M202. Remove the splinter from the lion's paw, ATU 156.

.11.12.14.-.17.22.23.26.-.33.36.-.38.

A person pulls a splinter out of the paw (bone from the throat) of a dangerous predator or demon, who is grateful.

Chagga (West Africa), Tunisian Berbers, Spanish, Portuguese, Basques, Sicilians, Sardinians, Latins, French, Irish, Friesians, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania), Iraqi Arabs , Saudi Arabia, Khmer, Northern India (Hindi), Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamils, Chinese (Hubei), Chuan Miao, Slovenes, Romanians, Hungarians, Serbs, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Western and Northern (Volyn) Ukrainians, Poles, Slovaks, Czechs, Stavropol Turkmens, Ingush, Kumyks, Avars, Dargins, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Turkmens, Uzbeks, Persians, Tajiks of Sistan, Rushans, Sarykol residents, Baluchis, Pashtuns, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Finns, Swedes, Maris, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Karakalpaks, Evenks of China, Nanais, Japanese (Tohoku, Kanto, West Honshu, North Ryukyu).

Bantu-speaking Africa. Chagga [the man pulled a splinter out of the lion's paw; he led the man to the killed buffalo, allowing him to take as much meat as he wants; the man cuts so as not to damage the bones, for lions love bones; a grateful lion escorted a man home]: Klipple 1992, No. 74*: 57.

West Africa. The ethnicity is unknown ("French Sudan") [a man took a splinter out of a lion's paw; during the famine, the lion brought him a bull and continued to bring meat from time to time]: Klipple 1992, No. 74*: 58.

North Africa. The Berbers of Tunisia [a camel driver came across a lion tormented by a splinter in his paw; the driver pulled out a splinter, shared food with the lion; when the driver returned, the lion met him, brought him to a cave full of goodness and treasure, allowed him to load as many camels as he could take; the man returned home]: Stumme 1900, No. 15:65.

Southern Europe. The Spaniards (Ciudad Real) [the boy carried food to his father in the pasture, to meet the lion; testified that he had a thorn in his paw; the boy pulled it out; when the next time the wolves wanted to attack the boy, the lion defended him]: Camarena, Chevalier 1997, No. 156:277-278; Portuguese: Braga, Povo portuquez, II: 32 in Camarena, Chevalier 1997:278; Basques (Gipuzkoa): Garmendia, Brujas y gentiles, p. 146- 148 in Camarena, Chevalier 1997:278; Sicilians (Salaparuta) [poor Pippi has a mother and two sisters; he was hired as a boopas on a farm, but only for food, without money; an old ox advises asking the owner for him to give it to Pippi; the owner agrees; on Maslenitsa, P. went with his ox to visit his relatives; people are fleeing from the rabid bull; the ox advises asking the bull if P. can tame him; defeated the bull; the king promises a daughter and gold to someone who plows a huge plot of land; the ox plowed, P. received a princess (during plowing, P. was given wine and opium, but the ox woke him up); the ox tells him to be slaughtered; from his meat they prepared all the meals for the feast, and the buried bones grew into a garden; the wife found out the secret; the older sons-in-law suggested an argument: they know what the trees grew from; P. lost everything; thought that the sun had given him away, went to him; one elder sends to the older one, the oldest to the oldest; the oldest gives a pin to pull a splinter out of the lion's paw on the way to the sun; a grateful lion led to a sea of black water; tells say hello to the winged snake from him; he appears before sunrise; the serpent hid P. under its wing so that the sun does not burn him; then P. asks the sun why it gave him away; the sun: his wife betrayed; agrees to set after midnight; upon returning, P. makes bets with his older sons-in-law, who are convinced that the sun will set at half past ten; his sons-in-law gave P. all the property, but P. returned it to them; the amazed king gave P. the crown]: Kotrelev 1991:148-156; the Sardinians [one version has a thorn in the bear's paw, the other a lion]: Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 156:29; Latins [a slave in Africa Androcles fled to the desert from the cruel master, took refuge in a cave; there the lion, A. pulled him out a splinter; the grateful lion shared his loot with A. for three years; then they were both caught and brought to Rome; instead to bite A. in the circus arena, the lion began to caress his feet; the emperor gave freedom to both]: "according to Alion's story, later retold by Abel Hellius and Claudius Elian."

Western Europe. French, Irish, Friesians, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania): Uther 2004 (1), No. 156:108-109.

Western Asia. The Arabs of Iraq [the king divorced his first wife, her son Mohammed (M.); from the second wife, sons Mahmud and Ahmed; expelled the first from M.; became blind, lion's milk will help; older brothers reluctantly allow the youngest to go with them; the old man indicates three roads: 1] well-being, 2) regret and remorse, 3) which they do not return; each brother goes his own way, M. takes the last; the elders again met, squandered everything, hired workers in the city; a captive in the genie's castle advises M. to venerate their mother's breast; now M. has become their brother, they took him to their middle aunt, that son - to the older aunt; her sons are told to remove the splinter from the lion's paw; a grateful lion gives a wineskin of lion's milk, sends a young lion to carry it; M. also receives camels, gold and three girls; finds brothers, takes them with him, but stigmatizes them; brothers let him down into a well for water; there is a girl and an eagle that stole it; M. kills an eagle (if you hit him a second time, he will come to life); girl feels that the brothers will cut the rope; if M. touches the white goat, it will take it to the ground, if it takes him down to the bottom one; M. sends the girl upstairs, the rope is cut off, he is touched by a black goat, he fell into the lower world of genies; there a witch gives water in exchange for girls, now it is the turn of the daughter of the king of genies; M. kills the witch, the girl marks the savior with her blood; everyone brags that they killed the witch, but the girl throws pomegranates at M.; the genie flies with M. to the ground, he throws fat tails and tortillas into his mouth on the way, one piece falls, he cut off the meat from his thigh; the genie regurgitates him, puts it back; older brothers and the stolen goods are waiting in an enchanted sarcophagus; M. defeats his father's army, tells everything, shows marks on the brothers' shoulders, heals his father from blindness; he gave him the throne, imprisoned his eldest sons]; Yaremenko 1990, No. 16:93-102; Saudia [Muhammad is the son of the Sultan from his unloved wife, with whom he divorced; Mahmud and Ahmed are sons from his beloved; the sultan is blind; fortune teller: lion's milk brought will help on the lion's back; the brothers went in search; at the fork, the old man points to three roads: prosperity; regret and remorse; on which they do not return; Muhammad chose the latter; the other two roads came together, they brought them to the city, Mahmoud and Ahmed squandered money, one went to work in a tavern, the other to a lamb head salesman; Muhammad came to the jinn's palace; the captive girl advises them to venerate their breasts mother; jinnia hid Muhammad from her sons; then they called him brother; brought him to her middle aunt; from her to her eldest; she teaches him to pull a splinter from a sleeping lion and ask for milk when he will stop being angry with pain; the genies rewarded the young man, he returned with 15 camels loaded with gold, three girls and a lion carrying lion's milk on his back; in the city, Muhammad found brothers and took They are only with them after they have allowed them to be branded with him; we have to get water, only Muhammad agrees to go down to the well; there is a girl and a sleeping eagle at the bottom; he can only be killed with his own sword; the eagle asks to hit him a second time; Muhammad: father and mother were not taught to finish off; the eagle is dead; Muhammad sent water and a girl upstairs; she gave a ring: if rubbed, she will come to the rescue; the brothers will cut off the rope; you have to follow this road; if a black goat hits, you will descend into the seventh underworld, and if you are white, you will go up to the ground; the goats fought, the white one missed, the black one hit, Muhammad found himself in a hot world where genies lived; old woman: a witch at the ditch lets water once a year when she is given one of the daughters of the king of jinns; today is the middle daughter's turn; Muhammad hacked a witch; rubbed the ring; that girl tells him to go to the palace of the jinns; there his daughter will throw grenades at the one who saved her; this is what happened; the king ordered one of the genies to raise Muhammad to the ground; to do this, prepare 7 lamb fat tails and 7 servings of tortillas; the seventh fat tail Muhammad dropped, cut off the meat from his thigh; on the ground, the genno regurgitated the meat and put it on the wound; meanwhile, the girl covered the camels, the lion, herself and the other girls with an iron sarcophagus; Muhammad defeated his father's army, showed marks on the shoulders of his brothers; by agreement with the girl, destroyed the iron sarcophagus; the king saw the light, the Sultan returned his first wife, the second sons thrown into prison]: Juhayman 1999:37-47.

Burma - Indochina. Khmer: Uther 2004 (1), No. 156:108-109

South Asia. North India, Bijnor County, Hindi: Crooke 1895, No. 475 [the prince took care of the snake and let it go; she gave him an iron chain that fulfilled his wishes; he went to hunt for the Silent Princess; took out a splinter from the tigress's paw, she gave one of the cubs; saved Garuda's chicks from a snake, she gave one of the chicks; they all swam in the river and covered themselves in gold; the prince came to the princess's swayamvara in rags, but she threw a wreath at him; the prince became king; went again to get the Silent Princess; tasks: a bridge over the river; create an unprecedented garden; with the help of helper spirits from his chain, the prince laid across the river the mountain and lowered Indra's garden to the ground; made the princess speak; to do this, he begins to talk not to her, but to the objects next to her; they answer that the princess does not wash or clean them; the princess indignant; becomes his wife; while walking, the prince sees rubies in the river; goes upstream; there is another princess who is bewitched by Rakshasa; prince awakens her; peri reports that Rakshasa's heart is in a treetop parrot across seven seas; guarded by rakshasa, snakes, and scorpions; prince picks up peri and two other wives on his way home; (animals don't play a role)]: 172-175; Rouse 1895, No. 234 [four young men wander, meet a goat; she eats two in two nights; on the third night she fails, she takes the form of a beautiful woman; she buys her; she arranges others to do so , as if wives are accused of devouring royal horses; their eyes are pulled out, thrown into a hole; all ten take turns giving birth to sons; 9 are eaten, the tenth grows up, receives an arrow from the hunter that always hits on target; joins the king father, his mother warns him about the cannibal; she tells him to 1) bring the tigress's milk (he takes out a splinter, she gives milk); 2) get a demon cow; 3) bring" golden water"; the cannibal gives him a letter ordering him to kill the giver; Adam and Eve fly over the forest, replacing the letter with asking the cannibal to be kind to the giver; in the house of the cannibal mother, the young man finds boxes with a storm, rain, a parrot in which the soul of a cannibal daughter; he carries water, opens boxes, interfering with the chase; slowly kills a parrot, the cannibal dies]: 210-211; Punjabi [poor soldier died, his son went to seek happiness; he took the splinter out of the tigress's paw, she gave him a box, told him to carry 9 miles; the box was getting heavier, the young man threw it, a dwarf with a long beard jumped out, ready to do orders; brought food, a lot was left, he ate everything himself; the young man fell in love with the princess, the dwarf brought it to her, then moved the bed with the lovers to a distant garden; they were noticed, but the dwarf interrupted those sent warriors; the young man lets the dwarf go, who leaves his hair to call him; the young man and his wife came to the ogre, who looked like a brahmana; he forbids opening one closet; the young man opens the bones eaten there; he has time light her hair; the brahmana turns into rain, the dwarf turns into a hurricane wind, the dove is a hawk, the rose on Indra's chest turns into a musician; Indra likes the game, the musician asks for a rose as a reward; Indra threw it, petals crumbled, the musician began to collect, one turned into a mouse, the musician became a cat, ate a mouse; the young man and the princess got the ogre's treasures]: Steel, Temple 1984, No. 1:5-16; sindhi [fakir gives to the childless king Lalu ash: let him give a drink of water to his beloved wife; a son Amul Malik will be born, when he finishes his studies, let him come to the fakir; the fakir leads AM to another country, they see the radiance emanating from the body daughter of King Gulasta Princess Husini, AM asks the fakir, then the father, to help marry her; the Saiphal vizier comes to King G. to marry his daughter; H. sets the condition to live with her husband in separate palaces; fakir gives AM an invisible hat, says that H. loves a maiden named Suphed; every Thursday she and her maids enter the banyan tree, who takes her across the seas to the maiden's garden; the fakir teaches her to eat unnoticed food brought for H., hide in a banyan; dev will ask H. to dance, give jewelry and clothes, steal and hide them, pretend to be asleep at home; she will come to look for jewelry, she must jump up pick up her wings; instead, AM tells H. everything, she grabs her clothes and jewelry, flies away; the fakir tells him to follow H. on a winged horse; on the way he takes out a splinter from the lioness, she gives him assistants to two adult lion cubs; sister X. teaches that when H. and other peri arrive to swim in the lake, they should hide her clothes; the lion sits on her clothes; H. gives AM his nose ring, tells them to come with him, throw it into the jug to the maid, she will give it back to H.; the virgins will say that if AM is H.'s legal husband, he must identify his wife among a hundred peri; she will have this ring; the maidens gave three attempts, H. for the third time. attached a ring, the maidens gave it to X. Amul Maliku; on the way back, H. kidnapped the maidens who lived in the well; the lions went down there (there is a whole country, a palace), tore the maiden, returned from H. to the ground on a winged horse; everyone returned to King L., lived happily]: Kinkaid 1922:75-88; Tamils [the young man went to look for work; pulled a snake out of various wells, a man; pulled a splinter from the tiger; the young man did not find a job, but on the way back the tiger gave he had a bag of gold: they, the tigers, killed the prince and took his property; the young man spent the night with the man he saved; he saw gold, remembered the death of the prince and reported it; the Raja ordered him to be in the morning the elephant trampled on; the snake climbed into the dungeon and promised to bite the princess, and only a young man could cure her; everything turned out; the Raja ordered the informer to be executed in the same way, and gave the young man the princess]: Blackburn 2005, #27.

China - Korea. Chinese (Hubei, Hehua City District, 1988) [the tiger gnawed its paw to the meat, but could not pull out the thorn, went to the poor old woman's house, hit the door with its paw at night; the old woman lit a fire, She opened the door, the tiger put her paw through, the old lady pulled out the thorn, the tiger left; started bringing the old woman a rabbit or deer every night; since then, tigers have not eaten people living in shacks]: Bai Gengsheng 2009:144 -145; Chinese (many sources, no provinces listed): Ting 1978, No. 156; Chuan Miao [people lived in a cave; a tiger came and began to bask around the fire; he was given three children to prevent him from eating adults; but the tiger did not eat them, but held out his paw, which was pierced by a bamboo chip; the man took it out; when he returned home drunk a year later, fell down and fell asleep, the tiger came up and hugged him, not allowing him freeze; left in the morning]: Graham 1954:183-184.

The Balkans. Romanians [poor old people have three sons, the youngest Tsugul; the fairies gave him a good fate, but the sorceress snake took away his veins; the brothers reluctantly put Ts on a mare, take them with them to hunt; the fairy gives he has a belt: he can take any form to return his veins from the Snake; after becoming a bee, C. flies to the Snake's house; from a conversation between the Snake and his daughters, he learns that the veins are in the chest behind the stove; next time he arrives with a fly, takes the veins; fighting, he kills three snake sons-in-law of the Snake Witch, gave their horses to his brothers, took the youngest for himself; the Snake tells his daughters to take a different form to destroy C.; the elder brother wants to rip off grapes, C. cuts a vineyard, black blood flows; the same is a plum orchard; the same is a stream (the brothers wanted to get drunk, C. plunged a spear into the stream, blood flowed); the witch herself flies, C. hides in a cave, then comes to the king, asks to forge a club; heated it, shoved it into a hole in the fortress wall; The snake pulled the air into itself, the red-hot club fell into her mouth, she died; the boyars advise the tsar to get rid of Ts. they offer to send him to the Kingdom of Strier, to marry the king; C. meets, takes as companions 1) an eternally hungry man who plows seven with plows; 2) hares running and stroking on the run, tied to at the feet of a millstone; 3) freezing on a hot day, one mustache is white, the other is black; 4) an arrow hitting a mosquito in the sky; 5) a sage (waving a stick, birds flock); everyone, not knowing first who is in front of him, says that he is not a hero, but a real hero - C.; the Streer king demands: 1) eat all the breads baked in 9 ovens per day (Ovedelo eats); 2) drink 9 barrels of wine (Drank drinks); 3) enter a hot stove (the Freezer has cooled it down); 4) bring water from the magic spring, overtaking the maid (the maid put Skorokhod to sleep, looking for him in his head; the shooter wakes him up by knocking him out from under his head a horse skull as a girl, Skorokhod came first); 5) let 50 infertile women be born overnight (The Sage did so that they gave birth; touched the king with a stick - behind the king there is a brood of ducklings, everyone laughs); Ts spared an eagle, pulled a thorn out of the bear's paw, they promised to help; brought the princess to the king, who gave it to him himself; the brothers stabbed Ts., took the horse and the bride; Ts was still a little alive, his eagle and bear were coming out, the eagle brought alive and dead water, C. became the same; the eagle untied the horse C., the bear frightened the brothers; the horse killed the brothers with his hooves, the king of Streer bequeathed the throne to C., he married the princess, received both kingdoms]: Sadetsky 1973:79-101; Slovenes, Serbs, Macedonians, Hungarians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 156:108-109; Bulgarians [a person takes a splinter out of a bear's paw or frees a paw clamped in a tree fork; honey gives him honey]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 156:69.

Central Europe. Western and Northern (Volyn) Ukrainians {there is no number in the geographical index, but according to sources, two entries were made in the west by Ukrainians and one in Volyn} [A thorn in the paw bear (lion): a woman pulls a splinter out and receives an award]: SUS 1979, No. 156:78; Poles [a girl pulls a splinter out of a bear's paw, he brings her honey]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 156:64 ; Czechs, Slovaks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 156:108-109.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Stavropol Turkmens [the tsar has three sons with his first wife; she died, he remarried; the new one gave birth to a daughter; mares disappear in the herd at night; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep; the youngest comes, cooks dinner; an old woman comes, then leaves; disappears under a stone; a young man goes down there; 40 robbers sleep there; a young man hits one with his boot, hides; then says he is the son of a thief and wants to steal with them; promises to get the king's three daughters; killed the guard, went to the princesses; each had a sword; he hit his own, cut the first two, when he hit the youngest's sword, his sword crumbled; the young man took this sword; called the robbers and killed each one at a time, strung his ears on a thread; killed an old woman, taking the keys to the pantry; shot into a black cloud, a shot child's finger fell to the ground; at home, the queen says that daughters cut off their finger; the young man gave his finger and found it in the steppe; the king (the one who is the father of three princesses) summons people, looking for a hero, only the young man's sword came to the sheath; three princesses are presented as three princes; the stepmother commands drive the younger one away; he came to the tree; the snake crawls to the eagles nest, he killed her; for this, the eagle gave him two eagles out of three; the young man went on, took the splinter out of the lioness's paw, who gave him two lion cubs out of six; left the lion cubs and eagles to guard the horse, put on lamb skins and tripe himself, went to town; the youngest of the king's three daughters realized that it was a prince; invited the sisters to send three apples: green, half-ripe, ripe; the king ordered all men to go outside the window, let every daughter throw an apple at whoever she wanted to marry; the elders threw viziers at the sons, the youngest as an imaginary beggar; The king lodged them at the stable; the king fell ill, he needed chicken meat; the imaginary beggar in his true form, with the help of his lions and eagles, obtained a feces, gave the meat to his elder sons-in-law, who allowed them to be placed on the sacrum stigma; from what his elder sons-in-law brought to the king; and from the bowels cooked by his youngest daughter, he recovered; at the feast, the prince truly said that two slaves, the eldest, had run away from him the sons-in-law had to show stamps; the prince gave slaves to the tsar; everything was clarified; the prince decided to visit his home; let the eagles go, but the lions said they would still be useful, stayed with the prince's wife; at home the city intact, no people; the werewolf sister has a thin father, stepmother, brothers and wives in the hut; the sister consistently asks if the brother came on horseback with three, two, one legs, whether he came on foot; tells me to play on the balalaika; the fox volunteered to play for him, and let him hang his boots, which can be seen from the kitchen - as if he was still sitting; his sister was chasing, the prince turned three arrows into trees, climbed the first one, his sister gnawed, it fell, the prince moved to the second, then to the third; the lions feel something, his wife released them, they tore the cannibal; they brought a lot of cattle; at home, the prince handed over power to the elder brother; he himself began to live with two wives (it is not said how he married the first one)]: A.K. 1875, No. 1:1-13; Ingush [the horse tells the aged warrior to give it to a young horseman; the young man comes to the tower; the hostess promises to become his wife if he finds out the secret of the noseless Sealima; he will reveal it to the person who accomplished the feat; the horseman wins, takes a young man as his companion; kills the terrible wolf Berza Kazá ("wolf puppy"); the companion brings the horseman to his castle, where his brother's sick wife; the horseman goes for medicine, the horse carries him between the crushing rocks; the horseman takes out the splinter to the lion, he gives medicine - a jug of milk; the beauty recovered, advised her husband to ask her husband for a sword with a broken end and a gray oath as a reward; her husband is S.; he says that he and his seven friends were chased by a seven-headed a serpent, threw a stone, killed his comrades, the tip of his nose was cut off; the horseman tells the horse to return to its former owner, sits on a nag, she becomes a heroic horse; the dzhigit comes to the bride; wedding]: Kibiev, Malsagov 1981:86-99 (=Malsagov 1983, No. 20:115-119; a similar version or the same in another translation in Tankiev 2003:192-195, the man's name Sulaima); Kumyks [the dervish gives the childless khan an apple, let his wife, mare, dog eat, each bring twins; one boy, stallion and puppy should be given to the dervish; the eldest was named Arslan Khan, the youngest was named Batyr Khan; the dervish takes A.; at the source, the skull teaches: this is a black maiden, you must pretend that you can't do anything; let him show how bread is baked; push the maiden into the oven and fill it with oil; after killing the maiden, A. rides her horse and with her dog; the person you meet tells put his finger into the stream when he met; A. took out a splinter to the lioness, she gave a lion cub; killed the snake that crawled to the eagle's nest, she gave an eagle; dipped his finger, it turned golden; poured that water on the lion cub, an eagle, a dog; after releasing the animals and wearing a hat, A. hired a gardener for the khan; knitted the bouquet with his golden hair; the younger princess saw and understood who the worker was; the sisters sent his father three apples, rotten, half rotten, ripe; vizier: it's time for daughters to marry; khan ordered daughters to throw an apple at passing men; the elders threw the vizier at the sons, the youngest as a worker; the khan lodged them in a collapsed hut; khan fell ill, I needed reindeer meat; A. sat on an oath, then took on his true appearance, summoned an eagle, killed a deer, poisoned some of the meat; gave it to his older sons-in-law, for which he stamped the youngest of them; khan scolded his older sons-in-law for bitter meat, but he liked what A. had brought; bring lion's milk; the same (A. poisoned milk in one wineskin), a seal on his elder son-in-law's back; A. Khan recovered from milk; enemies attacked, A. defeated them, said that his older sons-in-law were his slaves, showed seals; Batyr Khan followed in his brother's footsteps; received a lion cub, an eagle, poured gold water; A.'s wife mistook him for her husband, but B. her beat; when A. arrived, she began to accuse him; A. caught up with B. and killed, then repented; saw one mouse kill another and then revive him with grass; A. revived his brother with it; everything is fine]: Barsov 1882, No. 1:121- 128; Avars [the beggar gives a childless man two beans, orders to give one of the two sons to be born; when Arslan and Batyr grow up, the father gives A.; on the way he drinks from the stream, the skull is at the bottom says that the beggar is a Black Dev, teaches to pretend that he does not know how to take revenge on the floor, heat the stove; pushes the maiden into the fire; pulls out a splinter from the lioness, returns an eagle to the nest, gets a lion cub, an eagle; dips his finger in the stream, he turns gold; washes his hair, mane and horse tail in the stream; lets the animals go, they will return when he burns the pen; smears mud on his face, hires a gardener; youngest daughter Khan sees his golden hair; Khan invites his three daughters to throw an apple at whoever they want to marry; the youngest leaves him at A.; Khan drives her away, she and A. live in a hut on the outskirts; Khan who is ill will cure deer meat; he summons an eagle, which is a horse and a lioness; A. catches deer, gives bile meat to his older sons-in-law, for which he stigmatizes them; venison is bitter, the khan is angry, and the meat given the youngest daughter, tasty; but he is worse, he needs the lioness's milk; the lioness gives it; A. stigmatizes his elder son-in-law, gives milk in a jug where vinegar was, it is sour; the khan recovered from the milk brought by A. as a reward, he asks for his two slaves, everyone sees the seals on the backs of his older sons-in-law; A. takes on his true form; brother A. Batyr follows in his footsteps, the lioness, the eagle give him the brothers of the lion cub, the eagle received by A.; A.'s wife takes B. for her husband, rejected, cries; reproaches A., who returned from hunting; he catches up with B. kills with an arrow; repents; one mouse kills another, revives her with grass; A. revives B.; feast]: Kapiyeva 1974:72-80; Dargins [one-eyed promises the childless khan the birth of three sons if he promises to give one to him; gives an apple, the peel should be fed to the mare, the core of the dog, they will also bring three foals, three puppies; only the youngest son agrees to go to the one-eyed man; each time he asks show him how to do something; he pushes him into the taroom (to bake bread); frees the kidnapped daughter of the khan, sends her to her father, promising to return for her; on the way he pulls out a splinter from the lion, kills a snake that regularly devours eagle chicks; the eagle arrives with the wind raising its wings, the rain its tears; gives the young man one eagle to help; after changing clothes and hiring a gardener, asks the bathers Khan's daughters to comb their hair; the youngest gives it, he leaves his golden hair on it; the gardener tells the khan to give rotten, semi-rotten, fresh apples (symbols of daughters of different ages); khan's daughters throw apples at the chosen ones, the youngest chooses a poor gardener; he smashes enemies twice in his true form with the help of a horse, a dog and an eagle; the khan is sick, he will be cured by lion meat, the lioness gives the young man of one of the lion cubs, the right half is poisonous; the older sons-in-law buy meat for a stamp on the buttock; the khan chases his older sons-in-law with poisonous meat, greets the younger one; he is in true form shows his stigma on his older sons-in-law, making them slaves; lives with his wife; goes to visit his father; goes to Shirim-Shahir, whose visitors turn to stone; his brother comes for him (puts his sword on the way on the bed, spending the night with his wives), his words pity the SHH, all the stones are disgraced; all the brothers marry: the first plays an unplayed (when he was a gardener) wedding, the second at the school, the third on the one-eyed daughter]: Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (1): 401-413; Georgians [an escaped prisoner hides in a lion's cave, takes a splinter out of his lion's paw; they are both grabbed; a man is told to watch with lions, but the lion is his assistant defended; both are buried]: Kurdovanidze 2000, No. 156:21; Azerbaijanis [generous rich man Hatham dervish talks about a man who is more generous than him, but no one has seen the owner of the palace; H. goes there; through the curtain asks the owner where he got such wealth; he suggests asking a famous doctor; the doctor tells everyone about his illness, and H. says that he is the cause of his grief ; gives H. a letter to Ibrahim, the youngest son of a blind padishah; the letter says that the cure for blindness must be found in a country where his horse's hooves have not set foot; this is the flower garden of Padishah's daughter Gulistani-Irem; I. takes the splinter out of the diva's leg; he brings it to his middle brother, the middle brother to the elder, the eldest to the garden; there I. enters the palace, kisses the sleeping lady of the genies Melik Khatun; she likes him and she becomes his wife; the virgins take I. home, he brings him the medicine given by M., his father sees the light; envious older brothers call I. to hunt, lower him into the well, cut off the rope, say that I. the tiger was torn to pieces; father and mother died of grief; M. and an army of divas come to look for I.; makes the brothers confess; the doctor cured I., the older brothers have their necks twisted; (hereinafter about H. and the doctor)]: Akhundov 1955: 126-167; Turks [when the king's daughter was 3 years old, he ordered his son to kill her and bring a cup of her blood; the young man felt sorry for the girl, gave her old woman to raise her, brought rabbit blood to his father; he suspects deception, predicts misfortune for his son; the king is blind, he will be cured by a precious box from the land of fairies; the son went to get the box; his sister followed him; reluctantly, he put her with him on a horse; they came to an empty city; the inhabitants were eaten by a giant, a black Arab; a young man defeated him, hung him from a tree; planted three cypresses at the spring; his sister freed the Arab, they became lovers; sister fed an Arab with game brought by her brother; asks an Arab to kill her brother; an Arab is afraid of him; invites the girl to pretend to be sick and send her brother to nine Arab brothers and mother for black and light grapes; the young man fed the fox, who advises him to approach the giant from behind and venerate her chest; the giants gave grapes; next time: lion's milk in a lion's skin wineskin; fox: go to the pond where lions drink and their mother; clean the pond, pull out the splinter from the lioness, she will give milk; the lioness allowed to make a wineskin out of a lion cub's skin; gives the young man two lion cubs; an Arab tells his mistress to pour lead into her ears young lions brought by the young men; but one shook off the lead and kept his hearing; the Arab tells his mistress to hit his brother from behind with an ax when he starts fighting him; when he sees an Arab and his sister, the young man climbed on one from the cypresses he planted, called lions; when an Arab cut down one cypress, the young man moved to the second, then to the third; the lions heard the third call, tore the Arab to pieces; the brother cut his sister to pieces; lions sent it to their mother; he went to look for the box himself; the fox teaches how to take the box from the fairies; they want a sword stolen by giants in return; it is from the mother of giants; the young man managed to take it out of its scabbard; fox: don't give it back sword until you get the box, and then take the sword; asks to wave her sword over her head; the fox became a young man; it was his sword that was stolen by the fairy, turning the young man into a fox; leaving the sword to the young man, the prince returned to his father and he saw the light]: Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 10:90-103; Kurds [the padishah has a son Mokaddam (MD), the vizier has Mohammad (MM); MM studied, MD dropped out of school; MM fell in love with the daughter of a distant padishah, MD went with him get it; MM pulled the splinter out of the leopard's paw, helped the ants cross the stream, they promise to help by hitting the hair; MM and MD stopped at the old woman; she tells me to work for the gardener, he will tell you padishah about matchmakers; padishah demands: 1) get a dog to defeat his dog (MM brought a leopard); 2) separate wheat from millet in the barn (ants separated); 3) eat a salt barn; MM dug into daughter of the padishah, learned from her to say: "What a whole barn of salt, what a pinch"; MD gets married, they go back; MM went forward, hears three doves talking; 1) if MM and his wife come to the tower, they will burn ; 2) if they sit under a tree by the spring, turn into wolves; 3) MD's father poisoned the horse's stirrups, if MD puts his foot into the stirrup, it will burn; if MM reports all this, he will petrify; MM destroyed the tower, stirs up a spring and cut down a tree, killed a horse; MD is angry, but then his father died of love for his wife, MD forgot about MM; MM hears doves again: the dragon is coming to eat MD; MM killed the dragon at the entrance to the palace, bloody He entered the chambers with a sword, MD thinks that MM wants to kill him and his wife; MM told everything, petrified; wife gave birth to a son; doves: if she stabbed her son at MM's feet, he will come to life, and if he tells, he will petrify himself; wife stabbed, MM came to life; the dove threw a feather, MM ran it over the neck of her son, who also came to life; feast]: Rudenko 1970, No. 58:210-218.

Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens [=Sokali et al. 1955:82-88; Bahaveddin gives his son Mamed-jan to herd camels, does not order to sell an old camel; M. sold, the whole herd went for the camel; M. finds a ruby a necklace, gives a padishah, but he demands one more, otherwise he executes; M. comes to the gorge, where the blood of the dead beauty turned into rubies; divas arrive, revives the beauty with a potion from a bubble, again kills, flies away; M. revives her himself; teaches the diva to know where his soul is; the diva shows a stream under the stone, there is a fish; M. kills the fish, the diva dies; M. brings the padishah a second necklace; the old woman reports that M. has a beautiful wife; the vizier advises to send M. for the lioness's milk; the wife orders to remove the splinter from the lion's paw, he tells the lionesses to give milk, M. brings the lionesses, the padishah in horror; the vizier suggests sending M. for a talisman that makes the apple cry, the pomegranate laughs; the wife gives a letter to her peri sister; she arranges that the "cruel peri" she serves gives a talisman; the padishah tells him to build a castle overnight; M. asks him not to shoot pigeons; peri arrive in the form of turtles, the castle is ready; the vizier advises sending M. to the next world to find out how the deceased parents are doing padishah; the wife advises to ask the padishah to light a huge fire, the peri-dove turns M. into a straw, takes him away from the fire; Peri writes a letter on behalf of the late father of the padishah, who calls his son and his vizier; at night M. hides in ash, in the morning he is found there; after reading the letter, the padishah and the vizier behave to burn themselves, M. is chosen as the new padishah; peri-doves bring his parents to M.]: Erberg 1953:50-67; Uzbeks (Karabulak near Chimkent, western 1924) [the rich man has a daughter and two shepherds; one dreams that he has the sun on one cheek, the moon on the other, the star Venus in the middle; the other shepherd bought this dream by giving the cattle; the rich man's daughter has agreed with her lover that he would take her away; he overslept; the shepherd fell asleep in the same place by the pool; the girl mistook him for his lover, woke him up, to take her away; he overslept; the shepherd fell asleep in the same place by the pool; the girl took he went for him; he is silent in response to an offer to raise sheep, cattle, shoot ducks; she decides that he is of noble origin, takes them to the city, the mullah marries them; the vizier suggests to the king pick up the woman, send her husband 1) for tiger milk (the wife teaches the tiger king to remove the splinter); 2) for the gul-kaahka flower; the wife gives her handkerchief, the flower owner sees that it is her sister's handkerchief, comes the young man's second wife, he gives the king a bouquet; when she goes, pearls and gold fall; 3) learn about the health of the king's deceased parents; the husband got up on the fire, both wives took off, quietly took it off; wives teach tell the king that his father sews boots, his mother is spinning, asking them to visit them; the king burns at the stake, the husband reigns]: Yudakhin 1927:417-425; the Persians [the older sister promises to dress the army if she is handed over for the vizier, the middle one to feed the army, the youngest to give birth to the Shah a gold-haired son, who, if he laughs, roses fall from his mouth, tears - pearls and precious stones; sisters put a puppy, a baby put him in the oven in the bathhouse; the Shah put his wife in the kennel like a dog; the bathhouse attendant picks up the baby, gets rich; the Shah's new wife pretends to be sick, asks for lion's milk in the skin torn off the lion on her back another lion; the shah sends the adopted son of a bathhouse attendant; the mother of the divas teaches that the main lion has a pain in his leg; the young man heals him, he is satisfied with everything; bring a mare with 40 foals; bring a self-swinging cradle; divas tells her mother about two girls bathing, they must hide their dress, they will give a cradle; the shah asks the bathhouse attendant, returns his wife and son, ties her sisters by their hair to their tails horses]: Osmanov 1987:131-146; Tajiks Sistan [the king has two wives, one has a son, Malik-Muhammad; the second wife offers herself to him, he refuses; she complains to her husband that his son wanted to take possession of her; the vizier stands up for him, his father expels him, but does not execute him; the pregnant mother leaves with her son; asks to catch the bird, he follows it, he is swallowed by divas; the mother gives birth to a son Khanjarsho ("king dagger"); mother and tells him to catch the same bird; he defeats the diva, throws it into the well; the mother finds a diva, picks him up, takes him as a lover; to kill her son, asks for 1) lion's milk (the son takes out a splinter to the lion, who gives milk); 2) dates from the White Diva Garden; H. kills the dragon, which annually eats the Simurg bird chicks, the chicks eat meat, Simurg brings him to the White Diva, the defeated Div becomes his friend; kills his mother and her lover when she tried to poison her son; gives H. to his peri wife; the old woman kidnaps her for another king, breaks the dagger in which X.'s life was; the diva repairs the dagger, returns his wife H.]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 2:24-39; Rushantsy [a slave leads to water horses, sees the reflection of three doves; they say that anyone who reports us to King Komiron will petrify; Comiron I'm surprised why the horses are thin, the slave asks him to see for himself; K. shoots the little finger of one of the doves, hands the kingdom over to the slave, goes to the desert; takes out a splinter from the tigress, and both cubs give each a hair to call them for help; changes clothes with a bald shepherd, asks him how to behave; by the river he says "In the name of King Peri, let this river part; the waters diverge, K. with the herd passes; each of the three peri tells the shepherd to rub her legs; two have intact fingers (K. scratches their feet with a cow's tongue), the third does not have enough little finger, K. puts it; when choosing husbands, the older sister throws a skullcap on the judge's head, the middle one throws an elder, the youngest a pleshivets; Peri's father tells the pleshivets to bring a hundred camel bales of gold, he brings; tells his servants to kill him, his servants spare him; father sends young people to live in a stable; only K. hunts successfully, gives meat to other sons-in-law, stigmatizing them on their heads and asses; older daughters bring meat to their father-in-law, it is bitter, the youngest brings legs and heads, they are delicious; leaves a piece of manure on the plate; the father moves them to the front room; the bald man plays polo with a golden stick, a golden ball; the father-in-law offers a reward, he takes his people, i.e. branded older sons-in-law; older sisters understand that handsome and bald are one person; father-in-law gives him the throne]: Pisarchik 1954, No. 6:48-54; Sarykol residents [three sons ask their father to find wives for them; on on the mountainside, the woman tells them to be sent to her one by one; the eldest goes, and there is a snake; the same middle one; the younger Abadesh brings a snake, in the morning there is a huge house; A. asks his wife to leave her shell; beautiful goes out; when they see her, the brothers faint; tell his father to destroy A.; he goes to the king, then the vizier sends A. for lion's milk; the wife orders the lion to take the thorn out of his paw, A. receives milk and returns riding a lion; Father A. invites the king to demand a golden throne from A.; A. burns his wife's hairs, her mother brings the golden throne from heaven; a new requirement: a sweet slutty; Peri's father teaches take it away from the fox; A. chases the fox into the cave, the fox dies, A. takes the shank and sees the inhabitants of another world; bulls eat one person's beard (when he plowed, he did not give them grass); seven people try build a bridge (during her lifetime, they stole boards from the bridge); two snakes suck a woman's breasts (gave a breast to someone else's child without asking her husband); A. apologizes to the Creator for the death of the fox, is forgiven; the wife's father teaches to say that Rubob was given by the king's father and mother, waiting for him; the king orders himself to be burned at a huge fire, A. becomes king]: Pakhalina 1966:142-148; Baluchi [the blind king hears parrots talking, learns that He will see the light from the leaves from the garden of Nushirvan; asks the sons to get it; the third son Sha-Niyaz Khan is bald, from the other wife; the stone says who will go to the right will return (two brothers went), who to the left - will not return (Sh. went); the old man teaches S. to take a saw and an ax, remove the splinter from the lion's paw; this is the lion king, sends another to help Sh.; S. kills a snake crawling along the trunk to the Simurg bird's nest, who devours chicks every year; Simurg wants to kill a person, the chicks explain that he is a savior; Simurg gives one of the chicks as companions; S. collects leaves, kills 40 buzlangs guarding the castle; unzips the sleeping beauty's clothes, leaves a letter, returns; his brothers lost their property to the girl, became servants; S. wins, takes the brothers, puts their stigma on them; they recognize him; they tear out his eyes, take his leaves; the lion gives him water, finds him, returns his eyes; the owner of the garden comes with an army and tells him to give him the thief; the brothers cannot explain how they got the leaves; S. marries a beautiful woman, father gives him the kingdom]: Zarubin 1932, No. 6:69-90; Pashtuns [the birdsman's sons Hunkar (elder) and Muslim from his first wife; he found a white egg in the nest of an unknown bird, sold it for a lot of money to the rich man, began to bring him more and more eggs; caught the bird itself; after his death, H. sells eggs to the rich man; the stepmother asks the rich man to come to her, he makes a condition to slaughter the bird to eat the heart and head and to become a padishah; the maid gives heart and head to the sons of the poor man; the rich man is furious, the maid tells H. and M. to flee; H. is dead, a falcon sat on Muslim's head, he was chosen padishah; three birds admired the beauty of H., shook a tree whose leaves revive, one fell into H.'s mouth, he came to life; a falcon also sat on his head, H. became a padishah of another country; M. had 7 sons, X. had daughters, he kills them; the wife hides the seventh named Schmaila; she grows up beautiful; H. sees her, his wife has to explain everything; H. sets difficult tasks for Sh.'s suitors; 1) break an iron ax deck; 2) milk Schmaila's red cow with diamond antlers; 3) run up to the roof three times with a windowsill full of milk; 4) separate the millet from the sand and the millet of that half the room; 5) bring the lion, arrange fight with the lion of the padishah; 7) find a way to the chambers of Shmaila; 6 sons of M. are executed; the seventh Jallat Khan plays with the old woman's son, beats him; the old woman tells her son to say - if D. is so good, then demand (from the mother ) answering how the brothers died; D. asks his mother to fry the grains, clamps them in her hand, forcing her to talk about the fate of her older brothers; on the instructions of the fakir, receives the blessing of his mother and father; takes out a splinter from a lioness; lions promise to help; saves ants by buying a person's field so that he does not fill it with water; gives Mullah Miro a letter from a fakir, the mullah makes D. a disciple; he first enters S.'s chambers women's outfit; S. suspects that it is a man, but M. does not betray himself; then makes a mechanical lion, hides in it, S. tells him how to complete his father's tasks; ants separate millet, lion defeats lion H.; D. gets Sh., Hunkar's eyes gouged out, brought to his brother; the brothers recognized each other, H. repented that he killed his sons after Muslim]: Lebedev 1972, No. 6:27-44 (=1958:113-120; brief retelling in Lebedev 2003:395).

Baltoscandia. Latvians: Arys, Medne 1977, No. 156 [a man pulls a splinter out of a lion's (bear)'s paw; a rescued lion thanks a man], 156A [man pulls a splinter out of a lion's paw; a grateful lion is everywhere follows a person]: 260; Lithuanians [a thorn in the bear's paw, he brings honey]: Balys 1936, No. 156:12; Estonians [the slave ran away from the evil master, took out a splinter to a lion, they began to live together; The emperor found out about this and gave freedom to both]: Kippar 1986, No. 156:116; Finns: Uther 2004 (1), No. 156:108-109; Swedes (West and North Sweden): Liungman 1961, No. 156:25.

Volga - Perm. Mordva, Marie, Kazan Tatars: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 156:221; Bashkirs [Akhan and Karakhan decided to marry children if wives give birth to babies of different sexes; . son, K. has a daughter; A. died, K. forgot his promise; A.'s eldest daughter-in-law to his son: than to flirt with me, it would be better to go to the bride; the son asked his mother to fry wheat, held it in her hand, she had to confess; K.'s wife died, telling him to take a new wife more beautiful than her; K. did not find anyone more beautiful than her daughter; she set a condition: sew a flea fur coat and a lice leather handkerchief; K. fulfilled; she dug a hole in the bathhouse and covered it with a carpet; K. went, failed; the daughter left, began to live with the elderly; A.'s son found K., pulled him out of the hole; K. says that his daughter killed her mother and went to the maiden; A.'s son came to the house where daughter K. lived; began to pluck wool from the ram, put meat on an inverted pot and poured water on top; the girl, seeing this, laughed and became more and more beautiful; they fell in love, he brought her mother, took it to wives; beggar K. came; at night he stabbed his daughter's son, put a knife on her; said that this witch killed her mother; the mother kicked out her daughter-in-law; the young returned to those old men, taking the child's body; son A. sees how the snake revived another by dragging her around the hummock; revived his son; the young man grew up, went to fight the devil; stopped at the old woman, she wants to burn him in a copper bath, he drags her there himself, tells her to show the way to a deva; she sends to her sister; she has a silver bath; the same goes to her older sister; a golden bath; the old woman tells her to oil the deva's gate, chop snakes and lions with a sword, gives a handkerchief to heal the horse's leg, if the lion hurts him; the young man drove the deva up to his throat into the ground, then put him in a cage, freed the beauties, the princess gave him a ring; he brought his mother to him; K. came, opened the cage with the devil, he advised send a young man for a bear's milk; K. called himself the young man's grandfather - his mother is unconscious, he must be cured; the young man pulled a sharp stone out of the bear's paw, she gave milk; K. released the deva, the young man defeated him, he fell into the ground; the young man sprayed milk on K., who became petrified, the millstone closed the place where the devil was; the young man threw a ring into the jug of the princess's maid; she recognized him; wedding]: Barag 1988, No. 54:385-389.

Turkestan. Karakalpaks [Khan does not have a son, he gives his daughter Gulziba to a boy; hands over the throne to his imaginary son, the vizier's son becomes a vizier; finds out that the young khan is a girl; they agree run, but at night the vizier is replaced by the chieftain of the robbers; G. offers the robbers to race, she will marry the winner; runs away; marries the shepherd Meytin; sews skullcaps, M. sells them for a high price; the merchant finds out about this, the khan takes M. into service, gives difficult assignments to seize G.; 1) build a palace of tiger fangs (M. takes out a splinter from a lion, he tells the tigers to give him a fang); 2) a palace from the feathers of the king bird; the Aydarkha serpent devours her two chicks every year; M. kills a snake, a storm begins with rain; rain - the tears of birds, the wind - from their wings; all the king birds give a pen; the khan wants to burn M. at the stake, say hello to his parents in heaven; M. burns the king bird's feather, she brings it to her, gives fruit for the khan; the khan and the viziers behave to burn themselves, M. becomes khan]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:3-13.

Eastern Siberia. The Evenks of China (irrigated) [hunters feel a tiger nearby; they leave their hats for the night: whoever is gone, he is angry; in the morning there is no younger hat, he was left in the forest; he climbed a pine tree; first Various animals gathered; then a crying tiger came up, with a thorn in its paw; the man took it out; the tiger brought him a lot of cape, brought him meat and himself to his house; he was the owner of the Bainatscha forest; one day another hunter could not get anything; B. felt sorry for him, appeared as an old hunter, they got a lot; the old one ordered to collect firewood for the fire so that they would not sparkle; but he did not obey; B. disappeared and all the loot with it]: Bäcker 1988, No. 28:201-203.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nanaytsy (Amur District) [the boy looks out the window to the old man, who eats a man; crushed the old man with firewood, brought his mother to live there; the mother secretly released the old man, became his wife; he advises her to pretend to be sick, send her son for medicine; 1) the boa constrictor eats snake's children, bring snakeskin (the boa constrictor kills, the snake gives her); the bear's hair (takes out a splinter, the bear gives her hair); 3) iron dog hair (extracts a human skull from its throat); the dog comes with a young man, eats his mother and an old man, turns into a beauty, brings many people, the young man marries her]: Kile 1996, No. 27: 291-301.

Japan. Japanese (Tohoku, Kanto, West Honshu, North Ryukyu; the plot is popular, often in the form of a bull) [a person removes a bone from the throat of a wolf or bear; he accompanies him, takes him to the cave, hiding it from other wolves; the bear lets his feet lick, the man gets full]: Ikeda 1971, No. 156:37.