M38B. Silly wives imitate a sorceress, ATU 898.

.11.13.-.17.23.27.29.-.31.

The first wife, rejected or taken later than others, performs certain actions with the help of magic. Other wives try to imitate her but are killed, maimed, or disgraced.

Swahili (Zanzibar), Nubians, Berbers of Morocco, Kabiles, Arabs of Algeria, Tunisia, Libya (Tripoli), Egypt, Sicilians, Italians (Tuscany, Umbria, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Calabria ), Spaniards, Catalans, Portuguese, French, Arabs of Syria, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Yemen, Palestinians, Kashmiris, (Bengalis), Hungarians, Greeks, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Albanians, (Gagauz), Abkhazians, Georgians, Turks, Persians, Uzbeks, Danes, (Siberian Tatars).

Bantu-speaking Africa. Swahili (Zanzibar): El-Shamy 2004, No. 898:554-557

Sudan - East Africa. Nubians: Kronenberg in El-Shamy 2004, No. 898:554-557

North Africa. The Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [Aisha's mother died, her father married another; they all see a garden from the terrace, let A. down on a rope to bring fruit; picking up the basket, they left A. downstairs; in the house and in the garden mess, A. cleaned it up, cooked food; in the evening the dragon came: if a man, a woman, a boy, a girl did it, they would be my father, mother, brother, sister; A. told her story, dragon called her a daughter; tells her not to unlock one room; once she unlocked her, there is a white lamb: the dragon will eat you; when the dragon finds out, he teaches A. to answer: it is in your skin that I will sleep, and we will eat meat at my wedding with the prince; fury made the ram lie around and turned black; it was the prince's ram; he ordered the execution of a servant who did not follow the ram, and told the new one to wash the ram; he followed the ram and handed it over to the prince the ram's conversation with A.; the prince himself spied, ordered the Sultan to marry him to A.; before the wedding, the dragon tells A. to remain silent with her husband until he addresses her properly: A., the daughter of the dragon, I implore Speak to me in the name of the dragon; the prince was tired of his wife being silent, and he took another one, his uncle's daughter; A. disposed of things: she sent a glass to fetch water; heated oil in a frying pan, put her hands there, fried fish appeared; the new wife tried to do the same, died of pain; the prince married another cousin; A. walks on silk thread between two balconies; the new wife fell and broke her hip ; A. rolls along the soapy edge of the terrace; the third cousin taken by the prince fell and crashed; A. put a mat on the water and sat on it; the fourth wife drowned; A. threw her laundry into the well, jumped there herself, returned with washed clothes; the fifth wife drowned in the well; A. dropped a dice into the pool; took out her eyes and sent him to find the bone, the eye returned to the eye socket; the sixth wife blinded herself and died; the dragon warned A. that he would send a gold and silver bucket; they would come to her and ask her to resolve the dispute over who was the first to collect water; the prince heard the buckets turn to A. and repeat these words; all is well , the couple live happily]: El Fasi, Dermenghem 1928:184-192; Algerian Arabs: Filleul de Pétigny 1951 [the man loved his old wife and abused his young wife; taking her newborn daughter, she went to the woods For firewood, the girl was stolen by a genie lion; she lives in a palace; a lamb has come: the lion feeds you to eat; the lion genie: tell the lamb that it will be eaten at your wedding, and wool will be used to make a mattress for my bed when I marry the prince; the lamb told the shepherd everything and the shepherd told Prince Emhammed everything; the prince demanded that he marry Leo's daughter; Leo tells his adopted daughter not to talk to her husband, until he says her name: Moonsun; even if E. takes other wives; the young wife tells the lamb to be served at the wedding feast and the mattress filled with wool; talks to everyone, but not with her husband; gave birth two children; E. takes a second wife; she wants to go to the bathhouse with Leo's Daughter; complains that it is not clear if the flag is raised, which means that it is time for women in the bathhouse; Leo's daughter takes out her eye, puts her on a cane, raises and says that yes, the flag is hanged; they are washed in the bathhouse by jinnia servants; the new wife decides to imitate Leo's Daughter, pulled out her eye, but only mutilated herself; then, imitating Leo's Daughter, jumped into a well and drowned; E. took a third wife; she sees Leo's Daughter, frying fish, turning it over with her bare fingers in boiling oil and picking up handfuls of hot coals; the new wife tried everything Repeat, died of burns; the fourth wife saw Leo's Daughter stick burning candles to her fingers and toes, and when the candles burned, her fingers began to burn, but this did no harm; when the fourth wife tried to imitate her, her clothes were on fire and she burned down; to find out the name of Leo's Daughter, E. left her alone in the room, began to eavesdrop; all objects work on their own, "Moon Sun" addressed her; In the evening, the prince says to his wife, "Hello Moon Sun"; she replies, "Hello Prince E."; E. goes to meet Leo; he rides a lion as a man; tells the Moon Sun that she is only for him adopted daughter; calls her real parents; demands that her father apologize to her mother; after Leo's death, all the treasures went to E. and his wife]: 138-156; Scelles-Millie 1963 (Souf) [ going to Mecca, the king tells seven daughters not to unlock the door; one day the youngest's matches got wet; she went out and saw a light in the distance; there was a cannibal; she gave fire, biting off her little finger; on the way home from it blood was dripping, but the nightingale sprinkled all the drops with sand; he got entangled between the girl's legs, she scolded him; the nightingale was offended and removed the dust from the drops; on this trail, the cannibal came to the girls' house; said that she their aunt asked them to be unlocked; the youngest advised her not to do so, but the elders told her to open it; the youngest opened it, but hid behind the door and ran away, and her sisters were eaten by the cannibal; on the run, the girl asks the sun, how far is the cannibal; the green snake took the girl to its underground palace; blew on the cannibal that ran up and turned her into stone; gave the girl the keys to all but one rooms; she unlocked this room there is a ram; says that the snake is feeding the girl to eat; she confessed to the snake; he ordered the ram to answer: I will marry the Sultan's son, and I will make a rug out of your wool; when the ram heard this, the ram died of fear; the serpent passed her off as the son of the Sultan; he had many other wives; one put her new hand in boiling oil, but the serpent gave his adopted daughter unusual abilities and the oil did not hurt; then the other wives put their hands in boiling oil hand in oil, left without an arm; the serpent turned into an old man, told him to cut off his head, put him under the bed, there would be a fragrance; other wives also killed their fathers, put their heads under the bed, The stench spread; the wives pushed the youngest into the well, but she only got into the palace of her serpent father; he killed other wives, his adopted daughter became the Sultan's only wife]: 299-304; Arabs Tunisia [when leaving, parents tell seven daughters not to leave the house; the elders see the bazaar, decide to go; the youngest is against her, but they beat her, spit, etc.; the sisters returned, had a feast, but did not close the door; Gulya came, ate the elders, and the youngest hid and ran away (gulya asks everyone which part of the body to start eating it from; each answers that with the one that hurt her younger sister); the youngest comes to Gulya's house, who calls her daughter, gives the keys to 6 rooms, forbids entering the seventh room; she steals the key, unlocks the forbidden room, it has a window to the Sultan's garden; there is an ox; he tells the girl that at the end in the end, the ghoul would eat her; she told the ghoul about everything, who replied that it was a lie, let the ox go blind for 7 days; the next day she repeated Gulya's words to the ox; he fell and lay for 7 days; the garden began to dry up; the ox was replaced, but because of the words he said, he fell; the Sultan's son went to slaughter the ox, but he told him about the beauty; the prince climbed the tree and came to the ghul to ask his daughter; he gave warning the girl not to answer the prince until he says "the head of your father's ghoul"; after the third night of silence, the prince took another wife; Gulya's adopted daughter tells objects to move themselves, dips her hands into boiling oil, 10 fried fish appear; jumps into the oven to create baked buns; the new bride said it's nothing special, leaned over the stove, burned; the prince hears the conversation between the two jugs, hears "the head of a ghoul, your father," addresses Gulya's adopted daughter; she spoke to him and became his wife]: Bushnaq 1987:174-181; the Arabs of Libya (Tripoli) [parents went to Hajj, telling seven daughters not to leave the house; two years later, the eldest went up to the roof, saw people and the bazaar, decided to go out; the youngest objected; the eldest each hit her with something, etc.; they brought food, the youngest hid on the roof under a broken jug; a witch came in, asked each one where she wanted to be eaten, each named the part of the body that had damaged her younger sister; the witch ate six, and the youngest ran away; came to the cannibal Buk Ettemsuch (BE), hid; he came and told me to go out hiding: you will be my father if you are older than me, brother, if the same age, etc.; called the girl his daughter; she cooked meat - human for EB and game for herself; BE forbade her to enter the same room; she stole the key and went in, there was a window into the garden, there was a bull in the garden pulling water from the well to water the garden; says to the girl that EB was feeding her and would soon eat her; when EB returned, found her daughter tearful; told the bull tomorrow that he was not going to eat her and let the prince let the bull's eye make a mirror; when he heard this, the bull lay down for a week and the garden withered without water; the prince killed the bull, replaced him with another; he wants to kill the one, the bull tells him about the girl, he asked EB and received it; but the wife is silent, because EB forbade her to speak; then the prince took another one; BE's daughter shows how to cook; according to her, the firewood is themselves, the fire lights up, she climbs into the hot stove; the new wife also climbs into the stove and burns; the same with the next wife; EB's daughter sat on a stake stuck in the floor in front of her and began to spin; the new wife tried it, the stake pierced her, she died; the prince hid and saw his wife send a jug and a pot for water; the pot beat off the jug nose, he came to complain; his wife said that the prince did not know what he should say, "By the name Buk Ettemsuch, conspiracy!" ; the prince went out and said so, all is well]: Stumme 1898, No. 5:120-130; Kabila, Arabs of Egypt: El-Shamy 2004, No. 898:554-557.

Southern Europe. Sicilians [the fortuneteller told the king that when his daughter was 14 years old, she would be pregnant by the Sun; the king placed his daughter in the tower, the maid brought her food; when the girl was 14, she found a bone in the meat, dug a hole in the wall, a ray of sunshine penetrated her bosom, she became pregnant; the king returned her daughter, telling her to leave the newborn girl in the garden among the salad; the prince found her, named Lettucia; when she grew up, the prince fell in love with her, asked her whose daughter she was; she answered every time that dogs and cats; he got married; after the wedding, his wife asks what he cares about; the prince replies that his sister is unhappy; his wife sends that food; the servant who brought the food sees the prince's "sister" tell the fire to catch fire, puts her hands in oil on a hot frying pan, where two fried fish appear; Upon learning about this, the prince's wife tries to repeat the trick, but the fire does not light up; she burns, dies; the same with her second wife (sister climbs into a hot oven, gets out, pearls fall off her braids and jewelry, wife burns); third ("sister" puts the chair on the edge of the roof to enjoy the passing sun; the wife falls, breaks her neck); the old woman advises the prince to pretend to be sick; when "sister " will start preparing the medicine, you must hide it, hold the gold pot tightly; the "sister" tells the pot to fly up to her, but the prince does not let her; she is indignant that she is the daughter of the Sun, and the miserable pot does not obey her ; this is how the prince finds out who the girl's father is, calls her the daughter of the Sun, she marries him]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 29:195-201; Italians: Calvino 1980, No. 74 (Tuscany, Pisa) [at the king a daughter was born; astrologers predicted that when she was 20 she would give birth to a daughter from the Sun; the king enclosed her daughter in a tower, with her a maid and a little girl; when she was 20 years old, the girls put Benches and chairs on top of each other, looked out the window; the princess became pregnant from the sunlight and gave birth to a girl; the maid left the newborn in the beanfield; the king did not notice anything and released the princess from the tower; another king picked up a baby; when the girl grew up, the king's son decided to marry her, but the king did not want the son to take a foundling wife and marry him to some princess; on the wedding day everyone They sent almonds; when they knocked on the room, the daughter of the Sun went out without a head; apologized: they found her combing her hair; in front of those who came, she told the firewood to jump into the oven and catch fire; then the stove shouted that it was "ready"; the daughter of the Sun got into the oven and took out the cake - let them take it to the audience; the bride, out of jealousy, decided to repeat everything, climbed into the oven and burned down; the king married her son to another princess; the daughter of the Sun went out to the servants, going through the wall; put her fingers in the oil boiling in the pan and 10 fried fish appeared there; the bride tried to repeat and died of pain shock; for the third time, the daughter of the Sun cut off her ear, pulled a long gold lace out of her head, gave it as a gift and put her ear back; the bride cut off her ear and died of blood loss; the prince fell ill from love; witch: he will be cured by food from barley, which grew, ripened and harvested in one day; the daughter of the Sun brought food, but it turned out to be tasteless and the prince spit it it out; "How dare you spit on the daughter of the Sun and granddaughter king"? the king heard this, married his son to the daughter of the Sun, after which she became a normal woman]: 269-273; Crane 1885, No. 30 (Campania, Naples) [the merchant's wife asks her husband to bring her a doll as tall as her could sew with her; gives a ring as a reminder; if he forgets, the ship won't budge; the merchant forgets, the ship doesn't move, the merchant gets a doll; the wife sews with her on the balcony; the prince sees a doll, falls in love, the king tells the merchant to give his daughter; the Orlanda fairy turns the doll into a girl, she will talk to everyone but the prince; the prince is tired of waiting, takes another bride; the doll wife cuts off she puts her hands in the oven, they turn into sausages, she sends them to her husband and his lover; she tries to imitate, cuts off her hands, they burn, the woman dies; the same with the second bride (bloody sausages); on the third (severed legs turn into hams); the prince first sends the servant, then climbs under his wife's bed for the night and hears the lamp asking for a bottle of oil to pour her oil , complains that it hurts; wife exclaims how beautiful the Orland fairy is; prince: blessed she; wife: why did you have to wait so long? they connect]: 114-118; Italians (Umbria, Molise, Basilicata, Calabria): Cerise, Serafini 1975, No. 898:226-227; Catalans (incl. Mallorca) [the daughter of the sun and moon lives in a house on the shore; the king sees her doing wonders and falling in love (she tells the firewood to gather and catch fire, pour oil into the pan, etc.); the heroine refuses to give his name; the king tells his wife about her, who tries to imitate the sorceress and dies; to marry a sorceress, the king must know her name; he overhears when she says who her parents; wedding; otherwise, the heroine is a dough doll; the fairy revives her and gives her wonderful powers; there are versions in which the king can marry a sorceress only by saying a certain word; a girl grows up, rejects a prince, but he finds out her name by accident and marries]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 898:178; Spaniards: Uther 2004 (1), No. 898:521-522; Portuguese: Braga 2002 [grandmother sent her granddaughter to sell linseed oil; she came to the castle, no one; she cleaned everything up; when the 7 bewitched brothers came, she hid; they promise to make the person who came brother, if it's a man, and a sister, if a woman; one day the seventh brother says he would like his hair washed; at night the girl washes her brothers' heads, but the seventh does not sleep, grabs her; the brothers promise not to cause her harm; the prince sees the girl and marries him; the brothers tell him not to agree with him until he says: "(By Will) the seven bewitched"; she is not given to the prince, he lodges her with the maid, takes another wife - princess; the maid tells how the girl combs her hair: takes her head off her shoulders and then puts her back; the new wife, imitating, cut off her head, dies; the king remarries; the maid: that girl if her spindle falls, cuts off her arm, her hand pulls out the spindle where it rolled, then returns to its place; the new wife cut off her arm, dies; the prince's mother advises you to try say that phrase about the bewitched; after that, the prince meets his wife, and the enchanted princes are disgraced]: 192-194; Cardigos 2006, No. 898 [it is predicted that the princess will become pregnant by the Sun or will give birth to an illegitimate child; she is imprisoned in a tower; she makes a hole in the wall with bone and becomes pregnant by the sun; the newborn is found by a prince or she ends up with seven enchanted brothers; patrons will only allow a prince to marry a girl if he says a certain word that will disappoint them; or the prince refuses his intention to marry a girl, each time receiving an incomprehensible the answer to the question about her name; does not pay attention to her or mistreats her; marries three times successively, but every wife dies trying to imitate the sorceress; she cuts off her hand, appears watermelon; creates grapes, setting fire to the room; combs his hair with his head cut off; cuts off his hand while tea and then puts it back; gives orders to objects and they do everything; the prince learns the true A girl's origin when she grabs a jug she sent for water and she scolds a jug; or hears her telling me who she is; he says the right word; wedding (reconciliation)]: 225-226.

Western Europe. The French: Soupault 1959, No. 6 in Uther 2004 (1), No. 898:521-522.

Western Asia. Palestinians [two sisters slaughtered their chickens, the third says it would be better to eat eggs; sisters throw her chicken into the well where the ghoul lives; the girl goes down, cleans the ghoul's house, hides; he promises not to touch her; she lives with him like his daughter, combs her hair on the edge of the well; geese fly by, screaming that the ghoul is feeding her to eat; she is losing weight, the ghoul tells her to answer the geese that tomorrow the Sultan orders them to be plucked and eaten; geese lose their feathers, the Sultan finds a girl for them, marries her; the ghoul tells her to remain silent until her husband says, "Oh Mrs. Tatarka, her father is the sun, her mother is the moon"; the husband thinks that the wife is dumb, takes another one; she comes to the imaginary dumb, she talks to her, tells the objects in the kitchen to work themselves, climbs into the hot oven, takes out cookies; the second wife tries in front of her husband, repeat everything, burns; the third wife comes to the imaginary dumb, she creates fried fish, putting her hands in a frying pan; the third wife burns her hands, dies; the husband hears a mug with a jug regretting that he doesn't say the right formula; he says, happy with his first wife]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 20:178-181; Iraqis [a childless woman asked her husband to make a wooden doll; she looks like the bride; the ruler's son saw her, sent as much gold as the bride weighs; on the way to the palace, the wife found a way out: she led the "daughter" to the well, threw her down to say that the girl had drowned; in a well there was a king of the seas, a fallen doll tore an abscess on his back; in gratitude for his recovery, he sent his daughter to his couple; the ruler's son thought that his wife was the daughter of a simple carpenter, treated her like with the maid, began to consistently marry noble women to shame her; 1) the emir's daughter tries, following the daughter of the king of the seas, to turn the meat in a frying pan not with a fork, but with her fingers, burned herself ; 2) the vizier's daughter also decides to stick the dough to the walls of the tandoor, when she enters it, burns; 3) the commander's daughter sees the daughter of the king of the seas jumping from the balcony to dance, jumps after him, crashes to death; the husband learns from imaginary parents about the origin of his first wife, arranges a new lavish wedding with her]: Yaremenko 1990, No. 46:196-199; Syrian Arabs: Bushnaq 1987 [three sisters are spinning; it's time to light the lamp, and There is no fire; the eldest went to the roofs to look for fire, all the doors are closed; found a house with a marble roof; there are 40 lamas burning there; she lit one of her own; voice: now you will get pregnant with me; when you are ready to give birth, the wall split, efreet came in, took out the baby girl and said that he would provide her with everything she needed before the wedding; the girl became beautiful; went with her mother to the wadi, where the water lost her foot after the rains bracelet; prince found it; his mother went to look for the owner and soon found it; the girl's mother: you need her father's permission; efreet daughters: conspiracy with her husband only after he says "in the name of the sheikh of the lamps and seven bright stars in the night sky"; after a year of silence, the prince found a new wife; Efrita's daughter jumped off the roof to greet her; the new one also jumped off the roof to greet her husband and crashed to death; when wedding feast with another wife, efrita's daughter puts her hand in boiling oil, the pot is filled with grilled meat and fish; the new wife decided to repeat the trick, died of pain; the third wife saw the dishes herself moves and one jug tells the other about the words that the husband must say in order for the daughter of efrita to speak; the new wife tells the prince about it, who speaks these words to the daughter of efreet; she answers: Oh, king of my soul and ruler of my heart! All is well]: 201-205; Nowak 1969, No. 231 [a woman goes with her little daughter to the forest; the lion takes the girl to his castle; she grows up, the sheep tells her that the lion will eventually eat her; the lion tells the sheep to answer that she will be slaughtered at the girl's wedding with the prince; the sheep says everything to the shepherd and the shepherd says everything to the prince; before the wedding, the lion silences the girl until the prince calls her the sun of peace; to get her to talk the wife, the prince takes the second; she sees how the first one takes out her eye, sends an object that fell out of the window and puts her eyes back; trying to do the same, she dies; the prince takes a new wife, she sees how the first shovels hot coals with her hands, tries to imitate and burns; the fourth wife sees the first woman turn her fingers into candles, tries to imitate, burns; the prince pretends to leave, hide, overhears the conversation of objects doing work for the sorceress, learns her name from this conversation; the lion turns into a spirit master, tells all animals to bring gold and silver]: 226-228 ; Arabs of Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen: El-Shamy 2004, No. 898:554-557

South Asia. Kashmiris [Sanykisar's son and daughter in the family; the son found hair in food and promised to marry only its owner; the mother said it was his sister's hair, but the son insisted; after finding out what was going on, S. ran away. crying; to meet the fakir, he gave 7 seeds - 7 trees would immediately grow out of them; as it happened, S. climbed the tree; the father came with the men, they cut down the tree, S. moved to the next one; when the last tree was about to fall, S. asked Mother Luna to pick it up; the moon lowered its ray, S. rose to the moon; the moon asked her to comb her hair, but not to touch one place on on the top of his head, otherwise terrible pain and hair will begin to fall out; once C.. accidentally touched, the Moon threw it to the ground, S. fell into the crow's nest; he is happy that he has a daughter; mother, then father, brother they come to the tree and ask them to go down; the mother says that S. is waiting for her dolls, the father is waiting for a colorful spinning wheel, her brother for wedding clothes and jewelry; S. refuses, but every time asks the crow to bring it he also brings her; the prince sees S. and asks him to go down; S.: I need the permission of my crow father; but he will arrive only in the evening, the vizier advises to cut down the tree; they did so; the prince already has 6 wives; he promises to make the main one that 1) will exfoliate rice faster (the raven tells the birds to do this for S.; when 6 wives ask how S. managed to do everything so quickly, she advises pouring rice into water, but the husks did not float at all); 2) make the rooms fragrant (the raven tells different birds to bring the most fragrant infusions and rub them into the walls; S. advises 6 wives to mix manure with crap and cow urine, the stench is terrifying); 3) cook food (the raven tells the birds to bring the best; S. advises 6 wives to mix inedible grass with manure and cook it in cow urine); the prince drove 6 wives away and lived happily with S.]: Beck et al. 1987, #17:50-56; (cf. Bengalis (Sylhet) [relatives came late in the evening; the wife asked her husband to cut the sycamore leaves for plates; he refused: where would I go in the dark; then she reached out and took it out from afar leaves; the husband was horrified; the next day he said that he had heard from his father that they needed to come to him urgently; he, his wife and child sailed in the boat; the husband asked his wife to wait on the island while he was fishing will catch; wife: I understand your plan and only out of love for my son will keep you alive; but anyone who lives in your home will be left without offspring; no one still lives there]: Grierson 1903a: 223- 224).

The Balkans. Bulgarians [a childless old woman invites her husband to make her daughter out of snow; he says that she will melt in spring; out of wood, she will burn if a spark falls; makes it out of lime; in a dream, the old woman hears that her daughter she will have to be taken out of the gate, given to the first person she meets; she must remain silent in front of the groom until he guesses what it is made of, otherwise it will crumble with lime; the first is the nag, the Lime is planted On horseback, they tell her to remain silent; the horse brings her to the governor's son, who first wants to marry her, but after making sure that she is dumb, leaves her in the attic; marries the princess; her maids spy on S. orders the needle to sew itself; when she does not obey, she cuts off her nose, sends her nose to bring the needle, puts her nose back; the king's daughter says she can do it too, remains without a nose, the husband sends it away; marries a long-nosed princess; the maids spy on how S. orders the oven to heat, bake bread, sweeps the coals out of the oven with his hair, puts her hands in boiling oil, and two are in the pan fish; the princess burns herself; the voivodich hears baklagi talking about the lime girl who filled them; comes to S., says what she is made of, marries]: Karaliychev, Todorov 1969 (3): 28-41; Hungarians, Greeks, Macedonians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 898:521-522; Albanians [the widowed king gives three sons an apple each, orders them to be given to their chosen ones; elder sons marry the daughters of Pasha and the Vizier, the youngest throws Fenichka into a rose bush where the Beauty of the Land lives; a snake crawls out from there; the youngest marries her, she turns into a beauty; 1) creates fried fish with his hands on frying pan (older brothers' wives burned their hands); 2) says she became beautiful by covering her face with chicken manure (older brothers drive wives to wash); 3) hides a piece of meat in her sleeves at dancing; older wives The brothers do the same, the meat falls out in public; F.'s pigeons fly out of his sleeves; the king regrets that he did not marry F. himself]: Serkova 1989:45-48; (cf. Gagauz people [the master has three daughters, he is looking for someone to herd his horses; the eldest daughter is coming, the father turned to a bear, went out to meet him, the girl ran home; the same middle; the youngest goes for advice to an old woman; she tells the horses to give hot coals, take the one that will eat them; the skinny mare began to eat, the girl sat on it, was going to shoot a bear; her father blessed her to herd horses for three years; The sun falls in love with her, but does not understand whether she is a girl or a man; the mother of the Sun advises her to see how she urinates and what things she buys at the bazaar; the girl urinates like a man, takes only things for men; three years later she shows the Sun her chest and braid; the mother of the Sun advises to put a golden swing; the girl sat on her, the Sun raised her; the palm advised the girl to remain silent for seven years; then The sun has taken another bride; she tells her to be the first to bring a sieve from Mother Sunday; Sunday sends by Friday, she sends by Wednesday, Wednesday says that the sieve took the hobur; hobur tells you to play on violin, goes for a sieve, but in fact, sharpen her teeth; the mouse volunteered to jump on the strings, run; the hobur killed the mouse, chases after him; the girl threw the canvas (river; hobur put one lip to the ground, the other to sky, drank water), brush (forest), stone (rocky place, hobur can't cross); girl brought a sieve; second bride: hey, dumb, bring a pot; girl: to take away your tongue; The sun slaughtered the ram, heard it, rushed to the girl, her hands were covered in blood; the girl became a swallow, the second bride was a goat, both went through the pipe, the Sun still did not marry]: Moshkov 1904, No. 30:42-44).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians (zap. K. Shakryl in 1934, p. Lykhny) [the prince's son saw an arapka in the forest, she was placed in a stable; he saw how the arapka took off her black skin by the river, turned out to be beautiful, strung rings on a branch, bathed, put on the skin again; he took away one ring; married an arapka, the prince left them to live in the stable, the arapka took off his skin for the night, light emanated from it; the prince saw and ordered to move his son and daughter-in-law to the palace, but the son refused; threw skin into the fire; the former arapka replied that she was the daughter of Kudapsha {Shakryl: from the Kudapkh-Psha family, "daughter of red beans"; Bgazhba: daughter of God Ayerg); people began to laugh; she agreed that her husband took another wife, gave gold for her palace; the maids of the new wife see K. bathing in boiling milk; the new wife says she can do it too, tells me to put the cauldron, cooked; the husband married again; this time the maids see how K. sits on a gold nail hammered into the wall and spins it with a golden spindle; the new wife wants the same, jumped on a nail, he pierced her, she died; the husband leaves to find out what kind of K. really is; the old woman tells him to pretend that he went hunting and died, let them bring him bloody; then a golden chariot will descend from heaven on a gold chain for his wife; we must jump up and cut the chain with a sword ; wife: let the one to whom the small stars were maids and the big stars were servants, to whom the sun was the father and the moon his mother, take pity on me; the chariot descended, the prince's son cut off the chain; feast]: Khashba, Kukba 1935: 125-131 (=Shakryl 1975, No. 44:233-239, =Bgazhba 2002:133-137); Georgians: Chikovani 1954, No. 8 (Kakheti) [the prince has two beds: leek and dill; he found a piece of paper there, she became Anan's girlfriend; replies that her name is porous and her belt is dill; the prince married another; A. brought deer from the mountains, fed up with milk, began to swim in boiling milk; the wife decided to do the same, cooked; again the same episode; A. dropped her spindle from the mountain, cut off her nose, sent him to bring the spindle, his nose grew back; his wife cut off her nose, died of blood loss; the prince ordered to stab the pig, smear it with blood, refer to A.; A. laments: my mother is the Sun, my father is the Month, the Stars are brothers, let them throw my bench down to me; the sky opened and the bench came down; the prince jumped up; wedding]: 59-60; (cf. Glushakov 1904, No. 8 (Imereti) [Solomon saw a rose while hunting and picked it; it turned into a beauty, the tsar married her; his wife does not answer the question of who her relatives are; then S. ordered the servants to put it in the coffin and tell his wife that he was killed while hunting; the wife cries and exclaims: Oh, the sun, my father, and the moon my mother" Planets, my sisters, and the stars, my brothers! King Solomon is dead, take me to your place!" A golden staircase came down from heaven, and S.'s wife was about to go up, but he came out of the coffin and said that he now knew who her relatives were; they lived happily ever after]: 62-63); Turks [childless the Sultan's wife (or just a citizen) negotiates with the midwife and passes the doll off as a newborn girl; does not show anyone, supposedly afraid of jinx the child; the prince sees her, falls in love, concludes engagement; the dervish revives the doll (or throws it into the water, replacing it with a water maiden), but prohibits speaking until the prince says the words "star head" (or "my father is the Sun, mother my moon"); the disappointed prince consistently takes other wives (one or three); they all die trying to imitate his first wife; first wife 1) roasts her finger like a fish or goes into the fire; 2) spreads his handkerchief on the water and sits on it; 3) pulls grapes out of the sea; 4) cuts off his nose or arm; 5) jumps off the bridge; in the end, the prince says the right words when he recognizes them from the conversation of objects who themselves work for his wife or a beggar, and the wife breaks her vow of silence]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 91:103-105.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians (Khorasan) [the merchant threatens to kill his wife if she does not give birth; she asked the carpenter to carve the doll out of wood; the shah expresses a desire to marry the merchant's daughter (when she grows up); peri in his throat the bone was stuck; when Peri flew over the ottoman on which the wooden bride was lying, she laughed, the bone popped out; peri decided to replace the doll; but Peri did not let the Shah approach him; he took another wife, and she sent a maid to Peri; the maid sees Peri's thimble rolling into the corner of the room; she cut off her nose, sent him for a thimble, her nose returned to its place; the new wife threw thimble, cut off her nose, died of blood loss; the same with his second wife: Peri enters a hot tone, takes out cakes from there; the new wife burned down; with the third (peri turns the fish over with her bare hands in a hot frying pan, the new wife burned her hands and died); Peri explains to the Shah that she will give herself to him only after marriage; that's what happened, everything is fine]: Osmanov 1987:283-285 (summary in Marzolph 1984) 898:166); Uzbeks [pursuing a pheasant, the youngest of the old man's three sons enters a cave, spends 40 days there with a peri; when he returns home, Peri tells him to ask his father to build a house for him, put up a yurt; when he comes to his son, the old man sees only a cat next to him; secretly spies, sees a beauty; before a relative's wedding, the old man tells his daughters-in-law to sew dresses, bake cakes; other peri all they make on the orders of the young man's wife; Peri answers the other daughters-in-law that the clothes will be made of paper; they also make paper dresses, peri sends rain, the dresses get wet; peri cakes are much better than cooked other daughters-in-law; the old man asks his son where he keeps the cat's skin; when he finds out, he throws it into the fire; peri flies away, telling his husband to wear his iron boots and staff; the young man comes to the house of Almauz Kempir (AK), there but his wife and boy; the young man asks the boy for water, he does not give it, the water in the jug turns into blood for the first time, into pus; peri tells the boy to give water to a stranger; the young man throws it in the jug is a ring, peri recognizes it, goes to her husband; when AK is at home, turns it into a flower, hides it in his hair; then passes her husband off as a younger brother; AK tells her to look in her hair, sucks the young man's blood; Peri tells her husband to give the dog meat, hay to the camel (AK did the opposite); when AK falls asleep, tie her hair to a pole, take a comb, scissors, a mirror, run; doors, camel and dog refuse to hold fugitives; they throw a comb, answer AK that they need to pull out two teeth, make axes out of them, cut the road; the same is scissors; the AK has only four teeth; they throw a mirror, it turns into a river; fugitives they answer that you need to tie stones to your neck and put stones in your sleeves, walk along the bottom; AK is drowning; the young man and the peri live in their own home]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1) 415-425 (=Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:166-178).

Baltoscandia. Danes: Uther 2004 (1), No. 898:521-522

(Wed. Western Siberia. Siberian Tatars (Tarsky District, Omsk Region, Irtysh) [Seyfulmulyuk found a portrait of a beauty in his father's pantry, went to look for her; his father gave a ring to help; he came to an empty city, with help the ring opened the doors of the palace, where the beautiful Malika, kidnapped by the diva; S. hides, and M. asks the returning diva where he keeps his soul; in the middle of the river there is a chest, in which there is another chest with two pigeons; S. killed them, the divas died; M. recognized the portrait: this is Peri Fatheljemal's daughter; S. and M. found her; she agrees to become S.'s wife, but sets three conditions {not named}; S. brought his wife to his father's house; a son was born; once his was bitten by a dog, but F. did not even pay attention; S. was angry; F.: violated the first condition; a daughter was born, grew up, F. pushed her into a flaming oven; S. scolds his wife again, and the daughter plays with hot with coals; F.: violated the second condition, I will not wait for the third mistake; a trough came down from the sky, F. took her daughter and flew away spinning among the stars]: Prelovsky 2003:43-54).