M39A6i. The servant hid part of the gift, ATU 875A.

.13.-.15.17.23.27.-.30.33.

A person sends food or things to another and tells the messenger to give the recipient some words that the messenger does not understand. On the way, he stole or ate some of what he was supposed to bring. From the messenger's words, the recipient understands what exactly was transferred and accuses him of stealing.

Arabs of Sudan, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Kabila, Sicilians, Corsicans, Maltese, Palestinians, Arabs of Iraq, Qatar, Oman, Yemen, Kashmiris, Albanians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Romanians, Gagauz people, Ukrainians (Kharkiv), Poles, Karaites and Crimean Tatars, Kabardian people, Abkhazians, Ingush, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Lurs, Pashtuns, Salars.

Sudan - East Africa. Sudanese Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 875A: 506

North Africa. The Arabs of Egypt [the prince wants to marry; finds a girl who collects onions with her father; the father immediately orders the construction of a palace; the girl refuses the prince: let him learn the craft; the carpenter promises to learn in two years, the blacksmith in a year, the poor silk weaver, who is not allowed into the front row, in 5 minutes (for this purpose it is enough for the prince to see how he works); the prince weaved father's palace, the girl married the prince; two years later, the prince and the vizier enter the Maghribin coffee shop; they were locked up with others, the prisoners were hung by the legs, the poison was drowned from them; the prince says that the owner will receive more if he sells a silk shawl (the one he made for testing and depicts the royal palace); the seller was detained, the prince and other prisoners were released; soon the king died , handed over the throne to his son; he fell ill; tells the son, who is 6 years old, to marry only after the wedding of his daughter (she is 8), otherwise the wife will harm the son's sister; after the death of the father, the sister asks her brother twice what he would did with his father's treasures; he offers various nonsense, she realizes that her brother is still young; the third time she offers to irrigate the field near the palace, harvest; his sister gives him money; the old woman persuaded a young man to marry her daughter; fed her sister Umbar eggs that make virgins pregnant; angels adopted a newborn girl and her mother died; the old woman continues to harm; at the end After all, the girl tells everything; the old woman and her daughter were burned]: Spitta-Bey 1883, No. 3:30-42; the Arabs of Morocco, Tunisia: El-Shamy 2004, No. 875A: 506; Kabila [the king makes riddles if no one will answer in 8 days, he executes everyone; the tree has 12 branches, each has 30 branches, each branch has 5 leaves; the youngest of 7 is the daughter of a coal miner to his father: a year; when he finds out who prompted him, the king wants to marry her ; servants bring gifts and ask the youngest daughter; - Where is the father? - Went to pour water into the water. - Mother? - Went to see something I've never seen before. - Brothers? - We went to strike and receive blows. The daughter began to share the chicken between family members and guests; father - head, mother - back, sisters - wings, brothers - breast, royal servants - legs; asked to inform the king that there were not enough stars in the sky water in the sea, small feathers in the partridges; the king explained; the mother gave birth, the father was in a water mill, the younger brothers went to play with friends; sharing the rooster (understand; the brothers have a breast, because they defenders); the servants hid some of the jewelry (stars) and spirits (water in the sea); the king forgave the servants; after the wedding, he warned his wife not to interfere in his affairs, otherwise he would immediately send him back; the man tells how came to the city on a foal and the other on a mule; on the way he tried to make friends with the foal with the mule; sent him to find housing, and he took both animals away and put them up for sale; said that the foal gave birth to him mule; the judge ruled in favor of the owner of the mule; the king confirmed the decision when he saw that the mule was friends with the foal; the king's wife: Tell me in court that you sowed beans by the river, but the fish went out and ate it all; King: when is this If it happens, the world will end; foal owner: when will the mule give birth? Tsar: Who taught you? man: a voice from heaven; or from the terrace of the palace; the king allows his wife to take the dearest; she asks to share a meal with her for the last time; the king is drunk and fell asleep, the wife told the servants to immerse him with her things; when the king woke up, he ordered everything, including his wife, to be returned to the palace]: Mammeri 1996, No. 2:25-42.

Southern Europe. The Italians [the prince got lost, went into the hunter's house, he has a wife, son and daughter; stabbed a rooster; the prince gave his head to his master, his tail to his wife, his legs to his son, his wings to his daughter; at night he hears a girl explains to his brother what this sharing means; he fell in love and, when he returned to the palace, sent a servant to the girl, telling him to hand over the cake in the form of a full moon, 30 pies and a roast rooster and ask if it was the 30th day in the forest months, whether the moon is full and whether the rooster screamed at night; the servant on the way ate 15 pies, part of the cake and the rooster; the girl answered: the moon is dead, which is only on the 15th, and the rooster went to the mill, and that she asks to forgive the servant for the partridge; prince to the servant: if the girl hadn't stood up for you, you would have been hanged; the girl's father found a golden mortar and, contrary to her daughter's advice, gave it to the prince; he demanded a pest; peasant: my daughter warned me! the prince orders his daughter to prepare a large amount of fabric from a tiny amount of linen; the daughter weaved 4 laces, sent them to the prince and ordered them to be made a loom; the prince came to the girl when her the mother died and the father worked; she does not unlock; he broke the door; the girl replies that the father is where he should be, and the mother mourns her sins; the prince married a girl; one day a peasant came with a cart and another and a pregnant donkey; she gave birth while both were in church, and the owner of the donkey tied her to the cart; the first peasant said his baby boy; prince: so it is, because it is more likely that the donkey's owner tied her to the cart than the cart's owner tying it to a donkey; the prince's wife advised the donkey's owner to throw a net in the middle of the square and tell the prince that it's easier to fish with square than a cart to give birth to a donkey; the prince tells his wife to take what she loves more and return to her father; she put sleeping pills in the prince's wine and took him to her place; explained that he is the most for her dear; they are reconciled]: Crane 1885, No. 108:311-314; the Corsicans [the prince and his servant got lost hunting; the prince tells the servant to climb a pine tree if the light is not visible; they have come to the hut, the owner says that there is only goat milk; the prince hears the rooster singing, tells the rooster to be slaughtered, divides the meat: the owner's head, the mistress's neck, the daughter's wings, the rest was eaten by him and the servant; when those who came to bed, the master the guest is outraged by the impudence; the daughter explains what he meant; the prince drew attention to the intelligent girl; when he returns home, he sends the servant to take the package to the girl and say: this is the one who sings for a month and a full moon; on the way, the servant unfolded the bag, ate a rooster, 15 out of 30 pies, half a head of cheese; the girl tells me to tell the prince: the singer flew away, in the month of 15 days, half the moon; the prince brings the girl to the palace, married her; inherited his father's crown; went to war; the Queen Mother tells two servants to kill her pregnant daughter-in-law in the woods, bring her liver; the servants brought the dog's liver; left in the cave gave birth to twins; the lion told the animals to take care of the mother and children; the king returned, came to the cave, sent a servant to buy clothes for the woman; she told everything, he recognized his wife, the Queen Mother was executed]: Massignon 1984, No. 104:237-240; Maltese [the hostess tests the maid's honesty by sending her to her clever friend six bagels with the words "Six ships have entered the harbor"; buddy Asks to tell me that four males came in and two drowned; the hostess realizes that the maid ate two bagels along the way]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 875A: 322-323.

Western Asia. Palestinians, Iraq, Qatar, Yemen: El-Shamy 2004, No. 875A: 506

South Asia. Kashmiris [the king's wife began to buy fish from the merchant; said she only wanted a female; the fish laughed; the merchant said it was a male and left; the king demanded that the vizier make him six months in advance found out what it means to laugh fish, otherwise he executes; the vizier, not hoping for success, advised his son to leave the city for a while; he goes and his companion is a peasant; the young man offers to carry each other; when he sees wheat in the field, asks if it has already been eaten; gives the peasant a knife, asks him to make two horses with it, and bring the knife back; no one greeted them in the city, the young man called the city a cemetery; in the cemetery, people pray and give gifts to passers-by, the young man called it a beautiful city; waded across the river without taking off his sandals; a peasant invited him into his house, the young man asks if he is strong a load-bearing beam; a peasant tells his wife and daughter that he brought a fool; the daughter explains that the young man is smart (he had to tell each other stories; two staffs were cut out; the planted field seemed to have been eaten; unfriendly people resemble dead people; without sandals, you can hurt your feet against stones at the bottom of the river); the girl told the servant to take the young man gyav, 12 chapátís and a jug of milk, saying: the moon is full, 12 months is a year, the sea is full of water; the servant shared food with his son on the way; the young man ordered to convey the answer: the moon is in the first quarter, the year is 11 months old, the sea is not full at all; the girl understood and punished to the servant; the girl also explained the fish laugh: there is a man in the palace about whom the king knows nothing; the vizier's son returned to his father, taking the girl with him; the vizier ordered to dig a hole: let all the women in the palace jump through her; only one could do it - he was a man in disguise; the vizier's son married an intelligent girl]: Knowles 1988:484-490.

The Balkans. Albanians [the young man is looking for a smart bride; he was advised by a widower's daughter, but was told that he did not want to give up the girl; without revealing his intentions, the young man returns with that man with bazaar; offers to buy a horse for a penny; asks if anyone has already mowed winter crops that have just sprouted; spent the night in the companion's house; his daughter has injured her leg and is limping; young man: the house is good, but the pipe is by the hearth crooked; girl: but the smoke goes straight; at night a young man hears a girl explaining to his father: a horse is a staff; in hungry years, peasants eat winter shoots; when talking about a pipe, the guest meant lameness; young man married; the young man's parents send a gift: a buryuk with honey and a pretzel with 12 gold coins baked; they send a servant, tell him to say: Full moon, 12 months old, the kid jumps on his legs; on the way, a servant broke off a piece of pretzel, took 2 coins, drank it from the wineskin; the bride ordered to hand it over: Damaged moon, 10 months old, the kid fell to his knees, but don't upset the partridge, don't kill the snake; the groom understood everything and did not beat an employee; wedding]: Serkova 1989:271-274 (=Shustova 1994:212-216); Bulgarians [a young man (tsar) who likes a girl sends her a matchmaker with 12 gold coins, a loaf of bread, a wineskin of wine , made of goat skin; tells us to convey that in a year 12 months, the moon is round (the leading day is intact), goats are on four legs; the eggs and white bread sent are called stars and the moon; the sent takes part coins, bites off the loaf, drinks wine; the girl asks to tell you that in the year 6 (11) months, the moon is flawed, goats are on three legs; that there are only half the stars and half of the moon; the king takes the girl as his wife ( yourself or son)]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, № 875A: 304-305; Gagauz people [the king sent his son to look for a bride; he went to the widow, her daughter washes her hair, says that curse the house without a dog; prince asks what the girl is cooking in the pot, she replies that "one up, the other down"; the king explains to his son that the girl regrets that the dog does not warn about visitors that she cooked peas; the prince asks where the girl's mother is; "the mother went out of two women to make one young woman" (to put patches on the shirts); the king tells his son to give the girl a bag of money, he hid a few gold; the girl asks tell the king that "the horse is good, but the tail is circumcised"; the king's son married her]: Moshkov 1904, No. 106:179-180; Greeks: Legrand 1881:21-28 [the prince wants to marry a girl who speaks ornate; one day he hears a girl walking around with her father, who does not understand what he is talking about; "We must put my feet on my shoulders", "Help me, and then I will help you"; the prince comes to their house; "We lost what happened, but then it will be again" (we are talking about a missing dog); the girl gave a rooster: her father's head, her mother's carcass, wings to the prince, pieces of meat to the children; explains to her father what each share means; returning home, the prince sent the servant to take the girl 31 loaves, whole cheese, roasted roast rooster and wineskin of wine; ordered to give: in the month 31 days, the moon is full, the morning songwriter is stuffed, the goatskin is tight; on the way, the servant met friends; they ate 13 pies, half the cheese, all the rooster and drank half the wine; the girl told me to give it to the master: 18 days in the month, the moon is half, there is no singer at all, goatskin folds; prince beat the servant, but he remembered that the girl told him to add: in order not to upset the partridge, you should not beat trout; the prince married a girl], 29-37 [the king was told that the queen had a black lover; the king went hunting with him and killed him; the Queen found the victim, brought her head, ordered him to make ring details out of his eyes, shoe jewelry from his teeth, a bowl from the skull; asked the king a riddle ("what ate is now below" and etc.); if he does not guess in 40 days, she will cut off his head; the king met an intelligent girl who split a rooster (as in var. on p. 21-28); sent her a gift with his servant (just like in var. on p. 21-28); solved the queen's riddle, the queen was hanged; married a girl]; Romanians, Serbs: Uther 2004 (1), No. 875A: 495-496.

Central Europe. Ukrainians (Kharkiv, Bogorodichne, Izyumsky Uyezd, until 1890) [One day, a merchant's daughter and son of a poor man are baptized in the church, the pop says he cannot baptize a girl, invites the merchant to promise to give her to a good cause, he promises to marry her to the son of a poor man in 20 years, and draws up a receipt. Parents forget about the promise, the poor man's son grows up smart, finds a receipt, goes with bread to marry the merchant, a man takes him to the city, the guy says he goes to see what gets in the nets placed by his father 20 years ago, then offers to bridge bridges to get there faster when a man feeds his horses, offers to eat the well-fed and give away the bad. In the city, a man points to a beautiful house, the guy notices crooked windows, says he'll stop where it's winter at the gate. The man lets the guy go, comes to a wealthy merchant and talks about a fellow traveler, the merchant calls him a fool. The merchant's daughter hears the conversation and explains it: she already knows about her father's promise, bridges mean talking, driving faster with a conversation, horses are two bread that the guy took with him - wheat bread they ate it, the fat one was distributed, the slanting windows - the merchant's daughter is mowing ("I'm crooked"). The merchant agrees, does not know how to look for a guy, the girl explains: he is in an inn, at the gate of which hay lies in winter and summer. She gives his bread to the employee, sends him to the inn to ask if the month is decreasing or increasing, and orders him to bring in someone who answers increasing. On the way, the worker bites bread and no one answers the question, the girl realizes what happened, gives a whole bread, the worker brings the guy, they are married]: Manzhura 2003:77-78; Poles [girl asks applicants riddles related to the number of gifts sent with the servant; since the servant ate part of the message, the young man cannot understand the girl's words; the servant admits his guilt, boy and girl connect]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 656:204.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Karaites (a similar option among the Crimean Tatars) [the beloved vizier has died; the courtiers ask the padishah to appoint his former young son as a new one; the padishah agreed; satisfied, but decided to check young man; gives gold: buy a goat, two kebabs and a prayer rug, and return the gold one too; the vizier set off, caught up with the old man; invited him, going up the mountain, to carry each other alternately; the old man did not Got it; envious of the forest: let's go there on foot and go out on horseback; same; by the wheat field, at the sight of the funeral procession: has the grain already been eaten? Is the man on the stretcher alive or dead? crippled beggars - dead or alive? the old man became angry; Viir went to the mosque, and the old man went to his daughter and talked about the annoying madman; the girl explained everything: to start a conversation; to find a staff in the forest; whether the harvest had been laid; whether he was virtuous deceased; do the cripples have loving relatives; let the father invite that traveler to visit; baked two buns, a big one and a small one, took 30 eggs, tied them in a bundle and asked her father to give it to that young man; he ate half a big bun and 10 eggs on the way; vizier: did your sun split in half? 20 days in a month? the old man said that his daughter sent him; the vizier sent a servant to her, giving her a pair of gold and expensive cloth on his dress; the servant cut off a piece for himself; the girl: tell the master not to give gifts with the severed with tails and did not offend the servant; the servant guilty to the vizier; the vizier came to the girl: the house is beautiful, but the pipe is slightly crooked; the girl: the main thing is that the smoke should come out smoothly; after spending the night, the vizier spoke about the task of the padishah ; the girl bought a goat cut, weaved two rugs, rescued a gold one, emptied a goat and fried two testicles; but the vizier had to admit that he did not invent everything; the padishah called the girl, called Sultan Haseki married; but immediately went to war; when he left, he gave a sealed purse and ordered him to return to have a son with him, and in the stable to have a horse like his; the CX opened the seal and spent money, learned to play chess, dressed up 12 maids as men, also dressed as a man herself, came to her husband's camp under the guise of a Moroccan prince; won a padishah's horse in chess, paired with her mare, returned to the horse; opened to the vizier, asking for help; CX lost to the padishah and gave the concubine, i.e. herself; three days later, the vizier persuaded her to return the concubine; again in the guise of Prince CX won the last batch and received a ring with the seal of the padishah; nine months later she gave birth to a padishah's son, and the mare got necklaces; 8 years later, the padishah returned victorious; the CX returned his sealed purse to him, showed son and horse; when the padishah and CX died, their son inherited the throne]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 76; Kabardian people [khan was going to marry a stupid son to an intelligent girl; sent two servants to her with a gift; girl noticed that the servants cut off some brocade for themselves; asked me to tell the khan: let him not punish servants for the sake of her daughter-in-law and son; the khan realized that the servants had stolen brocade; the khan and his son go camping, the khan told her son cut the road; put a ladder on the road; he began to cut the road with a sword; lay down on the road, for there are no stairs; daughter-in-law to her husband: your father told you to first get off your horse and rest, and then prolong the song; The abreks captured the khan; he asks to send three people for ransom, ordering them to hand over: cut one pole in Kunatskaya, knock down two; give the messengers a hundred red hornless cows and a hundred one-horned bulls; daughter-in-law: kill two messengers, injure a third; send a hundred horsemen and a hundred pedestrians; soldiers forced the wounded to show the way, freed the khan]: Aliyeva, Kardangushev 1977:21-26; Abkhazians (zap. P. Shakryl, s. Lykhny) [the prince is required to finally marry; he only wants someone who can sew legs and dudes from pieces of steel and iron; his two milk brothers went to look for such a girl; in the same house the girl replies that her father sows what will be the subject of a quarrel by the road (she sows wheat, but did not make a fence); the mother went to exchange a tear (she went to mourn her neighbor with the expectation that she would come in due time mourn); when the brothers asked for wine, the girl advised me to tie the horse to the vine; there was no vine in the yard; so where did the wine come from? as for the prince's condition, let him first send her sand twine and a needle made of small stones; when he learned about the girl, the prince sent her a ram so that she would not kill him, but cooked two servings of kebab from it, and from wool made a burka and a hat; the girl emptied the ram and cooked a kebab from the testes; the prince sent her gold and diamond things through her brothers; the girl responded: small and large stars turned out to be rare; let the two mountain eagles not lose each other and the two brothers not hear hurtful words; the prince ordered the brothers to return what they had appropriated; for the wedding, the prince ordered to cook a meat dish and hominy from the cliff he pointed to; the girl gave her father a knife: do not work tomorrow until the prince arrives; when he comes, hand the knife and ask him to cut off the rock's head with your hand; the prince married the girl]: Khashba, Kukba 1935:132-135; the Ingush [old man and well done are walking together along the road; well done, offering to take a horse, pave the road; leaving the poor house, where they were accepted for the night, well done, says that the farm big; when he sees a funeral, he asks if the deceased shares the funeral with people; well done, he goes to spend the night "at Dyala's house" (mosque), and the old man tells his daughter about the fool he went with; the daughter explains: he offered to make staffs, brighten up the road with conversation; the poor man, who generously received travelers, is rich, and the stingy rich man is poor; the companion meant whether the deceased responded to someone else's misfortune; the girl sends him to the mosque give the boy a churek, 12 eggs and a jug of water; the boy broke off a piece of churek, drank water, ate two eggs; well done, asks me to tell you that the moon did not feed, in a year 10 months, there is not enough water; the girl is all understood]: Sadulayev 2004, No. 102:272-274; Azerbaijanis [Shah and vizier travel incognito; they were joined by a traveler; Shah: let's make a ladder on the road; satellite: why a staircase on a flat road? he refused to receive the imaginary dervishes into his house, telling them to go to the mosque, but his daughter, having learned about the Shah's question, asked them to return; she sent dolma, a cake, a jug of milk: the moon is round, there are many stars, the sea overcrowded; the girl's father ate half of the dolma and the cake, drank milk, but gave the words to his daughter; the Shah asked her to tell her: the moon is flawed, the stars are few, the sea is dry; the daughter scolds her father; the girl is slanting; the shah: the house beautiful, but the chimney is crooked; girl: but the smoke comes out freely; the Shah asks for food so that people can eat the flesh, the middle of the chickens, and the peel of the horse; the girl brought melon; on the way, the Shah meets the shoemaker, speaks to him with signs and riddles; asks if he can pluck the goose; sitting on the throne, the Shah sent the vizier to the shoemaker with an order to understand what he was saying; the shoemaker explains for a fee; At the end, he tells the vizier that he is the goose from whom he took all the money; the vizier: what is the Shah doing now? shoemaker: it is disrespectful in my position to talk about the Shah; give me your horse, clothes, dear whip; shoemaker to the vizier: the Shah throws horsemen like you off his horse and puts people on foot like me in the saddle; The Shah made the shoemaker a vizier and ordered the vizier to be a shoemaker]: Nabiev 1988:74-77; Turks: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 235 (mainly Ankara and Istanbul) [the padishah asks the man three questions; if he does not answer, he executes; the youngest of three daughters finds answers; the padishah decides to marry her; what are gold, silver, copper? - Padishah, viziers, people; let a person cook food from a ram, make a rug and bring a live ram back (pick up a ram and cook eggs, a rug out of trimmed wool); let two eggs be made of two eggs by morning there will be roosters; what is the heaviest, lighter and sweetest thing? - Worries, thoughts, sleep; sew clothes without scissors or needles; let them give them sand scissors, a grass needle; she notices that the porters have hidden some of the gifts and informs the padishah about it through themselves porters who do not understand the meaning of the words they are told to convey]: 280-284; Walker, Uuysal 1966, No. 6 [the man has three daughters; he steals three daughters every day from the Padishah's palace to feed them brooms and sells them; he was caught; the padishah promised to hang him if he didn't bring daughters with obvious signs of pregnancy by tomorrow; the eldest says she wants to marry a butcher, the middle says she wants to marry a butcher, the middle one says she wants to marry a butcher the boat manufacturer, the youngest, tells them to bring 3 kg of cotton, puts herself and her sisters under their clothes as if they are pregnant; the padishah asks everyone what she wants; the elders answer about the butcher and the boat manufacturer; the youngest wants watercress (Nasturtium officinale) from the sea, lemons from poplar, oranges in winter; padishah: impossible; girl: like feeding her stomach overnight; padishah sends a former thief to the house (now he got a job at the palace) two officials; the youngest daughter is at home; the father is wearing roses, the older sister makes two out of one, the middle sister makes the ugly beautiful, she herself has just finished cooking up and down, and now she has a horse and horseshoes, but no nails and nothing to make them out of; officials left the girl two parcels from the padishah; she unfolded them and ordered them to say hello from the kite to the falcon; but sometimes things do They're going like a crow smeared with crap; we were 12 years old, and what about 10 now? The padishah understood everything: the father is doing the job of a gardener, the older sister is giving birth, the middle sister removes hairs from her face, the girl herself cooked lentil soup, now she embroiders; and the sent stole 2 gold coins of 12; padishah married a girl]: 135-139; Kurds: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 90 [the padishah tells the vizier to sell the ram, raise money for it, get wool, bring two skewers of kebab and bring a live ram; the vizier goes with the dervish, who offers to make a bridge over the river; then climb the stairs up the hill; asks if the owner of the unmowed field has eaten his harvest; whether the city has been destroyed, in who they entered; the girl explains: it was necessary for one to carry another across the river; start a conversation; the landlord could be a debtor; the dervish wanted to offer to enter the house; the girl sends her brother take the dervish 12 cakes and 30 eggs; he ate a cake and two eggs on the way; the dervish looked and asked: 11 months in the year, and 28 days in the month? The brother said, the sister realized that he ate the cake and eggs; the dervish turns to the tandoor: does the smoke rise straight? girl: yes; the vizier tells her about the padishah's order; she explains: cut the ram, sell half of the hair, leave half of the hair, cut off the eggs, fry it, bring the ram alive; when the padishah finds out everything, he married a girl]: 396-398; Farizov, Rudenko 1959 [the padishah gives the young vizier a ram, tells him to cook a roast, weave a carpet out of wool and return the live sheep; the vizier goes on a journey with him an old man went; the vizier proposes to build a bridge by the river, the old man does not understand; after wading across the river and going to the mountain, the vizier offers to cut down the stairs; asks if there is a caravanserai in the city (theirs a lot); at home, the old man tells his daughter about his companion's strange proposals; she listened, gave her father four loaves and 12 eggs, tells him to take the young man to the caravanserai; after receiving the package, the vizier asks : Is your year 11 months old and 3 weeks in a month? daughter: you ate one bread and one egg! asks to bring a young man to her; the girl is slightly slanting; the vizier: the house is good, but the window is crooked; the girl: only the smoke comes out straight; tells her to give her a ram; explains to his father that the young man offered to brighten up the way with a conversation; wanted stay in an old man's house, not in a caravanserai; the girl scoped the ram and fried her testicles, weaved a carpet out of her trimmed wool; after learning how it was, the padishah tells me to bring the girl to marry her; the girl demands dowry: 20 rams, 30 bulls, 40 lions, 50 wolves, 60 foxes, 70 old skins; does the padishah understand? he's already 70! then the vizier married; the girl demands to solve the riddle: a person earns 5 kurush; one pays a debt, the other lends, the third throws it to the wind, the remaining two live with his wife; the vizier: supports parents, son, daughter; wedding]: 132-135.

Iran - Central Asia. Lura [Shah Abbas dressed as a dervish, walked along the road, met an old man and they went together; asked who would shorten their journey; when he saw a wheat field: what kind of wheat it was if the owner had already eaten ears; seeing the funeral procession: O dead, if you did not die, would you be dead? crossing the river: which one of us will be a bridge? In an old man's village: Where is your mosque? (the old man pointed out); began to tell his daughter that he was walking with some madman; the daughter explained: who would start a conversation? the owner sold green wheat; if a person has a decent son or brother, he did not die; who would carry someone across the river; by mosque, the satellite meant a house; the daughter guessed that it was SHA and told give him 12 bread and 12 eggs; he ate 3 loaves and 3 eggs on the way; SHA: Is your year 9 months old? the daughter tells me to bring SHA and give it to him; after the wedding, SHA left 3 days later, giving his wife a bead; if a boy is born, put it in his hand and tell him that his father is SHA Isfahan, who buys cheaply and sells at a high price, buys at a high price and sells cheaply; the son grew up, went looking for his father; met a herb collector (ST), stayed with him, but called himself not the son of SHA, but simply Abbas; ST called himself his father; the young man is tired of collecting herbs, he wants to go hunting; ST: but come back before dark, otherwise the gate will be closed and you will be eaten by a dragon; the young man chased the gazelle, did not have time to return; let the dragon swallow himself holding his sword with his teeth and holding its ends with his hands, ripped the dragon apart; Ali's gatekeeper saw a dead dragon and a unconscious young man, beat him, left him in some ruins; the young man was found by a shoemaker, brought him to for himself, went out; now he called himself the father of a young man; the young man began to work in a pastry shop; a maid (or daughter?) , then the vizier's wife saw him; his wife ordered him to dig an underground passage through which the young man began to come to her; SHA saw this, wanted to execute the young man; the shoemaker said that the young man was his son, took it out and showed that bead; feast; Ali's guard wrapped in leather and burned at the stake]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 3:18-24; Pashtuns [when he died, father buried three pots of money, put a ruby on each; youngest son secretly took one ruby; the brothers went to the Shah's clever daughters - let them decide which of them took the ruby; along the way they noticed: a woman was sitting under this tree; pregnant; ran away from her husband; a crooked camel was walking along the way without one tooth; on the one hand there was a pack of butter, on the other hand, with honey; they described the woman's signs to her husband who was looking for her; he accused them of kidnapping; the same was the owner of the missing camel; the brothers explain to the Shah : a woman was sitting, leaning her hands, which means she was pregnant, and when she went, she went in the opposite direction, so the fugitive; the camel ate grass on one side of the road, some blades of grass remained intact; where the flies were, there oil, where the bees are, there is honey; the first princess undertook to find the ruby thief; served pilaf; the meat is human (the lamb was fed by a woman); princess: these people are too smart; another princess sent a maid take the food and pass it on: seven heavens, the sky is in the clouds, but there are many stars; brothers: the sky is five, the sky is clear, there are no stars; the princess to the maid: how dare she eat two loaves and meat? disguised as a man, the princess tells a story; the vizier's daughter agrees to the gardener's request to come to him on her wedding night when she marries; told her husband about it and he let her go; on the way ran into a tiger, then a robber, asked her to eat it or pick it up when she returned; the gardener released the woman, the robber and the tiger too; the Shah's daughter asks the brothers which of the participants to whom liked it; older: husband, middle: tiger, younger: thief; princess: younger and took the ruby; go home, your business is resolved, return the ruby]: Lebedev 1972, No. 22:192-198.

Turkestan. Salary: Tenishev 1964, No. 10 (Ujirem, Xunhua-Salar Autonomous County) [the old man had seven sons and a daughter, Agu Karaji; the old man went to look for her groom; met Koskur Oglan, brought him home; K. asked, "Father, don't your walls have ears?" ; the old man told AK about this, she explained that those words mean "is there a dog at home?" ; began to send food for K. and her maid every evening; the maid ate the thick and carried the liquid; K. said to her: "Tell Agu Karaji: "The fifteenth month [only] is half born, the stars are not The sixteenth evening is rare!" ; the maid conveyed this message, and AK scolded her: "You ate the food, took the liquid, and ate half of the bread [too]!" ; then ordered to tell K. to flee, because her older brothers wanted to kill him; K. ran away, but the brothers caught up and killed him; the father told AK where K. was killed; she turned her father's staff into horse, went with him to that place; she said to the ahuns who met: "Ahuna, make two chests. Let's put Koskur Oglan in one of them. Whoever makes a chest first will be my [husband]!" ; then she climbed into the chest and ordered K.'s bones to be put there; when this was done, she plunged a pin into her heart and died], 23 (Hanbach) [the old man was looking for a groom for his daughter Aga Karaji; brought Koskur Oglana, who asked three questions on the way: "Can I ride a horse made of clay?" , "Can I eat clay instead of bread?" , "Dad, do your walls have ears?" ; the old man thought he was a fool, told AK about it; she explained: K. asked if you would put him behind your horse, if you would give him some of your bread, if there was a dog in your house; when AK combing her hair on the seventh floor, her hair hanging down to the ground; K. clung to her hair and went upstairs; seven AK brothers came to kill him; K. took refuge on the mountain; every day AK forced her maid carry him food; if the maid carried a cake, she ate half on the way; K.: "Maid, you go and tell your mistress: "A month on fifteenth evening is only half born!" ; AK, when she heard these words, asked: "Maid, did you eat half the cake?" ; when the maid took food for K. again, she ate the thick and carried the liquid; K.: "Tell your mistress: "The stars in the sky are rare!" ; AK began to scold the maid: "Did you eat the thick and take the liquid?" ; when K. was killed, AK went to search for a place where his blood had been shed; said to two ahuns: "Dig two graves there. Whoever digs first, let him choose me as a wife!" ; the ahuns finished digging at the same time; AK lay down in the grave, pierced her heart with a pin and died; K. was buried in the second grave]: 24-25, 56-58.