to sharpen the ax, but the sister warned the dervish about the bear's intention to kill him at night; the dervish did not lie on the bed, but hid under a pack saddle; the bear struck three or four blows where he thought the dervish was lying; in the morning he complained that fleas were biting; the bear was delighted; asked him to make him just as strong; dervish: to do this, you have to put your head in boiling milk; the bear cooked; as a reward, the dervish took only the shepherd goat; spent the night in a wolf's lair; the wolf ate the goat; the dervish took off his pants out of annoyance and shut the way out of the lair; the wolf got stuck, the dervish put it in his pants like a bag and carried it with him in the morning; meets him in the village priest; says he carries a shepherd that should not be fed; the priest let the shepherd into the cat; he did not find any sheep in the morning; took a gun and went to look for the dervish; thieves ask him to split the money; dervish: first I will tie you to a tree so that you don't quarrel; I took all the money; the priest untied it and together they came to the dervish's house; he called for help and the neighbors tore those who came to pieces]: Dozon 1881, No. 3:17-25; Greeks: Dawkins 1916 (Asia Minor) [the wife kicked the cowardly old man out of the house; he asked for flour and two eggs; met two bears; they offered to crush the stone into flour and squeeze it out stone water; the man hid the stone and took flour, crushed the egg; the bears brought it to their house; decided to pour two boilers of boiling water on it at night; the man put a log in its place; the bears poured boiling water and they beat him at this place with a club; in the morning the man said that he was sweating and the lice were biting; the next night the bears killed him]: 551-555; Hahn 1864 (1), No. 18 (Epirus) [the shepherd answers Beardless that he cannot give cheese for him, because the dragon eats everything; the beardless took cheese in his hand, put on iron shoes, poured coals on the floor; when the dragon came, he squeezed water out of the cheese, saying that it was a stone, stepping on the coals, knocked out the fire out of the ground; the dragon promised to leave the shepherd alone and make friends with Beardless; they began to hunt; the beardless was chased by a boar, who went to a tree, the boar plunged its fangs into the trunk and got stuck; the Beardless told the dragon carry the caught pig; the dragon offered to fight, Beardless has an eye on his forehead; explains what he is looking, throw the dragon east or west; he was frightened; invited; Beardless left on a bag of straw in his bed, the dragon chopped it, in the morning the Beardless says that the flea bit; said that he could not be killed or injured, promised to make the dragon the same; ordered him to climb into the barrel, closed it, cooked it; the dragon's mother only fished her son's boiled dicks; the grateful shepherd gave the Beardless sheep; on the way, she was stolen by a fox, hid in a hole; the Beardless left an empty pumpkin in front of the entrance, which is in the wind it was buzzing; on the fourth day, the fox could no longer stand the thirst, went out, saw that it was just a pumpkin, tied it to its tail and went to drown it in the sea; fell and drowned]: 104-109.

Central Europe. The Czechs [the gypsy went to serve the line; pretended to dig in a well to bring plenty of water at once; who tied the forest with a rope, bring all the trees at once; the old devil advised the young kill the gypsy at night with an iron stick; he lay down elsewhere, leaving his sheepskin coat on the bed; hell hit, the gypsy sighed: the flea bit; the old devil advised him to pay off the gypsy with money; young offered to compete first; 1) kick a stone (the gypsy poured water under the stone, she splashed, the hell believed that the gypsy squeezed water out of the stone); 2) who would throw an iron stick higher (gypsy: I have two in the sky blacksmith brother, hell tells me not to leave); 3) race (the gypsy offers a younger brother instead of himself, this is a hare); 4) fight (instead of a gypsy, his father is a bear); 5) who whistles louder (the gypsy tells Blindfold the line, hits him in the ears with an iron club); the devil left the money and left]: Erben in Lifshits-Artemyeva 2017:148-152; Czechs [Ondra's son, father sent him to study the craft; counter offered to study to be a robber; as a test: to steal a horse; O. sits on a tree, cries; tells the rider that his robbers have robbed him; he dismounted, O. jumped into the saddle and rode away; steal an ox right from the plow; O. scattered copper money, the ploughman began to collect, went into the forest; R. took the ox, and put a piece of wool in the horse's teeth; the ploughman believes that the horse ate the ox; the robbers offer to show strength: who the stone will crush and who will throw it further; O. released a lark, crushed a bag of cottage cheese; O. returned home; master: if you take my horse away, you will get a hundred gold; O., under the guise of a cook, brought it to the guards plum brandy, and when they fell asleep, he took the horse away; now the master tells him to remove the ring from his wife's finger; at night O. put the doll out the window, the master hit, thinks he has killed the man; at this time O. disguised as his master asked the lady to preserve the ring, took it away; the master orders to deceive the manager; O. appeared under the guise of an angel and brought the manager's master and his wife in a sack]: Nemtsova 1978:154-162; Slovaks [hell said he was hungry, the woman gave him an egg, and when he swallowed it, she said that the egg was magical and now the hell was pregnant; the gypsy promised to help the devil give birth, told him to lie on his stomach, hit him with a stick, time a hare jumped out of the bush: the gypsy line: your son ran; the devil and the gypsy decided to test their strength; the devil crumbled a stone in his hand, the gypsy squeezed a piece of bread soaked in milk; the devil was scared, ran to her mother, she advised her to pay off the gypsy or kill him; the hell and the gypsies began to compete to collect more plums; the hell filled the bag, the gypsy began to dig in the trees as if he wanted to carry them away along with the fruits; who would knock down more trees (the gypsy began to tie the forest with a rope to knock down and carry everything away at once); who would carry more water (the hell filled the wineskins, the gypsy pretended to dam river); the devil gave the gypsy a bag of money]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 6:26-27; Poles: Krzyżanowski 1963, No. 1060 [the guy squeezed water out of the cheese, but the hell believed it was out of stone; pretends that is going to throw an iron stick on the cloud where his brother works as a blacksmith; hell asks not to do so], 1640 [the tailor killed 7 flies; writes "Seven with one blow", goes on a journey; squeezes water is made of cheese, and the enemy believes it is made of stone; two giants kill each other; teases a unicorn whose horn is stuck in a tree; during the battle, he grabbed a tree, pulling it out, the enemy is terrified]: 14, 110-111; The Luzhitans [the apprentice and the giant saw who could squeeze water out of the stone; the guy clutched a piece of cheese; then the giant threw a rock up and the guy released a lark]: Schulenburg 1882:9 (note) ; Russians (Olonetskaya, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Ugric Rus, Galicia, Pokutye, Yekaterinoslavskaya, Kharkiv), Belarusians [Who will crush a stone (squeeze water out of the millstone): instead of a stone, a person presses cheese, cottage cheese, eggs, turnips]: SUS 1979, No. 1060:260; Russians (Olonetskaya, Zaonezhye) [Snakes are used to eating people in the village. There's only one guy left. A gypsy came, met a man, found out about a snake. A serpent flew in and began to measure their strength with the gypsy. The serpent squeezed the stone, and the gypsy squeezed a piece of cheese, that whey flowed out of it. The serpent fearfully offered friendship. Then we decided to cook dinner together; the snake tells us to bring the ox, the gypsy ties everyone with a rope to cook everyone at once, the snake asks not to do this; bring water - the same, digs in the well; bring oak - binds the entire forest. The gypsy does not eat, is dissatisfied with dinner, invited him to his place. The gypsy children met: "Dad came and brought the snake for dinner." The serpent got scared and ran away]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 33:104-105; Russians (Vladimirskaya, Pereslavl-Zalessky y.) [the gypsy and the goblin began to show strength in front of each other; the goblin gave up a stone - sparks fell down; the gypsy - turnips, the water flowed; the goblin brought him, sent him with fur for water; the gypsy began to dig in the well ; the goblin himself brought fur with water; sent to bring three oxen, the gypsy ties 12 with tails so that everyone at once; the goblin brings three oaks himself; sends three oaks, the gypsy binds 12; the goblin himself brought three]: Smirnov 2008, No. 9:73-74; Russians (Voronezhskaya, p. Bolshaya Vereyka, 1925) [A gypsy stays with an old man in a village where Pakarym ate snakes. The serpent arrives to eat the last old man and is greeted by a cunning gypsy. The serpent shows its strength by breaking a stone, the gypsy squeezes water out of the cottage cheese, as if out of stone. The snake whistles so that leaves fall from the oak tree, the gypsy blindfolds the snake (otherwise they will jump out) and hits the forehead with a club, the snake's ears ring. The serpent sees the power of the gypsy and offers to put up, invites him to visit him. The gypsy kills the bull, removes the skin, the snake flies for firewood, the gypsy realizes that he cannot bring water in the bull's skin, tries to "dig the well around". The serpent arrives and brings water in its burden by itself, saying that one is enough. The gypsy accidentally spills a quarter of the vodka, tells the snake that he drank it. The gypsy pretends to drink and eat, actually pours out vodka and throws away pieces of meat. The serpent is surprised at the gluttony and strength of the gypsy. The gypsy is going home, warns the snake that his children are hungry and can eat it. The serpent arrives with the gypsy to the village, sees the gypsies "black, smeared, torn off", gets frightened and flies away, leaving three horses. Gypsy tells his wife about his adventures]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 35:156-158; Western Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina) []: Zinchuk 2006a, No. 107:343-347; Eastern Ukrainians (Kharkiv, Lebedinsky y., Vorozhba, before 1890 [The snake eats all the people of the settlement except one grandfather, asks the gypsies to spend the night with the latter, who promises that the snakes will not be able to eat them. The serpent appears, getting ready to eat two instead of one. The gypsy declares his power "Look, don't choke!" , a snake squeezes a stone that crumbles in flour, a gypsy takes a bag of cheese, squeezes it, and water flows out. The serpent offers to go after an older friend, offers to bring an ox for lunch, the gypsy goes, cannot even lift one leg of the ox, ties several animals with tails - as if he will have one few, snakes do not wait, they are angry, they carry them themselves. He takes off his skin from the ox and lets the gypsy bring water, the gypsy cannot lift the full skin, sees the children "piggy" digging, starts digging around the well, says the snake will not wear one at a time the skin, the snake is angry, carries itself. The serpent sends the gypsy for a dry oak tree, who says he would bring 20 at once, brings the snake himself, cooks, the gypsy does not eat lunch, gets angry, tries the last spoon, invites the snake to his mother for dumplings. The serpent eats first, the gypsy puts food in his pants. The snake offers to "spin on the stone", the snake "yak I'm spinning" - fire comes out, the gypsy presses the dumplings - water is pouring, the snake builds a gypsy hut on the outskirts, wants to burn it with his mother, the gypsy hears their conversation, hides, a loan extinguishes a fire and sits in a burnt down hut with a barrel of water, tells the snake that he has taken a good steam bath, the snake wants to visit the gypsy. His children run towards the gypsy, he tells the snake that it was the devils who came for his soul, the snake runs away, leaves the stroller and money]: Manzhura 2003:105-106; Belarusians [the owner drove away the old horse; that eating grass, a lion came up; to show his power, he squeezed the stone so that water drips from it; the horse: it's not difficult, it's raining on the stone, and I'll squeeze fire out of the stone (hits its hoof); the lion hits the stone with its paws, hurt himself; the lion left, met the wolf, said that the one who eats grass on the hill took away his royal dignity - he was stronger; the wolf wanted to see who it was; the lion lifted the wolf by the head show the horse, out of that; lion: died from one species; went and stepped on the hedgehog; offers a hedgehog to race: if I catch up, I'll kill; when the lion comes running, the hedgehog says that he has been waiting for him for a long time ( put other hedgehogs); after that, the lion left our land and lives in France]: Fedorowsky 1902, No. 34:31-32.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [Mezula is a lazy and coward; his wife threatens to leave him; M. has gone on a journey; the shepherd complains that a three-headed monster coming from the clouds eats one every day a shepherd and a thousand sheep; M. buried sheep intestines and milk, took hard cheese; offers the monster to squeeze water from the stone, the intestines out of the ground; the monster asks for mercy; tells him to catch a wild goat; M. hid in a hollow, the deer accidentally got entangled in the branches, the monster believes that M. caught him and hung him; asked for firewood; M. entangles the trees to bring the whole forest at once; the monster brought M. to his mother; M. overheard how they agree to overturn a 4-bucket of boiling water on him at night; M. lay down on a high shelf and in the morning said that insects were biting; the old woman advises the monster to play with M., taking his father's golden young; M .: I have already thrown it into the sky alone, now it is burning with a star; the monster gave you gold and agreed to bring it home to M.; M.: wait: I'll tie my wife and children, or they'll eat you; the monster has disappeared behind sky]: Kondaraki 1875, No. 5:46-52 (=1883a: 7-11); Adygs [no one can save the village from giants, Pleshivy undertakes to do so; sees a giant on the other side of the river; orders to move him across the river; giant: whoever is stronger will carry another; crushed a stone, squeezed water out of another; Bald shows a handful of flour, squeezes water from a piece of cheese; ate cheese, but the giant could not eat the stone; the giant carries Pleshivy, intending to drown him, he stabs him with an awl, the giant crosses the river with him as soon as possible, brings giants into the house; Bald hid his share of meat, the giants think he ate it; at night giants throw stones at the Kunatskaya, Bald waits in the attic, says that the Kunatskaya is filled with hail; the giants offer a competition in running, Bald lets his younger brother, a hare; offers fight his older brother, the bear; the giants pour boiling water into the Kunatskaya, Bald waited in the attic, said it was raining; the giants agreed to take Pleshivy to his house, give him treasures; he I persuaded my mother to say that there is nothing to feed the guests: there are only bones left from the former gnawed giants; the giants are running away, the fox leads them back; Bald: thank you, but the ones I lent you were fatter; giants kill a fox, run away]: Kerashev 1957:248-254 (=Maksimov 1937:131-148); Kabardian soldiers [princely soldiers cannot defeat others; widow's son Kuytsuk takes flour and cheese, tells him to carry it him across the river; the hoarder wants to measure his strength; crumbles a stone and squeezes water out of it; K. shakes the flour out of the bag and eats cheese; the frog cannot eat stones, admits defeat, wants throw K. into the river, but he stabs him with an awl, frightened, brings K. to his house; K. tells him to stab a bull for breakfast, lunch and dinner; quietly digs a hole under the table and throws meat there; at night the hogs throw stones through the chimney; K. dodged, said in the morning that it was hail; the hogs gave gold, one of them carries K., who stabs him with an awl; runs ahead, negotiates with his mother; she speaks loudly that there were only other bones left; the hogs ran away and did not return]: Aliyeva, Kardangushev 197:39-44; Abkhazians: Khashba, Kukba 1935 [about the same as Shakryl 1975, No. 36]: 90-92; Shakryl 1975, No. 36 [old man Tachcum is cowardly and boastful, his wife kicked him out of the house; he came to the river, on the other side of the Adaua; he squeezed a stone, splashed water, T. squeezed a piece of cheese; the Adaui crushed the stone into powder, T. showed a handful of flour; the adaui are frightened, agrees to carry T. across the river; he is surprised that he is light; T. says he holds on to the sky; the adaui offers to let go of the sky, T. puts an awl in his back; waving an oak tree, the Adaui drives animals, T. climbs a tree out of fear, the boar plunged his fangs into the trunk, got stuck; T. took the king out of the nest; released it, offered the Adaui to catch the bird; he asked to chop the bird trees, T. began to tie the forest so that everything at once, the adaui brought trees himself; at night T. puts a block instead of himself, the adaui pours boiling water; the next night he pierces with a hot spit; T.: it was hot; fleas bit; says he is tired of game, he wants adaua meat; he ran away]: 179-184; Abazins [the fox takes food from shepherd Kabizhchikun every time; he sees a giant (Ainizh) on the other side of the river; pretends to squeeze water out of the stone (a piece of cheese), rub the stone into dust (a handful of flour); the giant carries it across the river, wonders that it is light; to show that it is actually it's hard, K. sticks an awl into the giant; brings him to himself; K. pretends to eat several bulls (throws meat into a hole), begins to tie the forest trees with a rope when he is sent for firewood; to dig a ditch from the river when sent for water; leaves a stone under the burka when the giants agree to pour boiling water over it ("it rained warmly at night"); throw stones ("thunder rattled all night"); giants they send K. home, he demands gold, refuses to carry such a little himself, the giants bring it; K. negotiates with his wife, let him say "how much giant meat to take"; Ainizh hears, runs away, the fox drags him back; K.: thank you fox for returning this Ainizh; Ainizh killed the fox, ran away]: Tugov 1985, No. 98:288-295; Balkarians [wives put the cowardly husband out the door; when he found out that the fox was running, he fell into fainting; when the husband regained consciousness, he decided to show that he is not a coward; meets emegen, who sewed up cracks in the ground, invites him to go to extract wealth; emegen wants to compare their strengths, throws the rock far away; a person squeezes juice out of a piece of cheese, emegen believes it is a stone; a person squeezes ayran out of a buried wineskin, emegen cannot squeeze water out of the ground; emegen leads a person to his cave; man says he has vowed to eat little, otherwise a ram would not be enough for him; emegen poured a bag of gold into a man; man: according to our custom, the giver must carry the gift himself; the person runs up to home before emegen; wives are taught to shout from afar to make emegen kebab; emegen runs away in horror; the fox assures that man is a coward, offers to contact with tails; wives are taught to thank the fox for this, which brought emegen; emegen killed the fox, ran away, the gold went to the man]: Baranov 1897, No. 2:13-18; Karachays or Balkarians [the boy takes cheese and wineskin with ayran; offers Emegen squeeze oil out of the ground (presses the wineskin) and squeeze water out of the stone (presses cheese); emegen promises to do his will; the boy tells him to be transferred across the river, he brings him to the emegenes; they ask for a huge wineskin; the boy inflates his wineskin, lets air out at the cave; at this time it rained; the emegens believe that the boy brought all this water; at night, emegenes fill the kunatskaya boiling water, throw stones from above; the boy is unharmed under (magic?) burka; the boy demands gold, tells emegen to drag it; after agreeing with her son, the boy's mother says loudly that she will fry the guest's leg with emegen; frightened emegenes have left the valley]: Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983:68-71 ; Ossetians: Byazirov 1960, No. 205 [the youngest of the Fanukkuz brothers was given ash, cheese and awl, kicked out of the house; towards the Waig; he stung a stone, F. - cheese; Waig carries F. across the river, F. plunged his awl into the back of his head, Waig thinks that F. has lowered his weight; at night, the Waigi threw stones at F.'s bed, but he, assuming danger, went to bed elsewhere; in the morning: I was bitten by bugs; the boar plunged his fang into the tree, F. shouts that he caught a wild boar by the fang {this ends the paraphrase}]: 106; Dzagurov 1973, No. 47 [the husband became lazy, stopped leaving the house; the wife put the soup outside, and when her husband left, she locked the door; he asked for a bag of ash, cheese and an awl; sees how on the other side of the Waig River you put stones in your mouth and spits out dust; the man put down his son, blew out ash; squeezed another piece of cheese - water flowed; told waigu carry it across the river; what, easy? my weight is tied to me with iron chains; Waig asks me to let go a little; the man stabs him with an awl, the waig tells me to lift the weight back; at night, the Waigi cut down the deck on which the person was supposed to sleep, but he was supposed to sleep in advance lay down in another place; the same when they threw stones on the roof and collapsed it; the Waig carried the treasure into the man's house; the fox led him back; the fox man: I told him to bring the ram, and you lead the goat again; Waig grabbed the fox by the tail and killed it; the man made a collar out of skin]; the Avars [the young Rakukirsh ("rummaging through the ash") is idle; the mother said they were distributing sweets outside the door, and locked the door behind him; he asked for a bag of ash, an awl and a head of cottage cheese; came to the river, on the opposite bank of the sledge; R. made a hole in the bag with an awl, followed by a stream of ash; the sledge was surprised, offered to squeeze water from the stone; R. squeezed out of cottage cheese; R. suggested that the sledge should carry it across the river; he is surprised that R. is light; R.: I'm holding on to the sky; sledge: let go; R. plunged an awl into the sledge, he screamed - let him R. holds on to the sky again; the sledge asks R. to turn the bread in the pan, she falls, R. stays under it; explains that his stomach is sick, he begins to warm it; digs a barrel of wine dug into the ground, saying that it makes no sense to walk with a ladle; one sledge sneezed, R. flew to the ceiling beam; says to the sledge: how dare you sneeze in my presence, I'll hit you with a rod (points to the beam); the sledges are scared, gone; the fox tells the first sledge that R. is an insignificant man; he agreed to return with his fox tied to his belt; R.: liar, you should have brought all nine sledges, not one; the sledge ran away, dragging by the a fox; R. and his mother settled in his house]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 74:600-602; Lucky [two older brothers left, did not return; the youngest is lazy and bald, stays at home; killed seven flies with a rag; wrote on the belt "I take the life of seven with one blow", went to look for brothers; came to the cave of seven devas; lost consciousness in horror; the devas decided that he was sleeping and not afraid of them, read the inscription; Plesivets did pretending that the bull was not enough for him to eat; while the devas were sleeping, he threw the bull and the cauldron into the river; said that he swallowed the bull, and the cauldron disappeared somewhere when he sighed; at night, the devas threw a stone where the bald man slept, but at that time he left the house; the devas clenched the stone, turning it into the ground, the bald man clenched the cheese, the water flowed; the devas decided to fight with the pleshives on their fists, but he killed one by stabbing him in his heart awl; the devas fell to their knees; he ordered them to load all the treasures in chests and carry them to the outskirts of the village; said that he would call the brothers, the devas ran away; the pleshivets married, there was a holiday in the village]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 73:594- 596; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 128 [the lazy man does nothing but blow ash, nicknamed Zoloduv; on Easter, his daughter-in-law did not let him into the house; he left, taking a bag of ash, awl and cheese from her; when he saw across the river, the deva, pierced the bag, the ash rose in the cloud, the devil was frightened; Z. invited the deva to squeeze water out of the stone, squeezed it out of the piece of cheese himself; told the deva to carry himself across the river; dev surprised that Z. is light, he replies that he is holding on to the sky; Dev asks to let go of the sky, Z. stabs him with an awl, Dev asks him to hold on to the sky again; in the house, Deva Z. knocked over a stone frying pan, he answered the devas that his stomach was warming, let them now remove the pan; the devas sent Z. to the yard for wine, he could not pick up the scoop, he pretended to bring the whole vat; one dev sneezed, Z. flew up to the ceiling, grabbed the beam: how dare you sneeze in front of me, I'll take this whip and hit it; the devas ran away in horror, the fox says that this Z. ruined the chicken coop, leads the deva back, he is afraid tied himself to her with a rope; Z.: you drag one deva and promised 12; dev ran away, dragged him, crippled the fox]: 251-253 (=Dirr 1920, No. 2:6-9); Wardrobe 1894, No. 1 (Guria) [the giant strongman offers others to compete with him; the king gathered all the army; the dwarf: let's see who wins; the giant squeezed the stone, squeezing out water; the dwarf squeezed his sponge, squeezed out more water; the giant threw the stone on the ground, breaking it into dust; the dwarf quietly buried the stone, poured flour on the ground; the giant held out his hand to the dwarf as a sign of friendship, the dwarf refused to shake it: he cannot die strength and has already killed many with his handshake; by the river, a dwarf He is afraid that the water will carry him away; says he suffers from his stomach and does not want to climb into cold water; the giant puts him on his shoulders; surprised that he is light; dwarf: fighting for heaven; giant: try to fall with all his weight; the dwarf plunged two nails into his shoulders; the giant asks him not to press any more; at home he suggests that one of them take bread out of the oven and the other bring wine from the basement; seeing what it is He will never raise the size of bread, the dwarf goes down to the basement, pretends to dig caras out of the ground and bring everything upstairs; the giant rushes into the basement instead of him, and the dwarf has to take out the bread; the bread fell on him, pressed him down; he explains that he wanted to warm his stomach, and now the giant can put bread on the table; the giant sneezed, the dwarf flew off, grabbed the rafters; says that if the giant breaks decency again, he will break the beam; the giant removed it]: 146-150; Megrelians: Stepanov 1898, No. 12 [after the death of both sons, the priest does not leave the house for three years, then goes on a journey; replies to the giant that he is his king; he breaks the stone, the priest throws pre-prepared flour; the giant squeezes water out of the stone, the priest from the cottage cheese; the giant's house is sent to bring wine, digs in the caras, pretending to bring it all at once; feeds goat meat to dogs as if he eats himself; the giant burps, the air stream throws the priest to the ceiling beam; he shouts from there that he will hang a giant on it if he does not recognize him as king; since then, the giant has listened to the priest unquestioningly]: 39-46; Wardrobe 1894, No. 5 [father-in-law does nothing, sits at the hearth, his daughters-in-law kicked him out of the house; he asked for a vessel of flour, an egg, an awl; on the other side of the Demi River; crushes the stone into dust; the man first broke a jug of flour, then crushed an egg; demi amazed at his strength, agrees to carry him across the river; asks why he is so light; man: holding the sky with one hand; stabs Demi's awl - it's him supposedly lying on him with all the weight; Demi asks hold on to the sky again; demi: I will chase animals at you; the man got scared, picked up a dead bird; says that Demi drove the animals wrong; he would easily kill them, even grabbed a bird in flight by wing; Demi offers food, the man slowly dumps meat, millet and pours wine into the river; the wolf and the jackal tell Demi that his guest did not eat anything, but threw the meat into the river, they picked it up; 10 wolves and jackals went with Demi; man: you owe me more than 10; wolves and jackals thought Demi deceived them to give them to a man and tore him apart]: 129-132; Armenians [Kazar is cowardly and boastful; the wife locks the door and leaves it outside; went to bed by the forest, hit himself in the face in the morning, killed many midges; K. told his ass about it, and he wrote to him on his headscarf: the one who hit once and killed everyone at once; next time K. falls asleep near the house 7 giants; they read the inscription, are frightened; they take him to the forest for firewood, K. pretends to tie trees to carry the entire forest, he is stopped ; he does not want to carry water in his wineskin, he is going to dig a ditch from the spring, he is stopped (the water will demolish the castle in the spring); K.: who will squeeze the stone to make water flow? so that it becomes like flour? (presses the egg, shows the hidden flour); the giants give their sister for K.; the king of the East wanted to take it himself, went to war; first the giants went to fight themselves, then called K.; the horse carried, K. grabbed a tree, dragged it with him, the enemies ran away in horror; the king of the East was beheaded, and K. was put in its place]: Nazinyan 2014:196-200; Azerbaijanis: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [Akhnazar afraid of foxes, is idle and stays at home; a neighbor advised his wife to pour kishmish from the door to the outside of the gate; A. began to collect it, his wife closed the gate behind him; A. asked his wife for eggs, an awl, flour and his stick; wrote on a piece of paper "I'll crush the head of forty divas", fell asleep; the diva read, woke it up, offered to crush the stone with his hand; A. showed flour; squeezed water out of the stone (crushed the egg); divas believed that A. was strong, carried it to him; asked why he was light; A.: I do not want to press with all my might; he plunged an awl into the diva, showing what would happen if he put his strength; the divas ask for water; A. puffed his wineskin, said that he drank all the water right away, and let the divas bring them for themselves; the divas sent A. for firewood; he tied ropes to fallen trees, pretended to want to drag everything at once; divas: no need, forester will be angry; for the night A. put a branch on his bed, covered it with a blanket; the divas threw the millstones; the next time they poured boiling water; A.: the fleas bit, sweated; the divas gave A. gold and silver, that first diva took him home]: 525-530; Nabiev 1988 [the son advises his father not to be afraid of the lion, but to pretend to hunt him himself; the old man suggested that the lion squeeze the stone and squeeze the egg with the stone; the lion believes that he squeezed the juice out of the stone; the lion sees that the old man cannot pull out the tree; he replies that he specially tested the lion and will now go hunting; the fox explains to the lion that his old man deceives, leads to the old man; he asks why the fox leads such a skinny lion; the fox runs away]: 249-250; Turks: Dmitriev 1967, No. 71 [hero (pahlevan - ironic), afraid to leave the house at at night, I looked at the monkey at the bazaar, and when I got home, my wife had already locked the door; went into the light, there was a tavern; people say that Dev will come and take one to eat; the shawn digs a hole, tells you to fill it with cheese and sprinkle it with earth; suggests that the deva stomp to squeeze water out of the ground; then squeeze the water out of the stone (the pahlevan squeezed the cheese again, and the dev only crushed the grindstone); dev offered to go to him, where the other 40 devas; pahlevan: only if you carry me; dev: something you are light; pahlevan: if I fall down, it will be hard (he stabbed the deva's neck); the devas pretend to eat 40 bulls, and he dumps the meat into the pit; the devas ask for water and firewood; the pahlevan pretends to move the entire spring; the mountain with the forest on it; the devil bent the cherries to pick the berries, she straightened up, The pahlavan was thrown into the air, he fell next to the hare and grabbed it; says he jumped to catch the hare on purpose; the devil wants to fight, the pahlevan pretends to throw him into the sky; the devas they give the pahlevan a horse, a bag of gold, send him home]: 373-378; Eberharg, Boratav 1953, No. 162 [the wife put out the cowardly Mimis (Keloglan, Köse, Mehmed, etc.); he killed 90 flies, wrote on his sword that with one blow (you can understand that people); when he meets a giant, he pretends to squeeze water out of the stone and is going to bring the whole forest at once; giants cannot kill him, they send him home with rich gifts; {and other motives, then add}]: 179-181; talyshi [mother left her cowardly son alone in the field; he went on a journey, picked up an egg and horsehair; met a deva; he clenched a stone, so that water had flowed; the young man crushed the egg; the dev pulled his hair out from under his arm, the young man showed his horsehair; the deva ran away in horror, the young man returned home; the fox told the deva that the young man had deceived him; led him to tied him with a rope; invited the young man to kill the deva; the young man went out with a gun, the dev ran away, breaking the rope]: Bayramalibekov 1894:21-22.

Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens [Aldarkose (Beardless) went to look for work, met a deva; he said that if A. hadn't greeted him, he would eat him; wanted to fight; A. offered to squeeze water out handfuls of sand; A. squeezes an egg along with the sand; dev takes him to his house, wants to kill him at night by throwing a piece of rock at him; A. puts something in an empty bed for himself, thanks him in the morning for the fact that Dev covered him with something from the cold at night; Dev is afraid ready to give A. a jug of gold, A. says that the guest must carry his gift himself; at home he agrees with his wife to say: the same We've already eaten the devas, it's good that you brought a new one; dev ran away; the fox explains that A. is weak, undertakes to go with Dev, let him put a rope around her neck so she can't run away; A. shouts that Lisa's father owes him three devas, and they lead only one; Dev ran, dragging the fox; parts of her body remained in water, fire, on every blade of grass]: Fur Fair 1980:12-18 (=Stebleva 1969:36); Persians: Cosquin 1886 [by Malcolm 1828,2:88; Amin from Isfahan meets a ghoul; offers to compete who will squeeze water out of the stone; ghoul cannot, Amin presses an egg; the same with salt; ghoul asks to bring water, A. cannot lift his wineskin, pretends to draw a channel from the source; at night he puts pillows and clothes on the bed instead of himself; ghoul strikes 7 times with a club; in the morning A. says that a fly bit]: 261-262; Marzolph 1984, No. 1060 (Markazi, Azerbaijan, Fars) [a diva squeezes water out of a stone, a cunning man presses an egg]: 186; Osmanov 1958 [mother is forced to put food in her lazy son's mouth; she spread it out apples so that he got out of bed to pick them up and went out the door for the first time; his mother locked her; gave her son an egg, a handful of flour, a skein of woolen yarn and a horn; the lazy man went, got caught in the rain; took off his clothes, sat on them, and when the rain is over, he put on a dry one; the diva asks why he is not wet; lazy: and I am Satan; the diva offers to crumble the stone with his hand, the lazy man sprinkles flour; squeeze oil out of the stone; the lazy man crushed the egg; the diva ran away; the lazy man came to the castle of the king of divas; he pulled out his hair and showed that the lazy man showed a skein of wool; the diva shouted, the lazy man blew his horn, came out louder; near the village, a lazy man climbed a tree above the spring; the black slave took the reflection for her own, decided that she had turned white; the lazy man laughed, said that he was Satan and came from the dead; the slave asks whether their dead man was taken to heaven or hell; lazy: to hell and he was not enough money; the slave ran to the mistress and she gave the money to her late husband; the lazy man also took a horse to get to hell; when they found out what was going on, the woman's sons jumped after the lazy man; he said to the man who washed the demand that the guards were jumping after him; gave him his horse, and began to wash the demand himself; the horsemen jumped after that man, and the lazy man brought money home]: 104-108; Romaskevich 1934a, No. 70 []: 387-394; Uzbeks: Afzalov et al. 1972 (2) []: 233-236; Rogov 198 [people ask Aldar Kusa to protect them from divas; he went to his married sister, took a bottle of sour milk with him, picked them up on the road a rope, a bird's egg, a turtle; when a diva appeared, AK buried a bottle of milk in one place, a rope in another; says the wonder that he is Azrail and came for his soul; suggests measuring strength; 1) knock out the brain out of the ground (hits the place where the pot is buried with a stick); 2) squeeze oil out of the stone (presses an egg); 3) twist a rope out of clay (pulls out a buried rope); the diva pulls out a louse the size of a locust, AK shows a turtle; a diva leads AK to him, divas offer to destroy the rocks; AK pretends to think: if it hits, either the mountain will block the way for the rising sun and the world will fall into darkness; or it will block the way to the setting sun, it stays in the sky and will burn everything; either the cold wind closes the way, everything will go out; or warm, everything will freeze; either the earth will fail or the sky will fall to the ground; divas ask for nothing do not do this; at night, AK puts a wooden stupa instead of himself; divas hit with a club; in the morning AK says that the flea bit; the divas collected gifts, brought them to the AK house; AK to his wife: serve the roast from yesterday divas; divas run away, meet a mullah, he leads them back; AK: mullah liar, you borrowed 10 oil divas from me, and now you only lead three! The divas pulled out the mullah's tongue, fled to the desert]: 193-198; the Rushans [Afandi took an egg, went to the forest for firewood; the divas are going to eat it; he suggests that they squeeze oil out of the sand; they can't, he took an egg and a handful of sand into his fist, the yolk flowed; the divas brought it to their place, laid it on the sufa; A. put a block in his place, climbed the tree himself; the divas cut the block at night; A. in the morning: fleas bit; A. he loaded the treasures on the lame diva, took him to his home; ahead of him, ordered his wife to say: we ate those four divas in front of you, and we ate the leg that was left in the evening; the divas rushed to run, man He stopped him, said that A. beats every day; let them contact and go back to A.; A. man: you are a healthy diva, not a lame one; the divas ran, dragged the man, he fell to pieces]: Sokolova 1959, No. 3:12-14; Baluchi [the old man walked, picked up 4 eggs, a pheasant, a rope; the buzlangi wants to swallow it, the old man offers to bet; the buzlangi crushed a stone in his hand into powder, the old man clenched his eggs, the buzlangi believes that he squeezed water out of the stone; the buzlangi took out his hair from his sinus and threw it at the old man; the old man threw a rope at him; the buzlangi took out and threw the louse, the old man released the pheasant; buzlangi invites the old man to eat meat from the cauldron; the old man warns that if he does not like it, he will eat; he ate and then said he does not like it; in the buzlanga house, the old man went to bed; put it on his place the deck, lay down elsewhere; at night, the buzlangi hit me three times with a club, not knowing that he was hitting the deck; old man in the morning: I asked you to take me to a place where the louse does not bite - I bit three times; buzlangi he blew the winds, raised the old man, hit the walls; he said that he was closing holes in the walls so that the buzlangi did not run away; the buzlangi started to run; the fox led him back, wanted to make friends with them; old man: I'm from I demand your father 40 buzlanga, and you only lead one; the buzlangi hit the fox to the ground; the old man moved his whole house {where?} and became king]: Zarubin 1949, No. 7:61-64.

Baltoscandia. Swedes: Suritz 1991 [the shepherd met the giant; squeezed the cheese pretending to be a stone; also threatens to squeeze the giant himself; the giant: who will throw the ax higher; the shepherd quietly hid the ax in bag, he never fell to the ground; the giant offers to cut down the oak tree, tilted it, the shepherd grabbed, he was thrown up; he tells the giant that since he can't jump like this, let him cut it himself; undertakes to carry it a giant carries a tree, and the shepherd sits on the branches; wonders why the giant is tired; goes with him to threshing in the dark, cannot lift his flail, hits the ground with a stick; the giant asks to take the bulls to the stall ; there is no door; the shepherd cut them into pieces and pushed them out the window; at night, the shepherd put a pot of milk on his bed, the giant hit this place; in the morning the shepherd: the flea bit; who will eat more: the shepherd put everything in a bag on his stomach; ripped it open, the porridge fell out; the giant ripped open his stomach, died]: 77-79; Stier 1971, No. 31 [the giant sees the shepherd squeezing water out of soaked bread; thinks that squeezed water out of the stone, but he cannot do it himself; takes the shepherd as a worker; offers to thresh; the shepherd pretends to use the beam of the house as a flail, the giant stops him, threshes him himself; sends for water, the shepherd pretends to bring the entire well; the giant tells him to clean up - the big one into a large hole, the small one into a small one; the shepherd cuts all his cattle, puts him in two holes; hears the giant with his wife agrees to kill him at night; puts blood on the bed, lies under the bed himself; the giant hits him with an ax, splashes blood, and the shepherd is alive in the morning; the shepherd offers to drill a hole with his penis in wood, drilled in advance, disguising the hole; the giant poked his penis to no avail; they compete to see who will eat more porridge; the shepherd quietly puts the porridge in the bag, the giant admits that more can't eat; they compete to run; the shepherd cuts the bag, the porridge falls out, he explains to the giant that he is now light, overtakes him; the giant cut his stomach and dies; the shepherd took possession of his property ]: 123-127; Latvians [Who will crush the stone. The shepherd squeezes the cheese so that the juice is released. Damn surprised]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 1060:340; Lithuanians [an orphan met a giant; he squeezed a deck of cards, the middle boiled; the orphan is cottage cheese, juice has flowed, the giant believes that the orphan has clutched a stone; the giant threw a stone into the distance, the orphan released the bird; at night, the giants hit the bed with an iron strip, but the orphan changed his place in advance, leaving a pot on the bed; the giants are fleeing, the orphan has got the house]: Love 1965:293-294; Karelians [men give a goblin, but one did not give it; the goblin invites him to measure his strength; says he can knock down all the trees; man: can I push the sky against the ground if they had staples; the goblin squeezed the stone so that the water splashed; the man squeezed the baked turnips, it became porridge; the man offers the goblin to carry the tree even to the top, he is ready to carry the butt himself; sits on a tree, the goblin drags; the goblin takes the man to work; tells him to bring water, he begins to dig in the entire well; cut down trees - the man ties the forest with a rope; he hears how the goblin and his wife agree to throw off at night a kettlebell on him; the man puts a sheaf of straw on his bed; in the morning he says that he dreamed that he was bitten by a mosquito; they threw a heavier weight - the man is unharmed again; the goblin and his wife ran away from home]: Konkka 1959:73-75; Norwegians [the man pretends to squeeze water out of the stone but actually squeezed a piece of cheese; the giant is scared]: Hodne 1984, No. 1060:216; Danes, Western Sami, Finns, Estonians, Livons, Counselors, Veps, Western Sami: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1060:24.

Volga - Perm. Chuvashi [orphan Pugan ("stool") works for a tailor; beat the children, thought he was a hero; sewed himself a belt with the inscription "beat five in one fell swoop"; two heroes offer him pick up a huge stone, squeeze water out of the sand; P. quietly transports the stone on a cart, puts it under his head, squeezes water out of the cottage cheese; they offer to drink, P. quietly pours vodka by the boot, binds the intoxicated, brings them to the king; the king asks to catch the wild boar, P. runs away from the boar, locks them in the chapel; quietly throws pebbles at three sleeping heroes; they accuse, kill each other; the king appointed P. Commander-in-Chief]: Eizin 1993:102-109; Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 65 [the tailor killed seven flies, attached the inscription "seven with one blow" to his chest, went on a journey, met batyr; squeezed the pancake, the batyr could not crush the stone; released the bird, it did not return, and the stone thrown by the batyr fell; offers to carry the tree - the batyr carries the butt, and the tailor sits at the top; while the tailor is sleeping, the padishah sees the inscription on his chest, tells him to bring the heads of two warriors from the forest; the tailor climbed a tree under which two batyrs slept, threw a stone; they began to blame each other they were seriously wounded, the tailor finished them off; the padishah made him a batyr], 66 [the tailor killed seven flies, attached the inscription "seven with one blow" to his chest, went on a journey, met two giants; clenched his sponge, water flowed, and the giant could not crush the stone; the giants offered to throw the stone so that it turned into a bird; the tailor actually released the bird; lay down elsewhere at night; the giants threw a log went to bed, but in the morning the tailor went out to them; the king promised a daughter to whoever would kill the giants; the tailor climbed a tree, threw a stone, the giants accused each other, exhausted them, finished them off by the tailor; the king orders to kill the horned beast; the tailor dodged, the horns are stuck in the tree; orders to kill the wild boar, the tailor lured him into the hut; got the princess], 71 [the daughter of the old men began to wither away; the babay volunteered to heal, stayed on night, the diva came; the babay beat him in the money, instead of three clicks he hits him with a hammer; squeezes oil not from stones, but from nuts; leaves a cast-iron figure; when the diva puts his hand in her mouth, his hand is pinched; I try free himself, the diva fell into the lake and drowned with the cast-iron figure], 72 [the gypsy invites Azhdaha to whistle - who is louder; tells me to blindfold, hits with a club; Azhdaha crushed the stone, and the gypsy suzma squeezed out water; Azhdaha sends a gypsy to catch a wolf, a gypsy pretends to catch 40 wolves, Azhdaha catches one himself; tells him to bring an oak tree, the gypsy pretends to bring 40 oaks; bring water - digs in a well; did not eat lupus; they came to the gypsy; gypsies: what will we eat; gypsies: azhdakh; Azhdaha ran away, three horses went to the gypsy]: 270-273, 274-276, 291-293, 294-296; Udmurts [a person met a palesmurt; cut down pines in advance, knocked down five with one blow; offers to squeeze oil out of the stone, squeezes a piece of butter himself; in the house, the man left a block of wood on his bed, the palesmurts threw a stone there, it slipped to the side, they thought that the sleeper threw away the stone; the man leads p to him, he carries gold, the man offers to pick up a pine tree (mother's spindle), a millstone ( weight from his wife's spindle), harrow (sister's scallop); when he reached home, n fell and died of fatigue]: Kralina 1960, No. 15:59-60; Marie: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1060:24; Bashkirs: Barag 1992, No. 7 [], 10 []: 32-35, 39-41; Bessonov 1941, No. 58 [Dyurmyan went to put his snare on black grouse; his grouse was carried away by pyarius; suggests squeezing oil out of the stone; crushed the stone, but the oil did not appear, but D . crushed the egg; the pyarius offered to catch birds, D. took out the magpie he had caught earlier; M. said he was sleeping in the form of brushwood, and the pyarius that fire was coming out of his mouth and nose; D. covered the brushwood with his caftan , D. threw a stone at him; when he saw D. in the morning, the pyarius was frightened, gave gold; D. ordered him to take the gold home; agreed with his wife; wife: there is no meat, only the head of a big diva and a little one's chest; the pyarius ran away, the fox leads back; D.: friend fox, this pyarius almost ran away from me; pyarius killed the fox, D. got rich]: 283-285.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Sidelnikov 1971 (3): 37-40 [=Potanin 1916, No. 55:172-173; Bayashal suggests not to fight, but to pull out trees; dyau could not; B.: I can pull it out, but then I'll knock out the sun or moon with a tree of eyes; diau asks not to do this, suggests squeezing water out of the stone; B. squeezed the egg; B.: who will squeeze the intestines out of the ground? buried lamb's intestines in advance, dyau is amazed, gives gold; B. tells him to bring gold himself, agreed with his wife, invites her to cook yesterday's head and the brisket the day before yesterday; fox diau: hold on my tail and let's go back; B.: thank you fox for leading diau; dyau killed the fox and ran away], 89-91 [peri offer to squeeze the oil out of the black stone, the young man smeared his hands with greasy oatmeal in advance; at night he carries his the bed, the peri throw the stone back in its original place, in the morning the young man says that the fleas have bitten; the peri give the young man gold, carry it themselves; the young man sees the log: pick it up for my grandmother's spindle; the peri picked it up, brought gold and left in fear]; Kyrgyz [the old man is fishing; a huge hero comes up, offers to fight; old man: I can accidentally kill you, it's better to pull trees out of the ground; the hero cannot tear an oak tree out; the old man feels the roots: if you pull it out, you can knock out the eyes of the moon and the sun; suggests squeezing water out of the stone; the old man crushed the egg, the hero could not squeeze water out of the stone; squeeze the intestines out of the ground ; the old man buried his fish intestines in advance, began to stomp, the intestines came out; the hero gave a piece of gold; the old man asks to bring the gold to his house so as not to think that he stole it; when he approaches the house, tells the old woman cook the head of yesterday's hero and the thigh of the day before yesterday; the hero ran away; the fox laughs and leads him back, and so that he is not afraid, tells him to hold on to her tail; old man: thank you, fox, if at the expense of debt; the giant grabbed the fox by the tail, threw his head against the tree, ran away]: Muchnik 1944:91-92.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans [the old man dreamed that a mangys rode to his yurt and promised to eat him and his wife; the old man caught and killed a bird and a mouse, hid it under white and black stones; mangys came again and offered measure his strength; the old man stabbed his cow, offered to squeeze water out of the white stone, blood from the black stone, and get the heart of the earth; mangys crushed the stones into dust, but did not squeeze out water or blood, and did not find the heart of the earth ; the old man crushed the bird and the mouse, took out the mouse heart hidden there from the dung; the mangys believed, brought the old man to him; he does not eat; says he will not be full even if he eats all the cattle; the old man he slept outside and overheard Mangys's wife promise to kill him at night; put a stone woman in his place, hid in the karagan bushes; a mangysikha hit a stone with an ax; in the morning the old man says as if he dreamed that he was hit with an ax; mangys gave the old man a lot of gold and silver and left these parts]: Taube 1978, No. 53:265-268; Khalkha Mongols: Mikhailov 1962 [the tiger offers the old man face off; the wife teaches how to cut a tree in the forest, then offer to fight with big trees; the old man pushed the tree, it fell; the tiger could not knock down a tree; suggests squeezing the brain out of the stone; the old woman gives her husband sheep cheese; the tiger calls to him, leaves it for the night; the old man puts a copper mortar over his head, the tiger breaks his sword against it; the tiger sends for water, the old man pretends to bring the whole well; the tiger gave a gold bar, the old man asks the tiger to take it to his house himself; the tiger brought the bar, went back; the old man loudly to the old woman: catch up with the tiger, tear out the guts, fill them with meat; the wolf explains to the tiger that the old man is not scary, offers to contact me with a rope, leads back; old man: wolf, you owed me a tiger, do you repay the debt? the tiger ran away, dragging the wolf]: 17-20; Potanin 1883, No. 123 [towards the old man arslan; the old woman teaches: answer that you are going to kill Arslan for lunch; we agreed that whoever squeezes oil out of the stone is stronger; arslan took a stone and the old man an egg; the old man began to ride an arslan, but he realizes that the old man is weak; the old woman teaches me to come and shout: what did you cook for me? old woman: the remnants of old arslan and a little new; arslan ran away, the fox leads him back; the old man to the fox: promised a fat arslan, and you are driving the one I drove; arslan killed the fox, ran away]: 405-406; The Mongols of Inner Mongolia [a wolf takes one ram from an old man every day; the old man meets a tiger who offers to face off; they agreed to meet in the same forest; the old man signed in advance trees, when the tiger knocked them down easily, the tiger could not knock down his own; squeeze his brain out of the stone; the old woman gives the old man a piece of cheese ("yogurt"), the tiger believes that the old man squeezed his brain out of the stone; leads to himself, sharpens his spear; the old man puts a stone mortar in his place, at night the tiger breaks his spear against it; in the morning he is amazed at the old man's strength; asks for water; the old man begins to dig in a well; the tiger gives the old man gold and agrees himself carry it; the old woman says that their meat is the throat of yesterday's tiger and the back of the tiger the day before yesterday; the tiger runs away; the wolf says that the old man is not scary, leads the tiger back with a rope; old man to wolf: are you leading the tiger you owe? tiger runs, dragging a wolf; dead man's teeth grin; tiger: still laughing]: Coyaud 2012, No. 64:137-140; Dagurs [a lion approached the old man and old woman's home; an old woman to an old man: "You take your lasso and go meet a lion. When the lion asks you where you are going, you will say that you promised to catch one lion by lunchtime"; the old man did so, the lion laughed; the old man offered to face off - whoever loses will serve the winner; the lion agreed, the old man gave him a pebble raised from the ground and told him to squeeze out the juice; the lion tried to do so in vain; the old man took out a duck egg from his bosom, crushed it; the lion went to him to the service; the old man began to ride it, went to the forest; could not cut down the branches he needed; the lion asked where his strength had gone; the old woman began to teach the old man: "When tomorrow is the time to come Lion, do you ask me what kind of food do you cook for dinner?" ; the old man did so; the old woman replied that there was a brisket from the lion he killed yesterday, and there was a sacrum from a lion he stabbed the day before yesterday; when he heard these words, the lion was frightened, ran away; he met a fox, She said that he was deceived; went together to the old man's house; the old fox man: "Didn't I tell you to trick you into bringing a fat lion? And you brought some thin lion"; the lion ran to the mountains]: Todayeva 1986:104-106.