M60a1. The shepherd explains how to cross. .14.21.29.30.33.34. (.35.) .37.

The hero meets a servant (usually a shepherd) and takes his form, after asking how he acts, how he talks to the hostess (usually finds out what to say in order transport the herd across the river).

Berbers of Morocco, Kabils, Tibetans (Amdo), (Russians: Terek coast), Nogais, Rushans, Wakhans, Yazgulyams, (kafirs), Kazakhs (Aral-Irtysh watershed), Kyrgyz, Tuvans, Mongols, Dagurs, Mongors, (Northern Khanty), Orochi.

North Africa. The Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [the Sultan finally had a son, Sidi Mohammed (SM); he imprisoned him in an underground palace, with him a servant to teach him; when his mother accidentally discovered SM, his sultan He cut off her head in his eyes; after that, SM was able to go out into town; one day he came across an old woman; she yelled: let you marry Aruaj bin Ilak! (AI); SM went in search; on the way he bought a young man named Sidi Mohammed Bu Rjilat (BR), whom the local sultan hung by the legs for not wanting to reveal the secrets of magic to him; he promised get AI - let the SM send his father's army back; get the guards drunk, they fell asleep; swapped the lamps at the AI's bedside; sent SM; AI gave him an earring, bracelets from his arm and leg; SM presented them her father; he agrees to marry if SM indicates which cocoon (the closed space where the bride is) - AI; BR suggested; on the way home, BR warns: until they reach his land own efreet, SM must not get off the horse, otherwise his wife will be kidnapped; but he got off his horse as needed, AI disappeared into the air; BR went to efreet, who kidnapped BM; asked the shepherd what he does when she brings sheep; shepherd: I knock on the gate with a stick; the new wife, who was kidnapped by Ifrit, lets me in and lets me out in the morning; BR changed clothes with the shepherd, found AI, told her to find out what life was like efrita; in the middle of the sea, a dove on the tree, three eggs in its nest; break the first, the efrita will be engulfed by a red flame, the second will be blue, the third will remain only ash; with the help of his efreets, BR obtained eggs; when Ifrit died, the prisoners were sent home; SM, AI and BR go three; two girls cut off the heads of travelers at the bridge; SM cut the bridge with a sword, took one girl for himself, gave the other to BR; now each has two wives; weddings; AI gave birth, and BR's wives fell ill; only the blood of a newborn would cure them; SM sent him to slaughter his son; but it turned out that BR only wanted to test his friend, he had a son himself; but wrote that he needed more blood; SM sent a daughter born to a second wife; friends are happy and married children]: El Fasi, Dermenghem 1928:151-164; kabila [prince came to the well to drink his horse; the old woman asks wait for her jug to fill; they quarrel, the old woman tells the prince to bring the Sunny Maiden (SD) into the house; the prince lost his peace; called the old woman to make peace; put her hand in the hot soup: tell me how to find SD; she says that SD is the wife of a black king in the high mountains (but SD herself is white); on the way, the prince sees a man being executed; the local king explains that he is a murderer, his This is not the first time he has been tried, but the prince buys him back, giving him four times more gold than his weight; Ali Demmu (that's his name) promises to become a loyal servant; in the city of blacks, he breaks into the king's bedroom; he sleeps tied up himself with SD (legs, belt and neck); AD stabbed the king, SD advised him to wear his clothes, they left the palace, came to the prince; AD ordered to hide the SD in a box and not open it on the way; while he was fetching water, the prince opened the box, the spirit stole SD; they met a shepherd driving sheep to the sea; AD asks him, the shepherd replies that he serves the one who steals brides, has recently brought a new one; he lives across the sea, you can get there on the back of a black sheep; AD changed clothes with the shepherd; the shepherd further explains to enter the yard and call a woman to milk the sheep; this time a new wife of the spirit will come out; when SD came out, AD put the sheep head to her; SD is surprised, AD says who he is (pretending) to accuse her of running away, SD objects; they agreed to wait until night; the spirit tells SD he is going to sleep with her that night; SD: Then tell me what your life is; on a rock in the sea, a dove sits on an egg, in it the life of the spirit; Hell sailed on a sheep to a rock, took out a dove with an egg, came back, broke the egg; but inside the dove was a second egg, so the spirit did not die, although it lost its strength; Hell brought SD to the prince; sent the shepherd to the island, let him take all the treasures of the spirit; Hell, SD and the prince spent the night under a tree; Hell hears the conversation of two birds: a snake will crawl, turn Hell into stone; to revive him, the prince must strangle his son over the stone; when the son was born, the prince brought him to the statue and strangled him; AD came to life; birds: if you rub the child with droppings from our nest, he will come to life; Hell took out the droppings, revived the boy; everyone is happy; Hell stayed with the prince and he married him]: Grim 1983:99-119.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Amdo) [a mare gave birth to a boy, an old woman adopted him; with two friends he hides from the rain in a cave; they see three turtles fly in, become girls, pray, again flew away; the same day, August 15, the following year; two years later, the young men grabbed and destroyed the pigeon bodies, took the girls as wives; the wives withered; the young men watched the kite fly in, became a copper-billed witch, she drank the girls' blood, flew away, the mare's son managed to injure her with an arrow; the young men are following the bloody trail, the companions let the mare's son down, cut off the rope, the garuda picked him up; a local shepherd says that a witch was wounded by an arrow; another shepherd herds many goats; he is the son of a witch; replies that in order to tie goats, you must tell them "Contact"; to transport them across the river, you must Tell the river to retreat up and down, go dry; after bringing goats, he will lick the wound on his mother's back caused by the mare's son; the mare's son offers to remove his lice; the son of a witch: my neck is black a mole, my mother's strength is in him, be careful; the second part of my mother's life is at home in a needle in a salt bag; a mare's son crushed a mole {and apparently killed a shepherd}, put on his clothes, took his yak tongue with him; ordered the waters part, contact the goats; the witch takes him for a son, asks him to lick the wound; he explains that his tongue is hard because he did not drink water today; breaks the needle, the witch dies; leaving the witch's house, the son the mare killed a snake that was about to eat the Garuda chick; the chick explains to its mother that the man saved him; the mare's son asks to be brought to the ground; the garuda asks to prepare 100 bird carcasses and 100 wineskins with water; carries a mare's son across the sea; he forgives his companions, reigns, everything is fine]: Kajihama 2004, No. 28:117-123.

(Wed. Central Europe. Russians (Teresky Bereg) [the peasant has three sons, he built a new house, sends his sons to sleep in it - what a dream they will see; the older, middle see firewood - good; the youngest, like from under the stove A fox jumped out, and a snake bit off his leg from under the bed; refused to tell; the father sold it to the merchant, he did not tell the merchant either; the merchant sold it to the king, the king put him in prison; was going to marry; the king's sister: the wedding of prisoners is dissolved; the guy was released; two are arguing over an invisible kumka, speedboat boots, a bread-pickling tablecloth; the guy offers to run to the distillation, put on the invisibility, took everything, moved to the ship on which the king sailed to the bride overseas; the bride sends to pull a bow, Ivan Tsarevich {=tsar} is unable, the guy pulled invisibly, the bow broke; bride: let's sew half a dress, you will sew the same, otherwise head off his shoulders; the guy stole that finished half, had to sew a new one, I. had the same as the bride's; the same shoes, a ring; the guy returned the wonderful items to the two, returned to prison; he was released the wedding, the witch bride found out, cut off his leg with a sword; boy to the king: here is my dream, your fox sister helped, and the snake bride cut off her leg; he is on one leg in the forest into the hut, and there he is blind, legless yes cooking girl; Baba Yaga comes to her every day to suck her tits; they grabbed Baba Yaga, made her give her living and dead water, bring her legs and eyes back, push her into the well, she died, and they were cured; he returned to the king, who herds the mares, they changed their dresses; the mares all ran into the stall; the king's wife is surprised: if the husband of every mare does not kiss under the tail, they will not return, and here are all the stalls they broke it; the guy came, began to beat her, she wrapped herself in all sorts of creatures, and when he broke it with a rope, stand a pile of gold at one end, a red girl on the other; to the king: now it will be for you a wife, and before it was not a wife, but a snake; he went from the tsar to his father, and his bull is at the interchanges, no one can even kill him; he killed him with his fist and did not go anywhere else]: Balashov 1970, No. 54:186-192).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. The Nogais [the old man picked up the bull, threw the ground; decided that he was strong, went to fight with Elmavyz Shylpuvyr Shylpyk; the shepherds offer to cut and cut the skin into pieces, the old man cannot; the same with herds, shepherds; ShSH's mother tries to hide the old man, but the SHSH killed him; the wife of the murdered man gave birth to sons named Alsuvdir and Soyun-Ali; they play with children, broke someone's arm, the mother advises him better break the hand of their father's killer; they ask their mother to fry corn, put her hand on a hot cauldron, she is forced to talk about her father; on the way they carry out shepherds' tasks, etc.; they easily kill SHSH and his friend; SA goes home kindly, and A. comes to the shepherd, asks; he herds the herds of Khan on the other side of the sea; says, "Part up, sea!" , goes over, then says, "Close up, sea!" ; licks the feet of the khan's three daughters with his tongue; A. kills the shepherd, puts on his clothes, comes under his guise, strokes the girls' feet with a cow's tongue; one day asks the girls for a comb, only the youngest gives it; A. puts her golden hair in the comb, returns the comb; the youngest falls in love with A.; the gardener gives Khan's eldest daughter rotten apples, the middle daughter is half rotten, the youngest is good; the wise men say that It's time to marry the daughters (the eldest has already faded); the khan tells his daughters to throw an apple at the grooms; the elders throw khans at the sons, the youngest at the shepherd; A. tells us who he is; wedding; A.'s mother is blind by tears, and when I saw him again, I saw the light]: Nogai 1979, No. 22:116-120.

Iran - Central Asia. The Rushantsy [the slave leads the horses to water, sees the reflection of three doves; they say that anyone who reports us to King Komiron will be petrified; Comiron is surprised why the horses are thin, the slave asks him himself see; K. shoots the little finger of one of the doves, hands the kingdom over to a slave, goes to the desert; takes out a splinter from the tigress, both cubs hit the hair to call for help; changes clothes with bald shepherd, asks how to behave; by the river he says, In the name of King Peri, let this river part; the waters diverge, K. crosses with the herd; each of the three peri tells the shepherd rub her legs; two fingers are intact (K. scratches their feet with a cow's tongue), the third does not have enough little finger, K. puts it; when choosing husbands, the older sister throws a skullcap over the judge's head, the middle sister throws a skullcap on the judge's head, the middle sister throws a skullcap on elder, the youngest is a pleshivtsa; Peri's father tells the pleshives to bring a hundred camel bales of gold, he brings it; tells his servants to kill him, his servants spare him; the father sends the young to live in the stable; only K. hunts, gives meat to other sons-in-law, stigmatizing them on their heads and butts; older daughters bring meat to her father-in-law, it is bitter, the youngest brings legs and heads, they are tasty; leaves a piece of manure on the plate; the father moves them to the front room; the bald man plays polo with a gold stick, a golden ball; the father-in-law offers a reward, he takes his people, i.e. branded older sons-in-law; the older sisters understand that handsome and bald are one person; father-in-law gives him the throne]: Scribe 1954, No. 6:48-54; Wakhans [the cat tells the sheep that today it will be slaughtered and it will eat its fat tail; the sheep asks the cat to bring a knife, she cuts off her fat tail herself, the cat opened the door, the sheep went to Mount Kof, gave birth to a herd of sheep and a boy May-Zman ("son of a sheep"); tells him to go to people; the Ministry of Health meets, wins, takes Chinorboz as companions (" plane playing with millstones), Kuboza ("playing with mountains"), Khdorgboza ("playing with millstones"); companions come to an empty house, food is ready; they take turns guarding; they come out of a crack in a pole the girl washes, paints the rest, puts the food on, turns into a needle, goes back; the rest stains his face with mud without anyone noticing; when the Ministry of Health remains, he sprinkles salt on the cut grabs a girl, her companions agree to take her as his wife; the Ministry of Health tells his wife to watch the fire; she dropped a red bead, thought the coals were turning red and they were out; she sees smoke over a pile of stones, comes, there are Barzangi; tells you to sprinkle the road with fried lice, then the dung in the hearth will catch fire; on the trail he comes riding a goat, sticks needles into the bread, tells the girl to dance on them, she hurts her legs, he drinks blood; companions take turns guarding, everyone is afraid; the Ministry of Health hits Barzanga with a dagger, kills 5 heads of Barzanga, the sixth under a stone, the seventh has run away, returns with an army; the Ministry of Health burns the hairs of the mother sheep, who heals his wounds and wounds satellites; the Ministry of Health tells him to lower him into the hole under the stone, where the sixth head disappeared (the satellites tried, but could not); below is the Barzanga shepherd; the Ministry of Health asks him how to count the cattle (hit the tree, how many leaves did not crumble, so many sheep were gone), how to cross the river (say "chuck", the waters will part), where is the soul of our grandfather, i.e. Barzanga (in a staff, if you break on his knee, he will die), grandmothers (in stones with which salt is crushed; hit each other, the wick will flash, blow it out), the shepherd himself (in a large lice at the back of his head); the Ministry of Health suggests cleaning the shepherd's head, presses the louse, "pulls on himself the demand that was on the shepherd's head"; under the guise of a shepherd, crosses the river; the grandmother asks to bring a sheep, a goat, he brings a ram, a goat; says that he has confused everything in the sun; breaks the staff, blows out wick; sends cattle upstairs to companions; tells them to drag themselves, but do not tie themselves; they cut off the rope; a forest has grown out of a thorn in the leg of a Simurg bird; the Ministry of Health frees Simurg; her children think that the man wants to kill her, she explains everything; he tries to raise the Ministry of Health to the ground, there were not enough supplies, he throws the meat out of her hand, but she comes back; the next day, from her foot, they reach the ground, Simurg regurgitates, puts back pieces of meat to the Ministry of Health; gives two feathers - turning them into an old man and a young man; disguised as an old man, he comes to his companions, becomes young, kills them with a dagger; lives with his wife]: Grunberg, Steblin- Kamensky 1976, No. 12:153-163; Yazgulyam [the servant complains to the king that every day three doves say that whoever does not tell the king about them hurts his teeth, head, etc.; the servant is a little alive and horses they are losing weight; the king puts on his servant's clothes, goes by himself, shoots off his little finger, goes after the doves, takes out a splinter to the tigress, the cubs promise to help him; Bald herds the cattle of the royal daughters; explains what should be said to make the waters of the river disperse and come together again; rubs those girls' legs at night; the king drowns the shepherd, pulls a goat bubble to look like Bald; the older sisters rub their heels in bovine tongue, they think that Bald's hands are coarsened; the youngest is put his little finger torn off; the eldest daughters put flowers on the heads of the son of Kadiy and the son of the vizier, the youngest to the head of Bald; the king tries to destroy him in vain (drowns him, hangs him upside down); tells him to bring 40 camels with gold (tigers bring him); older sons-in-law cannot get anything hunting, tigers hunt for Bald, he gives meat, stamps the elder sons-in-law; tripe soup is the sweetest, but it contains manure; the tsar moves his daughter and Pleshiv from the stable to the house; playing ball Bald appears in his true form; shows the stigma ; receives the throne]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 19:213-223; (cf. kafirs (kati; western in 1968 in Kabul from a native of villages. Kulem) [the man had three daughters and a son; daughters married diva brothers; the man fell ill, gave his son all the keys to the house and did not give the key to one room alone; when the father fell asleep, the young man pulled out from the key to that room was out of his pocket and opened it; there was a millstone; the young man looked through his hole and saw a beautiful woman; she said: "At one time, your father missed [me], now you're in in turn, you will miss me"; the young man came to his father, who sent him in search; the young man met his sister's maid at the spring; threw a ring into her jug; when the maid poured water on her hands to the hostess, the ring fell into the pelvis; the sister, recognizing his brother's ring, sent him for him; fed him and hid him under the house; the divas returned in the evening; the children began to repeat that the mother's brother was in the basement; the mother was angry, pulled her brother by the hair; the divas stabbed a goat for him; the next day the young man left; met his second sister's maid at the spring; the situation repeated; the same: with the third sister; the young man met a witch who was the sister of the divas; gave her a note from one of her brothers; she recognized the handwriting, let the young man go; the situation repeated with the second and third witches; the young man met the shepherd and asked him where Paradise is the shadow of the sun {the name of the beauty}; the shepherd gave him a staff: "When you reach the river, raise your staff and point to the water; [water] will part and you will go to the other side. You'll leave and find yourself in front of the gate. Dice are thrown in front of the donkey and hay is placed in front of the wolf. You throw the hay to the donkey and the dice to the wolf. It has two poles. Put the one on the right to the left, the one on the left to the right. When you enter the house, pick up the beds spread out, and spread out the collected beds. This house is the house of Paradise - the shadow of the sun"; the young man did as the shepherd told him; R. saw the young man, he asked her where the diva's soul was; R. replied that he did not know; in the evening the diva came and fell asleep; R., on the advice of the young man, took it children in the thicket of thorns; the divas asked why the children were crying; R. said they were asking where their father's soul was; unable to withstand crying, the diva said: "My soul is in one parrot, and the parrot is in cage. This cage is in a large cauldron, and the cauldron is buried in a hut on the summer"; in the morning, the divas flew away, and R. and the young man went to the summer and began to dig; they pulled out the cauldron, it had a cage, and a parrot in the cage; the young man tore off his paws, wings and head; the diva fell apart; the young man took R. to his home, his father had a feast]: Grunberg 1980, No. 4:141-145).

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Potanin 1916, No. 11 (Aral-Irtysh watershed) [Koblanda's hero robbed the bay; the son of that youngster Karaman offered martial arts; after a long struggle, Koblanda killed him, took people away and property; the old man remained under the cauldron and the boy Talas-pie under straw; Karaman's bow was worn by two strongmen, T. brought one; three swans torment the old man every day; T. tells him to tell, puts on his clothes, shoots swans, a ring falls; comes to a lousy shepherd, who replies that he is herding Kadyr-Kana's cows; explains that according to him, cows and calves cross the sea themselves, tie up, and milk ; that he licks the heels of K.'s youngest daughter; T. killed the boy, put on his clothes, told the cattle to do what needed, came to K.; his daughters were those swans; T. became ill to stay with the youngest; became stroking her heels with the tongue of a cow; replies that yes, his tongue is cracked; she gave honey, he began to stroke softer; bathed where the girls flew in with swans; the youngest recognized T., took her to sleep; T. explains how to let the khan know that it is time for daughters to marry: let one bread burn, the other burn, the third bake properly; the khan told the daughters to choose suitors, the youngest took the lousy guy; the khan fell ill, they needed meat saiga; only a lousy man killed, gave it to his older sons-in-law, left giblets for himself; only from them did the khan recover; the cherry plum kara-gus ("huge black eagle") annually takes the foal of a winged mare; older sons-in-law they fall asleep, the lousy arrow knocked off the tail of a foal, one feather of a bird; the sons-in-law took their tail, could not raise the pen, only the lousy one brought it; three sons-in-law go to look for the bird; the lousy one comes to the seven-headed to the cannibal, she promises to help; the bird sat on a bai-terek tree, the lousy man shot her, only his horse was able to carry the carcass; the girl daughter of the bird pursues, the lousy one defeated her, married her, released the bird's prisoners; saved the snake, which gave him the gift to understand the speech of animals; a bay horse came running, this is the mother of T.'s horse, she escaped from Koblanda; T. appeared to his father-in-law in his real form, he gave him half of the cattle, he returned to father (i.e. to an old man with whom he lived after Koblanda's raid); T. and his son went to Koblanda; it turned out that their mothers were sisters, they fraternized; Ir-Kosai, avenging his father, attacked and killed Koblandy; T. with him reconciled, became khan]: 73-80 (=1972, No. 6:123-130); Sidelnikov 1971 (2) []: 39-48; Kyrgyz [batyr Sokbay asks the shepherd how he drives a huge herd across the river; shepherd: I'll tell you to go - they go, wait - wait, get attached - they will become attached; S. offers to play alchiki with a click on his forehead; the shepherd hits S. hard, and when S. wins, he runs away in fear, leaving his cattle and his clothes; S. turns his horse into an alchik, puts on a shepherd's clothes, but the cows do not enter the water; then he threw them to the other side; explained that he had forgotten the right word; the youngest daughter Aksuek guessed that their shepherd he is not so strong, he identifies a horseman by his hair under his hat; brings three handkerchiefs to his father, which means that it is time to marry three daughters; the khan gathers men, daughters must throw an apple at the chosen one; A. throws at a shepherd; Khan tells three sons-in-law to find foals that are carried away by a bird every year; S. rides a bull, then turns the alchik back into a horse, easily catches up with Kanbach and Bekbach, married to elders Khan's daughters; only S. is successful in hunting, gives his sons-in-law meat in exchange for a tamga placed on his heels; brings foals; son-in-law throw him into a hole; the horse brings a girl with braids to 40 arcana; S. gets out of holes on braids, appears to the khan on the bull, but tells his sons-in-law to show marks on their heels; the khan transfers his possessions to him]: Ledenev 1987:78-83.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans [E-Sarig has an Age-Saryban horse; his mother asks not to go to sunset, his father has left and never returned; ES is driving, killing a monster with an arrow; at this time three wild geese are flying over the yurt, they ask if ES is at home, if his horse ASH is tied; his mother was so surprised that she cut her nose with a knife; the geese are flying again, S wounded one in the paw; goes in search; asks the old man to be allowed to slaughter one camel; that: if the khan finds out, it will be bad; but allows; another shepherd with calves; asks ES to drive them to the khan; they scattered by the river; khansha: is it really difficult to say "Khan's cattle, wade across the river"; ES says the calves are passing; the khan has eyelids to his nose, he raised one finger, told the servant to serve whey; hansha: the cows are not milked; ES milks, they do not give milk; hansha: "Is it really difficult to say, leisya, leisya, Khan's wealth"; milk has poured out; at night, Khan tells him to lick his heels; ES cut off his tongue from the cow's carcass; Khan asks why it's hard; ES says it's from whey; Khan orders to feed ES with cream; ES cuts off the tongue of the dead dog, the khan liked it, he fell asleep; ES marries the youngest daughter of the khan; the khan tells his seven sons-in-law to save the foal; the mare gives birth every three years, the Khan-Hereti bird takes away; the sons-in-law are sleeping, ES shoots, the bird drops its glowing feather; the khan orders the bird itself to be brought; ES goes to the lower world, there are three poplars on the island, they have nests with birds; mangys came out of the lake, the chicks screamed; ES climbed into the throat of mangysu, ripped it apart, jumped out; it rained, the bird XX flew in, ES asks her to return the foals; she tells her to prepare food, throw it in flight; they flew, XX releases 9 horses from her nostrils; ES met the elders sons-in-law, sat on the carpet, fell into the hole, the sons-in-law took the horses away; the horse ES comes running to his wife, tells everything; the wife pulls him out; the khan tells everyone to shoot up; the arrows of the sons-in-law kill them, ES is unharmed; gets half of the cattle, returns to his mother with his wife]: Hadahane 1984:59-65; (cf. Potanin 1883, No. 84 (Buren-Gol river) [old man Tyumendey saw felt floating along the river; he turned into Jelbag, grabbed the old man by the beard; let him go when he promised his three daughters; the old man and the old woman gave their daughters buckets without a bottom, sent them to pick berries, migrated; after filling holes in the buckets, the girls picked berries; they saw a stranger in the yurt, realized that it was J.; went out into the yard, ran away; threw a comb (turned into a forest), a bar (into a rock); J. cut the road with an ax; a beaver by the river asks the girls what his tail, ribs, teeth are; they praise him, he carries them; J. says they are worms; The beaver tells him to pick up stones, drops him in the middle of the river, J. drowned; the Beaver told his sisters to climb three spruce trees; three fellows passed by and married them; the older sisters promise their husbands to sew clothes cover; the youngest is to give birth to a boy with a golden head and a silver neck; the elders throw the boy into the lake, replace him with a mole; he bites his returning husband; the husband breaks his wife's arms and legs, gouges out his eyes; her leave one; she successively maims three rats that treat their paws and eyes with grass; a woman is treated with the same grass, recovers; cannot lure her son out of the lake; catches for the third time, leaving on the shore of a bow and arrow; gives his milk, tears into his eyes, he recognizes her as his mother; his name is Yer-Saru; seven geese are flying, when they scream, the mother cuts off her ear, nose, lip; E. shoots, the arrow returns with a human finger; E. meets a khan's shepherd named Buzakai Tarakai, who refuses to marry E. his daughter; E. kills him, takes his form; Khan orders to catch him a calf, E. cannot, the khan beats him; tells him to kill the cows, the cow is not given, E. says, "Milk", the milk milks by itself; the khan orders to lick the soles of his boots, went to bed; E. smeared them with sour cream, dogs licked; gives seven daughters to Jety-Tas (Seven Bald Men), but the youngest marries imaginary B. (i.e. E.); she is more beautiful, only there is no index finger; E. 1) brings a mountain goat's father-in-law, whose outer meat is bitter, the inner meat is sweet (and the second time vice versa); 2) brings three horses Tengri Khan (follows them into the sky along the rainbow); 3) Khan orders to bring a foal, which Khan Garida steals from him every year; E. knocks off the tails of the foal with an arrow and Khan-Garide hides; The Jetytas tell the Khan that they have knocked off their tails; Khan Garide asks E. not to kill him, gives the entire herd of foals and carries his fluff as a sign that he has been killed; the Jetytas are digging a hole, E. falls into it; his horse brings Mengu-kyz, who makes a rope out of her braids, pulls E. out; he returns to Khan in his true heroic appearance, shows his hidden tails; whose an arrow fired into the sky will kill the shooter, falling, that liar; the Jetytas are killed with their arrows; E. and his wife visit their mother; the horse kicked and killed her; she was buried]: 341-348); Khalkha Mongols: Beningsen 1912 [the elder sister has a son Ihe-Alim, the youngest has Baga-Alim; I. went to see the world; tamed the piebald horse; the black old man warns that the ten-headed Mangyt-Khai is ahead; the horse tells him to carve out a belt from the back, make a reliable bowstring, shoot an arrow; after her, M. slipped past; a humpback old woman crawled up, asking for meat, swallowed I. with her horse; she was M.; I. in her stomach cut her heart and went outside; the gray shepherd replies that he was herding the herd of Irbisyn Khan; warns of dangers on the way to that; a bird with deadly heat on one side, frost on the other; I.: lukewarm; fresh; horse carried him across the Sea of Fire; there are two mountains ahead - the bow of Khirzdir Batura; his arrow hit I. to death; his horse, becoming a dragon, flew to heaven; the mother of the gods Angir-Shara-Emegen and Otkon-Tengir revived him; said that H.'s soul, on average, three poplars behind his house; I. summoned his horse from the sky and hit a middle poplar with an arrow; killed Irbisyn Khan, killing a ram in which his soul was; went after the widow killed; she is overseas; the shepherd replies that he drives 10,000 calves across the sea, telling him to "part", and then it closes again; tells them to "get attached" and they become attached; I. killed the shepherd, did everything, how he came to widow I., she accepted him, he began to rule the kingdom]: 81-86; Mikhailov 1962 [Mongolian and Chinese are friends; one son has them Alim ("Many Berries", he brought a lot of berries when he picked), and another Baga-alim ("Few Berries"); a Chinese woman died; an evil Shulam spirit persuaded a Mongolian woman to find out which young man was her son; she pretended to lose consciousness, her sons began to put her on the bed, she pricked B. Alima with a pin, he has a mole; this is a sign that B. is her son; since then she has begun to give I. leftovers; the young men have left home; on the seashore they ask the shepherd; he grazes the Khan's cattle, who by sea; I must say "Sea, part" and it parts; tie some of the cattle at home, go to bed; then "I eat husam (burnt foams), drink haram (boiled water with milk), go to bed"; I. quit a shepherd at sea, dressed in his rags, came to the khan under his guise; pretends to be fooled by the smell of onions (he does not know where husam and haram are; they explained to him); the khan has six daughters married, I. went to seventh; the khan gave them a yurt; the hangarid bird takes the foal of the khan's mare every year; six sons-in-law overslept, I. knocked down the bird's feathers and a piece of the foal's tail with an arrow; I. went to look for a thin foal, he became a mighty horse; I. caught a bird, drove a herd; the horse does not tell the brothers not to sit on the bedding or drink tea in the yurt; but the brothers forcibly poured a few drops into I.'s mouth, threw them into the pit, covered them with a stone; Three years later, the hangarid and the horse moved the stone, the horse lowered its tail, I. climbed it; I. returned, the khan ordered six sons-in-law to be tied to the tails of the horses]: 142-147; Dagurs [the couple has seven daughters, two of them are blind; their father leads them to pick wild grapes, leaves them blind; by evening they realize that their baskets have no bottom; in the morning they hear chirping, they climb a tree, there is something round and soft, they eat this, they begin to see the light; after washing in the stream, they see better; they come to the golden and silver wells; after drinking from there, they fully regain their sight; eating fruits from the golden and silver trees, they get pregnant; they come to an empty house full of supplies; the son of the eldest Aletannenbo, the youngest is Mengongnenbo; young men grow up, meet an old man, he says where to find flying horses; they tame horses return to their mothers; the demon comes out of the ground; threatens mother A. to eat her if she treats M. well; since then she has been feeding M. with garbage; M. leaves, exchanging arrows with A.: if rust, the owner is dead; on the way M. is the same demon, M., hits him with an arrow; by the river, the Tuoku shepherd herds rich Su's sheep; they must be driven across the river, saying, "If the river stops for a moment, then I'm not I'll be angry"; at Su's house, he licks his wife's feet in the evenings, gives him a cow cake; M. puts on T.'s clothes, sends the horse to graze, pretends to forget the words that make the waters of the river disperse; Mrs. Su utters them herself; the imaginary T. shouts to her from the other room that he is eating a cow's cake; strokes her feet with the cow's cut off tongue; says that his tongue is rough with herbs; the mistress tells him to drink oils; he cuts off the dog's tongue, Su is happy, goes to bed; rich Su's six daughters are married, the seventh youngest is not; he will pass her off as someone who bends an iron rod; only the imaginary T. bends; Su I have to give my daughter away; he is ill, he will be cured by bile and bear meat; M. in his true form gets, returns on horseback, sees his older sons-in-law; they ask to sell them a bear; he burns for it with a red-hot copper cauldron of their backs; but these Su's sons-in-law brought no better; the imaginary T. kept part for himself, cooked it, his father-in-law recovered; the sons-in-law dug a hole, invited M. to the races, M. and his horse fell into a hole; the horse flew to heaven to the Jasper Emperor, his daughter lowered her braids down, M. got out of them; M. recovered from her potions; sees that A.'s arrow is rusting; with his wife on horseback rushes home; the heavenly maiden she also goes down to him - her father drove her away for helping a mortal; she cured A., married him; and A.'s mother died earlier]: Bender, Su Huana 1984:110-125; the Mongors [the black mare gave birth to an old woman a piece of meat, a boy is inside; he has grown up; the children say he is the son of a mare; he asks his mother to hold hot wheat with her hand in her hand, the mother admits that he is the son of a mare (UK); he goes on a journey, Meets, companions Stone Brother, Wooden Brother; they take turns cooking; KB and DB fall asleep, at which time the cooked food disappears; when it is the UK's turn, he sees three doves, they dropped feather clothes, he married them to himself and his companions; took the most beautiful one for himself, but smeared soot on her faces so that her companions would not choose her; his wives did not leave food for the cat, she extinguished the fire; the KB wife came to old Mangudze, who gave her a bag of holes in rapeseed, they sprouted, rapeseed bloomed, and M. came to the house where KB's wives were using these flowers. DB and SK; drank their blood, they are losing weight; husbands take turns guarding; KB says that a 9-headed old woman came, he was frightened; the same was DB; SK cut down 8 heads, M. ran away; SK followed, asks the shepherd, how he drives cattle; you have to hit the gong, then eat sugar, lick M.'s wounds; SK kills the shepherd, under the guise of a shepherd, drives cattle, strokes wounds with rough cow's tongue, that's rude; then canine, M. She falls asleep, the UK cuts off her head; brings her cattle and treasures, brings her home; the corpse has been burned]: Schröder 1959:102-115.

(Wed. Western Siberia. Northern Khanty (Obdorsk, son dialect) [three brothers live in a hut, take turns cooking; the elder hears three swans flying in; three women enter and scooped up hot meat the cook on his stomach; when the brothers returned, he replies that the cauldron overturned; the same with his middle brother; the younger Kemyas hid between the beams, burned his swan clothes, three women became the brothers' wives; leaving, men tell them not to play cards; they play, the seven-headed Menk-Iki comes, plays, wins, takes women away; K. goes in search, consistently sleeps with three old men, each forges iron; the last says that M. has an employee, a man-with-tail, a squirrel, who has an iron club; he must be told that he is lost, throw a club at him, take his form, bring seven into M.'s house in armfuls firewood weighing 7 sledges; it happened; he feeds M.; he lowered the ring into a cup of water, the eldest of the women recognized him; in the morning the women ran away; K. fed M. so crazy; 7 knives hung in the sky K. cut them off, M.'s heads fell; his torso is chasing K.; those old men pierce him with iron walks; then they put them on the iron top, people throw it into the Ob; the brothers got wives back; they were beaten, from the eldest and the middle one fell on a white pebble, the youngest one was not to blame; K. and his wife went down the Ob River, the middle one went up, the eldest went to the Urals]: Steinitz 2014, No. 3:219-226).

Amur - Sakhalin. Orochi [Ngetyrka, he has an older brother; while he is hunting, 7 swans arrive, turn into girls, combed N., cleaned everything up; when they fly away, they tell him to smear his face, make a mess again; the brother does not believe that N. combed himself (he says that he combed himself with a bird's paw, his brother suggests doing it, he can't); tells him to sew the younger girl's robe to his robe next time, and then call him; six swans flew away, the youngest was stuck in a smoke hole; the older brother married her; hid the skin with feathers; a boy was born; stops crying only after N. speaks to him that his father hid his mother's skin in a birch bark box; his brother's wife begins to tickle N., he admitted that he calmed the child down; the wife took the child and flew away; the father managed to shoot off his son's little finger; The brother left meat for N., went to look for his wife; the servant rides on a sledge to buy firewood; replies that he serves the woman; if he wants to eat, he says, "Give me yukola!" ; when he comes, he throws the ax with a crash; winds the ropes for nets, calls the turntables "hochka"; the hero killed the servant, took his form; the hostess is angry that the servant does not know where the turntables are; when the hostess went out, the hero put his little finger to his son's hand; took his form; the girl's parents came to eat hare meat, and there was a pile of elk; the hero returned home, where N. stuck to the door; his brother tore him off, fed him ]: Medvedev 1992:353-355.