M60a3. The Imaginary Physician: Punishing a Scoundrel .15.27.30.
Avenging the seized property (a pet or a bird), the hero repeatedly comes to the offender in different guises (girl, doctor, etc.) and brutally mocks him.
Sicilians, Ladins, Bulgarians, Persians.
Southern Europe. Sicilians [Peppe think he's a fool; his mother has no money to buy sausages and pasta for the festival; P. persuaded him to give him the last chicken, went to sell him to buy pasta, the buyer took she fled; he was the leader of 12 robbers; P. noticed him, overheard him pay for 20 pounds of pasta, promised to send a boy with a white donkey in the morning to pick up the purchase; the same with sausage sellers and cheese; in the morning P. arrives on a white donkey, picks up pasta, sausages and cheese; when the robber sent his boy, he was not given anything; P. disguises himself as a girl, comes to the robbers, asks spend the night; for the night, the chieftain takes her to his room, where there is gold and a gallows; an imaginary girl asks for an explanation of how to use the gallows; tightens the rope around the robber's neck, but unable to do it at all strangle, hits half to death; brings money to the mother; comes to the robbers dressed as a doctor; sends them to bring what is necessary for healing, again beats the leader almost to death; P. comes again to robbers disguised as a garbage collector; he has a large basket; robbers ask them to take their chieftain to the hospital in it; P. takes him to the mountains, takes his money, throws the robber into the abyss]: Gonzenbach 2004b, No. 21:16-21; ladins [the miller has a simple son; he sent him to the bazaar to sell a pig; the robber took it away; the guy traced where his lair was; dressed up as a girl, told the robber's servant that looking for a groom; when the robber went to bed, the imaginary bride began to beat him with a hammer, saying, "I am a man with a pig"; the robber asked to take as much gold as he wanted, but keep him alive; The next time the guy dressed as a doctor; the same; the third time he was a monk; finished off the robber and took the remaining gold]: Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 98:259-261.
The Balkans. Bulgarians [a guy leads to sell a cow or an ox; 40 beardless people are forced to give an animal for a pittance; each consistently comes out and says that it is not an ox, but a goose; or a judge buys a cow for a pittance; the guy manages to cut off the animal's tail; changing into different clothes, the guy comes to the deceiver under the guise of a bride or maid; a doctor; a coachman; etc.; each time he hits one from brothers or a judge with a cow's tail, saying: can an ox make a goose? or tells the judge that he hits for 6 pennies; steals money, clothes and property of beardless people; finally pretends to be dead; bequeaths to bury him alive; stigmatizes beardless people who come to the grave with hot iron ; tells the tsar that beardless are his fugitive soldiers; drowns them in the sea]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1538:494-495.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians (Isfahan) [Padishah Chyna is blind; he asks his three sons to go to Misr to visit Padishah Peri and bring the leaves of the Tutia tree; in Misra, the elder Jamshid agreed to play with the chief's daughter guards, lost everything, became an apprentice to the barbecue maker; the middle Shamshir is the same (assistant stoker in the bathhouse); younger Ibrahim met a man who warned of that girl's cunning; he came to her and I saw that she had 4 cats holding lamps; they argued: if I. managed to make the cats throw the lamps, he would receive all the girl's property, and if he could not, he would give her all his own; in Misra, not there were mice, I. had a hard time buying four at the bazaar; 4 times the cats threw the lamp and ate the mouse before the girl could understand what had happened; she refused to fulfill the contract, I. cut it in half and took all the property; went to sell the calf, the chief of security recognized him, it was his daughter's calf; in confusion, I. fled and came to the chief of the guard disguised as a girl; lured him into prison, offered show how the prisoner was placed in blocks, beaten with an iron bar until he lost consciousness; fled; came to the chief of the guard under the guise of a doctor; ordered them to be left in the bathhouse and for the orchestra to play; smeared him with syrup and released the wasps; the vizier knows how to find the deceiver; cook the soup and shout that it is being distributed to the chief of the guard; the deceiver will come; I. rode in the prince's clothes, disappeared; then dressed up As a poor tramp, the chief of the guard agreed to serve him, and he threw it into the boiling pot; everyone said: Give me my calf! After that, I. arrived at the Peri Garden; he was guarded by divas, animals and ghouls; the old man teaches what to do; you must get to the sleeping daughter of Padishah Peri, leave a stick, a night hat, food, her shoes nearby, tear it apart dress, put a fly on his cheek and tie his belt; pluck the leaves from the third tree, although it will pull the branches up; I. returned to Misr, found and took the brothers with him; on the way they threw it into the well, killed the slave and took the leaves; I.'s dog ran to the shepherd, who gave her bread, she brought it to I.; the shepherds pulled him out, left; I. told the head of the caravan, who was en route to Chin, went with a caravan; at this time, the padishah saw the light from the leaves and placed the crown on J.'s head, and S. appointed him a vizier; when I. appeared and told his father everything, J. threw him into prison; the daughter of the padishah peri arrived in Chin and demanded the one who picked the leaves; J. came out, could not tell anything, he was cut into four pieces; then S. was quartered, the pieces were hung on the gate; I. told everything; became Padishah of the Peri Kingdom and the Kingdom of Men]: Jaliashvili, Faras 1967:109-130.