M57d2. The tree makes wishes come true.
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The man was about to cut down a tree. It himself, or the creature living on it or in it, asks not to do so and fulfills the person's wishes.
Kabila, Spaniards (?) , Walloons, Qatar, Bulgarians, Russians (Karelia, Ryazan), Nogais, Estonians, Karelians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Maris, Udmurts, (Bashkirs), Kyrgyz, Buryats, Tuvans, (Chelkans), Nanais.
North Africa. Kabila (Mzabite) [the poor lumberjack has four children, his rich brother is childless; the poor begins to cut down yuyuba; the tree asks not to do so, gives a pot that is filled with whatever you want; the rich brother took it away; the tree gave a stick; she began to beat people; they forced the rich brother to return the pot and share the property with the poor brother]: Basset 1903, No. 11:30-33 (same as Basset 1897, No. 102:93-95, Mzab).
Southern Europe. The text was recorded in the Philippines by the Tagals, but the plot is European and the hero's name is Juan. Spaniards (?) [the mother asked Juan's lazy son to bring firewood; he swung a machete, asked him not to cut the tree, gave him a goat with silver falling from its face; the friend found out, gave Juan a drink, changed the goat; now the tree has given a net; if you throw it in a dry place, it is still full of fish; the same; an inexhaustible pot of rice; the same; a baton; she beat a friend and he returned everything; then the baton beat the pets Juana and they promised to hold him as head of the family; thieves came one day, and a baton beat them too; Juan married a beautiful princess]: Cole 1916:196-199.
Western Europe. Walloons [the woodcutter swings his ax, but asks him not to cut it; for this he gives a hand mill that gives out any food; a beggar who enters the house has replaced it; the tree gives a cat defecating in gold; same; gives a rod; the thief had to return everything]: Laport 1932, no.*563A: 64.
Western Asia. Qatar [a man lives harvesting firewood; one day he hits a tree, a genie jumps out; a man complains of poverty, a genie gives him a magic table; his wife wants not only food, but also clothes sends her husband back, but the genie refuses to give more; the man showed the table to the Sultan, who changed him; the genie gives him everything you ask for; the blacksmith changed it; the genie gives an ax, he attacks Sultan and blacksmith, they return the stolen goods]: Abu Shehab 2019:63-65.
The Balkans. Bulgarians [the lark has a nest in the tree, the peasant is going to cut down a tree, the lark tells him not to do so, gives a stick that fulfills his wishes; the peasant invites the king to visit, he replaces him a stick; next time the lark gives a donkey that spits out the chervonets; the blacksmith replaces him; the lark gives a hammer, he hits the tsar, the blacksmith, they return the stolen goods]: Klyagina-Kondratyeva 1951:68-72.
Central Europe. Russians [the bean is going to cut a linden tree, she asks not to cut it, promises a new hut; then the bean asks for wealth, nobility; when he began to ask for the kingdom, the linden tree turned him into a bear; therefore bear paws look like human hands]: Kuzmina et al. 2005, No. 7/21:107-108; Russians (Karelia) [the poor brother asked the rich man to cut his firewood; he plunged an ax into an aspen, she gave bread; they eat the week is not over; the rich brother found out (and apparently changed the bread; not very clear); next time a bag of money; then a bag with three fellows who whip; brother had to return everything]: Lyzlova 2013, No. 36:192-196: Russians (Ryazan) [man is dissatisfied with life; tells a passing lady; lady Destiny makes a man a master; a man asks to make him a tsar; Fate does by a bear]: Smirnov 1917, No. 240:644-645; (cf. Russians (Vyatka; most likely Udmurt substrate): Smirnov 1917, No. 124 [evil landowners and his wife frighten peasants, demand money; husband wants to be afraid of them even more and give more money; wife offers to turn into animals that no one has seen before; they turn into bears, live in the forest; the man saw them, was frightened; all the peasants went to see bears in a tree with sides; and called bears], 125 [bears used to be people; a poor man wants to cut down an enchanted birch tree; a birch tree asks it not to cut, promises wealth; the poor man does not cut; a new home meets him at home, a dressed wife, horses and wealth; the man goes back to the birch tree, she makes him a chief; an official; a governor; asks to be made king; the birch tree says that the king is God's anointed one, and refuses; turns a man and his woman into bears]: 378, 378-380.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Nogais [the tree asks the old man not to cut it, promises to fulfill the request, he asks for firewood; the old woman complains that the firewood is small, tells him to ask for flour; the tree's leaves have turned yellow, it promises to give flour; the next day, the old woman says that it is snowing, it turned out to be flour; the old woman wants gold and silver; the leaves of the tree are almost opal; the old woman is afraid that they will now be robbed, tells me to ask the tree to be afraid of them; the tree's last leaves fell, it turned the old woman into a fox, the old man into a bear]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 107:467-468.
Baltoscandia. Estonians: Järv et al. 2015 (southwestern Estonia, Tõstamaa) [a farmhand (or rather a poor tenant, saunik) was too lazy to go to the forest, went to the neighboring pasture, began to cut down an old tree (from sacred grove); a gray head appeared from under the root: why are you cutting? man: wife, children; old man: go home, there is already a woodpile; the man decided to go back to the tree with an ax, ask for the barn; then let him be full of goodness; then become a judge; landowner; general; when asked to make him king, the old man got angry and made him a bear; and his wife, having inherited all his wealth, married a noble gentleman; he met a bear and shot him]: 35-36; Kreutzwald in Talvet 1991 [ the birch tree asks the lumberjack not to cut it, because it is still young, she has children; then trees of all kinds; an old man in corn clothes thanks for the pity for his children, promises that he will have nothing lack, but he, his wife, children should not want too much; gives a golden rod, they have to wave over an anthill, a hive, a tree, etc., everything will happen; when her husband returned, his wife began to scold him, he He called bars, they beat her; the family healed richly; but one of the descendants wanted the sun to go down to warm his back; the sun went down, burned him and the whole house; the trees were frightened by the heat and no longer talking]: 156-164 (=Põder, Tanner 2000:92-98); Karelians (Kalevala District, 1938) [the tree asks the old man not to cut it down, promises to do good; the old man tells his wife, she sends it cut down a tree; the third time the old man has to fulfill the old woman's wish; the stump asks the old man to take it too; he replies that he cannot uproot the stump in winter; then the stump gives the old man a golden head; the old woman wants to sell it, the old man is against it; the head tells his relatives to fill the house with food; next time with clothes; now the old woman wants a hut; the hut is ready, and now the head wants the old woman got her a bride; one girl agrees, at night the head turns into a guy; the mother scolds her daughter, she has to tell the truth; then the head disappears; the old man goes in search, old the widow explains where to go to grab her son; the son enters the hut, the old man jumps on him, falls, the son disappears again; the old woman is the same; the wife goes, grabs him, but the husband disappears again; the widow promises help, but tells her sheep to be sheared; the old man on horseback says that sheep will fight wolves, wool must be picked up; the widow sends her to the Lord of the Sea for a trough; the rider brings a trough, the woman gives him money ; the widow tells me to bring birdo from the forest; the husband brings the birdo to the widow himself, stays with his wife]: Concca 1959, No. 30:134-141; Latvians [the trees began to ask the man not to cut them; he went to the linden tree, she promised make him a landlord; then king; the third time he asked him to be made God; Lipa told him to stand on all fours and made him a bear; after that, God forbid trees to speak]: Dähnhard 1907:222; Lithuanians [there are 106 Lithuanian versions of the ATU 555 plot; the wishes of the elderly are fulfilled by a caught goldfish; a pine/birch/apple tree/beaten stump intended to be cut down; an old man/beggar taken for the night; most often, people who have expressed excessive desires turn into dogs]: 180.
Volga - Perm. Marie: Sabitov 1989, No. 555 [Wonderful tree: fulfills all the wishes of a poor man (good household, important rank, etc.); when he expresses a desire to become a bailiff, that's it disappears, the poor man turns into a bear; (many texts)]: 34-35; Chetkarev 1948 [the firewood is over, the wife sends her husband to the forest, he is going to cut a linden tree, a voice from the hollow asks not to cut, says that firewood already at his house; so many times, a person asks for more and more (house, cattle, money, headman, foreman; when he asks to be made a bailiff, i.e. a big master, to ride in the downy feather bed, wakes up in the den as a bear; "the bear is a lordly breed, descended from the back"]: 89-91; Anderson 1935:11-15 in Kippar 2002 [the poor man goes to the forest to cut down Christmas trees to build a house; the spruce says that for you don't need to cut it down, mark the plot and go to bed; in the morning the house is ready; he is back with an ax to the spruce, you need a yard; then money; came again: everything is there, no respect; spruce: now people will be afraid of you, and you people; the man has become a bear, the bears are shy]: 117-118; Udmurts [the old man wants to split off a splint from the birch tree, it promises to fulfill all his wishes; the spouses are getting rich; the old woman tells the old man to ask for something something terrible for everyone to be afraid of them; they turn into bears; (the origin of bears)]: Radimov 1922:5-14 (=Klabukov 1948, No. 44:129-131); (cf. Bashkirs [the old man brought a chock, began to stab, a bird jumped out, ready to fulfill his wish; the old man asked for firewood; the old woman every time tells me to ask for something else (food, become a merchant); after she wanted to become a queen of the forest, the chock and everything asked for disappeared, and the old people turned into forest shurals - horned, covered with wool, with green beards]: Barag 1989, No. 47:214-216).
Turkestan. Kyrgyz [the old man went to buy firewood, began to cut down a tree; a golden bird flew out of the tree, asked not to cut, promised to do whatever he wanted; the old man asked to bring him so much home firewood so that he could heat plenty; in the morning, the doorstep was full of firewood; a few days later the old man went to cut the tree again and asked for a white yurt; then wished to become a bay, have herds of white cattle; Información suplementaria the old man wanted to become a khan; cut down the plane tree, but the bird did not appear; returned home - there is nothing there; only the old woman says: greed will not do well]: Sabyr uulu 2008:41-42.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Buryats [the man who made wooden dishes began to cut the birch tree; she asked to stop, promised to fulfill his wish, he wanted to become a merchant; then a king; because only birch knows that he is not a king, sent servants to cut it down; the birch tree tells them to stop: their king has become a bear; when meeting a bear, you must say "Tsar Man, give way"]: Dugarov 1990:329-330; Tuvans [ the golden bird asks the old man not to cut down the tree in which she lives, promises to fulfill every wish; he asks for firewood; the next day he asks for a white yurt; white cattle; the old woman asks her husband not be greedy, but he wants to be a khan; there are no birds, the old man knocked down a tree, and the next morning they have their old black yurt full of holes]: Hadahane 1984:53-54; (cf. Chelkan residents (p. Kurmach-Baigol, recorded during trips made between 1934-1952) [the orphan boy was starving and went hunting; he chased the squirrel, which hid in the hollow of a stump; the boy began to cut it; the squirrel asked what he needed; the boy replied that he wanted to eat at least one to his fill once; the squirrel told me to go home and go to bed; when the boy woke up, it turned out that instead of an open, smooth place, a small house with a roof appeared, and instead of clothes made of leaves, he was wearing clothes made of matter; the boy took the food out of the oven and ate; then went to the same stump and began to cut it; the squirrel asked what he needed now; the boy said: "Now, in addition to eating, I need a house, let it be a big house with three or four floors, let there be a lot of people there, and let there be a shop on one of the floors"; the squirrel told me to go to bed; when the boy woke up, he saw a three-four-story house on one of the floors there was a shop, but there were no people leaving or entering it; the boy went to the stump, knocked on it and told the squirrel that he wanted to be a great merchant; the squirrel also fulfilled this wish; the boy again went back to the stump and told the squirrel he had decided to be a great deity; the squirrel agreed and told him to go to bed; the boy did as she said; when he got up, he was just like at the beginning, dressed in leaves and in a hut; the boy went to the stump, but no matter how much he knocked, the squirrel did not come out; the boy split the stump and scattered the chips, but the squirrel never came out]: Baskakov 1985:103-104).
Amur - Sakhalin. Nanais [at the request of his wife, the poor old man went to buy firewood; asks him not to cut the tree; the next day all the firewood is covered with firewood; then the wife sends the old man to the tree for food; clothes; the old woman wants the tree to be in their yard; in response, the tree drops a log on her when she goes out into the yard; the old woman tells the old man to cut down the tree; after that, firewood, food, clothes, all immediately disappears]: Sem, Sem 2020, No. 69:327-334.