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Ethnicities and habitats

M57A. Beads are like body secretions.

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Instead of the usual secretions from the human body, beads, flowers, gold and other valuables pour in.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Rwanda [Kwisaba went to war; when sick and left without firewood, his wife exclaims that Thunder should come to cut them; a thunderstorm begins, Thunder cuts wood, tells the woman to promise to give him to wife's daughter, whom she will give birth; when she returns, K. tells her not to let Miseke's daughter go outside when she becomes a girl; other children say that beads are falling from the girl's mouth; one day other girls go for pottery with clay, they take M. with them; Thunder demands that everyone laugh, finds M. by the falling beads, takes her away; M. gives birth to two boys and a girl, her husband allows her to visit her parents, gives birth to him cattle and beer; M.'s motorcade goes astray, gets to the cannibal; he eats all the goods, servants, children of M.; she manages to send the eldest boy to her parents; warriors come, kill the cannibal; he tells cut off his big toe, everyone swallowed comes out of there; a month later M. decides to return to her husband, Thunder takes her back]: Werner 1933:57-61 (retelling in Kotlyar 2009, No. 100:100; in Scheub 2000:149 -150); kaguru: Beidelman 1967d, No. 3 [two girls promise to give the third a beautiful vessel if she kills her mother; the girl pushes her mother into the river, but her friends laughed at her and did not give the vessel; she starves, goes to the shore, the mother says from the water where to find the fruit tree; friends are surprised that the girl is not hungry, they go with her, eat all the fruits; the same with the place where there are pumpkins; the chief promises to marry one who dances well; friends try not to allow an orphan to dance, but the chief insists, marries her; one of her friends comes to braid her hair, sticks a thorn, the chief's wife turns into a bird, a friend takes her form; a real wife radiated light, and when she washed, coins appeared; the husband notices that this does not happen anymore; hears the bird singing about what happened; tells her to catch, at night from The light comes out to her, he realizes that it is his wife; he notices a thorn in her head, pulls it out, in front of him, his old wife; he kills a liar, cooks her meat, feeds her relatives and friends with it, kills them, throws corpses into the thickets]: 11-16; 1974, No. 7 [the bird takes sheep and goats; the boy fights with it, wins; the bird arrives again, takes the boy to its village, where he turns into a person; returns him; when he speaks, coins are falling from his lips; another boy went to guard the sheep; also defeated the bird, but continued to beat it when it had already submitted; what happens to him is the first, but from his lips excrement is falling; he will all leave]: 176-180; duala [the boy and girl's mother is dead, his father's new wife persuades him to get rid of his children; they run away; by the stream, the boy hears a bird explain : if a girl enters the water, the fish will jump ashore, if she combs her hair, silver will fall; this is what happens; children come to live with a nine-headed skeleton woman, she is kind to them; girl grows up, the king marries her, gives her brother half the kingdom; he also marries]: Binam Bikoï 1977:61-63; bass [stepmother tells her husband to get rid of children from his deceased wife, the youngest girl and the eldest boy; he overheard, he and his sister leave; at the source, the fish start dancing when the girl steps into the water, and when her brother combs her, silver falls off her hair; the children come to the 9-headed old woman -skeleton; live with her, caring for her ulcers; the girl became beautiful, the king married her and gave her brother half of his wealth]: Reuss-Nliba, Reuss-Nliba 2014:172-176.

West Africa. Hausa [one daughter from an unloved wife, the other from a beloved; a daughter from an unloved one lives in a hut on a pile of manure, gives her father a cowrie, asks to bring King Agadez's son from the bazaar; in the bazaar, a man asks about this, he is beaten for a long time, left in the evening, the son of King Agadez promises to come on Friday; the father beats his daughter, talks about Friday; the young man arrives on Friday night, where he spits, there is silver ; women found silver, stuck needles in bed out of envy, the young man died; King Agadez tortured the girl's parents, but felt sorry for her; var.: the girl's name is Lahidi, the boy's name is Ba-Komi ("Nothing"); daughter of his beloved wife from Envy stuck thorns in bed; B. disappeared; L. goes looking for him, hears cannibal spirits talking under the tree; the latter says that if their bowel movements are given to the king's son to drink, he will recover; L. comes disguised as a doctor, B. drinks medicine, regurgitates thorns; L. takes a B ring as a reward, returns to himself; B. comes to kill L., she shows the ring, B. marries her, gives cattle to her father]: Tremearne 1913, No. 44:278-282; Anyi [the poor Spider and his wealthy companion go to another village where the funeral party is celebrated; as a gift, the companion carries a vessel of gold, the Spider carries crap; along the way, the Spider replaces blood vessels ; when they come to the village, both break their vessels; the Spider is accepted with honor, he marries; the companion is accommodated in a poor hut, not fed; a young girl comes to take care of him, finds gold in his hair, it appears there again and again; becomes his wife; when the Spider runs out of gold, he offers to return home; wives accompany both; fabrics lie at the fork in the road to the Spider, but then the path is lost in the thickets, the Spider leads his wife to the poor hut; the path to the companion's house is narrow at first, but then rich fabrics lie on it, he brings his wife to a luxurious palace]: Tauxier 1932, No. 2:229- 230; mosi [girls go to file their teeth, drive the orphan away, ashamed of her rags; one sends her to her home for good clothes, warns her not to take a bad road; others replace signs with at the crossroads; a girl comes to Kinkirsi, but they do not harm her, but they file her teeth themselves, encrusted with gold and silver; tell her not to laugh or show her mouth for a week; she was forced at home a week later laugh, gold and silver fell out of her mouth; the rest of the girls became her maids; their teeth are still being filed, but gold is no longer falling]: Frobenius 1986:89-91; curls [older wife Nyane's supreme god is Akoko ("chicken"); he took four more and asked what each of them would give him; 1) would sweep and clean his yard (compound); 2) cook and not complain if there are a lot guests; 3) spin and bring water; 4) will give birth to a golden child; the fourth gives birth in the absence of her husband; these are twins; the first born is silver, the second (he is considered the eldest) is golden; A. put both in the pot, hid it in the forest in a dry tree; replaced it with two frogs; when N. saw them, he ordered his wife to be expelled to the farthest corner of his possessions; the hunter found the children; collects the silver falling from them and gold dust, got rich; Anansi (the spider trickster) guessed they were N.'s children; the twins asked their adoptive father to bring them pebbles to play with which they would tell their real father their story; while N. plays with Serebryany, Zolotoy sings, talking about everything that happened; N. brought his wife back and washed her himself; tied Ayu's legs to a stick and threw her off the sky; every time the chicken wants to drink, she must will lift his head and ask N. for permission; all people will sacrifice chickens to the gods as a common sacrifice; twins are washed every year and dust falls to the ground; whoever falls on is gets rich]: Cardinall 1931:36-39; (cf. fulbe [the woman gave birth to a son and his twin, the snake Tyamaba; hid T. in the swamp, brought him milk, his excrement was gold; his brother grew up, took a wife, his mother warned that his wife should not see T .; when the parents died, T.'s brother secretly carried food to T.; the wife watched because she thought her husband had a mistress; when he saw T., he crawled away, taking all the cows with him into the water; (many versions, according to some of this Fulbe just had cows)]: Kesteloot et al. 1985:2; Roumeguère-Eberhard 1963:20).

Sudan-East Africa. The Nubians [the wife dies, the husband takes another, leaves; she has a lover; stepsons Mohammed and Ali eat the tail and giblets from the chicken cooked for him; they hear that their stepmother will kill them, run away; they spend the night with an old woman, cry at night, laugh, in the morning the old woman finds gold and pearls falling from their lips, gives them; in the desert, the brothers dream of changing treasures for water and food, and it turns out; M. goes along right road; in the city they choose a king, a falcon sits on M.'s head, he becomes king; A. dies of thirst in the desert; stepmother shows his father the graves of his sons, he finds blocks in them; finds M.; breaks wife with hungry camels]: Katznelson 1968:95-98; Sudanese Arabs: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 1 [Wad al-Nimayr (VN) has 7 wives, he took an eighth, she gave birth to a girl, other wives threw her into the river, said that the wife gave birth to a broom; VN: the one who gave birth to a broom will give birth to a son; the next time she gave birth to twins Hassan (al-Hassan) and Husain (al-Husain), the wives threw them into the river, said that the wife gave birth to stones; VN: who He gave birth to stones and gave birth to a son; but ordered the slave to take his eighth wife to the desert and kill him; he did not kill her, but left her in the desert; the fish swallowed the children, they were aground, they went out; the man saw them, was frightened, but they followed him {teenagers at once}; take care of other children; sister found a pot of gold; when the brothers grew up, asked what they would do with wealth; would cover it with gold; next time: would do it clay bracelets and covered you with gold {not entirely clear}; she showed them gold, they dressed it in gold; VN wives persuaded her to ask her brothers to get VN chicken: she and the chickens made of gold; brothers they stole it, the women told VN about it, the brothers were put in prison; the VN wives stuck a pin in the brothers' sister's head, who turned into a throat, sat on a tree in front of the prison; asked the guard for named Khair, where are her brothers; they are crying in prison; she also cried - it's raining, the gardens are blooming; next time: they sleep on silk, they'll be out soon; she laughed, gold fell out of her mouth, Khair began to pick it up; said VN; he replaced him, closing him with a blanket; the gorlinka began to ask, he was silent; the turtle went down to him, VN grabbed it, noticed the pin, pulled it out, the turtle became a girl; the brothers married her VN, for which he let them go; during the wedding, a gorlinka flew in and began to sing: VN marries his own daughter; VN understood everything, cut off the heads of 7 wives, returned the eighth from the desert, stayed with her and with her children], 3 [the girl was passed off as a stranger; the cousin, hoping for marriage, went to the old woman; she told her to stick a thorn in the bride's head during the wedding, she would turn into a throat; the groom complained , the father and cousin were imprisoned; the gorlinka asked the shepherd slave what was wrong with her brother (obviously with her cousin); he was preparing to be beheaded; she cried - it began to rain, laughed - the florins fell down; the shepherd said To the girl's other brother, then to another one; he caught a throat, took out a thorn, her throat became a girl, married her cousin]: 61-63, 64-65; Hillelson 1935 [when the girl cried, it rained when she laughed, pearls and corals fell down when she blew his nose, silk turned out; brother was on the road, it rained, he realized that his sister was crying, came back; there the old woman told her sister to ask her brother to get a talking parrot; brother went after him, stopped at the old woman; she told the slaves to throw pearls, the ants dried meat, the lions a leg of lamb; then come in and pick up the parrot; the brother brought a parrot, the sister laughed, the pearls fell down]: 13 (Russian lane in Lebedev 1990, No. 30:160).

North Africa. Kabila [Aïcha and her brother Bejliman are orphans, her stepmother especially hates A.; when A. goes, she is followed by a trail of wheat grains, when she laughs, the sun is in the sky, cries, it rains, combs her hair, gold and silver are pouring in; B. told the king about this, who asked A. for his hand; together with stepmother A. goes through the desert to the groom's country, suffers from thirst, her stepmother gives her a drink in exchange for her eyes; changed his ugly daughter, leaves A. under a tree; the deceived king ordered Brother A. to be tied in the stable; turtles brought leaves that restored A.'s sight; they also offered to become a turtle, she became; gorlinka sings to the peasant, then to the king about her brother's suffering; the young queen tells her to catch a turtle, then cut her throat; this is where a date palm has grown; when the queen wants to pick dates, branches they rise; she orders to cut down a palm tree, an old woman took one sliver; the next morning a girl instead of firewood; asks for a comb, gold falls; she asks for shelter in the royal palace; cries - the storm begins; with her gold falls in hair; the king recognizes A., frees her brother, and his daughter is tied to his place]: Arezki 2010:43-50; Algerian Arabs [after the death of the merchant, his son squandered wealth, went wandering with her mother; leaving her with mules in a clearing, he began to inspect the forest; the beauty was hanged by her legs above the pool; falling into the water, three drops of blood from her cut throat turned into rubies; contrary to his mother's warning, the young man took one of the rubies; settled with his mother in the city and opened a shop; the Sultan has a daughter, Gazelle Blood in the snow; the vizier wants to marry her son; the princess sets the condition: bring three rubies (and no one in their country had rubies); after guessing, she found out that she would marry the son of a merchant who settled in their city; the sultan promises a reward to whoever gets rubies; the young man brought, received reward; adviser to the Sultan: whoever brought one ruby will bring the other two; the young man came to that pond in the forest; saw a Jew who revived the girl and began to beat her, demanding that she convert to his faith and married him; a young man killed a Jew; the girl said that he was the daughter of a king of jinns, her name was Rubin; they came to the sea, R. dived but returned accompanied by a luxurious procession; her father gave her to a young man , they came to the city and got married; the sultan summoned a young man: he is executed if he does not bring two ruby within a month; the wife took a knife, cut herself slightly, two drops of blood became rubies; the princess wishes now a pearl necklace; R. sent her husband to the sea with a note; he summoned a giant black man; the young man was married to the daughter of a genie vizier named Zhemchuzhina; R. deliberately scolded her at home, she cried, tears turned into pearls; the sultan hopes that now his daughter will agree to marry the son of the vizier, but she demands to bring musk; the same: the girl Musk is sent from the sea; R. scolds her: let her wash; in the bathhouse with her the skin collects something that turns out to be musk; the Sultan's daughter to her father: I know that the valuables were not obtained by the vizier's son, but by another young man; the sultan in vain demands that the young man refuse to marry the princess; tells cut off his head; but anyone who tries to do so cuts off his own head; including the Sultan himself and all the viziers; the princess becomes the fourth wife of the merchant's son]: Filleul de Pétigny 1951: 113-137; Tunisia: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 1 [Syrotu Maryam was taken by an old woman to help with household chores. Once she ordered to bring water from the well, Maryam lingered, the old woman punished her: she let her grind wheat and salted fish, forbid her to drink water. She grinded and ate the fish, her thirst became unbearable, and she threw the stick she used to turn the millstone aside so that it hit the wall and the wall split. Maryam got up and walked over the wall. She found herself in a spacious garden. She saw a stream and hurried to it to get drunk, but the rose asked her to give her a drink. Maryam gave her a drink, and the rose gave her her blush and beautiful appearance. It's the same with jasmine. He rewarded her with his fragrant aroma. Donkey: pearls and gems at every word The horse gave her silk, silver and gold. Then she drank some water herself. I thanked God. She went back to her room and went to bed. The old woman went into the room and saw everything. Maryam woke up, told her story, the old woman was happy, apologized for her mistreatment, and decided to treat her well in the future. Maryam woke up from her sleep and began to rotate the millstones again with a vengeance, starving and thirsty], 68 [the merchant has three daughters, the father does not want to marry them; after overhearing their conversations, he betrayed them marry at their request: the eldest to a bald rich man, the middle to an honest rich man, the youngest named Marjana ("coral"; hereinafter her name is Lyulya) to a poor bathhouse attendant; she gave birth to a daughter who was predicted that when she will laugh, precious stones will fall from her mouth, and emeralds when she cries; this is how her father became rich; she grew up, the Sultan's son came to her; his son went with her in a carriage to see the prince in a carriage Aunt, she hated Lyulya; when she wanted to eat, her aunt gave her salted fish in exchange for her eye, and when Lyulya asked for water, her aunt gouged out her second eye and threw her out of the carriage, dressed her her daughter's clothes, put her in Lulya's place; a bird flew past Lula in the forest, saying that if she chewed a leaf from a tree, she would become a dove; Lulya did so; while hunting, the prince caught a dove, planted in a golden cage, began to spend a lot of time with her; his wife told her to fry a dove for her; a palm tree grew in the place where her bones were buried; the prince was time near the palm tree, the wife began to demand that it be cut down, otherwise she would fall ill again; the prince cut down a palm tree, threw it into the forest; an old woman picked up the firewood, brought it home; when she left the house and returned, she found that everything in the house was tidy; the neighbors said it wasn't them; the old woman began to spy and saw a girl coming out of the firewood; Lulu told me what had happened to her; made a necklace with gems that fell out of her mouth, while she was talking, she gave it to the old woman to take the market, but not sell it to the prince's wife; she sold it; when the prince saw the necklace, he asked the old woman, she told him about Lyulya; he went to her and He returned from her with her son, and told his wife that it was the son of his suddenly deceased friend; Lulu told her son to ask the prince's wife for a necklace; his wife took off the necklace and immediately died; Lulya entered the palace, took its place] in Korovkina MS

Southern Europe. Portuguese: Braga 2002 [the family has an older sister and a little brother; brother hears parents agree to kill one of the children - not to feed them; tells his sister they are running away; brother sleeps with her sister's head on her knees; three fairies passing by tell the girl's face to be beautiful, gold falls off her hair when she combs her hair; brother and sister came to the angry old woman and became her to live; the brother went to buy something; the king was told that the boy had gold, they did not believe the boy's story, they put him in a tower - let him introduce his sister; at this time her sister had nothing to eat; she gave for food and drink the old woman's eyes; led her daughter to the king, and threw the gold-haired woman into the sea; the boy saw his sister in the sea, lowered the rope out of the window; the sister told her brother to ask the jailer for thin paper; made a branch with in gold flowers, asked to sell not for money, but for her eyes; the old woman gave her eyes; everything was clarified; the sister asked the old woman to pull her skin over the drum and make a seat out of her bones]: 151-152; Coelho 1879, No. 36 (Ourilhe) [a woman takes care of her daughter and sticks her maid (engeitada); sends a cow to herd and tells her to spin; a woman comes up, tells her to reel yarn on the horns of the cow, she will be quiet; asks to bring a jug of water, she brings; gives the girl a gift: when she starts talking, pearls will fall from her lips; when she sees pearls, a woman sends her own daughter; she herself asked for water, but broke the jug; woman: field radish (saramagos) will fall from your lips; everyone wants to marry someone whose lips are pouring pearls; the woman hid her in the closet, replaced her own daughter, showered her with pearls and said that she was numb; in the church, the deception was revealed, the groom found the maid, she told everything; wedding]: 86-88; Pedroso 1882, No. 9 [if there is a married girl in the house, a golden ball must be hung at the door; for two eldest daughters hanged, they married princes; there was not enough money for gold for the youngest, they hung a silver ball; the older sisters refused to meet the youngest and her husband; when she gave birth to a daughter, three fairies appeared; one gifted the girl with beauty, the second with wealth, the third because flowers would fall from her lips if she spoke; and the fairy turned the house into a luxurious palace; the girl grew up; a prince was going to marry her daughter alone from the older sisters, but when he saw his youngest daughter, he chose her; when, on the advice of doctors, the prince went to travel and the bride went up to the tower to see him after him, the older sister's daughter crept up behind and pulled out her eyes; a man picked up a blind woman; when the prince returned, the criminal pretended to be his fiancée; the blind woman sent flowers to the wedding in exchange for her eyes; came to the prince, who recognized his ring on her finger, then found out; married a true bride]: 37-40; Spaniards (Extremadura) [the widower's daughter insisted that he marry a widow, who also has a daughter; stepdaughter in paper shoes goes In winter, she comes to three dwarfs for strawberries, shares black bread with them; they give her strawberries, tell her to have gold coins fall from her lips, that she marry the king and day by day prettier; her own daughter walks in warm clothes, does not share food with the dwarfs, refuses to clean the snow to pick strawberries; they tell toads to fall from her lips, to go beyond the line and become uglier; the king saw his stepdaughter, got married, she gave birth to a son, her stepmother pushed her into the water, she became Galopín de agua, her stepmother replaced her with her daughter; the real queen left every day water, came to the baby; the king pinched her, she regained her former appearance; the liar was tied to the horse's tail, scattered around the village]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 480A: 358-362; Catalans (including Mallorca) [the girl saves the snake; for this she rewards her with the ability to turn what she touches into gold; the king marries her; the rival dazzles her, leaves her in the forest, pretends herself queen; the snake gives the dazzled a precious fruit that she changes to her eyes; the king recognizes his wife and punishes the impostor]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 404:90; Basques [taking a new wife, the father dies , the daughter stays with her witch stepmother; she sends her in winter for strawberries; the girl meets three men, they say that she will find strawberries under the woodpile behind the house; one promises that with every word she says her mouth will fall gold, every day she will become prettier, after death she will go to heaven; a witch sends her own daughter; three men ask if one basket of strawberries was not enough; promise that her toads will fall lips, she will become uglier, she will go to hell after death; a witch sends her stepdaughter to the frozen river to wash her skeins of thread; the king sees the girl, brings her to him, takes her wife; she gives birth to a boy; husband and mother-in-law bring him to the garden, at which time the witch replaces the queen with her daughter, throws the queen into the river; the king is amazed at how his wife has changed; the bird sings, the king realizes what happened, saves his wife, burns a witch, drowns her daughter at sea]: Azcua 1942, No. 2:18-22; Italians: Calvino 1980, No. 12 (Piedmont; p. 718; pomegranate motif, whose fruits can pick only a girl, added from the Tuscan version of Gradi) [the peasant has three daughters; the eldest goes to take lunch to her father, sits on a stump, a snake crawls out from there, the girl runs home; the same with the middle one; the youngest carries two servings, gives one to the snake, she asks to take it with her; lives under the girl's bed; when she grows up and crawls away, gives her the ability to cry with pearls and silver, laugh at gold pomegranate seeds that will fall out of her hair, and when she washes her hands, fish will appear in the water; the sisters are jealous, lock the youngest in the attic; a prince sees her; a pomegranate tree grows under her window, which gets taller as soon as the prince tries to pick the fruit; the old man says that whoever can pick the fruits will become the prince's wife; the king gathers all the girls; the sisters hide the youngest but find her, a wedding is announced; the youngest goes through the forest with her elders; they cut off her hands, gouge out her eyes and throw her in the forest, her older sister replaces her; the poor lumberjack picked up the crippled; got rich by collecting her silver and pearls; the snake tells her that the new wife of the prince, who is now king, is expecting a child and wants figs; the handless tells the lumberjack to take figs to the palace (they immediately grew out of season) and exchange for eyes; next time peaches in exchange for hands; the younger sister got her eyes and hands back, they grew; the queen gave birth to a scorpion; the younger sister came to the ball, the king recognized her his true wife: pearls and gold are pouring in, fish are swimming in the washbasin; older sisters and scorpion were burned at the stake], 95 (Marche) [widower and widow are married, they have a daughter each; stepmother sends stepdaughter for water, giving her a basket; the basket fell into the river, the girl followed her; the old woman asks to clean her back from insects, asks what is there; girl: diamonds and pearls; old woman: you will have diamonds and pearls; the same when an old woman asks to clean her bed (roses and jasmine), sweep the floor (rubies and cherubs); a girl chooses a dress, simpler jewelry, gets gold and diamond; the old woman tells do not look back when the girl hears the roar of a donkey, but look back at the scream of a rooster; then a star appears in her forehead; the stepmother sends her own daughter; she does everything with disgust and speaks directly about it; old woman: you will have it; chooses the expensive, gets the cheap; the old woman tells you to look back at the donkey's scream, the girl has a donkey tail on her forehead; the prince sees his stepdaughter, marries; the stepmother asks her get into the tank to clean it, goes for boiling water; her daughter asks what her stepdaughter is doing in the tank; she: I will be passed off as a prince; my own daughter takes her place to marry the prince, her mother poured boiling water on her; the girl's father beat his wife to death]: 37-40, 353-355; Sicilians [a rich sister gives the poor only leftovers for work, but the daughter of the rich is ugly, and the poor one is beautiful, like her brother Quaddaruni; the daughter is poor she goes to get water, gives seven young men a drink; each rewards her (roses will fall from her lips, pearls will fall from her hair, she will marry a king, etc.); a rich sister sends her daughter to the spring; she refuses give wizards a drink; dirt drips from her lips, scorpions and snakes fall from her hair, she is one-eyed, hunchback; Q. carries roses to the city, the king demands to sell them, he talks about his sister; the daughter of the rich imposes on his companions; from the shore, K. shouts to cover her from the sun; the freak explains that K. wants her to give her her clothes, pushes her into the sea; K. explains to the king what happened; sent herd geese and ducks by the sea; her sister says that the siren put her on a gold chain; she learns from the siren that seven swords need to cut the chain, seven horses to take her away from the water; the liar's head was salted, sent to the mother, she saw and died]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 28:185-194; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 22 [the man's wife has a gold star on her forehead; dying, the wife asks her husband to remarry only on the one who will have the same star; only his daughter has it; the mother from the grave tells her to bring a rosary, a poker, a comb into the room; when the father calls to the bedroom, the objects will answer instead of the girl: I pray I move the coals in the oven, comb my hair; at this time I have to slaughter the cow, there will be a golden ball in its giblets; the ball will fulfill any wishes, and you have to throw the skin over yourself and run; now the name of the girl Kugyulin (from the words "skin"); she is hired to the royal castle to herd geese; when she combs her hair, wheat falls from her hair on one side, rice on the other, geese get fat; transformed thanks to a golden ball, K. comes to the ball in a bronze dress; the prince gives a ring, asks which country she is beautiful from, she replies that she is from the country of Saddles; next time, a silver dress, from the Land of Bridles; for the third time a golden dress, from the land of the Spurs; the prince runs out every time, looks for K., tells her to serve her saddle, kuzu, spurs; the prince tells K. to cook; she locked herself in the room, took off her cow's skin, told the ball everything cook, threw the ring given by the prince into the bowl; the prince spies, tells his parents to marry him to K.; everything is clear, the wedding], 72 [a beautiful girl was hired by a poultry house; when she combs her hair, with Rice falls out of her hair on one side, wheat on the other; the prince asks her to serve a bridle; she comes to the ball unrecognized, replies to the prince that she is from the Land of the Bridles; next time she is a saddle; stirrups; spurs; prince gives her a ring; asks the poultry house to bring him broth; she throws a ring into the broth; wedding], 80 [mother loves her eldest daughter and does not love her youngest; sends the youngest to get water; at the spring the old woman asks to go into her house and tell her what she thinks he is; the girl replies that she is a little untidy, but the old woman is very nice; swept and cleaned the house; the old woman rewarded her: when the girl talks, to her Flowers and ornaments will fall on her lips; the mother sent her eldest daughter; she said that the house was dirty and disgusting like the old woman herself; the old woman made toads and snakes fall off the girl's lips]: 50-53, 159- 160, 179; Maltese [father is dead; mother and eldest daughter hate the youngest named Djamantina; send for water; J. is kind to an old witch dressed in rags, she makes her fall off her lips roses and pearls; the eldest daughter is rude when she meets a beautiful lady; snakes are now falling from her lips; the prince meets J. in the woods and marries; the eldest is driven away, she starves to death]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 480:127- 128; ladina [the king wanted to give his daughter for the king next door, but she refused; then he put her in a tower; a young man in love with the princess went to look for her; the old woman said that the princess was not far away, told me to find a nest near the tower, take three eggs; when the young man broke the first, the ditch around the tower disappeared; when the second, the tower turned into a palace; when the third lion guarding the princess gave a sword, and the bear key; with a sword, the young man hacked three guardian dragons, opened the princess's room; the princess's tears turned into gold, a huge pile of him accumulated, she gave gold to the young man; when the king saw gold, he gave his daughter boy]: Uffer 1973, No. 20:60-62.

Western Europe. Bretons: Lopyreva 1959, No. 15 [the queen gave birth to a daughter, the sorceress was not invited to the party, she turned the princess into a mouse; the spell will be removed if the sorceress's sister laughs; the king went to war, her mouse daughter asked to take her with her, sits in the horse's ear, sings; the Spaniards liked it, the son of the Spanish king married the mouse princess; the Spanish king will leave the crown to the one of the three sons who will bring the best canvas; the mouse wife gives a small box, it contains a lot of better canvas, the older brothers are shamed; offer to leave the crown to the one whose wife is more beautiful; the mouse wife secretly follows her husband riding a rooster; stops at a puddle; the sorceress's sister sees it, laughs, the mouse becomes beautiful; the king gives the throne to her husband; at a feast she hides pieces of food behind the corsage, they turn into pearls and flowers; older daughters-in-law do the same, dogs and cats run after them, the king chases them away]: 42-47; Luzel 1995 [a young señor aims at a wild pig, she calls herself her bride; he marries her, she gives birth to three, then three more sons, whose hair is filled with gold coins; three daughters; turns into a princess (once her mother called her children freaks, God sent her a pig child as punishment)] : 57-59; the French (Gascony) [the widower has 9 sons and a daughter; he married a widow with an ugly daughter; the brothers met the king and said that when their sister washes her hands, gold and silver fall off them , and when she combs her hair, rye and wheat fall off her hair; the king tells his stepmother to be brought and rewarded if they tell the truth, but hang her if they lie; on the way to the palace, the brother tells his stepmother to took care of his sister, his sister asked again, his stepmother said that her brother told her to pull out her eyes; threw the girl into the swamp, replaced her with her daughter; the king married her, but hanged her brothers; blinded the poor man picked up, became rich thanks to the silver and gold that fell from her hands; the girl sent the poor man's wife to sell the queen a spindle first, then a spinning wheel in exchange for her eyes; returning her eyes, the girl went to sea, took a dog; in the sea a gold chain; the girl asks the dog where her brothers are (hanged), where is the stepmother's daughter (in the king's bed), stepmother (in the royal apartments); girl: pull, pull the chain, take me to sea; people hear, tell the king; he asks the mother of the liar's wife what the murdered nine young men and the girl deserve; she says that she must be cooked in oil and salt; so they did, her daughter became dishwasher; king married a girl]: Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 403:47-50; walloons [a woman loves an ugly daughter and does not like a beautiful one; beautiful goes to the well for water; the fairy asks to scratch her back, the girl does it diligently; the fairy gives her a wand; the girl touches three lions with her, they fall dead, she passes; the fairy brings an apple and a feather with her; makes it so that when the girl speaks, from her lips diamonds are falling; the apple became a tree, the feather became a parrot, the bucket turned into a pond; an ugly sister went to get water, she is rude to the fairy, she made her completely ugly, the toads fall out of her mouth; the mother brought she had meat, she threw it to the lions to pass; the prince saw a beautiful woman and married; the wife gave birth; the mother put a prickly wreath on her, turning her into an animal; tells her son-in-law to kill the animal; the beggar leads the prince to see as an animal comes to feed a baby; the prince tears off a prickly wreath, the wife becomes human again; the mother and ugly daughter are burned]: Laport 1932, No. *403E: 52-53; Germans [after the death of a woman, a neighbor persuaded her daughter to advise her father to marry her, a neighbor; she has her own daughter; the father promises to marry if the water poured into the leaky boot does not leak; but the boot is wet and the water does not leak out; in winter stepmother sends stepdaughter for strawberries; she comes to the hut of three gnomes; she is polite to them, does not complain, sweeps in front of the entrance, shares bread; one gives her beauty, the other does so that at each At the word, chervonets will fall from her lips, the third promises to marry her king; sweeping the snow, the girl found strawberries; her stepmother's own daughter goes to the forest; she is rude, unfriendly; gnomes make her it gets uglier, toads fall from her lips, she will die a fierce death; the stepmother sends her stepdaughter to the ice-hole to be yarn, but the king arrives and takes her away; she gave birth to a son, the king has left; the stepmother and her her daughter was thrown into the river, her stepmother's daughter lay down in her bed; the king is surprised why his wife changed; at night a duck came, turned into a queen, fed the baby; on the second night the same; on the third night she commands Call the king for a cook - let him wave his sword; the spell has subsided; the king asks the old woman what to do with the one who pulls the other out of bed, throws him into the water; the old woman: let him down the mountain in a barrel covered nails; they did so to her stepmother and her daughter]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 13:45-50 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:42-46); the Dutch [the woman has her own daughter Anna and stepdaughter Berta; she sent B. for water; to A fairy sits on the edge of the well, asking for a drink, B. kindly gives it; the fairy makes sure that when B. speaks, jewelry falls from her lips; the woman sent A.; she is rude to the fairy; the fairy tells A. to fall off her lips toads, worms, insects; the woman kicked B. out of the house; she came to a house with 7 beds and a table; cleaned and cooked everything; monkeys came, praised everything, wished B. to marry the prince; the prince hunted and met her, married her]: Meder, Hendriks 2005:342-343 in Sutrop 2018:412-413.

Western Asia. Palestinians: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 18 [the king promises that if his son grows up safely, he will fill one watercourse with honey and the other with melted butter; every day the boy meets an old woman, she tells him to remind his parents of his promise, otherwise he threatens to kill him; he forgets, she puts pebbles in his pocket, finds his mother, he remembers, the king builds watercourses, fills him with honey and oil; the old woman comes up, when almost everything is sorted out; picks up the last drops, the boy throws a pebble, breaking her vessel, she tells him to fall in love with Lolabe, Lolabe's daughter; he goes looking for L., she lowers her hair out the window, he climbs them; when her witch mother gets up, the daughter turns the young man into a pin, she senses the human spirit, tells her to give her the pin to take out the splinter, the daughter gives another, turns the young man into a melon, the mother tells her to take out the splinter give the melon, the daughter hides one seed, revives the young man from it, tells her to run, spraying all objects with henna except a mortar and pestle; everyone answers the mother that the daughter is here, a mortar and pestle give her away; the witch chases the fugitives, with her a dog; the daughter throws a comb (the forest, the witch and the dog chew), the brazier (the fire, the witch and the dog extinguish the urine), the mirror (the lake, the witch and the dog drink, burst); near the house, the young man tells L. wait for him to prepare everything for the wedding; L. climbs a tree, the maid takes her reflection in the well for her own, throws a jug (such a beauty should not serve); L. laughs, the maid asks go down, pierces her pins, turning her into a dove, puts on her clothes, explains to the groom that she cried while waiting for her, so she changed; the dove cries in the palace kitchen, tears turn into pearls, corals, the cook picks them up, every day the food burns, the prince calls him, finds out about the dove, catches him, takes out his pins; the maid from behind now pierces them into him, turning them into a dove; for the third time L. catches him , takes out her pins; wedding; the maid is burned], 43 [the poor brother's pregnant wife dreams of eating cabbage rolls (the rich man's wife did not offer them to her), the husband calls the vizier to eat, the woman blows the winds out of shame falls into the ground; underground people find what she has emitted, which compensates her with the ability to drop gold from her lips when she speaks, returns it to earth; the wife of a rich man does everything intentionally; What she emitted says it all underground, makes it possible to drop scorpions and snakes from her lips; they bit her to death, her husband married another]: 159-166, 301-306; Syrian Arabs: Kuhr 1993:64-68 (Damascus) [the mother had difficulty persuading her son to marry; but the daughter-in-law was angry, told her husband to leave her mother-in-law in a deserted place; the son left his mother, promised to return soon, disappeared; she was approached two men, Winter and Summer, asked which part of the year she thought was better; she praised both; they made a gold coin fall from a woman's lips every time she said; on the fifth day, her son felt ashamed, he I came back, found a pile of gold; my daughter-in-law told her husband to take her mother to the same place; she scolded both winter and summer; they ordered intestinal gases to erupt from the old woman's mouth at every word; it remained so] 215-218 [When she died, the mother hung the property of her two eldest daughters, and the youngest Layla only a rug; she slept on it, found gold under the rug in the morning; an old woman called her to live with her, took away the rug; he stopped producing money, she buried it in the garden; a tree grew, light radiated, tears dripped from it that turned into pearls; once the king ordered the lights in the city to be turned off, sent the vizier to find out where light; when he found out everything, he married L.; the sisters, out of envy, plunged a pin into her, she became a bird; the sisters looked like two drops of water like L., each telling the king that she was his wife; they wanted to kill the bird, but the king caught it, took out its pin, returned his wife; she said that if they were not her sisters, they should have been tied to the tails of horses, so she forgives them; the sisters have improved]; Arabs Iraq [a wealthy merchant asks who he owes his fortune and position to; the eldest two answer what to himself, the youngest to God's blessing; the merchant kicked her out - let him seek God's blessings; she went to the mule drovers, met a beggar like herself, and they got married; the wife gave birth to a girl; when she was bathed, drops of water turned into gold, and jasmines and lilies fell from her lips; she grew up and the prince married her; sent her to him; her aunt and her daughter were forced to accompany her; the girl is thirsty, the aunt gives a little bit in exchange for her eyes, leaves the bride in the desert and puts her on her the place was his own daughter; the old man picked her up; his family was delighted when the washing dishes were filled with gold coins; the prince saw that flowers did not fall from his wife's lips, and she gave her the ring allegedly lost it; realized that the bride was replaced, but was afraid of losing face; the real bride sent the old man to town to sell flowers in exchange for her eyes; the aunt pulled out her daughter's eyes so that she could To say that flowers fell from her lips in the absence of the prince; and the bride got her eyes back and saw the light; dressed as a young man, came to court and hired to drive a mule in the mill; the mule was so amazed at her beauty, that he started running faster; everyone wonders why so much pain came from; the prince found out about this and, when the girl was swimming, he hid the ring he had once given her; the aunt and her daughter were sent home, and the prince arranged a new wedding for 40 days]: Bushnaq 1987:75-79; Qatar [father and mother died; sister heard about a man named Al-Khadrabouna (H.) and fell in love without seeing him; brother hears her saying his name. goes in search; when he comes to H., he says that when his sister steps, a stuffed chicken falls {to the ground} when she laughs, pearls fall from her lips, and when she cries, it starts to rain; H. gives his brother the cloth to give it to her sister; she must wash it, pour water in front of the house and grow a tree in this place; when H. comes and sees the tree, he realizes that the bride is here; the neighbor overheard Brother-sister conversation; changed the water, poured the one who, after washing the cloth, H., in front of her own house; H. marries a liar; sister sends a brother to him, but H. puts him in prison; sister turns into a turtle; flies to the guard guarding her brother, talks about everything; stuffed chicken falls, pearls fall, a storm begins with rain; H. notices oddities in behavior guard, eavesdropping and spying, catching a throat, {she turns into a girl again}; H. divorced a liar, married his betrothed]: Abu Shehab 2019:59-62; harsushi [fisherman's wife dies, daughter grew up, brought her father a new wife, she has her own daughter, she hates her stepdaughter; everyone went to the festival in case of the circumcision of the Sultan's son; the stepmother let her stepdaughter grind a bag of grain and fill 7 jugs with water; Seven elderly women came, took the girl to the well, washed her, dressed her up, gave her a bag of money and a bag of scorpions; let her pour money at the party where they dance, and scorpions on her stepmother and her daughter; ran home, the Sultan's son could not grab her, the work was done at home, the old women took the jewelry; next time her stepmother gave two bags of wheat and 14 vessels; the same; running away, she dropped the bracelet, son The Sultan picked him up; sent the slaves to try it on everyone, the stepdaughter was found, the Sultan's son wanted to marry her; her stepmother gave her beans, and those 7 women replaced the beans in her stomach with gold coins; she asked the Sultan's son, his turban, relieved her need there, gold coins were in the turban; in the morning coins were also under her head; then the Sultan decided to marry his second son to the sister of his wife's first; but she filled the turban crap; the sultan ordered her mother to be cut off]: Stroomer 2004, No. 9:43-51; jibbali [one sister married a rich man, the other a poor man, both daughters; the poor man's daughter blew her nose into the beggar's cup, there was a gold coin there; he told the Sultan about a girl who has snot - gold coins, when she swims, gold appears, when she cries, it rains, when she laughs, lightning flashes, who has urine - musk and bowel movements - amber; the sultan decided to marry her; her aunt and daughter took the girl on the ship; did not let her eat or drink; first took her jewelry for water, then her eyes, gave her daughter, She threw her niece into the sea in a basket; the fisherman caught her, she and his wife think she is an old woman; she asks for water to wash, the basin is filled with gold; they come to the Sultan, the girl tells her story , every time he asks the bowl of water if this is true; the bowl replies that it is true; the sultan takes his eyes away from his imaginary wife, returns the real one, she sees the light; asks to hang his aunt by the legs in front of the entrance so that everyone who passes beat her; asks her cousin to place a hot coals brazier on her body; both died, the Sultan stayed with his real wife]: Müller 1907, No. 16:63-69.

Melanesia. Abelam [The sun went to plant yams; the moon threw ash out of the hearth, and another man appeared from there; the Sun came, asked if the man wanted a full moon or half; he replied that it was full; The sun asked him to lie with the moon; then the man died from the heat of the Sun; he dried the springs and the river; but then the deceased was doused with water, he came to life; went to the bathroom and saw that the sun's excrement was valuable shells; took them with me; The sun went mad and ordered them to be put in place]: Huber-Greub 1988, No. 8.1.10:281-282.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans: Yeongdong 1989 [translated Indian sources]: 52; Waddell 1931 [(one of the "ghost stories"; turquoise and golden frogs give water only in exchange for human sacrifice; prince and his a friend kills frogs, they tell them to eat them, they will regurgitate turquoise, gold; the inn owner and her daughter solder them to regurgitate more gold; friends take them away, supposedly resolving their dispute, an invisible hat for children, a demon speed boots; a prince is elected king, a friend is chosen as a minister; the prince marries the daughter of a former king; the minister watches how the prince's wife comes to the old fortress on a date with Togkarko, flying in the form of a bird; the minister lures the bird into the palace, burns it; finds a carpet lying on which it turns into a donkey and back into a human; puts it on the hostesses of the inn ; three years later, the king orders that hard-worn donkeys be turned back into women]: 187-192; Tibetans [the mouse wanted to give birth to the strongest child% then the most beautiful; the smartest; gave birth a tiger cub, a peacock, a boy named Khlacin; the tiger and the peacock went to the tigers and peacocks, promised to help; the barber saw a boy whose nails and hair were not cut; offered to cut; hair cuts turned into gems, nails turned into turquoise; when he found out, the prince wanted to keep H. as a source of jewelry; accused him of going to his forest; if he brought four tigers, he would forgive him; the mother gave H. tiger hairs, the tiger brother brought a hundred tigers, the prince took four; now the prince requires four peacocks to sit on the towers; if he fulfills the order, he will receive a princess; the peacock brought; prince: let your mother and mouse defeat my elephant; the mouse smeared the body with poison, climbed into the elephant's trunk, he died; the prince had to give her daughter; after the death of father-in-law H. reigned]: Komissarov 1997:157 -162; Tibetans (Amdo): Tshe dbang rdo rje et al. 2007:58 [The frog and the turtle have settled in the lake; they give water only when young men are sacrificed to them; it is the turn of the hunter's son and the son of a peasant; they hid behind the stones; the hunter's son threw a stone at the Frog; she thought the Turtle did it, they quarreled; the young men grabbed them by the necks; whoever kills the Frog with a stick on the head and eats it will become spit gold; who stone the Turtle is turquoise; they did so, they returned home, began to spit gold and turquoise], 248-249 [Prince Caireng has Nima's sister, the son of a simple woman; the king is afraid that smart N. will take the throne, banish it; K. leaves with it; two frogs demand 15-year-old boys from people to sacrifice, otherwise they will flood the village; K. and N. kill them, eat them; after that K. spits gold, N. - silver; elsewhere, people will make king the one whose saliva is gold and whose saliva is silver will be made minister; K. and N. become king and minister]; khasi [only one family sheltered the wanderer; he leaves the animal; if you eat its meat, you will get rich; mother-in-law cooks meat, daughter-in-law enters, mother-in-law scolds and chases her; she accidentally eats a piece; leaves the evil mother-in-law with her husband; the husband bathes In the pond, he is swallowed by the dragon U Yak Jakor; the wife finds her husband's clothes; the young son U Babam Doh cries with her, his tears turn into gold, for he has received the wanderer's blessing; the boy has grown up, beats the leader's heir, wins his right to inherit; he says that UBD was conceived by his mother from a dragon; the mother has to tell about his father, she gives her son his clothes and brass vessel; UBD lured the dragon to land, where it loses its strength, lured it into a chest, brought it home, forbade the mother to open it; she opened it, the dragon took the image of her husband, said that he would recover with milk tigresses, but the one who brought milk should not know what it is for; 1) the mother pretends to be sick, asks her son to go get milk; he treats the tiger cub, the tigress gives milk; 2) the same with the task of bringing fresh milk bear fat (son catches and brings a live bear); 3) fresh python skin; son spies, sees a mother open a chest, kills a dragon, tells her story, inherits the throne]: Rafy 1920, No. 23 : 140-160; riang [King Haphong has sons Abula and Adula; when dying, their mother bequeathed them a magic rooster; the king's new wife ordered the rooster to be slaughtered and cooked; the bird tells the brothers to eat the rooster, and for father and stepmother to cook another; after taking this meat, the brothers found great strength; the father advised them to leave; in the forest, Abula went to the lake to get water; at this time people were choosing a king; a white elephant came up to Abula, picked it up with his trunk, brought him to the city, Abula was married to the eldest daughter of the deceased king and made him new; the youngest daughter wants an equally handsome husband, ordered Abula's face to be painted on fabric; at this time Fishermen found Adula; they noticed that when he cries, silver falls, and when he laughs, gold; the younger princess's messengers found him, he married her, became a vizier; Abula fell ill; the shaman ordered him to be placed him in an iron barrel, then he will tell you what to do; Abula was a black dog in his past life (at this time Abula cuts the barrel with a sword, but she withstood it); he has to continue listening; Princess Hahoo I spent all my time with this dog, bad rumors spread; then she ordered the dog to be hacked and his head tied to the top of the banyan; when the banyan tree swings in the wind, the king feels dizzy; you have to find and burn it dog head; Abula went to H., the princess's ring came to his finger, he married her, burned the dog's head, recovered; after living in H. for a long time, Abula left the throne to his son from another wife, and with the main wife, and with the main wife his retinue sailed back to his kingdom; he was warned not to turn around, but he turned around and the ship sank; he threw the ring to his ex on another ship: whoever suits him would be king; Adula came; when he his son grew old and ruled; he found a magical throne that gave strength and wisdom]: Mandal 2009:111-114.

Burma - Indochina. The Shans [the king's two sons kill the crane, the king orders them to be executed, the torturers let them go; the princes kill and eat the wonderful peacock, then the youngest gets emeralds from his mouth when he laughs, pearls - when he cries, the elder is chosen king; the rich man keeps the youngest in prison, then takes him to the king; the brothers recognize each other; the youngest inherits his father's throne]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 192: 526-531 (=Assault 1990:544-547); Burmese [mother sent her youngest daughter, Little One, to the well; the beggar asked her to drink, she did; ever since she laughed, from her mouth pearls were falling; the eldest daughter, Bolshaya, went, refused to give the beggar a drink, toads began to fall out of her mouth]: Nikulin 1988:452-453; ahem [seven brothers discuss what was most delicious; the elders they talk about food, the youngest about the girl; the elders hit him; when they hear his explanations, his mother and father also beat him; he goes to the forest, kills wild pigs, climbs a tree; sees how the pig revives the dead a plant; takes part of the plant, revives a dead bird; the ruler's daughter is dead, the ruler promises her to the one who will revive her; the young man revives her, but does not marry her, but asks the ruler for a rooster; if he is pressed , he creates whatever you want; creates a village; the ruler comes and asks him to show what he has revived his daughter with; the young man opens his hand, the Moon descends and takes the means; during an eclipse, he attacks the Moon A frog trying to take possession of it (the product here is called a "piece of wood"); the young brothers come, asking for a rooster to create a village for themselves; frightened by the storm, they shake too much, the rooster dies; the young man makes a comb out of the rooster's bones; when he combs his hair, gold and silver fall; the brothers ask for a comb to borrow, they comb their hair, their hair falls out, they burn the comb; a little bit left, the young man made a toothpick out of it, gold and silver are pouring in again; brothers and parents ask for a toothpick, their teeth have fallen out, they burned the toothpick; the part remains, the young man swallowed it, his intestinal gases have become fragrant; one brother asks what to eat; a young man advises eating some plants; brother got dirty and died]: Lindell et al. 1978, No. 14:112-117.

South Asia. Ancient India [Jataki, No. 384, 536; Shukasaptati, 9; when brahman Naya laughed, pearls fell from his mouth; when N. returned home, he finds his wife and slave; the king calls him to him, but N. does not laughs; spends the night with the royal shepherd, sees the queen come to him, the shepherd hit her with a club for being late; later the king accidentally poked her with a ring, the queen burst into tears; N. laughs, tells everything; After renouncing the world, the king and brahmana become hermits]: Yongdong 1989:52 (cf. AT 1426); Kashmiris [ahun (religious teacher) asks four sons what they would like to do; three want to follow in their father's footsteps, the fourth wants to be a thief; sneaks into the palace, there the vizier and the princess are preparing to escape; the vizier sends the princess with the thief, he must stay; in the morning the princess sees that she is not the vizier with her, becomes the wife of a young man; he is hired by the king as a groom; a jeweler brings two ruby, the young man says that the wormhole is right in one; he is appointed gem keeper; the vizier wants to take possession of the young man's wife, persuades the king's daughter to ask the other to do the same a ruby, as if brought by a jeweler (not defective, but expensive), and send a young man for it; a month later, the wife gives the young man a ruby, which she picked up in the river, he brings it to the king; the vizier suggests demanding ruby necklace; the wife tells the young man to hide by the river, 6 heavenly fairies will arrive, and then the seventh; her clothes must be hidden; the fairy Lalmal is forced to go with the young man, when she speaks, rubies fall from her lips; he brings rubies to the king; the barber tells the vizier that the young man has a second wife; let the vizier take one and he, the barber, the other; the vizier suggests sending the young man for the bracelet; L. sends her husband with by letter to the source where he met her; the young man takes the bracelet, taking off the hand that held it out; the vizier: the second bracelet; L. sends her husband with the ring, it opens the entrance to the lower world; the girl, to The young man speaks to is the daughter of a woman whose hand he tore off; to save him, the girl turned him into a pebble, took an oath from his mother; the mother sent the young man with a letter to her sons with orders kill him; his daughter ordered her to come to her wedding; gave edible peas, you just have to pretend to eat inedible; gave iron claws - the brothers will ask them to scratch their backs; he did everything the demons said that Salomon called them, did not come; the young man takes the demoness's daughter as his wife, asks for a flying skin (i.e. a flying carpet) as a gift; brings a bracelet; barber: he has a third wife, she must receive the king; the king tells the young man to bring news from the deceased king father and the fruit of paradise; the young man tells him to make a fire, flies away from it on a flying carpet; the fairy wife makes a fruit from seven metals, writes a letter on behalf of the deceased king: come with a vizier and a barber; they burned down; the first vizier came, the young man gave him to ignorance, sent the fairy into her world, stayed with his third wife; that vizier became king, the young man vizier]: Stein, Grierson 1923, No. 12:85-105; Kashmir (translated from Hindi) [the fakir lets the childless queen eat barley grains, a son Sherdil ("lion's heart") is born; he goes wandering with the blacksmith , a carpenter and a grinder; they come to the enchanted city, each one takes turns cooking; a dwarf rides up on a rat, demands food, turns into a giant, throws the cook on a tree; when it is S.'s turn, he kills the enemy, leaves the grinder king of the city; in another city, S. kills a witch who appears to be a girl, puts a blacksmith king; in the third, a carpenter; each sister has a grain of barley, while the barley plant is green, S. is all right; flowers are floating along the river; S. finds a tree, a basket on it, a beauty's head in it, drops of blood fall into the water, turn into flowers; finds a body on a bed; puts her head to her body, the princess comes to life; the genie who stole the princess decapitates her during his absence; S. asks to know where S.'s soul is; in the desert there is a tree, grass in front of the dog, bones in front of the horse ; you have to pass by them, remove the cage with the starling from the tree, there is a bee in the starling, the genie's soul in it; to pass, you have to give the horse's grass, the bones to the dog; S. did so, killed the bee, the genie died; the princess let along the river a box with his hair, found by the royal son; sends the old woman to his wife Sh.; she found out that Sh.'s life was in his saber; on the advice of the old woman, the wife changed her sword, the old woman threw her into the fire, S. died; the old woman brought her to her master, the princess asked her to wait six months; the barley shoots withered, the brothers found her sword, fixed her sword, S. came to life; the carpenter made a flying palanquin, brought the princess, threw off the old woman from above; S. returns home]: Zograf 1964:327-339 (=197:71-80); himachali plowmen [Raja says that the partridge scream is heard on the left, his wife on the right; Raja: if I'm wrong, I'll leave, leaving you the throne; loses; his associates persuade him not to do anything stupid, lower the pregnant wound in a box along the river, the old fakir picks her up, she gives birth to a girl; three fairies leave gifts: her trail is gold and silver, laughter flowers from his lips, tears are pearls from his eyes; Rani is building a palace, Raje sees it, persuaded Rani to return]: Dracott 1906:93-95; Kumaoni [the king's seven sons are preparing to marry with seven daughters of a brahmana; the youngest son decides to stay in control of the house, tells the father and his brothers who have gone to pick up the brides not to stop at the lake; they stop, the lake floods the camp, everyone except the king , drown; the king wants to drown, the yogi pulls the wedding train ashore for promising to give him his youngest son; he goes to Yogin, his wife is with him; the yogi sends him to marry a princess who laughs rubies, cries with pearls; the prince consistently meets a tree puller, a blind man catching arrows, a carpenter instantly building a palace, a one-legged man running around the world; everyone replies that the strongman is not he, and the prince, who is going to marry Princess Hira; when he finds out that this is him, accompanies the prince; the king gives Princess Hira, the yogi returns his first wife, the prince with two wives comes home]: Minaev 1968, No. 33:88-92; Punjabians (Seraiks, Multan): Mehta 2011:123-129 [the merchant's son had just married when he was asked to sail on a ship with goods; while in a distant city, he lay down to rest and heard swan conversation; if this young man gets together with his wife today, a boy will be born with rubies falling from his mouth if he laughs; the swans decided to immediately take the merchant's son home if they are given pearls for eating; the wife did not immediately believe that her husband had come, then gave her necklace to the swans; got together with her husband, and in the morning the swans took him back; his parents decided that the child was not his, left their daughter-in-law in the forest; she went to the hermit, gave birth to a son; the jeweler's wife replaced him with her child, came with her husband to another city, where her husband became a vizier; the wife of the merchant's son found the son, tried to carry him away, but she was captured, they took her to the forest to kill her; she was bought by a prostitute, and the torturers brought deer blood for now; the prostitute agreed not to teach her profession, but told her to take care of the cow and spin; the grown son came to to a prostitute, the cow told him that he was going to meet his mother; the king, the vizier and everyone, including the woman's husband who found themselves in the city, gathered; the cow told everything; the vizier and his wife were executed, the prostitute was awarded], 130-137 [the childless king adopted one of the vizier's four sons; and then the king's wife gave birth; the vizier killed the king, expelled the queen and the child; she was sheltered by a potter; the grown-up boy became herd his donkeys; the brahmana realized that the king was in front of him, began to send another worker to the potter, and the prince began to teach; he became the best disciple; the son of the vizier, who became king, began to look for an intelligent husband for his daughter, the brahman proposed the prince; the mother and son fled into the forest, because the vizier could recognize her; the young man finds two rubies in the river, one sells to the merchant, who gives the house and property for it, sells the ruby to the king; the son and daughter the king quarreled over the ruby, the king demanded the second one; the young man went for the hidden second ruby, saw more in the river; came to the underwater palace; there the maiden was unconscious; the young man moved things around her, she came to life; her father Deh, who leaves her motionless when she leaves; when Deh comes, the girl turns the boy into a fly and then again into a young man; to find out what Deh's life is like, she pretends to be afraid left alone; Deh: in a parrot under a stone, and only a prince raised by a potter can lift a stone; the young man picked up a stone, killed a parrot, brought the girl to her mother; when the girl laughed, they fell off her lips rubies, so they ended up in the river; the young man gave the ruby, the merchant gave him his daughter in gratitude; the young man lived in the city with his mother and two wives; the king, at the request of the queen, demanded that silk cloth be brought dehi countries; young man's wife: this country under the river bottom where I lived; the young man found a girl there, also remembered the rods next to her, she came to life, gave cloth; the king's daughter saw the cloth, was delighted, the king gave it to the young man, He is now three wives; he killed the usurper, the son of the vizier, reigned on his father's throne]; Nepali [the hermit tells the king's two wives that he cannot accept alms from the childless; let the king endure the art ; the king has been fasting in the forest for 12 years, Vishnu gives him two apples, both wives ate and become pregnant; the second wife replaced her son with the first bar (chopping block), lowered him in the box along the river; the king ordered the first wife to retire to the forest; the boy was picked up by a fisherman, who grew up to become a young man Chandra Mukhi; the son from his second wife is evil; the king promises to make an successor to whoever rides his horse, on which only man can sit, fit for king; only the World Cup succeeds; the king found out everything, expelled the midwife with his nose cut off, his first wife was returned, the second was sent to the forest; the king fell ill, he will be cured by medicine from the hands of a gold-haired princess Sunkeshari, let the World Cup marry her; when she steps, gold falls; her father's difficult assignments must be completed; World Cup saved rats and snakes from a burning forest, sparrows from a birdsman's net; rats, snakes and sparrows promised to help; the World Cup meets, companions 1) a person with an arm stretched out to grab any food; 2) a person who puts one ear under him, covers himself with the other, disperses the clouds with his ears; 3) the companions stopped at the house, cook one by one; every time a dwarf comes with a huge mustache, sweeps the cooks with it, eats everything; when it's the turn of the World Cup, he grabs the dwarf by the mustache, throws it out the window; rats We made a move to the princess, she gave the World Cup grains of magic rice; Father S. tells me to 1) sow the field, harvest tomorrow (the World Cup sows magic rice, it ripens immediately); 2) plant trees from all over the world ( the long-armed reaches them, brings them); 3) separate the chaff, rice and millet (the long-eared pulls the chaff, the sparrows sort the grain); the king gives S., she cures the father of the World Cup; his evil brother poisoned him, kidnapped S.; snakes extracted poison, World Cup came to life; the king executed his son from his second wife, handed over the throne to the World Cup]: Sakya, Griffith 1980:70-79; the Rajastans [the heron's wife does not tell her husband to steal grain from the field, he does not listen; the peasant smeared glue on the shoots in the field, caught the heron; the wife left the chicks, flew in, saw her husband covered with a basket; "Why didn't you listen to me!" Heron husband: but I am still alive; so consistently, when a peasant plucks a heron, when he has cut the meat into pieces, he has eaten it; when he hears the voice of a heron from his stomach, the peasant tells his wife to stand ready with a club, when he burps the heron; the heron flew out and flew away, and the wife hit her husband on the head, his teeth scattered like bird feathers on the floor; the herons cried with joy on the way to the nest, and their tears began pearls]: Dinesh 1979:22-25; Marathi [Princess Sodewa Bai was born with a gold necklace around her neck, her life is in it; once she lost her golden shoe, found it by another prince, married SB; his the former wife decides to destroy her; in her husband's absence, she tells the black woman to tear off the necklace; the SB is placed in the crypt, but at night the black woman takes off her necklace, the SB comes to life; jewelry falls off her when she walks to the pond; the husband notices them, then hears a newborn scream from the crypt; everything opens, the necklace is taken away from the black woman, the first wife is imprisoned for life]: Frere 1868, No. 21:262-272; Bengalis [the merchant's son takes an egg from the warbler's nest, puts it in a locker in a niche in the wall, forgets; a girl is born from the egg; grows up; in the absence of the young man, she goes out, eats the food he has brought, returns to the niche; After 16 years, the young man notices this; his mother advises him to hide; he finds a girl; takes her as his wife; they have sons Swat (Sheth in Russian transcription) and a younger Basanta (Boshonto); a senior merchant, his wife, a wonderful wife dies; a merchant (i.e. husband of a wonderful wife) takes a young wife; his son's wife S. is older than her; stepmother hates stepsons; a fisherman brings fish; if you eat it, jewelry will fall from her lips, if you laugh, out of the pearl's eyes, if you cry; the merchant tells his daughter-in-law to fry it for him; she gives fish to her husband and his brother; Boshonta's dove flew to his stepmother, she hides it under her dress, S. takes it away; stepmother promises that her husband will kill his stepchildren as soon as he returns; both brothers and wife S. leave the house on a fast horse; spend the night in the woods, S.'s wife gave birth; S. goes to look for fire; in the city he is elected king, married; the previous king was found dead in his wife's chambers in the morning; so every day; S. does not sleep, sees a long hair crawl out of his sleeping wife's nostril, turning into a snake, S. kills him; S. forgets his first wife, remains king; B. comes to the river, cries; a merchant who has swam takes him away; keeps him locked up, hits and tickles to get pearls and precious stones; in the forest, S.'s wife falls asleep; the chief of police (he is from lower caste) sees her, he has his own dead baby; he replaces a woman's baby with it; she goes to drown, she is saved by a brahmana, she lives in his family; the kidnapped baby grows up, wants to marry the adopted daughter of the brahmana; he refuses; the young man is going to kidnap her; hears the conversation of the calves, learns the whole story; comes to the king (i.e. his father Sh.); he confirms everything; the family is reunited; the merchant , who tormented B., is buried alive in a pit with thorns]: Day 1914, No. 5:93-107 (translated to Zograf 1976:133-138); konkani (Goa) [a childless wound finally has a son; he has grown up, but has become involved in a bad one company; he was married to the most beautiful princess, but bad women cast a spell: he would never look at her face; prince does not look at his wife, goes to prostitutes at night; parents of both spouses died; the prince himself became a raja; the beggar advises first to put gravel in the rice that Rani will cook for her husband: he will yell at her in anger, but also look; the husband did not look; cook too hot bath: the same; Rani secretly follows her husband; when the door to the brothel opens, cries out when he sees two dressed women hurrying to the raja; the husband turns around and is amazed at the beauty of the woman he sees in for the last time; she runs away crying; her tears turn into pearls; the husband follows a pearl trail to his palace, apologizing to his wife; she tells her to look into 5 adjacent rooms; they have 1) two stone pillars collide with each other (husband's parents accusing each other of failing to raise their son); 2) two beautiful plane trees (wife's parents); 3) pool with two fish (children who were never born); 4) beautiful rose bush (wife); 5) a bush with a single half-rotten hot pepper pod (husband); after giving explanations, the wife died]: Rodrigues 2020:95-101; Tamils [Raja has no children for a long time; finally a son was born with a bow in his hand, who knows the secrets of magic; the bird sat on the old woman's hump; the prince shot the bird and the old woman lost her hump; she is angry; now the daughter-in-law will make her work; let the prince will free Peacock Princess (PP) from behind 7 seas; along the way, the prince rescued a cobra and then a frog caught in the hot sand; the cobra built steps to cross the steep mountains; PP princess asks to get a braid of hair 16 feet long for her from the pond; the young man dives - you can't reach it; the frog took it out; having received a braid, PP went to the young man; gems fall from her lips, when she cries, the flowers bloom, and when she cries, the flowers bloom, and when she goes, jewelry appears; at rest, the sadhu stabbed the prince and is about to take PP away; she invited him to dig a deeper grave for the prince first; saw how a monkey healed her broken legs with grass another monkey; invited the sadhu to go down to the grave to try it on; covered him with earth, revived the prince with grass; the next time they spent the night with the blacksmith; in the morning he said that PP had already rode away, although he just hid it; PP agrees to give himself to him, but only six months later, and on the last day let him feed everyone who comes; the prince also came and saved her; stopping under a banyan by the pond, the prince put PP on a branch and went to prepare the wedding ceremony; the potter saw the PP reflection, took it for her own; PP laughed, the potter raised her head; PP went down, the potter pulled her eyes out, pushed her into the water, put it on clothes and jewelry; the spouses carrying firewood pulled out PP; after settling her in, the couple began to pay a lot of money for brushwood; PP gave them two pearls and told them to give them to the one who would give them eyes in exchange; mother the potter gave her eyes, PP saw the light, and the potter's pearls faded; at the prince's wedding, there was only dust from under the bride's feet, when she smiles, black teeth were visible, worms in her hair; the guests ran away, prince in horrified; PP saw him from a distance from the terrace of her new 7-story palace, told him to bring him home; now a real wedding; while PP was walking to the wedding platform, the earth was covered with pearls]: Blackburn 2005, No. 94; Sinhales [seeing a bird, the king and his wife argue whether it is male or female; the queen loses, leaves, gives birth to a son, he picks up a jewel; after receiving it, the king invites them to live in the palace; sends the young man behind the second stone; the yakshini, the daughter of their master, runs with the young man; spits precious stones; the minister advises the king to send the young man to visit the king's deceased parents; he is walled up in an underground passage, Yakshini sends rats (their mistress is her sister) to dig another way, dresses her husband in precious clothes; the king believes that the young man went to the next world, goes down to the dungeon himself, is walled up; the young man reigns]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 89:211-216.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Timor [one chief offers a bigger gift than the other; after winning this competition, she marries her rival's sister; when she speaks, flowers fall from her mouth, when she cries, her tears are made of gold ; the slave throws her into the sea, puts her on her clothes; not seeing flowers and gold, the husband thinks that his wife's brother has deceived him, puts him in prison; the crocodile saves the woman, brings her to her brother, the servants see flowers and gold ; the wife agrees to return to her husband, the slave is burned in the oven]: Correia 1973:161-165; Adonare [the woman's excrement is gold, her hair is a gold chain, the fingernails are made of glass; the man has sailed, married her, told seven men to prepare the field; the woman put on the best clothes, told her husband to kill her in the field; he scattered pieces of her body, corn and rice grew]: Arndt 1951:204-206 in Mabuchi 1969: 69-70; alune, vemale (zap. Seram) [Amete killed the pig that brought the first coconut; planted it, climbed the coconut to cut the leaves, cut his finger, the blood mixed with the juice, the girl Hainuwele appeared; when she was walking out of need, she came out of her Chinese porcelain, corals, gongs came out; during ritual dances, others, out of envy, pushed H. into the prepared grave, fell asleep; A. dug up the corpse, cut it, buried the pieces around the dance hall playgrounds, they became various cultivated tubers; she held her hands to the goddess Mulua Satene; she built a gate in the form of a spiral with 9 curls, told her to run through a spiral; not those who managed to run turned into various animals, birds, fish, and spirits; those who managed to pass to the left or right of the tree on which MC was sitting, she hit them with X.'s left or right hand, they became patalima or patasima; MS then retired to the land of the dead on Mount Salahua]: Jensen, Niggemeyer 1939:59-65 in Stöhr, Zoetmulder 1965:143-144; loda [the woman has an iguana son; she The king's daughter went to marry him, all but the youngest refused; during the day, the husband sat on the ceiling in the form of an iguana, turned into a man at night; the sisters were jealous; everyone went for fruit while the iguana husband was in the tree, the older sisters took the youngest; they offered him a silver betel tray, but he took the betel from his wife's tray; at home he hid the iguana's skin in a bamboo jar; the sisters found and burned it; the Iguan said that it was cold, he left; the wife went to look; stayed with a writing expert, he had six wives; their bowel movements stank and her oil; (further not entirely clear)]: Baarda 1904:398-400.

The Balkans. Greeks: Megas 1970, No. 25 [a man asks a young man to help bring meat, gives them change, he buys three sardines, lets his sister cook; three women come; the sister feeds them sardines; each a woman rewards her; 1) when she combs her hair, pearls fall: 2) she bathes, the pool is full of fish; 3) she wipes herself off, roses and thirtyleaves fall; the brother carries pearls to sell, he is grabbed, he tells the king everything; he tells me to bring the girl; on the way, the gypsy woman stabs a pin into her head, she flies away as a bird, the gypsy puts on her clothes, hides her face; when she washes, the water is dirty; the king sends the gypsy woman to herd the turkeys, She throws the girl's brother in prison; hears singing, tells her to catch a bird, takes out her pin; marries a beautiful woman, frees her brother, the gypsy woman was cut into pieces], 32 [the mother sent her daughter to pick herbs; she picked poppies; three givers of fate (Fates) see her, one laughed; for this, the first ordered poppies to turn into diamonds, the second for roses to fall from her mouth, and the third to soon met and fell in love with the king; one day she laughs, says that the royal beard is like a broom; the king orders her to be executed; three Fates turn into men, lead three ships, shoot cannons, the king invites them, they They say they came to see their sister; they give his wife a diamond broom, tell her husband that she meant her; the king is happy]: 54-57, 81-83; Paton 1901, No. 21 (Lemnos) [when Princess Kyra Florou combs her hair, beads fall off her hair, flowers from her lips; when she cries, the storm begins; when she dies, the queen tells her son not to leave her sister; the old woman advises her to find a fiancé; tells her brother that it should be the son of King Rhodope; the monk tells the beast guards of three gates to throw at the sheep; ask the rising and falling sword to stop for a moment; do not answer the king's question who he is; the king finds portrait of CF, promises to send ships for her; her brother warns that her sister will turn into an eel at sea, sail away; KF is placed in a glass box; the old woman is forced to accompany her, throws KF into the sea, replaces her ugly daughter; the prince is forced to marry her, but her brother is put in shackles; a year later he asks for permission to walk along the seashore; an eel sister wraps around his neck, tells him to kill her, cook, let the king eat, bury the bones, the rose bush will grow, the old woman tells it to be cut down, the trunk must be preserved; when the brother comes to the monk, the brother hits the trunk with an ax, the sister revives; combs her hair, falls beads; with this money, a young man builds a new monastery, gives gifts to the king; at the CF feast, he appears to the king and his son; a wedding; an old woman is cut into pieces, scattered across the field, putting a horse in her saddle bag; daughter old women send them to the kitchen]: 203-207; Moldovans [stepmother brought her own daughter a lot of nuts, and stepdaughter alone; she planted it, a walnut tree has grown; its branches bend only towards her stepdaughter to she tore the fruits; when she goes to church, the stepmother orders to separate the ash from the wheat (two eagles perform; the next time the millet scattered around the yard is pigeons; poppy seeds are sparrows); the walnut tree opens, clothes inside and jewelry; for the third time, bachelors smear resin on the threshold of the church; the shoe sticks, the girl throws a ring at her, runs away; the boyar's son finds the owner of the shoe, marries; when he leaves, the stepmother and daughter under the guise of beggars, they came, cut their stepdaughter into pieces; she laughed - the flowers grew, cried - diamonds fell down; a passerby saw that the stepdaughter's remains were told to be taken to a nut; the nut revived her, she hired her husband as a worker, herds geese, and her stepmother's own daughter put on her jewelry, pretended to be a wife; the maid bakes bread, leaves the ring, the husband recognizes him, takes two stones of patience, tells them about what happened, she goes to his wife; the old woman was tied to the horse's tail; where she kicked, ravines appeared, where gullies were with her back, red poppies with her head; her own daughter fell into the ground up to the neck]: Moldavian fairy tales 1968:204-214; Albanians [the Queen married a girl whose lips, when she laughs, roses fall, pearls fall from her eyes instead of tears, grass turns green under her feet; her mother sends her to the palace, to the maid invites the bride to change her clothes, pushes her into a hole, takes her place; the Queen is surprised that the grass does not turn green, etc.; the meadow near the pit is green in winter, the geese grazing there are fat, the shepherdess says that there is a bride in the pit; the king orders her to be pulled out, brought in; the maid was executed]: Serkova 1989:82-85; Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 403 [orisnitsa (i.e. fairies) give a newborn has the ability to drop pearls from the mouth of a rose when she laughs when she cries; a girl grows up, the king wants to marry her; on the way to the king, the bride is blinded, replaced; the poor pick up the blind old man; when there are no roses, he sells roses to the king, gets the girl's eyes for them; sells pearls; the old man tells the king about the girl's abilities; the king meets her at the source, listens to her story, marries; the liar (and her mother) are punished], 403A [when the stepdaughter laughs, roses fall from her lips, when she cries, beads fall from her eyes; upon learning of this, the king wants to marry her; stepmother replaces her As his own daughter, her stepdaughter is pushed into the river; she turns into a fish; an old fisherman catches her, sells it to the king; he discovers the truth, the fish becomes a girl; the king marries her, the stepmother and her daughter are expelled] , 707D [the king (who forbade lighting the fire at night) overhears the conversation of three sisters; the first promises, if he marries the king, to dress his army with one spindle of wool; the second to feed the army with one a loaf of bread; the third is to give birth to wonderful children (a girl with golden braids, silver teeth, etc.); the king consistently marries all three; the first two do not fulfill their promises, the third gives birth wonderful children; envious sisters replace them with a kitten and a puppy (kill them), bury them in the garden; the king sends his wife to herd geese (ducks), remarries one of the older sisters; buried children they turn into wonderful trees (with golden leaves, apples), caress the king's branches, whipping the queen; they are cut down, a bed is made, she says that the father is not heavy, his wife is heavy; the bed is burned out of ash A valislek grows up, a sheep eats it, gives birth to golden lambs, they are thrown into the river (well), they become children again; they tell their story (at this time beads, pearls, money fall from their lips), king recognizes children and wife]: 140-141, 141-142, 244-245; Klyagin-Kondratyeva 1951 [stepmother tyrannizes stepdaughter, sends water to the well at night; 12 months have gathered there; grandmother Marta asks if the girl eats dry dogwood, she gratefully takes and eats; replies that all months are good; Marta makes flowers and chervonets fall from the girl's mouth when she laughs or speaks; stepmother sends her own daughter, she throws dogwood in Martha's face, says that all months are not good; when she returns, snakes and lizards fall from her lips; since then they have appeared in the world; and her stepdaughter was kicked out and married by a passer-by well done]: 92-95; Serbs [Turks and Turkish women go to the bathhouse and pay small money; one does not have money, she is not allowed in; but she gave birth to a happy girl: if she bathes, the water turns golden, laughs - mallows fall from her lips, cries - tears turn into pearls, steps - the grass turns green behind; after buying the girl, the woman collected gold and went to the bathhouse; got rich; {the girl grew up}; the prince decided to marry to her, sent a wagon with a gypsy maid for her; she snatched the bride's eyes, threw her out of the wagon, dressed in her clothes; the girl was picked up by an old man; she became rich thanks to her; she asked him to sell pearls in exchange for eyes; the liar agreed to give one eye; in the evening she told the prince that thinking of her parents, she cried and here were pearls; she gave the other eye for mallows; the prince became king; drought, hunger; king gives out horses, two to each, so that people take care of them; the old man received skinny naws; after the disaster ended, people returned their horses - all skinny; old man: let my daughter take them out; when he steps, she turns green grass, so the horses recovered; everything became clear; the king married the girl, and the gypsy woman was smeared with resin and burned]: Eschker 1992, No. 26:138-140; Serbs [the first wife left a girl and a boy, he younger; stepmother tells her husband to take them to the forest; the girl overheard, they filled their pockets with ash and found their way home on an ash trail; the next day, the stepmother hid all the ash and the children filled their pockets with bran; forest animals and birds ate bran; two Jews came to their fire and took them to their mother; after a while, leaving in the morning, the Jews told the mother of the children to roast them for their return; the girl had already learned Hebrew and understood what the conversation was about; when in the morning a Jewish woman invited the boy to sit on a shovel to put him in the oven, the girl explained that the boy was small and did not understand, let her show; the children herself The Jewish woman was put in the oven; they ran away, crossed the river across the bridge and fell into the dense forest; the Jews, when they saw their fried mother, rushed in pursuit, but because of the rains, the river overflowed and demolished the bridge; they stopped chasing; children But they met a woman at the source, talked about themselves; she ordered the girl's tears to turn into pearls, and when she spoke, golden roses would fall from her lips; sent the children on the way home ; when she heard the story and saw pearls and gold, the stepmother sent her own daughter to the spring; she was rude to the woman; she ordered the girl to cry bloody tears, and, talking, hissing and splashing saliva; brother The king took over with his sister, but his stepmother's daughter did not marry]: Karadzic 1854, No. 35:205-212; bosses [Fata's stepdaughter is beautiful, Hata's own daughter is ugly; stepmother and H. go to the wedding; the cow tells F. get a box out of her ear, wearing a beautiful outfit and jewelry; the same the next day; on the third day, the Sultan's son came up to her, she ran and lost her shoe; the Sultan told her to everyone try on; Fate came up; stepmother persuaded F. to take H. as an escort; at the suggestion of her stepmother, H., when they were driving through the forest and became thirsty, gave F. water in exchange for her eyes, threw it in the forest, and came to to the son of the Sultan in her place; the cow found F. and brought him to the people, to the house of the pious Haji; they saw flowers grow on the land on which F. was walking; the cow began to live in the same house, supplying everyone with milk; told her to take another box out of her ear with pearls formed from tears; Haji should be sent to exchange them for eyes; H., the imaginary princess, gave her eyes, F. saw the light when Haji moistened them brought from Mecca with water from the Sem-Sem spring; the Sultan promised a reward to whoever would cure his sick daughter-in-law; when F. came, she saw that the necklace around H.'s neck of those pearls was burning and strangling her; F. his she took it off; the sultan and his son recognized the real bride; stepmother was torn by horses; Hajji was awarded]: Preindlsberger-Mrazovic 1905:54-67; Croats [poor spouses have 9 daughters; when born tenth, her husband carried her to throw her into the sea; her voice forbids him to do so three times; he saves the girl's life; when she cries, diamonds fall off her, when she laughs, roses; the girl grew up, the queen went into the house, saw her, decided to marry her; on the way to the palace he left three times; the cook tells the young wife that her husband ordered her eyes to be pulled out; cut off her hands; throw her into the river; replaces the woman with his daughter; The feast made her laugh, but snakes fell from her lips; after that, the prince and his servant retired to the forest for 7 years; the real wife was pulled out of the river by a hermit; she tells her to water her, the water turns into gold; the hermit makes a spinning wheel out of gold, the woman tells her to exchange it for eyes; then the cord (Litze) for one hand, the spindle for the other; now roses fall from her lips again, diamonds from her eyes; she has given birth to a son and a daughter; Seven years later, the Queen and his servant enter this house, everything is explained; the cook and daughter were doused with oil and burned, the other was torn apart by four horses]: Schütz 1960, No. 177-188.

Central Europe. Ukrainians (Poltava) [the prince looks into the hut, where the girl cries with pearls, laughs with flowers; the girl has grown up, the prince married her, takes her home; the prince stopped and went hunting; the angry woman took off the bride's clothes and jewelry, gouged out her eyes, pushed her into a hole, dressed up her daughter; the grandfather found a blind girl; his wife advises to exchange for the pearls she cried for; he exchanges the woman for one , then in the second eye; the girl sends her grandfather to a feast with the tsar with her embroidered towel; the tsar recognizes the embroidery, brings the bride, the woman's daughter sends the woman to herd pigs]: Pankeev 1992:254-256; Russians ( Terevsky Bereg): Balashov 1970, No. 22 [the princess laughs - gold is falling, crying - pearls; one step is gold, the other is silver; the tsar is dead, the prince goes to the city, the princess tells him not to brag about her; he drank, boasted, the local king ordered his sister to be delivered; the king sent a ship; the old woman took the princess's clothes, pushed her into the water, she flew away with a swan; the old woman replaced her daughter; gold does not fall, prince put in prison; the sister arrives, sheds her wings, cries pearls; the watchman watched, burned the swan wings, grabbed the princess, who turned into a snake, a spindle, everything; the king took his real wife, and her He gave his kingdom to his brother], 49 [brother's sister, parents died; brother met King Agar Agarych; said that his sister laughs with pearls, cries with gold; sister Martha agrees; Baba Yaga begged her for everything the clothes, gave it to her daughter, M. wrapped it in a bird; there are no gold, no pearls, AA threw Brother M. into prison; the bird flies to him, drops its covers, cries, the dungeon is covered with pearls; the servants told AA, that traced, burned the covers, baba yaga was shot at seven gates]: 78-80, 169-171; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Pomors) [the tsar and queen died; the prince lulls his sister Nastasya, promises to marry Zoria- prince; sister has grown up, asks to fulfill her promise; brother tells Z. that the sister will laugh - gold winds, cry - pearls fall, step - one trace is golden, the other is silver; they swim to Z.; with the cape, the woman screams, asks her to take it; sister: do not take it; from the third cape, the brother took it, this is Baba Yaga; she comes to the cabin and says her brother's words: undress and throw yourself into the water; for the third time N. listened, became duck; Baba Yaga dressed up in her dress; Z. is disappointed in the bride, threw her brother in jail; Z. comes to the cook; he says that a duck arrives, becomes a girl, gold curls and pearls falls in, asks about Z. and her brother; she flew in again, Z. grabbed her and kissed her, N. remained a girl; wedding]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:202-205; 84; Russians (Karelian Pomorie) [approximately as in Razumova, Senkina 1987:72-82, K113A motif; on p. 68: Elena the Beautiful, when she laughs, gold will flow, and if she cries, the pearls will repent]: Nechaev 1938:59-84; Russians (Pskov, Opochetsky y.) [when she dies, the mother punishes her son: let her younger sister sleep, promise to marry her as the Prince Athenist; the sister has grown up, sends her brother to look for a groom for her; to meet A.; asks why the sister is so special; brother: when she cries, pearls fall out of her eyes, when she laughs, gold comes from their mouth; they go in a stroller to A.; the sister cannot hear her brother's words, the mother transmits them in a distorted way; not change clothes, but undress, not accept the groom, but open the window and throw himself into the river; replaced the bride with her daughter; neither pearls nor gold fall; brother is thrown into prison; at night the sister comes to her brother twice, tells everything; will come For the third time, we must put a cross over her; the prince recognized and hid under the bed, grabbed the bride, scolded her, he married her; his mother and her daughter were torn apart on horse tails]: Smirnov 1917, No. 101:330 -331; Russians (Moscow) [daughter took her father lunch; caught a pike; she asks her to let her go; for this, if a girl cries, pearls will fall, and if she laughs, diamonds; the family is rich, The prince drove by, married the girl; left; the sorceress called the queen to the bathhouse, turned her golden duck, replaced her daughter; the hunters cannot shoot the duck; the king cannot either, spit; the duck flew up, swallowed saliva, gave birth to two boys, brought them to the royal court, ordered them to play with golden testicles; the king kept the boys with him; the sorceress came in at night, the testicles are responsible for the boys who do not sleep ; after midnight they did not answer, the sorceress stabbed the boys; when the clerk performed the funeral service, the duck flew in and became a queen: tomorrow I will fly in, let the king close the doors, otherwise he will lose it forever; on the first night the king only watched the pearls fall; on the second night, the duck brought alive and dead water, revived the little ones; the king closed the doors, caught the duck, she became queen; the sorceress was executed, her daughter was sent to the monastery]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 38; 92-94; (cf. Russians (Gorky region; high probability of Mari or some other borrowing) [stepdaughter and own daughter: the first for politeness and kindness receives from the old woman a wonderful ability to drop roses and precious stones from her mouth; the second for rudeness is punished by toads, snakes, lizards falling out of her mouth]: SUS 1979, № -403A: 130); Kashubas [Wojtek fisherman lived with his mother; does not take a wife, always on the lake; a beautiful girl came out to him on the island, he called her Lily; when she cries, tears turn into pearls; brought his wife, his mother does not love her; sells pearls, builds a rich house for himself, V. and L. they live in the old one, they have a daughter Lyalka; the mother fell ill, asked her daughter-in-law to go to the island for magic grass; she knows that she will not return back; she picked up grass; when they sailed back, a thunderstorm began, a boat began to pull back to the island; at midnight, Lilia disappeared into the water, a lightning strike destroyed her mother-in-law's house; Lilia became a seagull; her daughter ran to her scream, turned into an island; now Lyalka village is on it]: Puu 1991:27-38; Poles [stepmother hates stepdaughter, sends her in winter for berries; she is kind to those she meets, is rewarded; pearls and roses fall from her mouth, or tears turn into pearls; native the daughter goes to the forest, is rude, reptiles begin to fall from her mustache; the queen falls in love with her stepdaughter or falls in love with her from her brother's portrait; stepmother drowns her with her child; stepmother or her daughter drowns her on the way to the Queen; her stepmother's daughter takes her place; her brother is thrown into prison because the bride is not at all like in the portrait; the drowned takes the form of a golden duck, goose, or other birds, flies to the royal court three times; on the third night, the Queen breaks the spell; when the Queen grabs the bird; the brother is returned to court; the stepmother and her daughter are punished]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 403:130.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks: Badmayev 1899:81-84 [two crocodiles close the river source, demand people to eat; Khan's son and his friend are coming; the prince knows the language of animals and hears one crocodile speaking to another, that if these two kill and eat them, they will spit out gold and copper, and the river spring does not dry out; young men kill crocodiles, eat their meat, wander; take away the devils their invisible hat , speedboat boots; go to bed, wake up at the top of a tree; people make them khan and vizier], 99-105 [(=Shugraeva 1995:5-11); when Subsutai laughs, corals and pearls fall from his mouth; khan summons him to her, his wife tries to hold him; on the way, S. is convinced that everything is a lie (The Seagull says that he protects the Lark's eggs from the sun, bites them herself; etc.); comes back, spies, sees, how his wife is kind to the clergyman (getsul), says that S. must be dazzled; Khan S. does not laugh, he tells him to be chained to the wagon for the night; S. sees how the shepherd beats the hansha for not long came; in the morning S. laughs when hansha pretends to reproach her husband, who touched her face with a fur coat; Khan orders to exterminate all women; a one-eyed shepherd stops him by telling the story of his faithful wife]; Jimbinov 1962 [see motif K74; a boy Massang is born with horns and a bull's tail; referred to as Badmaev; when M.'s wife shakes her right hand, gold and copper fall, and food and drinks appear with his left hand]: 87-92; Karachai residents [=Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983:56-60; elderly spouses have a daughter Alakoz; four genies give her 1) the talisman of immortality; 2) the gift of turning water into gold; 3) tears are diamonds; 4) under her feet - flowers; the khan takes her as his wife, on the way her widow dazzles her, leaves her in the forest, replaces her with his daughter; she says that she does not do magic every day; Ivan and his wife sheltered a blind man, the old woman gave her A.'s eyes were built for diamonds; they built a tower for A.; the old woman sent them to steal the talisman of immortality from her sleeping hand, she died; hansha dropped the talisman, the boy picked it up, and came to the tower with the khan, dropped the talisman on A.'s body, she came to life; the liar and her mother were tied to the tails of horses]: Kapiyeva 1991:214-217; Balkarians [stepmother tells her stepdaughter to herd a cow and spin wool; there is so much yarn that before dark; the wind blew away the wool; the girl saw an old woman; she tells me to tie the wool to the cow's head - she will hide herself; the stepmother peeked, ordered the cow to be slaughtered; the old woman tells me to bury the remains cows; the old woman's three daughters helped to do the job - whitewash the house; invited to the one; in a hole with bones - a beautiful outfit; the girl is mistaken for a khan's daughter; returning, she lost her slipper; khan tells everyone to try it on; it came only to an orphan; the stepmother took her stepdaughter to the forest and gouged out her eyes; the woodcutter adopted her; the stepmother gave Khan her own daughter, he does not like her; that woman found her stepdaughter, gave apples, ordered to be sold in two eyes; the girl saw the light, her tears turned into gold; the woodcutter built a rich house; the khan and his entourage, including the girl's father, stopped there; the girl tells her story; Khan married her, and expelled his unloved wife and her mother]: Malkonduev 2017:305-309; Lucky (village. Tabakhlu, 1836) [the red cow tells the hungry stepdaughter to suck her horns, honey flows from the right, oil from the left; the wind blows her hair away, the stepmother tells her to find it and return it; the cow teaches me to go to people who grind pearls, gold, corals, wish everyone the best, ask themselves, they will show the way to the wind Chassage; horses will have bones, dogs have hay, you need to change; call the muddy river oil, take a sip; Wind Chassage, Aerial Asiyat should ask for wool back; she will ask you to scrape the rooms, they must be whitewashed, cleaned; pull out her hair, tear clothes - comb them, wash them; that's what happened; girl she put her finger into the river, it turned silver, the river let it through {apparently parted}; the same was a bloody river, the girl called it honey, her finger turned golden; C. poured golden water on her head and hair became gold; C. offered to sleep on a golden bed, wants to make the girl a daughter, hides the wool under her head; the girl pulled her out, ran; the old woman tells everyone to grab her, calls the river bloody , but they only give the girl even more; the stepmother plants her own daughter to spin her hair next to the cow; the wind blows away the hair, but the cow teaches the wrong way; the girl scolds the people she meets, gives bones to horses, hay to dogs, from the water of the muddy river, her fingers are covered with ulcers; C. tears her hair and clothes; she pours dirty liquid on her head, her face and body are covered with ulcers and boils; the cow was stabbed, her stepdaughter buried her bones; asked they have beautiful shoes and clothes to go to the wedding; one shoe swam along the river; the prince found it, he is just right for his stepdaughter, the prince took her to his wife; the stepmother and daughter also went; the bride is thirsty, stepmother gives her a drink, taking her eyes out; throws her into the well, dresses her daughter in her dress; the merchants pulled the girl out of the well, she turned into a canary; flying into the prince's garden, asks the gardener say hello to the prince, and let the tree dry up; the prince sees that many trees have dried up; the canary was caught, the false wife ordered her to be slaughtered, a tree grew out of blood; dates are falling on the prince, his wife is scratched by thorns; his wife orders to make a cradle for her child out of wood; the old woman's son picked up the chips, threw it behind the chest; they turned into a girl when she cries (?) , when she laughs, pearls, silver and gold horseshoes fall from under her feet; the cradle squeezed the child to death; the old woman's son fattens a lousy horse in the palace; the girl turns it into a painted horse; the king comes to see him, falls in love with a girl; girls are going to tell fairy tales, a true bride tells her own; stepmother and her daughter are tied to horses; wedding]: Khalilov 1976, No. 46:109-119; Georgians [the older brother's wife tells her husband to drive away his younger brother and his wife; they have a daughter, her tears are pearls, laughs - violets and roses fall; the prince hunts, servant he enters the hut, is amazed by the girl's beauty, because of this, the pheasant is burned; the prince himself goes, amazed by the beauty, takes the girl to marry; on the way, his uncle gives her salty food, takes her for water eyes, dresses her black daughter in her clothes; explains to the prince that she is fool from waiting; a blind woman in the forest cries with pearls, an old man picks her up; exchanges violets and roses, a necklace for her uncle's eyes girls; she dies, her son sucks milk in his mother's coffin; the prince finds a son, who tears off the necklace from his imaginary wife, puts it on his mother, she comes to life; the uncle and daughter are torn apart by horses]: Chikovani 1954:244-249 (= Chikovani 1986:248-255); Armenians ["the girl gave the old man/old woman roses and rehan that fell from her mouth, ordered to sell for her eyes"]: Gullakian 1983:106; Azerbaijanis: Akhundov 1955:39-49 [ Ibrahim, the son of the deceased birdsman, grows up, his mother gives him his father's pipe and baits, he catches a bird with all the feathers of different colors, laying unusual eggs; his mother sells them to the shopkeeper, the Shah; I. himself lays eggs to the Shah; a shopkeeper left without income advises the Shah to ask I. 1) the bird itself; 2) a male bird (I. catches, brings); 3) a rose from the diva's palace; I. finds the beautiful Khurshid there, they run, taking it gold diva, but forgetting the rose; I. builds a palace at home, H. hits his nose, two drops of her blood turn into two bouquets of roses; 4) visit the Shah's late parents in the next world; H. advises a year travel, come back, say that the deceased are asking to send them a dignitary, a former shopkeeper; I. advises the shopkeeper to bend into the well; without waiting for the messenger, the Shah jumps there too; I. marries H.], 230-240 [the eldest daughter asks the merchant to bring a bulbous husk shirt, a medium brocade shawl, a younger cat; the dervish gives a shirt, a handkerchief, asks for an older, medium wife; offers to eat a man, the wife hides the meat behind the gate, it falls to the floor, the dervish nails the older, middle sister by the braids; the youngest takes a cat with her, she eats meat, the dervish is happy; leaves; the wife opens the fortieth the room, frees the sisters; all three fly away in a plane chest; the youngest is married by the son of a padishah, an average nobleman, a senior vizier; the dervish gives the guards sleeping pills almonds, a lion and a tiger lamb, a wife the prince pushes him down the stairs, a lion and a tiger kill him; for her salvation, the woman promised a daughter she will have; when she is five years old, she is summoned by three beggars, she is given wonderful abilities (if cries, hurricane, laughs - roses fall, walks - gold and silver traces); the girl's father's evil sister feeds her salty, gives water in exchange for her eye, then for the second; leaves her in a deserted place, replaces her with wedding to his daughter's padishah; the poor man finds a blind man, sells flowers that have fallen from her mouth to an evil aunt in exchange for her eyes, the girl sees the light; the prince married her, her aunt and her daughter are tied to mules]; Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 9 [younger Tsarevich Ibrahim dreams how the moon descended on his herd; tells Brother Rustam and others; after giving his share of the inheritance and taking a heavy staff, he goes to travel; in another city, the son of the vizier Ibrahim agrees to flee with Princess Kul-Shad; at the last moment he changes his mind, and the imaginary shepherd I. accidentally finds himself in his place, the CS runs away with him; they they tell each other about themselves; I. picks up a stone, the KSH says that it is expensive; builds a palace; the KSH gives a stone to King Melik-Aslan; the vizier Mamed-Ali is jealous, suggests demanding new stones; I. returns to the spring, where he found the stone, goes under water, where Princess Shah-Sanam ("queen of beauties"), kidnapped by the diva; stones are formed from her blood; I. kills the diva, takes the SHS with his wife; when she beats herself on the nose, drops of blood form gems; the king orders to get an atri-lala rose; I. kills a snake that is about to eat chicks; the chicks tell their mother not to drop millstones on I., he is their savior; the bird teaches how to get a rose; two girls in the form of doves fly to a tree by the lake, throw off their clothes, swim; you have to climb a tree, get clothes, change them for a rose; one girl laughed at her laughter a bouquet of roses was formed, the girls gave their hair; if burned, they will come to the rescue; I. brought roses to the king, the vizier advises sending him for pears from across the blue sea; the bird carries across the sea; there are apples, from which form a tail, and the pears from which he disappears; the king declares war on I., he kills him, the vizier and the warriors, reigns himself]: 71-81; Turks [the padishah forbade burning the fire for three nights, three sisters worked, lit, courtiers advised to overhear; the eldest wants to marry an economist, eat plenty, the average for a tailor, dress well, the youngest for the padishah to give birth to children who have tears they turn into pearls, and if they laugh, roses fall; sisters ask the old woman to help, she puts two puppies on the woman in labor, throws her son and daughter in a box on the river bank; the padishah tells her to bury his wife waist-deep, I don't care about her; the gardener finds children, gives the padishah roses; the sisters guess, they send the grandmother, who threatens the gardener with the Shah's anger, who takes the children to the cave, feeds them by a doe; the boy sells pearls; the old woman persuades her sister to ask her brother 1) to bring the Dilryukyush-khanim bush; 2) her own mirror; 3) herself; the brother puts on the giantess's chest, she helps; those who come to D. turn into stones, young man almost turned, D. revived him and others, became his wife, she is Peri's daughter; D.'s servant is a giant Of, one lip drags along the ground, the other rises to heaven; D. cured her husband's mother, told everyone that it happened, the Shah kissed his wife and children, forgave his wife's sisters]: Borovkov 1938:120-135; Turks [padishah's youngest daughter 20, middle 30, eldest 40; the youngest asks the father to marry them; he tells them archery; the eldest's arrow hits the vizier's house, the middle arrow hits the mufti, the youngest the poor man; the father drives her to the poor man; when it's time to give birth and her husband has gone to look for a midwife, three fairies enter, call newborn Rosa; roses will fall from her lips when she laughs, appear on the grass she will walk on; if she cries, pearls will fall; R. grew up, the prince married her; the woman in the palace too daughter Rosa; to get rid of her rival, she feeds R. salty food at the wedding, her daughter pulls her eyes out for a sip of water, replaces her; R. is left on the mountain in a basket, found by a clay digger, took her to to himself, began to sell falling pearls; she tells him to sell roses in exchange for his eyes; returns one eye, then the other; and the false R. adorns himself with roses and therefore likes the prince more and more; the mother is false R. told her real adoptive father that R. was a witch; he found out her mascot: a deer on a hill; he was killed, R. died, but coral fell out of the deer's heart unnoticed; imaginary R. gave birth to a girl who in reality, the real daughter; the real R. told her husband in a dream where the talisman had fallen; he found it, the girl took it and disappeared; Peri carried her to her mother's grave, she immediately came to life; the prince found them, the impostor and her mother were executed]: Kúnos 1901:30-41; Turks [a girl was born in a poor family (var: princess); three (or more) dervishes (peri; dead mother) predict that where she will pass, The grass will turn green, her tears will become pearls, if she laughs, roses will fall from her lips, gold will appear in the water that she washes; they give her an amulet (bracelet); a girl grows up, marries a prince, goes to accompanied by another woman (sister, maid, neighbor, black woman, etc.; the vizier decides to replace the beautiful woman with his ugly daughter); he suffers from thirst, his companion gives her water in exchange for her eyes; takes her place; the blind woman lives with other people; roses are needed in the palace, they fall from the girl's lips, they are sold in exchange for her eyes, the girl sees the light; (the padishah sees the grass turning green under the girl walking); A liar steals a girl's amulet, she loses consciousness, is put in a tomb; (she gives birth to a child, he sucks her dead mother's breast); the prince finds her and revives her]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 240:291-294; Kurds: Rudenko 1970, No. 54 [Usyb leaves her daughter to guard the house; she kills robbers one by one, injures leader Ahmad; he marries her unrecognized, takes her to the forest to burn; the driver hides her under brushwood, the merchant marries her son; A. takes her away, she promises the Prophet Khydra to give her first child for deliverance; A. the leopard and the lion are torn to pieces, Khidir comes for her born and raised daughter; gives a name Golbarin, her laughter is roses, crying is rain, where she goes, there is a purse full of gold, her soul is bead in the heart of a hornless fallow deer; the son of the Emir of Arabs takes G. as his wife; on the way, Father G.'s sister pulls out her eyes, sticks her eyes out in his pocket, replaces her daughter; the firewood collector finds G., who makes him rich; the false wife pretends to be sick, the mother-in-law tells the hornless doe to be shot; a bead fell out of the heart of the fallow deer; this one the moment G. turns into a mountain; the son of the Emir of Arabs finds a hut there, in which G. is blind and dumb; she gives birth to him a son; he finds a bead, G. sees the light, says that the dove took her eyes out of her pocket, invested back; a false wife and her mother are executed]: 192-197; Farizov, Rudenko 1959 [after giving birth to a daughter, the shepherd's wife hears three doves telling her to be named Golbarin; if she laughs, roses will fall from the sky if she will cry, it will rain; accompanied by aunt G., they marry her son padishah; the aunt feeds the girl salty food, gives water in exchange for her eyes, dresses her ugly daughter in her clothes; the shepherd picks up blind, she tells me to exchange her roses for eyes in the city; pigeons teach her to wash her eyes in a spring, run a pen over them, G. sees the light; goes to serve her aunt; receives beautiful clothes from doves; the son of a shepherd recognizes her as a real bride, her aunt and her daughters are cut off, the shepherd is invited to live in the palace]: 29-33.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [the merchant's property burns down, he lives in a vacant lot, his wife gives birth to a daughter, four peri give her gifts: roses from her mouth when she laughs, tears are pearls, sleeps gold under her head, steps under her feet gold and silver; shahzade takes her as his wife; the merchant's sister (i.e. the bride's aunt) gives her a potion, the girl is thirsty, she gives her eyes for water, her aunt throws her into the hole, replaces her with her daughter; she takes roses and gold in stock, they run out soon; the gardener pulls out the girl, sells roses and pearls to her aunt in exchange for her eyes torn out; shahzade finds a true wife, the impostor asks if she wants a horse or a sword; she replies that Shahzade ties a horse by her hair to a horse's tail]: Rosenfeld 1956:13-22 (=Osmanov 1987:124-131); Tajiks [stepmother torments stepdaughter with work, tells the cotton to strain; the cow eats it, releases yarn from her mouth; the wind carries the cotton into the old woman's cave; she tells her to comb her hair, clean her house; promises that roses will fall from the mouth of the laughing girl, tears will turn into pearls, gold bricks will fall from the right foot, silver bricks from the left foot; the stepmother's daughter goes to herd the cow; carelessly combs the old woman, sweeps poorly; takes gold away from the pantry; a bump grows on her forehead, gold turns into stones; her stepmother tells her to slaughter a cow, a cow tells the girl to bury her bones in a hole; her stepmother and stepdaughter go to the wedding, tell her to separate the rice from the wheat; the chicken does it, in place of the cow bones - a luxurious dress, a horse; at the wedding, the stepmother does not recognize her stepdaughter; she loses her kaush (boot), the padishah's son is looking for him, finds a girl in good shape, where her stepmother hid it; on the road, the stepmother lets the bride eat salty, she is thirsty, the stepmother gives water in exchange for her eyes torn out; throws her stepdaughter into the well, replaces her daughter with her daughter; the poor old man finds a beauty and pearls; saves her, collects roses; changes them for the eyes of her stepmother's daughter, the current wife of the padishah; now pearls fall from her eyes, roses from her mouth; stepmother sends the witch to suck the girl's blood; the girl tells bury herself in a crypt of gold and silver bricks; stepmother takes her heart away, gives a bag with it to her daughter; when she takes it off her neck for the night, the stepdaughter comes to life; the padishah's son finds her at night comes; she has a son and daughter; the boy has grown up, pulls out a bag with her heart; stepmother and daughter are tied to horses, a beautiful woman and her son are brought to the palace]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1960:175-182; Sistan's Tajiks [the old man dreamed that the moon and two stars had fallen from the sky; he went to look for it; the pleshak shepherd Hasan bought this dream for a herd of sheep; only then did he remember that he had not asked about keeping the dream; fell asleep under the wall of the palace; that night the princess and the son of the vizier agreed to flee; the princess asked to wait for her to go to the bathhouse; the vizier's son saw H. sleeping, woke him up, asked to watch the horses, and he himself goes to hurry the princess; at this time, the princess threw off X.'s bag, believing that her lover was next to the horses; she jumped off herself and they jumped; the son of the vizier returned, found no one and stabbed himself; in the morning the princess decided that everything was God's will; the princess washed and dressed X, told him to buy a palace, bring a mullah and marry; the old woman saw H.'s wife and told the king; he told X. to take the ivory throne; H. met an old diva, gave her a drink, she made him her son, hid him from the other seven sons, turning her into a needle and sticking her collar; The divas sensed the human spirit; swore they would not harm the guest; the divas threw potions into the water that the elephants drink; they fought and broke off the tusks; the divas made the throne and brought them to the king's garden; the king awarded H.; now the king orders to bring a laughing flower and a weeping flower; H. came to the former old woman; during this time one of the divas was captured by a two-headed divas; the divas lowered H. into the well; the diva's heads were on on the knees of two betting girls; one laughed, the other cried; flowers fell out of her mouth, roses fell from her mouth; one laughs when she saw H., and the other cries, regretting that the diva would kill him; H. I noticed a vessel in a niche and realized that the soul of a diva was in it; ordered the diva to take all the prisoners and all the goods to earth; H. broke the vessel and the divas died; the bets flew away as doves, told X. to come to their Green City and be theirs husband; in the city of Pari H. recognized by the traces that the girls had left on his shoulders; when 2 days were left before the king's term, the father of the bet gave H. Suleiman's rug; H. and his wives wore it to the divas, and then home; the king received laughing and crying flowers; he told him to visit his deceased parents; the pari wives wrote a letter on behalf of the king's father inviting him to heaven, dressed H. in clothes as if he were lying in her in the grave; let the king make a fire, we, together with the old informer and vizier, will stand on it and go to the royal ancestors; H. flew on a rug to the royal throne, and the king, vizier and old woman burned down]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 8:104-117; Tajiks (Quraish of the lower reaches of Yah-su, descendants of Arabs) [the king dreams of a beast from which roses fall when he laughs, pearls when he cries; one of the wives is sad, he asks to bring the beast; two sons refuse, the youngest comes to a bet that defeated the deva, falls asleep; ties her braids to a pole, takes the beast away; the bet goes with the army, the tsar sends his son halfway, falls in love with him, marries him, transfers his fortress to her husband's city]: Semenov 1900 (2): 36-37; mountain Tajiks: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 26 (Darvaz, upper reaches Vanja) [(=Semenov 1900 (2): 4-5; when Shah Baghdad's daughter laughs, roses fall from her mouth, when she cries, pearls fall out of her eye; she is sent to marry Shah Misra; on the way, the old woman says she brought her sister , asks to undress, puts his daughter in her dress, pulls out the princess's eyes; a poor old man in Misra sheltered her; became rich selling roses and pearls; the girl sent him to buy two old eyes, saw the light; Shah Misra married her, the old woman and daughter were torn apart by horses]: 112-113; Semenov 1900 [the tsar dreamed of a beast, when he laughs, roses fall, when he cries, pearls; the two eldest sons did not go the youngest went to look for the beast; the bet waged war with the devil and killed him sleeping; she had a cloud horse and a wind horse; when a king came to take her, she sat on a horse and killed the daring one; prince tied 40 strands of hair of a sleeping bet to the stacks, took the beast and brought it to the king; the bet came with the army, saw the prince, fell in love, moved her city to him]: 36-37; Yagnobtsy [the king tells Hasan Gulriz ("sprinkling flowers") to come to his wedding; he does not go for a long time, says that the king's wife is unfaithful; finally he goes, meets the plowman, finds out that it is his wife's lover, drives his wife away; the king locks him in the stable; at night he sees the king's wife go out to the grooms, who beat her for not going out for a long time; HG laughs, by morning all the manure is covered with flowers; when he finds out what is going on, the king drives his wife away, goes wandering with HG]: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 6:61-63; Shugnans [poor shepherd Jumak fell asleep at the royal horse riding; the king's daughter was going to flee with the son of a vizier with the same name, rode off with J.; gave him royal clothes, on the way he accidentally picked up rubies on the bank; serves the king, he wants his wife; leads him to hang, J. promises to bring a bag of rubies; collects them, this is blood, dripping into the stream from the throat of a slaughtered peri; J. revives her; she was kidnapped by divas and killed during her absence; J. persuades peri to ask the diva where his soul is (in a plane tree, in a chest, in a bottle, in a bottle, in a shirt); J. kills a diva, brings his second wife; the vizier advises the king to ask for the Laughing Flower; this is the Green Pari from Mount Kof, when she laughs, flowers fall from his mouth; wagers fly to the lake to swim, J. takes Green Pari's dress, brings her to his wives, this is the sister of his second wife; brings flowers to the king; he tells him to bring his late father's sword; wives give a sword, hide J. with an imaginary letter in the ashes of the fire; the king and the vizier agrees to be burned, J. becomes king]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 2:60-73; Pashtuns [padishah agrees to marry seven sons to seven daughters of another padishah; leaves the youngest at home for himself; the vizier forgets the fakir's order not to spend the night on the river bank; in the morning, the princes and their brides are surrounded by a dragon; releases when the younger prince is sent to him; the dragon asks him go to the sorceress Gulhandan; if you laugh, flowers will fall from her mouth, butterflies will fly out of the dragon's nose and fly to those flowers, the dragon will be free from butterflies; on the way, the prince saves ants, mice, pulls out a splinter from the lioness, she gives a lion cub; he stops at the old woman, asks the mice to dig an underground passage to G.; changes her sleeping clothes with her; she teaches her father to perform difficult tasks; 1) dog fighting ( the prince lets his lion cub in); 2) break an iron blank (G. lets his hair tie a hatchet); 3) collect the sown mustard seeds (ants collect); the prince brings G., she laughs, flowers fall, Butterflies fly out, the dragon is happy, the prince and his wife come to their father]: Lebedev 1972, No. 5:21-27; Turkmens: Annanurova 1980 [the merchant promises to bring gifts to his three daughters; the youngest wants beads, it is nowhere no, he is advised to pick up beads in the diva's house behind Black Hill; the diva sprinkles beads into his hem, puts ash, she burns a hole; on this trail, the diva finds the merchant's house; demands his eldest daughter as his wife; tells by her return, she will eat a human nose; she gives it to the cat, the nose answers the diva from the cat's belly, the diva hangs his wife in the closet by the braids; the same with the middle sister; the youngest asks where the soul is the diva, that gives her a bottle for storage; the girl does not throw her nose to the cat, but does not eat it either; breaks the bottle, frees the sisters; the beads were the tears of all former wives]: 18-22; Stebleva 1969, No. 19 [the old man dreams nightingales sitting on his shoulders; sells sleep to a shepherd; he comes to the garden, takes the excuse from the hands of a sleeping young man; the girl sits on a horse, he brings her to the city; she makes skullcaps; the padishah takes the shepherd on service to destroy him and lure him with his wife; 1) get the milk of a black mare; the piebald horse defeats her, brings the padishahu; 2) bring flowers falling from Peri Gulkakhkas's mouth; this is one of Peri flying in the form of doves to swim; the mother of the devas tells her clothes to be hidden, the shepherd brings flowers to the padishah, leaves G. as his second wife; 3) bring a letter from the dead from the padishah's parents; peri they raise the shepherd from the fire, then hide it in ash; the padishah thinks he actually burned down and returned; orders himself to be burned, the shepherd becomes a shah]: 47-54; Uzbeks: Afzalov et al. 1972 (2) [new the shepherd's wife torments her stepdaughter with hard work; a gust of wind carries her yarn into the cave; the old woman tells her to feed the yarn to the cow, pull the threads from the udder; the stepmother tells her to slaughter the cow; the old woman tells her to bury bones and skin; stepmother and daughter go to feast, rooster and chicken separate rice from peas instead of stepdaughter; in the hole where the remains of a cow were buried, the girl finds beautiful clothes; four peri, the old woman's daughters, they take her to a feast, she returns before her stepmother, losing her boot; the shah tells everyone to try it on, only fits her stepdaughter; stepmother kills the rooster and chicken that indicated where she hid her stepdaughter; gouges out that eye, throws her into the swamp, brings his ugly daughter to the Shah; the weaver finds the girl, her tears are pearls, her laughter is roses; the sorceress teaches to sell roses in a couple of eyes; the shah meets the girl, the stepmother with a false expels his wife]: 114-121; Sheverdin 1984 [after cutting down a tree, the woodcutter releases the genie imprisoned in it; he gives him an apple to eat in half with his wife; a daughter is born, whose tears are pearls when laughs, roses fall from his mouth, where he steps, golden sand remains; the old man is rich, asks for his daughter too big dowry; the evil genie tells me to give it to him; the batyr kills the genie, gets a beauty; the old woman her daughter and her daughter say that they have come from the batyr to pick up the bride; they take her to the desert; the old woman gives her water for her eyes torn out; throws her daughter into the well, dresses her daughter in her clothes; people are surprised that roses they do not fall, there is no gold in the bride's footsteps; the poor man pulls the blind man out of the well, builds a pearl palace; when a rose smiles, the poor man sells her daughter an old woman by the two eyes blind; a good genie- the dove inserts her eyes, the girl sees the light; the evil genie tells the old woman to catch a goldfish with an earring in it, where the soul is beautiful; at night, the imaginary wife takes out the earring, at which time the girl comes to life; after chasing behind the dove, the batyr finds the true bride, returns the earring; the old woman and her daughter are tied to horses]: 82-89.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians [stepmother tyrannites stepson and stepdaughter; stepson leaves, is hired to serve the king; stepdaughter goes to fetch water; three ugly heads rise out of the water; one asks her to wash, the other comb her hair, kiss the third; the girl does it; they make her beautiful, gold falls from her lips and hair; her own daughter goes for water, scolds her heads, they make her a freak with a long nose, snout and escape pine trees on his forehead; the girl's brother sees a portrait of his sister; decides to marry; brother takes his sister across the lake, stepmother and daughter sit between them in the middle of the boat; tells his stepdaughter the brother's words as if he orders to throw a chest of gold inherited from the puppy's mother into the lake to throw herself into the water; the king is forced to marry a freak, throws the girl's brother into a hole with snakes; at midnight, a girl with a dog they come to the kitchen, the maid sees them, tells the king; twice the freak sleeps on the king; when the girl comes for the last time, the servants put a knife in the hand of the sleepy king, he makes an incision in girl's finger, the spell disappears; brother is returned, stepmother and daughter are thrown into a snake pit]: Dasent 1970:322-330; Icelanders [the Duke's childless wife slept for a walk; in a dream, three women in black clothes told her to venerate the stream and swallow trout; she immediately became pregnant; when it was time to give birth, the Duchess invited the old woman and warned that three women would come, they should be welcomed in a friendly manner and a good treat; gave birth to a daughter; three women came, each called Blue Dress; the old woman greeted the two eldest, and the youngest was impolite; the eldest: the name of the newborn is Märthöll, she will be more beautiful and smarter, let her tears turn into gold; second: let her marry a prince; third: let her turn into a lark on her wedding night and fly out the window; for the first three nights she will shed her lark skin, and then no more; if the skin is burned on the third night, M. will remain human; M.'s best friend is Helga, the daughter of a lady of the court; the prince is married; H. must stay with M. for three nights; these three nights she she sticks a sleepy pin in the prince's head, and hurries to the hill where M. arrives and briefly sheds off the lark's skin; on the third night, the pin fell out, the prince woke up: his wife is not around; he sees Hill M. and H., they fill the bag with gold; he grabbed the skin and threw it into the fire; all is well; H. married the most noble man]: Poestion 1884, No. 17:136-143; Danes [to get rid of stepdaughter, stepmother sends her to a mound with dwarfs for berries; on the way, the old man gives the girl food - let her feed the dwarfs; they are grateful; let her become more beautiful day by day; roses and lilies grow up where she steps; gold and silver fall off her hair when she combs her hair; stepmother sends her own daughter to the dwarfs not with food, but with a stick; they make her spits turn into frogs and toads, a calf tail grows on her forehead, emits gases at every step; the heroine's brother is in the king's service; she sends him her portrait, the king wants to marry her; on the way, her stepmother throws her off turns the ship into a duck, replaces her own daughter; the king is furious, throws the heroine's brother in prison for deception; in the form of a duck, the heroine enters the kitchen, asks about her brother and half-sister , says he can only come twice more; the king tells the maid to catch the duck; draws a cross on her beak, she becomes a girl again; the king marries her, frees her brother, stepmother with her daughter placed in a barrel of nails]: Holbek 1987:523; Latvians [stepmother tells stepdaughter to take lunch to her father, promises to kill if even a drop of fat falls on the handkerchief; fat drips; three on the way home snakes ask them to weave wreaths; make the handkerchief clean, the girl's face beautiful, her tears will turn into pearls; her own daughter kicks snakes, her handkerchief turns black, her face and voice are terrible, her eyes fall out of her eyes toads; the prince hears his stepdaughter's voice, finds it under the vat, takes him to the palace]: Aris 1971:207-210; Lithuanians [the orphan maid goes to take dinner to the estate; three snakes ask to sew wreaths for them, she is does; they reward her: to be rich, hard-working, beautiful; when she cries and laughs, let pearls and gold fall; stepmother sends her own daughter, she drives snakes, they make her poor, lazy and ugly, frogs and lizards fall off his face; pan marries an orphan; 18 options; in 7 sequel about a bride replaced and turned into a swan/duck]: Kerbelite 2021, No. 76:151-153; Estonians: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 61 (southern Estonia; also Saarema, central northern Estonia) [daughter asks her father not to marry a witch widow; he says that if the water poured into an old, leaky boot is not it leaks, he marries; the water has not leaked; the stepmother has her own ugly daughter; the stepmother tyrannites her stepdaughter; gives paper clothes in winter, tells them to bring strawberries; the stepdaughter comes to the house of the elderly, shares her with them stale bread, they tell her to place snow, strawberries under it; everyone wants her something (when she speaks, gold falls from her lips; more and more beautiful; more kind; marry the king; warm clothes; stepmother's daughter is rude old people, does not share pies, tells old people to take revenge on the snow themselves; they want toads to fall out of their mouths, become uglier, not marry; a young king arrives, takes his stepdaughter as his wife; stepmother disguised as a healer, she is hired by the king, after the birth of the king's wife, he kills her in the bathhouse, replaces her with his daughter; the cook spies on a wild duck flying through the window at night, turns into a real wife , feeds the child; tells the cook that he will arrive for the last time, the king must cut off her (the duck)'s head, then she will become human; the stepmother and her daughter were lowered from the mountain into the sea in a barrel covered with nails]: 160-164; J.Parijõgi in Raud 2004 [stepmother sends stepdaughter to pick berries in winter; an old woman in a hut tells her to remove snow from under her window; a girl finds a lot of berries there; three dwarfs ask for food , the girl gives them her bread crusts; one wants golden eggs to fall from her mouth, the second for her to marry a prince, and the third to live happy; the stepmother sends her own daughter, she does not clean the snow, does not give dwarfs their bread and honey; some want toads to fall out of her mouth so that she does not marry, to be unhappy; stepmother drives her stepdaughter away, dwarfs lead her to the road where she meets the girl prince; he marries her; stepmother's daughter is unhappy and lonely]: 294-296; Finns [mother died; widow neighbor, who has her own daughter, persuaded the girl to advise her father to marry her; began to tyrant; sent in winter in one shirt for strawberries; the girl asked Frost to give her warm clothes, he gave her; she came to the house, there were three little men, the girl shared bread with them; they sent her revenge snow , strawberries underneath him; one gave the girl even more beauty, the other made gold coins fall from her mouth, the third promised that she would marry the Queen; the stepmother sent her own daughter; she the snow refuses to take revenge; the little men make her even uglier, toads fall from her lips, she is destined to die miserably; one day her stepmother gave her stepdaughter a piece of bread; he rolled, the girl behind him; the ram asks him cut, milk the cow, tie the sheaf; the girl does everything; comes to Hiishi's estate; his wife is at home, she orders to heat the bathhouse and at the same time weave cloth out of wool; while the girl was drowning, all the mice hidden and weaved; H. orders to milk the cows, these are she-wolves and bears, the cat milks; strain the milk - sparrows perform; Hiisi himself came, gives a bell, extinguishes the splint - he will catch the bell by the ringing of a bell; the mouse runs around with a bell; in the morning H. gave the girl gifts, put her on a cart and sent her home; old woman H. tells the cow, the ram to detain her, they refuse; tells the oak to beat with branches, the sheaf protected her; stepmother sent her own daughter to H.; she refuses to shear a ram, milk a cow, knit a sheaf; drives away mice, cats, sparrows; the mouse did not run with a bell, H. caught the girl and crushed her badly; on the way back the oak whipped off, the cow beat her hooves, the ram butted; the girl returned barely alive; the stepmother sent her stepdaughter to wash her skeins of wool in the ice-hole; the queen saw her and married her; she gave birth to a son; the stepmother came, cut off her golden hair, tied her daughter to her head, pushed the Queen's wife into the water; the horse pulled her out, hid her in a stall; the king found her there; asks the old woman what to do with the replacement wife, and the real one will collide into the water; old woman: put in a barrel of thorns, throw it into the water; they did so with the old woman and her daughter; everything is fine]: Concca 1993:94-104; Finns [wife gave birth, but the child - one head; grew up and demanded that a princess be married to him; the king demands 5 living foxes by tomorrow; the son and head got it; the same thing - 5 bears; create a castle like the king's; wedding; husband warns his wife not to say that he is turning into a man, his legs are silver, his hands are golden, the sun is on his forehead, the moon on the back of his head; but her mother-in-law gave her a drink and she told her; when she speaks, flowers fall from her mouth and nose; Hearing this, the husband became a dove, broke the window and flew south; the wife went to look for him; after 7 years she went to the house; they answered that her husband flew by 7 years ago and left a parcel for her; 7 years later, the same in another house; food and drink in the first package, clothes in the second; they told me to go to the city, where her husband was a noble man; she met him; he sent letters asking what marriage was true - the first or second; everyone answered that the first one; he sent away the new bride; they returned home, everything is fine]: Löwis of Menar 1922, No. 39:119-123; Karelians (northern, Tungud parish) [sister with her foot gold will set foot, beads will cry, a month on his shoulders, the Bear's stars on his forehead, the sun on the top of his head; the brother went to the palace, the prince saw embroidery on the hoop, asked who was embroidering, and ordered his sister to be brought; the sister said she would not marry until the handle of the millstone was broken from work; the brother cut the handle; until the father's shop collapsed; the spinning wheel made by the father broke; the threshold was broken; brother she files every time; the sister agrees, they go in a boat, Suottyariha asks to take her, puts sleepy needles in her sister's ears, tells her to spit in the sheath, jump into the sea, her sister swam with a duck, her brother brought S. ; the prince put his brother under lock and key - why did he bring an ugly one; the sister sails to the widow's house, becomes a girl, sews on the hoop, the widow sells; tells the prince to hide behind the stove, throw duck into the oven plumage, grab his wife; she turned into a snake, he beat her, did not let her go, she became a woman; they dug a hole, S. was taken to the bathhouse, pushed her into a hole, her brother was released; S.'s mother came, sees two blades of grass, wants to tear it off, the daughter shouts from the hole, "This is my umbilical cord, don't touch it"; the mother went to the gate, rejoicing that her daughter is there, the prince ordered her to be raised to the gate]: Stepanova 2000, No. 103:181-183.

Volga - Perm. Marie [Horns: Three princesses adopt the hero's miraculous property (spitting money); he finds a magic apple that grows horns and turns into horses and apples restoring human appearance; with the help of these apples, he helps princesses their miraculous remedy]: Sabitov 1989, No. 566:36; Bashkirs: Barag 1988, No. 50 [Gin-Peri puts a ring on the finger of young Alukey ; he is numb; the old man tells him where to go; sister J. says that she is getting married; A. tells her to plant J. her ring; A. and J. run, A. kills pursuers - Kubykty-Kara and his army with arrows; J. gives birth to a child; A. takes her and the baby home, leaves her by the river; J. bathes, the babysitter takes her clothes, J. flies away as a goose; at home everyone is disappointed that A.'s wife is ugly (a real wife has one cheek in one cheek a month, in another sun, spits gold and silver); travelers talk about an unusual goose; old people advise you to hide in a hole, put a child next to him; J. comes to feed the child, takes off bird clothes, both fall asleep; A. returns his wife]: 360-365 (=Zelenin 1991, No. 101 (107) [Aleuk's hero's name]: 436-441); Barag 1989, No. 8 [the merchant's eldest daughter asks for a scarf, the middle daughter is an unprecedented fruit, the youngest is a cat; the merchant cannot find a fruit, the Sheikh gives his middle daughter to him as his wife; asks his wife to serve meat and eat with him, in the cauldron; the wife does not eat, hides it in her bosom, the Sheikh asks to dance, meat falls out, he hangs his wife by the hair in room 41; the same with his older sister; the youngest feeds meat to the cat, dances, the Sheikh recognizes her as his wife, tells her not to look into the forbidden room; she unlocks her sisters frees her; they take out a flying boat and precious stones from the chest, fly away; the prince marries the youngest, the vizier's eldest sons; the prince's wife asks to build a tower, she is guarded by a lion, a tiger, a wolf and a bear; the sheikh put them to sleep, came to his wife; she hears a whisper: give your beloved, you will be saved! She pushes the Sheikh down the stairs, awakened animals kill him; a woman gives birth to a daughter, gives her to someone who does not understand; tells her traces to be gold and silver, laughter roses, crying to fire; this girl is stepmother takes the prince as his wife, gives water in exchange for his eyes, pushes him into the sea, replaces her daughter; the prince is disappointed; an old man finds a blind man in the forest, she sends him to sell roses to the palace, he exchanges them from angry stepmother in front of the girl's eyes; the prince marries her, the stepmother's daughter tied to the horse's tail]: 65-69.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Potanin 1916, No. 14.1 [son of Aleke Aleuko (Ali-ükö?) He dreams of the khan's daughter, goes to look for her, went to look for her, put 40 watchmen to sleep, found her sleeping, moved the candles in her heads and legs; the girl woke up, ordered the guards to be executed; the same for the second time; A. came to her and they met; Aleuco tells his father to marry her; Khan demands to fill all his wintering and summers with cattle; A. brought cattle, but the khan managed to migrate overseas, is going to give his daughter for the blind dhow (giant) Karké; A. crossed where bai-terek grew up; at the wedding, brother K. went out to fight; A. turned into a bad boy, killed brother K.; won the races; Khan's daughter saw the lousy boy's hand was given the ring that A. gave; they run (or rather fly), K. catches up; A. killed K. with an arrow, got the khan's daughter; once A.'s wife came to the sea, the maid pushed her into the water, she became a swan; the maid put on her clothes, came under her guise; but the real wife spits gold, but the maid cannot; the wanderer says to A. that a swan was flying, said: How stupid A. is, does not know that he lives with a fake wife; the imaginary wife pretended to be sick, asked for swan meat; A. shot the swan, one feather flew off and became a camel; the maid asked for camel meat; one bone flew off, turned into rose hips; the maid ordered to be cut down, the thorn became a hawk; A. caught it, brought it into the house; everything in the house becomes tidy, the clothes are repaired; the maid orders to kill the hawk, A. refuses; waited, saw how the girl took off her hawkish skin, began to sew a dress; A. hid the skin, the girl admitted that she was his wife; A. brought her to his parents; his wife ordered him to wash it with milk and grease the mares so that get rid of the bad smell he had when living with his maid; she was asked if she wanted 40 horses or 40 scissors; she said both; she was cut into 40 pieces with scissors, tied 40 mares to the tails, spread across the steppe; that 40 days]: 95-97; Sidelnikov 1971 (3) [Khan dreams of a bird, flowers fall from its mouth, pearls fall from its eyes; three sons go to look for it; Asan goes along the road will return, Usen may return, younger Hasan will not return; the old woman Zhalmauyz-Kempir turns him into a gazelle, her daughter returns a human appearance, gives an arrow to kill the mother, sends Samruk to the tree where the bird's nest; H. kills the boa constrictor crawling towards the chicks, they eat pieces of the boa constrictor's body, they say that the rain is their mother's tears, the wind is from her wings; Samruk does not eat H., brings maidens to the country, he cuts off the meat from his thighs, lets her eat, she heals his wounds; he takes the bird, leaves a note to Khan's sleeping daughter, the virgins, returns to the bride; brothers lower H. into the well, cut off the rope, the girl runs away to the steppe; the daughter of the Khan of the Virgins accuses Asan and Usen of lying, they are executed; finds Hasan and his wife, leaves the bird to his father]: 66-75; Kyrgyz [one widow lived with two daughters; the eldest, like her mother, was rude and arrogant, the youngest was kind and beautiful; the mother sent the youngest with a jug to a distant spring; a poorly dressed woman asked for a drink; the girl was kind and polite to her; she said that now, as soon as she spoke, flowers and precious stones would fall from the girl's lips; the mother sent her eldest daughter, who responded ruelly to the woman, from her lips Snakes, frogs and turtles began to fall; she never married, and the youngest was taken by the padishah's son]: Sabyr uulu 2008:54-55.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Mongols: Yeongdong 1989 [translation of Indian sources, cf. South Asia]: 52; Mikhailov 1967 [a poor man named Badra has sons Zayah (Luck) and Dalger (Abundance); B. caught a swan with a bright flower sticking out of its beak; died, his mother married a llama, he ordered the swan to be cooked; D. swallowed the swan's head, both brothers went to travel, agreed to meet three years later where they both planted aspen; D. hired a Chinese man's shop when he drank, regurgitated with pearls; the princely son invited him, got him drunk, the prince's daughter-in-law swallowed her regurgitated head; the merchant waited for this woman on the way, made her head regurgitate, D. swallowed her again; Z. at this time took a sip of grief; the whole family began to live richly with the merchant]: 79-82; the Buryats [a hunter kills an unprecedented bird, his wife gives a piece of liver and heart to his sons, who begin to spit gold and silver; (hereinafter a number of adventures separately by brothers and their sisters separately)]: Eliasov 1973, No. 11, 25:94-101, 182-195.

Eastern Siberia. Northern Yakuts are reindeer herders [an old woman harnesses a louse into a thimble, drives a needle, controls a pretext thread, finds a fresh grave in a rich yurt, pulls out a beauty; the arrow of her youngest son Kharah- Haana ends up in an old woman's yurt, he marries a beautiful woman, not knowing that she is dead, pushes her at night, she comes to life, silver money falls from her mouth; returning with his wife, the husband chases the squirrel, does not tell his wife walk along a road where bear and wolf skins hang, and walk where hay is scattered; the wife forgets, turns onto a dangerous road, comes to Dyege-Baab (Baba Yaga); she takes her clothes and comes to X. instead of her; the owners decide that if the daughter-in-law is good, then when the "chicken chicken" jumps, the green grass will crumble, and when the "bar-bar" jumps, silver money will fall down; if the start is evil, it will fall down dried fish and insects; they fall, Erbehtai Bergen's husband pulls off his wife's veil, sees eight eyes and a bull's nose; she is beaten, she gives the girl, she is revived with living water, DB is thrown into the fire ]: Gurvich 1977:175-176; Yakuts: Sivtsev, Efremov 1990 [old woman Byaybyarikyan with five cows finds an unusual horsetail; leaves it in the house, it turns into a beauty; hunter Kharzhit-Bergen gives it for her a lot of cattle, takes away; on the way she goes to chase a fox, tells her to turn east at the fork, where the sable skin hangs, but not to the west, where the bear skin is; the girl forgets, turns west, gets to an abaasa in iron clothes with one hand, one leg, one eye; she rips off her face, puts on herself, puts her clothes on; in the groom's house, everyone expects that when the bride says her mouth beads will fall down; when she sets foot, sables will run; she has frogs falling, shabby ermines are running; at this time, old woman B. digs up horsetail again, he turns into an old girl, says that her dogs dragged her former body across the field; the girl's horse tells HB's father about what happened; HB ties the abaasa's daughter to the horse's tail, returns her wife, red beads fall from her lips, sables run]: 136-143; Yakuts (Verkhoyansky; =Ergis 1964-1967 (1), No. 51:172-177) [a short old woman (Ergis: old Bayberikaen) with five cows brought horsetail with five processes from the field, puts it under her pillow, that turns into a girl, her body is transparent (you can see the body through the dress, through the body of the bone, through the bones of the brain); Harah Haana Harzhit-Bergen's son (Ergis: Haardyt Bergen) takes her as his wife, giving a lot of cattle in dowry; takes home, hunts foxes, tells you to go along the road where the skin of a lynx, a sable is hung, not to go where the bear's skin is; she forgot, went where the bear's skin is, the devil's daughter from an iron yurt with one with her foot, one hand, one eye, she puts on her skin; kings blow their nose in the HB house (?) , everyone disgust (Ergis: green beads fell in her husband's house, where she blew her nose, where she stepped, gray ermines ran, everyone was disgusted); only red skin-haired sables run; old woman finds horsetail, brings her home, he turns into the same girl; tells her what happened to her (the dog dragged her heart and lungs, left her, and horsetail grew there); the horse tells HB's father about what happened; says that if his son does not take her Ayyi mistress (revived from horsetail) again, she will complain to Ürüng Ayyi Toyona (White Creator Master); the son should be kept in for 30 days running water, then ventilated; the son himself tells his father that the horsetail girl is one of the seven Siberian daughters of ÜAT's younger brother; her wings were cut off, sent to the ground; a false wife tied to a horse, scattered across the field, her body and blood became worms and reptiles; her true wife was returned; when she blows her nose, expensive kings fall, sables run when she steps]: Khudyakov 1890, No. 4:80-89.

SV Asia. Russified, probably, tundra Yukaghirs (p. The gait of the Nizhnekolymsky district) [the old woman brings home a blade of grass, she turns into a girl; her tears are pearls, laughter is precious stones, sables, martens, foxes fall out of her sleeves; the young man takes her as his wife, she takes her home; she is thirsty, he makes ice-holes, but all the lakes are dry; dogs drag her sledge to Yagishna's house; there she falls into a deep dungeon; I promise to let her go if she gives her clothes; when I put them on, I take her form and come to her husband; he is angry that she does not drink water he has hardly obtained; at home, only one crooked bead falls from her face; she gives birth to a son, gives birth to a son, gives birth to a son he does not suck his chest, but his left heel; her husband in anger takes her back to the old woman; the girl gets out of the dungeon on a mountain of corpses, I send wolves and bears at her, they kill her; the blood grows yellowish grass, the old woman brings a blade of grass into the house again, the girl revives from it; the husband recognizes his wife, kills Y. with arrows]: Bogoras 1918, No. 6:52-54; coastal Koryaks: Zhukova 1980, No. 14 (Palana) [Ememkut Married to Nevryttytini? anevyt; when she says, a prince falls out of her mouth; they go to his parents, on the way the child is thirsty, E. went to get water; the frog Kamynganavyt threw snow at the Prince under the sledge, put it on clothes; from E. The frog spits out one berry; N. lives in a grass hut, she has a second son; he comes to his father, brings him to the hut; N. returns, the bowls are filled with the prince; the frog is tied to the sledge, pieces of her meat are scattered across the tundra]: 178-179; Jochelson 1908, No. 128 [Ememkut rises to the Sun, defeats it in running and pulling stones; the Sun says it will still not be able to get a daughter five-headed Kamaka; E. comes to Kamaka, who swallows it five times, but E. goes out through the anus each time; kills Kamaka, takes his daughter; her feces are beads and copper rings; E. gets rich]: 323-324.

The coast is the Plateau. Comox [Mink sees women bathing, turns into trout, you can't catch it; at home advises women to catch trout with their legs wide apart; makes the most beautiful woman pregnant; she gives birth the boy, he shouts that Norka is his father; when women take him in his arms, he stains them, but the excrement turns into dental shells, copper; the raven also takes him in his arms, he is completely deceived]: Boas 1895, No. 4:73; chalcomel (StSeélis) [the girl is capricious every night, carried away by the owl Slalakem, raised, made her wife; she asks permission to go out of need, goes down from a tree, leaves urine responsible for her, runs away; S. comes to her parents, who tell her to return to her husband; she gives birth to S.'s daughter; sends a bird to her older brother; he and his other sister come to S.; he sends S. for a deer, they all set fire to the house with her daughter S., run away, his brother falls into the lake, disappears, the sisters return home; a girl from another village rejects her grooms, leaves, sings on the shore of that lake ; an ordinary dive, a northern dive consistently emerge, the girl replies that she did not call them; a female dive emerges, who became the wife of a missing young man; for the fourth time he emerges himself, takes off his skin a dive, goes ashore, takes a girl as his wife; near the girl's village, a young man enters the leper's hut, throws him out of his skin, puts her on himself; the wife suspects that the leper is her husband, stays with him; parents send her food with her younger sister; when the imaginary leper washes, drops of water turn into Ts'ákwes (some jewelry); the sister brings it to the parents, they ask daughter and her husband to her; the wife carries her husband on her back, the Raven mocks her; at night the young man sheds the leper; he drives all the deer together and hides them; in the morning he goes skiing after them, leaving his skin on a tree, the wife follows, burns the skin; the young man puts the meat of the dead deer in a bag, brings his father-in-law into the house; the bag is opened, the whole village is littered with meat, everyone admires the former leper; he visits with the family of his parents who considered him dead; at the festival, the Raven eats all the meat alone, hiding it from his family]: Hill-Tout 1904b: 347-352; coutene [The Tree Chief spits beads, his tame hawk is theirs eats; the Coyote pushes the Chief into a hole, puts on his clothes, takes a few beads, comes disguised as him to his wife (she is the eldest daughter of a local chief); in the absence of the Tree Chief, begins hunger; the Tree Chief turns into a baby, wolves find him; he grows up, turns his giblets into a pemmican; finds his true appearance, marries the leader's youngest daughter (for this purpose he wins in competition: shoot an eagle; Coyote replaces his arrow with his arrow, but the eagle in the hands of the Coyote turns into a partridge); kills and revives animals with his magic arrow; turns manure into bison; hits Coyote smut, he runs away]: Boas 1918, No. 64:191-213; clackamas [snotty teenager Warm Wind touches the grass with his penis; chief's daughter weaves a basket out of it; gives birth to a son; her father recognizes as the son-in-law of someone whose firewood will burn for five days; whose bow the boy will take; Blue Jay cannot prove paternity, the boy chooses Warm Wind; in the morning he turns into a handsome man, his snot into beads; in winter only he has plenty of provisions, he is chosen as chief; steam from his steam room turns into spring clouds]: Jacobs 1958, No. 23:188-193; Klamath [all fish in Crater Lake are children of the Lau monster; he sends his daughter to Marten; she and Marten's wife both spit beads; Marten kills L.'s daughter, throws her body parts into the lake, screaming, Here Marten's leg falls, etc.; L. They devour their sister's flesh; when Marten throws his head, he shouts to them about it; runs home, doesn't pick up objects on the trail that anyone can eat him; L. She sends a one-eyed daughter, she fights Marten, throws him into the lake several times, covering the surface with ice, but he breaks through the ice with a knife; finally, she pierces and carries Marten's heart, L.'s people play with it; Marten's younger brother Laska asks Kamukamts to place him in his shoulder, they take his heart away; one-eyed chases them, K. throws a rope (tump-line), it turns into a river; L.'s people stop persecution; die on land, now there are no fish in the lake]: Curtis 1976 (13): 212-213; modoc [Minka is a chief and good hunter, married to Tick; his younger brother Laska never gets caught deer; the old man tells Norka to fight him, takes the form of a horned beast, is going to cut them into pieces and throw them off the cliff to his children; Mink cuts him himself, throws pieces with words, Here Mink's shoulder falls, etc.; his head falls last; the monster's children throw knives, blankets, beads on the trail; if Nork picks them up, he dies; he picks up the last knife, but manages to throw them away; returns home; the monster's daughter comes, spits out beads; Norka's wife spits out more beautiful beads, fights with her all night; by morning, the monster's daughter overcomes, carries the sleeping Norka, also becoming horned animals; is going to throw pieces of his body into the lake to his sisters; Mink cuts it into pieces, throws them himself (the episode is similar to the first one)]: Curtin 1912:294-299.

The Midwest. Menominee: Bloomfield 1928, No. 96 [two sisters go to get the Beaded Spitting (PB); The Diver (Hell-Diver) says it's him; hiding beads in his mouth and nose, he blows out and cleans his throat; PB is a pet deer; The dive says that the deer ran away frightened by the girls; in the evening Dive is called to dance with PB; the girls put Dive's mother to sleep, leave driftwood instead, come to PB; there the Dive lies on on the floor, everyone dances on it; when he returns home, the Dive lies between driftwood, takes ant bites for tingling his wives; kills his mother, finds PB sleeping between girls, kills him by putting him in his mouth hot pebbles; hides a deer's stomach with blood under his clothes, pretends to kill himself at the news of PB's sweep away; he is chased, he says he will die if his wives follow him; turns them over boat; he and both girls turn into dive ducks]: 359-365; Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II33 [Chief White Wampum spits beads; his brother is Hell Diver; two sisters come to marry the chief; Dive replies that it is him; every night he goes to dance at his brother's house; wives leave rotten decks in bed, secretly go dancing; stay with White Wampum; Dive pierces his brother's genitals with hot iron, he dies; The dive pretends to mourn, simulates a suicide attempt by placing a blood-filled deer's stomach under his clothes and tearing it; calls his ex-wives into his boat, turns it over; sisters dive ducks turn into female]: 408-410; fox [Visakya disguises himself as a woman, seduces the Turtle; he coughs, regurgitating cowry shells; brings his bundle with amulets; V. takes away and destroys it; turns a Turtle into a turtle]: Jones 1907, No. 15:315-331; Sauk: Marriott, Rachlin 1968 [The turtle annoys everyone, seducing women and girls; Jesus turns into a girl, agrees to take a walk with the Turtle in the forest; when he spits in the fire, pearls appear; I. puts him to sleep, puts a rotten log with ants with him, the Turtle thinks that the girl tickles him; I. turns him into a turtle]: 124-127; Skinner 1928, No. 13 [The turtle is the leader; Visakia turns into a beauty, comes to live with an old woman; the turtle comes to marry her, spits out beads; V. asks bring him his sacred bag of scalps; they sleep in the forest; V. puts a deck of ants instead of a bag, steals the bag; lets the dog smear it with crap; turns the Turtle into a turtle]: 152-154; Steppe Cree: Bloomfield 1930, No. 31 [two sisters come to marry Wampum; Red-necked Toadstool pretends to be him; sisters marry him; see dancers trample on him at the festival; leave him instead decks with bedbugs go to another (apparently Wampum); Toadstool cuts his throat; women leave], 32 [old woman dies, tells two daughters to go to Wampum, spitting beads; Dipper puts beads in his mouth, spits out; sisters marry him; he wraps himself in pieces of meat and fat instead of a festive outfit; his younger sister suspects deception, spies on the dancers; they dance, trampling Dipper into the mud; sisters leave decks with bugs and bees in bed, run away; Dipper fakes suicide, piercing a bubble of blood hidden under their clothes; swims away in a boat, turns into diving]: 297-309.

Northeast. Seneca: Curtin 2001 [uncle goes hunting and for wild tubers; hides his older nephew Two Feaers for fear that he will be kidnapped by Sgano ⁿ hses Gowa's daughters; Oneqsas gives younger only bad tubers; that night he spies on the elder's uncle calling in the corner; in the morning he calls him himself; two women sail by air in the boat, demanding Two Feathers; he hides, the women promise to come again; In the morning, they find a young man, noticing his long hair, and take him west; his uncle comes and cries; Q. catches up with the boat in a stream of smoke, turns back; agrees to let his brother and the women go when they allow cut off pieces of flesh from them to make moccasins that give them strength and knowledge; Q. knows that women torment her brother, flies west again in a stream of smoke; stops in a clearing where the old woman lives, hers a grandson and two granddaughters; a grandson in everything like Q. becomes his brother; the old woman says that the leader's daughters brought a man, hung him on a pole, tourniquet to make him cry, his tears turn into beads; Q. gives one of the moccasins to his named brother; when they put them into the fire, the chief's daughters feel pain; Q. puts those in the house to sleep, carries his brother out, turns the house into a hot stone, everyone dies; Q. with the old woman and her grandchildren return to his uncle; the foxes torment him, mocking and saying, We have come! (as if nephews had returned), throwing coals at the old man's face; Q. hangs the Fox in the chimney, the white one turns red, the nose and tip of his tail turn black; Q. lets go of the Fox, now the fox has the current coloring]: 185-191; Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 7 [the chief's daughter rejects suitors; she is bewitched, left in an empty village; an orphan finds her, revives her, marries her; regurgles a full bowl of wampuma as a gift to her father; kills many deer, leaves one to the Raven; rivals drive him into the ground by witchcraft; Raven and Turkey dig him up], 20 [see motive K35; a young man goes to marry the leader's daughter; an old man puts it on clothes, takes his form, marries the leader's eldest daughter; the hero in the guise of an old man marries the youngest; regurgitates a full bowl of black, then white wampum; kills many deer; the deceiver regurgitates lizards and worms; the hero takes back his clothes, regains his appearance; the deceiver turns into an owl], 22 [see motif K35; the uncle sends the tribesman to marry, gives him a hat, outerwear, leggings, moccasins ; when removed, they turn into otter, puma, lynx, owls; the deceiver steals the hero's clothes, stabs him with a dart in the back; the hero's sister and her daughter save him, return him his outfit, stab a piece of bark into the back of the deceiver; the hero is getting younger, the woman recognizes him as her real husband; he spits out beads, the mother-in-law is happy], 26 [seven sisters reject men; the lower body of the youngest gives beads until she marries; husband's mother does not love her; he goes to visit his mother, disappears; older sisters steal the bottom of the youngest's body to have beads again; her son returns the kidnapped, makes the mother's body whole; mother and son now has a lot of beads], 35 [a bird flies off a tree, turns into a man, copulates with a woman; husband kills lover; wife beats her husband, sets fire to their house, leaves; son violates the ban on putting on fire feet his little sister to the ground; she is carried away by a bear, their dog also disappears; a boy jumps into the lake in an attempt to commit suicide, is swallowed by fish; two women fish, adopt a boy; he plays successively with three old men, wins, kills them; his mother calls men to choose a new husband; tortures his old daughter and dog with fire; father's tears turn into beads; son puts on moccasins made from the female genitals stick them into the fire; his mother dies in agony; father, sister, dog recover; sisters who adopt a young man marry his father], 41 [a person's tears turn into beads; sorcerers torture him to cry; his brother saves him, turns the sorcerers' house into hot flint; they die]: 95-98, 132-133, 139-144, 154-160, 186, 208-212; seneca [Hodadeio lives in teepee with her older sister; when she leaves, she closes the door to a leash; he plays with a raccoon's leg, throwing it up and shooting accurately; hears some sounds on the bunk beds under the roof; sister: this is your brother Casheed; she scrapes off a little chestnut, cooks, knocks on the pot, the pot is filled with porridge; after eating, Casheed sings, but is still weak; then gives tobacco to smoke; the voice is stronger; sister leaves, H. cooks all the chestnut at once, gives all tobacco, now Casheed is strong; sister: no more chestnuts, Casheed will die; witches have chestnuts in the east of the world; there are trees across the river, two rattlesnakes on the other side; then a narrow passage in the mountains, along there are two giants on both sides; then there is a hill, there is a woman; if she sees, sings, witches run out and kill; H. learns to catch bigger game: chikadi, robin, partridge, turkey, raccoon, deer, bear; sister does not tell you to go north; H. is coming; the stump has become human: I am a great sorcerer, I will rain spears on you; H. ordered the teepee to become stone, the spears did not pierce it; sister: you went north; H. : I won't do it anymore; but he let fire into that part of the forest, the sorcerer's head burst, an owl flew out of it, flew away; {H. wins and kills uncles and cannibals}; across the river, H. gave the snakes a chipmunk and ordered go away; gave a cake to the giants, gave beans to two herons, told them to leave too; told the mole to lift it up a steep mountain; grabbed half a chestnut and returned to his sister; H. hears a scream; sister: it is yours screaming brother; he is tied to a pole and is burned with fire; his tears turn into wampum, he is collected; and the tobacco was stolen by the great sorcerer Long Eyebrows; H. came to the village where his brother is tormented, stayed with an old woman and her grandson; their names are also called to collect wampum; two women burn their brother from different sides so that the wampum falls down continuously; H. sedated everyone, untied them and took their brother to the old woman; made them stone the teepee, where everyone slept, made it hot, everyone died; then he knocked down the tree on the bones of his relatives: get up, the tree falls; everyone came to life, bounced; leaving his brother to recover, H. came to Long Eyebrows; hits him on the head with a hammer, but he: the mice are running; finally raised his eyelashes, tied him behind his head, scraped his eyes with a sink and looked; he chased H., but he hit him with arrows, took the tobacco and told tobacco to fly to his sister; took lively people there; that old woman's grandson, although one of the cannibals, promised not to eat human beings anymore; H. created wigwams when outlining places where wigwams should be for busy people; {on p. 343; further adventures}]: Curtin 1922:327-350.

Plains. Blacklegs: Josselin de Jong 1914 [as in Wissler, Duvall No. V1; sacred pipe shells - the leader's son's bowel movements; lice on the bison's head are big beetles; the chief ties children to the central pillar of the ritual building, paints black, dedicates to the sun; a young man kills the leader and parents by throwing stones in their mouths]: 83-85; Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. V1 [the leader is the owner of the sacred smoking pipes; other children take away his sinks (from the pipe?) ; the chief tells everyone to leave, leaving the children; they go to the witch; she kills everyone but the girl and her younger brother; they run; the bison's skull is responsible for them; the girl agrees to take out Bison's lice and bite through them; bites beads instead of lice; Bison transports children across the river, they return to people; the witch says lice are bitter; the Bison throws her into the river, she drowns; the parents refuse the leader orders the children who brought them to be tied to a tree and left; a good old woman leaves her dog, he frees the children; the brother becomes a young man, kills buffalo with magic; people are starving; brother and sister feed them; kill their abusive parents by throwing pieces of hard meat into their mouths]: 138-141; assiniboine: Lowie 1909a, No. 4 [the chief defecates with beads; little girls find them; the chief's brother advises leaving children alone, because owning beads can harm adults; a good old woman hangs moss, which indicates the direction in which the tribe left, but the children do not notice it; they get to the cannibal; She kills everyone but one girl and her younger brother; the bison's skull advises them to run across the river; two swans connect their necks like a bridge; the girl looks for lice from them, bites them, says it's delicious; The stalker cannibal says that the lice stink; the swans raise their necks, the cannibal drowns; the children meet their tribe, but the chief tells them to be tied to a tree and leave; the good old woman leaves her dog, that frees children; after the bath, children become adults; brother magically catches a bison; kills a bear, a giant; an old woman comes to live with them]: 140-145; grovantre [two sisters go to marry Spitting Beaded; Loon picks up some beads, puts it in his mouth, pretends to be the groom he is looking for; tells his mother Badger not to let his wives out of the house; he is called to dance; sisters step over Badger, come to the leader's house; see the real Beaded Spit; dancers trample Loon with their feet; sisters throw Loon for the real groom; Loon kills him; hides in a hole with his mother, people can't get it there]: Kroeber 1907b, #28:108-109; santi [Two Women (sisters endowed with supernatural powers) and Heartbreaker go to marry the Spit Beaded (aka Beloved Young Man); in the morning, a bowl of needles of a porcupine full of wild rice ends up on the head of the RS; this means that the RS will go beyond PB; The teal in the boat offers to transport girls; taking beads in his mouth, spits them; J takes him for the desired groom; later a real PB arrives, marries RS; Teal does not tell his wives to follow him; they spy on the tipi to dance; there Teal lies on the floor, people dance, trampling on it; sisters leave blankets with bees and ants in bed instead, go to PB, chasing MS away; Sedge (sent by Chirk?) cuts off PB's head when he sleeps with his wives; people come to kill Chirk; his mother Snipe flies into the swamp; people trample on her, since then the roots of the reeds are red with blood; Teal with a PB head in his hand and Sedge with they go up to the moon with a knife in their hand; and now you can see them standing there]: Riggs 1893:148-149; Iowa: Skinner 1925, No. 33 [two sisters go to get the Chief's Shell Spitting Son; his servant picks up spit out kauri, pretends to be him, takes sisters as wives; Ishinki comes for him, telling him to come to the leader's son; the servant pretends to be a joke, forbids his wives to follow him; they go and see how their husband only picks up the shells; goes to the leader's son; the servant kills both the son and the leader himself; flies away, carrying their heads away; I. witches, trying to bring the servant back to the ground; he defecates in I.'s open mouth, takes off to the moon; you can see its silhouette there, with a head in each hand]: 493-494; arapaho: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 41 [Nihansan asks a man to get the eagle's chicks off the cliff; makes it smooth and cool; takes a man's clothes, takes his wife, mistreats his son and daughter; the person left on the rock cries, his tears turn into beads, people find beads at the foot of the cliff; wild geese let the hero down on his backs; he feeds hungry children, kills N.], 121 [the girl goes to look for the Beaded Spitting; Shattered Ass says it's him, spits out a few penetrations; tells the mother not to let go out of the house wife; woman comes to the dance house; sees P.B. dancing and R.Z. serving as his platform; marrying P.B.; R.Z. kills an opponent, dives into a lake, turns into a bird living near the buffalo; a woman is allowed to choose a new husband]: 78-81, 272-275; kiowa [see motif K27; the chief promises a daughter to whoever knocks an eagle off a pine tree; Senpit (Dirty Nose) kills an eagle; Sendeh replaces arrows; marries his older sister, Senpit his younger sister; Senpit and his grandmother dive into a pot of boiling water, become beautiful; Senpit blows his nose, beads fall, honey flows; Sendeh has snot flows]: Parsons 1929a, No. 26:47-56.

Southeast USA. The coveted groom spits beads. Screams [see motif J12; two sisters go looking for the Beaded Spit; The rabbit pretends to be him, pulls out some beads from the vultures, puts them in their mouths; sleeps with one of the sisters; the sisters go away , get to the Gopher, who eats their provisions; the closer the house of the Turkey Killer (= Spitting Beaded), the more feathers lie on the road; the owner tests and rejects the girl with whom Rabbit combined; sends the other to bring water with a sieve; water turns into beads]: Swanton 1929, No. 2:2-4; alabama [two sisters go to look for the Beaded Spit; Owl shows the girls the way to his own house; tells his sister to guard his wives; goes to dance into the house of the Beaded Spit with giblets tied around his neck; sisters come there, become the owner's wives; at night Owl kills him; brother Owl kills girls, brings sisters home]: Swanton 1929, No. 12:126-128; Alabama and Koasati [two sisters go to marry the Spitting Beaded; Owl shows the way to her own at home, scatters her sister's necklace on the road, takes a few beads in her mouth; girls take him for a true groom; in the evening they go to another house to dance, there are many beads, they understand the deception, stay with real Spit Beads; at night, Owl kills an opponent with a knife; his widows decide to give it to someone who 1) fills the basket with her severed hair (Owl cuts off his sister's hair, but the basket half empty, the girls' brother filled); 2) kills a white deer (Owl killed a dog, cut off his legs and head); 3) kills a white turkey; everyone swam into the sea, his brother killed, sank those people's boat with arrows, but Owl sailed out , married the girls, his brother stayed overseas; the cardinal tells him to climb a tree and take the stones; the cannibal sent her three jaguar dogs to take the young man, who drove them away with stones; the cannibal cooked themselves jaguars, the bones were thrown into the sea, they came to life; the young man moves on; at the request of the young man, the rattlesnake drove the cannibal away at night; on the next nights, a white crane warns about the arrival of the cannibal; a clay pot; on the shore, a young man rejects a crocodile, a turtle, swims on a horned snake, throwing fried partridges in front of him, and then simply firing arrows; at home, the young man threw Owl's children into a boiling pot, killed him arrow]: Martin 1977:57-60; koasati [two sisters go to marry the Shooter Up; Owl: A bad path leads to him, and a good path leads to me; sisters go bad, get to Owl; he puts beads in his mouth, pretends to spit them (like Shooter Up); in the evening, the Owl is called to dance; he tells his sister not to let the women out of the house; they run away; they see the Owl dancing with their guts wrapped around his neck; stay with the Shooter Up; at night, the Owl kills him with a sharp horn in his ear; people offer to give widows to the one who wins the competition; the orphan wins; 1) fill box with his long hair; bring a white deer (Owl brings a white dog); 3) bring a white turkey; everyone swims across the sea to hunt turkey, leaves an orphan there; the bird tells him to hide on tree; Monster dogs (cougars) can't find it; a monster kills them, cooks them, eats them, throws bones into the water, they come to life; two sisters swim, an orphan hides their clothes on a tree, they dive behind the reflection, then they see a young man; he gives away his clothes when they call him not grandfather, uncle, brother, but husband; comes to them; at the shore he rejects the Crocodile, the Turtle, the Snake, swims on the Horned Serpent; throws it in front of him fried partridges to swim forward; tells his sisters to throw their children from the Owl into boiling water; kills Owl with an arrow]: Swanton 1929, No. 12:172-175.

California. Pomo: Barrett 1933, No. 79 [Coyote and Calcalmapzeu compare their excrement to see who is richer; Coyote's excrement consists of small shells, W. is made of large beads]: 293-294; Williams 1954 [two sisters go to marry a young Skoshelkel, whose beads fall from his lips; the old Coyote says he will come now; turns into a young man, pretends to be S.; putting beads in his mouth, spits out; younger sister suspects cheating; imaginary S. explains that he danced all night, so his voice became rude; takes a boat to his wife Fra Khatsu, who he passes off as his mother; his called to dance, the younger sister notices that he is turning into an old man; the Frog replies that the real S. is the leader, tells the children to take the girls to him; everything there is covered with deer skins and cougars, half the feathers of bright birds; S.'s mother liked the girls; S. came, he also liked it, he sat between them; beads were pouring from his lips; Coyote came back, his wife said what happened, he threw a pestle at her, she became a frog, rode away; he asked four Otter Brothers to return her; they did, Coyote promised his wife not to beat her again; the sisters brought their relatives to live in the village of Husband-Skoshelkel]: 17-23; screw [two sisters come to marry Kidipathavi, spitting beads; dirty lazy Huick (Night Hawk) takes some shells in his mouth, spits them out; tells his wife Toad affect his mother; sisters meet daughter K., she also spits beads; they go from X. to K; H. kills the Toad that allowed the women to leave; people dance around their leader K.; H. sees the calf of his leg, hits her with an arrow, killing K.; hides in a hole, runs away]: Demetracopoulou, Dubois 1932, No. 36, 37:461-463; Dubois, Demetracopoulou 1931, No. 32:341-342; achomavi [The sun and his wife Shell send daughters to Marten, who has dentalia shells coming out of his body instead of excrement; Coyote wears better clothes, but the younger sister realizes who is in front of them; The hawk pretends to be the leader, defecates with a rattle pebble, pretending to be beads; then like Jan's (cutting the meat off his thigh, etc.); when the Hawk causes rain, the Marten sends a man to kill the Hawk]: Dixon 1908, No. 3:163- 165.

The Great Southwest. Western ceres (Laguna) [(Boas considers the story borrowed from the Spaniards); the girl finds a worm, puts it in a hole of water; it grows, makes the reservoir bigger, turns into a horned snake, brings her into her underwater world, makes gems fall off the girl's hair while washing; she gets married; while her husband is hunting, another woman drowns her, takes her place; but from her hair stones do not fall; the husband sees a real wife in the river, returns her, kills the false wife]: Gunn 1917:269 in Boas 1928a: 269.

Honduras - Panama. Eastern Panama (kuna?) [The sun sends a boy and a girl from heaven to earth; the girl is older, holding a shamanic maraka rattle in her hands; people raised children; when they were washed and combed, pieces of gold came out of their bodies; children they ate the smell of food for a long time, cleansed themselves through the navel; when they grew up, they were married, but the young man also married other women, and the girl married an Indian; angry, the Sun deprived them of the privilege of eating smells and they began to be relieved like everyone else; they come from casiks]: Adrian de Ufelde 1908:129-130 in Casimir de Brizuela 197:62.

Western Amazon. Aguaruna: Chumap Lucía, García-Rendueles 1979, No. 19 [the young man wants a star as his wife, she is next to him; beads come out of the star's body instead of urinating; his mother-in-law disdains them; Offended, the star returns to heaven; her husband follows her along the vine], 19a: 221, 223-225; Guallart 1958 [two young men stand in the open at night; two worms fell on them; one threw it away in disgust, the star returned to heaven; the other one hid it in his clothes, brought it home, the worm became a girl; she wrote in a vessel, it was filled with beaded necklaces; the young man's mother called it filth; the star was offended, went up to heaven, lowered her husband's rope to follow him; but the young man's mother cut it off, the rope turned into a guayaquil liana, which did not exist before]: 68.

Chaco. Chorote [beads or crystals come out of the star's body instead of urine; mother-in-law disdains to let her urinate, another woman gives her; the husband hides the star in the calebass; when his sister throws calebass to earth, everyone dies, the star revives people; revives dried cultivated plants; returns to heaven, the husband looks for her, gets to the vultures, they devour him, the star revives]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985, No. 136 [before meeting a star, a young man loses an arrow, the star gives it to him], 137 [a young man visits his mother when he comes down from the sky], 138 [after losing an arrow, the young man steps on a thorn, the star takes it out; a man descends from the sky on a vulture, falls into the water, drowns], 139-140 [short versions, just the beginning of the story]: 254-267.